I work in South Korea. Everyone here wears masks even when they are outside. I've seen joggers running with masks. It's crazy. You can sit inside a coffee shop without one, but God forbid you get seen outdoors without one. It's the most insane version of group think I've ever seen. My boss' dad was a politician, she knows how they can lie and previously I appreciated her level of critical thinking. But now... I refuse to wear a mask outside. She saw me on the street and asked me to put it on. i refused. I was reamed out for being unscientific and reckless. I didn't budge. Even if I thought masks work, I do not see the benefit of wearing one 24/7.
Just needed to vent a little. I'm leaving Korea soon, so quiting my job atm is not an option. Like I said, just needed to vent.
I'm with you on this one. I'm so sick of all the masks. It seems like it will never end. I can't figure out why the majority is o.k. with it. There's no mask mandate in Florida, yet sooo many people continue to wear it. Plus most stores still have signs up requiring it.
It's fear. I have a dear friend who it's becoming increasingly hard for me to hang out with. She's afraid, and washes her groceries when she gets home with them. She's looking forward eagerly to getting her shot, thinks masks are polite and actually work, and she has literally no interest in even finding out which manufacturer's jab it is. She asked if I was getting the covid vaccine. I said I wasn't, and when I asked if she wanted to know why...she actually said no. She's an otherwise intelligent and capable woman who's a successful artist, and when I sent her a link to America's Frontline Doctors she got angry and belligerent.
She's a Taurus...and once she's chosen a path, she (like so many others) does not want any information that would make her question her choice. I find it to be bizarre beyond description.
not sure Taurus has anything to do with it.
I'm a Taurus, so please don't confuse the symbol for the temperament. We are not all "stubborn as bulls". Unfortunately this has torn apart not only friendships but families as well. I sincerely hope for your sake that she sees the light at some point but there is a possibility that she won't. It's never easy to see people you care about go down irrational paths. But the push to scare people with this has been huge, and some have succumbed to it. All you can do is plant the seed, which it sounds like you have, and hope that one day she'll see the light.
If I may share a quick story with you, I broke ties with a girlfriend of mine that I'd known since I was 6 years old. This was in my late 20s. I saw her going down a bad path, her personality changed for the worse, and I didn't want to be her next victim. So I cut things off before something happened that we couldn't recover from. Now, we're both in our 40s, and I got in touch with her and reconnected. She's her old self again and I'm so glad. I guess the moral is that you may have to take a step back to preserve what friendship is there, to be possibly picked up later. I wish you the best.
The Taurus comment was specific to her tendencies to close off from any information contrary to what she believes to be so. Of course our astrological predispositions to certain things can be mitigated through experience and personal work...but I do feel that it helps in understanding people.
I'm definitely cool with stepping back. She's already apologized and spoken of the next time we go over...which I'm in no hurry for. It's another brilliant opportunity for non-attachment. Frankly, on the macro level both white hats and team dark are doing their best to influence Humanity and gain our trust. We can't afford to cleave to any particular truth right now but for the fact that we're up against evil, and the only way through to freedom from it is to be the Light ourselves...live as though the world already is the way we're dreaming it into existence to be.
I know soooo many people like this. A bright kind doctor I am friends with who has embraced with open arms the Covid pandemic narrative, dismissed the America’s front line doctors video without watching it by saying Simone Gold was arrested for being at the Capitol on the 6th, therefore apparently she has no credibility (& the FBI says “ mission accomplished”) ... uggg
Then she said the solution to the virus is the vaccine, to which I said I did not want to be a lab rat (not really, I couldn’t be that rude), I simply said “my body, my choice.”
Sooo many otherwise intelligent people have fallen for the hoax unquestioningly (& if they had questions the looked to the wrong places for answers e.g. Fauci).
I have not spoken to a few of what were my closest friends in many many months, because I am thinking and questioning and they think “How dare you question and think! Fauci says so!”
But, other friends are still there.
This is a challenging time. I am certainly looking forward to the being awake part of this great awakening!!!!
Do you live in Santa Fe? I don't even go there any more, not till this crap is over. The NM nazi govenor is a real pain in the ass about all restrictions, hope she goes to jail for all this crap!
Howie Mandell is a poster child for where this is headed. Germaphobes are gonna be our bane for yrs to come.
The mask serves two main purposes:
I have a coworker like that. She screams at students who dare lower their masks to take a drink of water or something like that.
She tried that shit with me once, I laughed in her face.
think it has to do with the attack videos that were going around months back.
no one wants to be bothered
”Inculcation”
Making somebody believe something, even a lie, by repeatedly telling them over and over.
I’ve seen the smartest people slowly fall one by one and end up believing what they’re told because even they are eventually wore out and succumb to the lies, specifically here re: masks and rona lies
The lack of oxygen also doesn't help matters, I'm sure.
100%
Wearing a mask is like using a fishing net for a condom.
Copy/paste this article then print it off. Highlight the various bullet points that state unequivocally that masks are not only useless both inside and outside, but that they also are a health hazard. Post a bunch of them in conspicuous places at your work, slip them under the door of your boss and other management employees. Spread the word. This is from the NIH, it should carry a lot of weight since there are no documents anyone has produced that says the opposite.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
This article is the best I've read to date about the mask issue. Outstanding references, easy to understand, and touches on all negativity surrounding the mask.
Oh I agree, I've read it, sent it to a bunch of people and have it bookmarked on my phone. There's nothing wrong with the article at all. Consult Matthew 7:6 and you'll understand my previous comment.
A good one. I wasn’t discounting your comment, just adding my appreciation for the solidity of all the research done that’s noted in the article.
Hang in there, you’re never alone.
You don't know koreans very well, do you?
Interesting article! (but I can't figure out how the word "prosper" instead of "proper" made it at least twice in the publication without being corrected by someone :) )
I mean... It still works in both instances. Is it a mistake?
I don't see how "prosper use of a mask" could be intentional, unless they were referring to the fortunes being made by the mask companies :)
its like screen doors on a submarine.
Glad you stood your ground. Masking is completely unscientific and ridiculously stupid. The only way to change group think is by doing what you did. I am sure you are not the only one who doesn't want to wear the mask...especially outside. Most sheeple won't rock the boat.
Last weekend, I was at a restaurant with my sister, who is a doctor.
While we were waiting for our food, she commented, "my goodness, it smells so good!!"
I looked over at her with her mask on and said, "oh, really???" ??
My boss tried to pull that shit on me at the beginning of mask wearing. I flatly refused. I told him it was absolutely ridiculous and there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to wear a mask outside. I told him humans need to breath FRESH AIR to survive not carbon dioxide and bacteria that masks force us to breathe in. He relented. Even the gas stations have signs posted to wear a mask while pumping your gas. I don't. If they arrested me for it I would simply sue their ass and then happily retire.
I was called a renegade by another employee when he noticed I wasn’t wearing a mask outside. It’s mandatory inside buildings at my place of employment. I politely informed him of our work policy then red pilled him about the mRNA resequencing Vax that he was so proud about taking. Funny that the subject doesn’t come up anymore.
My question is, if it was really important to wear a mask-why aren’t they distributing the N95 ones? You can wear a crappy homemade one, garbage made in sweat shops, mesh, whatever but if they were really concerned about your health, they’d be handing out good ones. They’ve had plenty of time to catch up and make them. We’ve caught up on TP. That’s what I can’t understand about Fauc i. Two masks? Three? Why not distribute good ones that might actually do something? They’re not, so we know it’s all a lie.
Vent away. You’re among like-minded frens! Being outside with fresh air is the best way to avoid C-19. Here is some good news... https://youtu.be/XOuvaIB59ys
If you are following the 6-foot rule... you don't have to wear a mask if others stay at least 6-feet (2 meters) away from you.
Tell your boss to back up, because they are invading your 6-foot radius. Insist that they leave your safe zone. When they are 6-feet away from you, then inform them that you don't have to wear a mask... because they are more than 6-feet away. :>)
Those are the rules.
That’s right! Technically, in Florida the mandate is that you have to wear a mask IF you can’t social distance. Including inside. Everyone is illiterate and can’t read, apparently. They still wear masks indoors with plenty of distance, outside, alone, in cars, biking, jogging etc. smh
Soon as im ourside the mask comes off. I'm not sure if there are laws about masks outdoors in SK.
If not, don't wear it outside-- maybe just not around work.
First they laugh, then they get angry, then you win.
If it is not safe outside then the type of masks people are wearing would not work. We would need respirators. Idiot boss!
I’m with you, I refuse to wear a mask outside. I live in Illinois so the entire state is still under mask mandate but you can be sure that I will not be wearing a mask once it’s dropped and any store that requires one will not get my business. If we stop shopping at those stores maybe they’ll get with the program. We need to stand up and fight against these assholes that think we are sheep to follow by their rules
I wish I had that option, but if I stopped supporting places that require masks I'd literally starve. Not an exaggeration. I do have a rule though, if people can take off their masks inside to eat or drink, I don't wear one upon entering. Have only had one person challenge me and I laughed in his face. He still took my money.
That makes a little sense to me at least. Nah fuck that, she has no control of what I do outside of my job premises.
Are you alone or are there others who think like you?
My wife is 100% with me, redpilled and awake. Some foreigners do think it's stupid and they'll take them off when in private gatherings, but they're all to piss scared not to wear masks when in public. Cowards in my book.
Vent away. We all need to do that sometimes otherwise we would implode from the volume of sheer stupidity raining down upon us.
Yeah, the Koreans are pretty good at groupthink. I’m actually here in China and the only place people are really wearing masks are on public transport and in hospitals. Most Chinese people know that masks are bullshit.
Chinese people, long ago learned to ignore most of the government bullshit coming out of the TV. Unfortunately, Americans haven’t learned the lesson that corporations can put out way more bullshit than any government ever could.
I kid you not, but the reason koreans think the virus has been so well contained here is because everyone wears masks. Doesn't matter that they all constantly adjust them, take them off to wipe their faces with their hands and then put them back and don't wash their hands or take them off for food and put them on the table. Nope as long as you have mask on when you are in public. I realised long ago, this isn't about health. This is about compliance. The koreans excell at that.
Are there a lot of joggers in Korea? It seems like an odd place for them to be.
There's a public park close to my workplace where I go for a walk every evening. I encounter the joggers then.
The only good things about masks is I don't have to look at their ugly mugs, smell their bad breath or have them sneeze or cough on me.
My theory to this, Asians respect higher authority to a fault. They are some of the most intelligent people in the world, but do not lightly go against the status quo. Americans are supposed to be far more rebellious. We are supposed to value freedom and individualism more than anything else. The opposing forces that want to see America collapse have poisoned the masses through various methods to try and subdue this inane trait in us. Never give up. Never surrender.
You just described korean society perfectly. They are sacrificing their long term health and that of their children in order to fit in.
Can anyone show you scientific actual proof that those masks work outside? That would be my first question. Even the CDC has said you can't catch the china virus in passing out in the fresh air. I'm here in the States, and I see people driving around with masks on in their cars by themselves. I really want to pull up next to one and ask, who exactly are you protecting yourself from?
I can't wait for the masks to end. I feel your pain.
Perhaps you can find a mesh one to virtual signal but still allow you breath normally.
I wear one at work. Badly.
I refuse to wear one anywhere else and I have been screamed at a few times.
I just ignore them and carry on doing what I am doing.
Hahaha your first line is exactly what I do too, a cloth one tied with string behind my head. Sits 2cm away from my nose.
I drop it below my nose when I'm inside a place that requires a mask. I haven't been asked about it yet, but if someone asks, I'll say, "I can't breath when the mask covers both my nose and mouth" :)
You are right. She is wrong.
"Scientific" has become a buzzword that means "What I believe" and has nothing at all to do with the Scientific Method.
When governments fund science, they control science. When governments control science, then science becomes politics and is no longer science.
Mask's are more harmful to you than the virus.
Things Ive seen recently
people on bike ride in isolated part of town wearing mask (but not helmets)
11pm at night, person jogging in their apt complex parking lot, wearing a mask
people walking in neighborhood, wearing mask (very few other people around)
Good for you...stick up for your rights...too bang moronic sheep out there.
Weird. I thought SK was one of the saner countries in their approach to the Chinese Virus.
Yes and no. Yes lockdown wise, but also very authoritarian in that they will track your movement, track you down and place you under house arrest for the crime of coming into contact with someone who tested positive, even if that person is asymptomatic. Last year the government also used the virus to shut down and nationally villify the opposition movement.
"unscientific" lol
I've seen studies proving masks don't work, and could even increase chances of catching the CCP flu. Haven't seen any studies showing them to be effective.
Leftist science is whatever their television tells them to think.
Part of it is probably the focus on community, rather than the individual. The Korean Peninsula is homogeneous, and many families are tied together through blood or marriage. This sense of closeness, combined with a heavy emphasis on personal responsibility, results in a group mentality, a hive mind of sorts, that if just one person does a repetitive action, everyone else will fall in line. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, after all.
Had a boss that tried to boss us around off the clock once. While playing pool and drinking he tried to get all bossy with us OUTSIDE of work and OFF the clock. Half dozen of us put him in his place so bad that it may have affected his on the clock machismo. He quit a week later.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/farce-mask-its-safe-for-only-20-minutes-20030427-gdgnyo.html
https://truth11.com/2020/11/05/death-by-mask-lessons-learned-in-1918-mask-wearing-bacterial-pneumonia-infections-and-the-1918-spanish-flu-the-unmasked-were-burying-the-masked/
Here are some good links for you, Fren