The Occult Symbolism of COVID Masks

My sister is a nurse in Texas. She had covid. These bull***t denier post don't help a single person. They do hurt many and possibly kill some. My sister is on the front line and paying the the price. I hope all you loud mouth cowards contract covid. Karma is a beautiful thing. If you do contract it and while you are coughing up your lungs while s***ing your petty brains out...please reread all your posts. A***oles.

This post is an absolute study in ignorance and making s*** up. Bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼

All bull***t excuses. Every. Single. One.
Yes, they are sad things, but not one of them is a reason for not masking up.
If you don't want to wear a mask, stay out of stores. And if you can't wear one for the 20 minutes you need to be in a store, then seek mental help, and in the meantime, order curbside or delivery.

This is absurd, just STFU. Yes, I do shame people who don't wear masks, because f*** you selfish a***oles. This looks like something a Trump worshipper would post, in addition to a few other posts of yours in the last couple of months. Bye Felicia!!

The above comments were sent in an attempt to force me to take down a meme I posted on social media.  The meme explained to the devout mask wearer that certain people cannot wear masks because of breathing issues, sensory issues, or certain types of PTSD. These responses reveal a commonplace yet disproportionate rage. All of the above commenters are leftist former friends of mine who seek to control my thoughts and behavior via shaming.

The COVID mask does not serve its most obvious function, which is preventing suspended droplets of COVID-loaded bodily fluids from finding a contagious human target. COVID is endemic. I'm not going to explain what this means, because I am sure if you are reading this paragraph, you are already aware of how an endemic disease is the viral equivalent of wallpaper.

For those who wish to harass me like the examples above, I will warn you now that your entreaties won't be published here, so you will do best to take it elsewhere. Comments are fully moderated by me, filtered for profanity, and this site gathers the IP addresses of all who comment, whether I choose to publish them or not.

What I want to talk about is the non-physical aspects of masks and what they represent in the group subconscious.  I want to peel back the layers of bluster and tough guy posturing to reveal the working guts.  I want to talk about the real reasons behind the unhinged, hateful comments I received for posting an innocuous meme.

Hegemony

"We Are All In This Together" bellow the ad sloganeers. Yet who benefitted politically from the shutdowns? Which classes and types of people reaped the most benefits from a stop to all but "essential" labor?   The answer: the middle and the upper classes and their aspirants.  Anyone who questioned the shutdowns, like the April 16 protestors at the Michigan capitol building who wanted to go back to work, was shamed and ridiculed.  Unmasked rioters like the ones who drove a UHaul to loot luxury stores in Chicago last weekend, however, have been cheered on by Black Lives Matter.  We were clearly never all in this together, nevertheless, the pro-mask people figured out they could enforce the appearance of successful groupthink even though the reality was far different. That's why all those who wear masks wish to force mask-wearing on everyone else. A mask wearer's unconscious statement proclaims that he or she is benefitting from the policies designed to give us all an artificial boundary of safety -- the mask, distancing, and shutdowns -- that have all been repeatedly revealed as ineffective shams in stopping a mostly non-lethal, endemic disease. We Will All Appear To Be In This Together Whether You Agree Or Not.

Fear and paranoia have quickly turned 2020 into a lost year for funerals, weddings, graduations, concerts, and games. Whether it was the opportunity to hold your dying child's or grandpa's hand as they left this incarnation or to harmonize in a church singalong to raise money for the less fortunate, those who were paranoid about a disease with a less than 3% fatality rate cancelled it. The coddled, fearful, obedient believers helicopter-parented us all without our consent.

The mask is a muzzle to those who would speak evil or like me, attempt to go deeper into their astral plane meaning rather than examining them from the materialist, scientific standpoint where they have already failed. The mask is an astral plane symbol with a material plane set of rules to accompany it.  The mask identifies its wearer as a unit of the hive mind, like a badge, armband, or special tattoo. Those who do not comply will be shamed, cancelled, forced to die outside castle walls. I am reminded of threats from Christians, "You had better repent your sins to God or you will burn in eternal Hell." Narcissistic, abusive God loves you though!

Isolation

The mask and distancing that goes with it erects an astral plane barrier to prevent potential dissenters from communicating with other people. The mask isn't meant to prevent the spread of a virus so much as it is meant to prevent the spread of ideas. Masks are often compared to condoms: only icky, low class, date-rapist skeezeballs refuse to wear them.  As usual, wearing one signifies belonging to the middle and upper classes or at least aspiring to belong.  In the case of sex, as someone who grew up terrified of accidentally becoming pregnant, I know that abstinence is the only way of doing this between menarche and menopause. For mask-wearers, the ideal of abstinence has its direct parallel in mandatory stay at home orders.  If abstinence in the form of complete social isolation for everyone was the goal, they have done a remarkable job of achieving it in the last few months of cancelled gatherings.

The staunchest cheerleaders of mask-wearing and social distancing are natural introverts who fear other people, especially the working poor.  For them, social distancing was a welcome respite from being obliged to interact with low class strangers on a daily basis.  The mask keeps the dreaded Other far, far away from the fearful and their misanthropy.  The mask's double bonus is its function as a talismanic Binky.  The feeling of safety that the illusion of a masked face provides is more potent than its value as a face covering.  The mask is the molded plastic velociraptor that guards the terrified toddler from the Boogeyman he is certain lives in the bedroom closet.  The mask is the mark of lamb's blood on the doorframe to drive away the angel of death.  The mask is the hottest trend in superstition.

Speaking of death, you'll notice that one my detractors in the opening comments heartily wished it upon me and everyone who thinks like I do, which is a practice I do not reciprocate because nowadays I have an appreciation of the kind of karmic retribution it brings. The paranoia around COVID arises from the imbalanced fear of death that remains unexamined in our culture.  COVID primarily slays the elderly no matter what the mainstream corporate media tries to invent.  Instead of taking a cruel to be kind route and helping any elder drowning in their own fluids to an easy death of opium sleep bliss, our society chooses to isolate them in ICU wards while frantically inflating their lungs so they can succumb to the Reaper while exclusively surrounded by "essential" workers, which is to say they will die alone.  Meanwhile, nurses and doctors hold corpses aloft while dancing in choreographed Tik Tok routines through mostly empty hospital wards. One might almost dare to think they have plenty of time on their hands.

The end goal of mask enforcers is a permanent government funded welfare state of mandatory shelter in place.  In this Marxist welfare utopia, nobody has to work because Progress will deliver the technology in order to feed, shelter, and clothe everyone.  The salary class had it the easiest during the shelter in place orders in March and April, and their naive assumption is that such a state of affairs can go on forever just as long as it is applied with a one size fits all brushstroke.  This is evidenced in the "order curbside or delivery" comment.  This is Marie Antoinette asking why the peasants don't just eat cake.  It presumes the restaurant is kept open because of endless government cash, that the home will not be lost to foreclosure or eviction, and that the person living inside has the money to order expensive take out and grocery delivery.  Marie Antoinette does not understand that real people live outside Versailles and they must work in order to eat.  For the antisocial corporate drone marooned at home with her computers and smart devices, it seems like nobody should be permitted to gather in public ever again because she personally does fine in social isolation.  In her mind, nobody needs to go to church or see a movie in a theater because they can have online worship services and Amazon Prime Video.  The top-riding Marie Antoinettes of the Coronapocalypse want to create the world of Wall-E with slightly less junk, though it will be the same amount of junk soon with all of the take out containers and Amazon trinket packaging piling up.  

Virtue

It is interesting to watch people pretend to hate a situation they brought about out of political necessity.  The panic over the current administration lasting four more years is thick.  Though I have never revealed my 2016 vote, one commenter above paints me as a Trump supporter with gleeful spite.  The people who accuse me of being a Trump lover (I don't honestly give Trump much thought) doth protest too much.  I think they secretly love Trump.  Their hatred of them belies Freudian sexual turbulence.  They sincerely believe they hate him but I think they're more hot and bothered by Trump than simply bothered.  

The Left has a pathological need to feel victimized and oppressed.  Trump does the job nicely, doesn't he?  The revival of The Handmaid's Tale uncovered leftist longing for a Big Daddy Christian takeover that would make liberal women feel as oppressed as authentic victims of religious male oppression, such as Muslim women in Somalia.  Leftist women had the gall to uniform themselves in red Handmaid's Tale outfits to protest Trump's locker room banter about grabbing women by their crotches.  Meanwhile, the tragedies wrote themselves as trafficking gangs targeted white girls in Britain and Islamists hung gay men on public city walls while Joe Biden had yet to be implicated by Tara Reade.  Since they are not personally oppressed, the tormented black, white, and multiracial souls who wear masks must invent their tormentors, whether it's a disease or a president.

Progress, the true religion of the affluent, brought a longed for Apocalypse.  Like Progress itself, the Apocalypse in the form of COVID did not live up to expectations and had to undergo much fluffing and stuffing to appear like it was arriving on schedule.  Materialist Science's Coronapocalypse, although disappointing, was good enough for mask-wearers who needed to believe in the Narrative.  Those like me who don't go along with the Narrative are shunned as Deplorables.  Only a Deplorable would reject the Marxist welfare state utopia.  Only a Deplorable wouldn't be concerned about what the neighbors think.

Charging Away On Revolving Credit

The reason masks are pushed as the New Normal is a rational fear of accumulated blowback. Just as a twenty-something chases more degrees via grad school in order to delay the first of many inevitable invoices for student loan debt from arriving, the mask-wearer seeks to delay the tipping point when the masses discard the New Normal. Such a reckoning must be avoided at all costs, lest those who were disenfranchised start thinking about whom they should hold accountable for lost time, lost income, and forever lost connections with loved ones.  

Though they have their virtues, Millennials are a soft, easily led, placid group with deep reservoirs of entitled rage.  Without realizing it, they have pushed the cost of their hysterical rage primarily upon Generation Z, which is at this time too young to marinate in the hatred of their parents' generation.  Boomers are already hated by Millennials, but this will pale in comparison to the hatred Generation Z will feel towards Millennials when Generation Z comes into its own.  The mask, like pastel rainbow wall art and Netflix binges, is at risk of becoming a Millennial moniker: a symbol for the scaredy-cats who ruined lives because they couldn't admit that their political side was losing for solid reasons.  I'm not sure how this will look to the youth who bore the brunt of Coronapocalypse in twenty or thirty years, but I cannot imagine it will be flattering.