It's not about the virus. Throughout human history, the rulers have demanded the unclean little people stay away, scrub down, cover up, taste their food for poisons, etc. Never do the rules apply to the rulers.
Today's masks are just a simple way to establish the old dominance game.
Of course it's zero Covid, but not about any Covid virus. Don't the Chinese see this? I wonder how come a communist country where signs of rank are generally covert in order to maintain the myth of common destiny, would make such an overt show of privilege.
Which of course the made up virus respects.
It's not about the virus. Throughout human history, the rulers have demanded the unclean little people stay away, scrub down, cover up, taste their food for poisons, etc. Never do the rules apply to the rulers.
Today's masks are just a simple way to establish the old dominance game.
Of course it's zero Covid, but not about any Covid virus. Don't the Chinese see this? I wonder how come a communist country where signs of rank are generally covert in order to maintain the myth of common destiny, would make such an overt show of privilege.