Well, I listed two. Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Ho. But there are, of course, many, many more.
Fauci lied about it, and still says conflicting things in different venues. He has admitted lying about it. Moreover, he admitted to lying in order to manipulate people. That's not what I would call a reliable source of information. He has admitted in some venues that masks are "symbolic". Was he lying, or did he really mean it? Heck if I know.
Where it becomes political is when the lies are used to manipulate people, and instead of providing people accurate information (with appropriate caveats about the level of knowledge) and *letting the individual decide what to do and how to conduct themselves*. A bunch of martinets spouting made-up-on-the-spot laws and quoting "authorities" instead of information *is supposed to be prevented by our formative principles*. THAT is why it is political, and I assure you, no one on my side started it.
The purpose of government is to give people information and let them decide. What is intolerable is public servants turning into dictators and deciding with quasi-legal threats to "protect us from our own actions for our own good". Many millions have thought it was worth dying for that principle. When the classic totalitarian tactic of "selective enforcement" is being used to supress things the left has long hated and has utter contempt for - churches - while allowing hyper-left rioters to run completely wild, destroying everything in their way, with not a peep of objection - you know that they are using this situation to make political hay.
I also note that the less technically adept and knowledgeable a person is, the the more they are likely to be stuck with "believing" authorities, and the more vociferously the screech about it. That's because they know they are incapable of understanding the underlying facts, therefore, they have no other recourse. That's why engineers frequently have contempt for doctors - what doctors do is what bad engineers do, try stuff at semi-random until something seems to work. We find people like that and shuffle them out of the important jobs (or at least we used to...). Medical researchers are a bit better.
People want to feel that there is something they can do, so there are plenty of people telling them things that makes them feel safe. The fact that there really isn't any defense aside from strict isolation is true, but doesn't make anyone feel better. So, people are given some sort of talisman to make them feel better, just like witch doctors throughout history.
Fine so far, where it become unacceptable is when you, and people who feel like you that they need to be "safe", have decided that your feelings and opinions override mine, and that you and many others are practically dancing in the streets over having more-or-less successfully forced the rest of us to comply with your "needs". So we get a tyranny of the most terrified, and the horrific side effects that entails.
It's a real virus, and highly dangerous for compromised individuals. The only real protection we have right now is isolation, which for most people is completely impractical, and ultimately impossible to sustain. Almost everyone will be exposed eventually, about .05-.1% of them will die of it, unless there is a vaccine. Those appear to be the facts of the situation.
Brett
Topic: Mask Logic. (Read 14119 times)