The Occult Symbolism of COVID Masks

[kimberlysteele]

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.

 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I’m terrified of having brain damage. I watched someone who was fiercely intelligent (as in, multilingual, able to follow the most intricate arguments of classical philosophy, music theory, and a dozen other fields) barely able to figure out where her mouth was after a severe stroke. She spent the last few years of her life in a care home, never able to learn how to say more than a few words; she eventually could feed herself, but she lost the ability to cook, or even to pour water for tea; and she went from being a fiercely independent woman to someone who needed help getting dressed. I’d rather die than live in that state.

Since nearly all brain damage that severe kills people without medical interventions, I have a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order. I thought that one of the big concerns with Covid is that it’ll overwhelm the hospitals, and so we can’t afford to let it spread. I wasn’t expecting to be thanked, but I thought people with DNRs would be ignored. After all, having people have DNRs would make the problem of overwhelmed hospitals a little less severe.

However, as part of the Covid-19 response, where I live, DNRs have lost what little legal force they had. If I’m found unconscious, the paramedics are legally required to try to resuscitate me. If I’m found severely injured, then as soon as I fall unconscious they are still legally required to try, even if I expressly tell them I don’t want it.

The justification given: most people who contract Covid-19 will live if they’re placed on ventilators. This does nothing to address my concern though: I know enough to know that a lot of people who go on ventilators, possibly a majority, will have brain damage ranging from minor through to severe enough that some of them will not be able to resume independent life. This is why I don’t want to be put on one: I don’t want to take that risk.

As a society, we apparently can’t allow anyone to die on their own terms. I’m healthy and in my 20s, and so I don’t think it’ll matter for a while yet, but I’m sure there are plenty of other people who have DNRs for similar reasons but lack my health and youth, and I wonder how many people involved in making the decision to void all DNRs thought of them.

[kimberlysteele]

One of the reasons I'm vegan is because of the research linking animal proteins to Alzheimer's plaques. I'm nowhere near what your poor friend achieved with languages or philosophy, but I have worked hard for every bit of cognition I've got and I don't want to live a dependent life.

American society in particular fetishizes the extension of life at all costs. I was appalled at what one of my own relatives went through on her way out of this incarnation. There were many opportunities to die gently and peacefully that were missed in favor of awful "treatments" that extended the dying process.

COVID revealed how much the American medical system has become a game where patients always lose. It's a profiteering racket, plain and simple, and the goal is to score as many sickies as possible for cash and promotions. The longer the patient suffers, the more points gained. As I have said in posts past, I do not admire doctors or anyone who chooses to go into the medical profession and it takes a great deal more than a title to earn my respect. They are not automatic heroes.

[(Anonymous)]

The fact animal protein is being linked to Alzheimer's is fascinating. I'm going to have to look into it, since that's a disease which runs in my family.

I've never met anyone who's managed what she had. It was truly remarkable seeing someone who could discuss nearly anything intelligently and had a dozen fascinating hobbies reduced to the mind of a toddler at best.

I saw something similar to what you're talking about with my aunt. She had a heart attack and was found unconscious after who knows how long, and was brought to the hospital. She was hooked up to a ventilator for a week, and when they took her off it was clear she wasn't going to recover. She lacked most basic reflexs, which meant her brain was pretty much destroyed by the however many minutes without oxygen. The doctors wanted to hook her up again, and very nearly did, but my cousin wouldn't have it. She was already dead, and all that hooking her up to the machine again could do would be make her body suffer longer.

Oh, and then the worst part of it all was watching her die, since it was very clear she was in a lot of pain, but no pain medications were being prescribed, since the policy is against it without an assessment for the risks of addiction! I strongly suspect that part of that was the doctor being petty, but I can't prove it.

I also completely get what you mean about the medical industry. I briefly went into speech pathology, but I found the field way too toxic. The goal for most people there does not seem to be to help people, but rather it seems to be to make as much money as possible.

One example is that the regulatory boards here actually forbid you from volunteering your services: someone must pay you the "fair price" for everything. Since the going rate is a six figure salary, this means that if you provide a service at a rate which is anything other usurious, you run the risk of losing your license.

And this is in Canada, which prides itself on having a less destructive healthcare system. I don't know if that's just us engaged in self-righteous preening (which we do a lot of), or if things are really worse in the states, but if you need speech pathology, you have two options: either wait for months for the government provided one, or shell out more money than most people have to get access to a private one.

[(Anonymous)]

When people are exected to wear masks for teleconferencing, something very weird is going on....

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article244861827.html

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks for this. Good grief Charlie Brown, it's patently obvious that the appearance of hegemony is the most important aspect of masks. Their physical functionality is superfluous.

Gotta carry that Binky no matter what! The Boogeyman can pop out of any corner, right there in broad daylight!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, Kimberly, it’s Joy Marie from over at Ecosophia. I think you are onto something here, with the manic behavior of the control-lovers. I used to know some people like that; even before COVID-19 they would say things that made me shake my head and wonder why they would want to force people to behave in a certain manner. I guess it’s the desire to control your environment by trying to control all others around you. Someone needs to tell them it doesn’t work!

You said: The staunchest cheerleaders of mask-wearing and social distancing are natural introverts who fear other people…

Please don’t blame the current insanity on introverts! We get enough flack as it is, especially with psychology labeling us “neurotic”. We just don’t need as much social interaction as others, and need more time to unwind afterward when we do socialize. It’s true enough that, when I spent seven weeks on lay off during the peak of state shut down this spring, I wasn’t as bothered by it as others, but I did miss going out occasionally with friends. I still haven’t eaten at restaurants yet though they are now open, as my friends are still skittish about eating out.

I might add that it's not only leftists that complain about non-mask wearers, though they are the worst of the lot. I have one friend who is quite conservative in many ways, but she doesn’t eat out yet and also complains about people not wearing masks. Her daughter’s a nurse, so I think that has something to do with her caution. I wear a mask because it’s required at work and in public places. I don’t confront people who don’t wear them, as I don’t think that’s my business. My guess is that my state requires it in order to buffer the panic of those who think everything should SHUT DOWN AGAIN, as we are having another surge of cases. The state government doesn’t want any more damage to businesses though, so thinks of the masks as a compromise. Rural areas and small towns are most likely to ignore mask wearing.

I might add that I read through your series on how the left is demon possessed. I think you are onto something there. I’ve seen some videos on YouTube and the expressions on their faces are definitely from some dark place. After doing a search on “Trump demon possession” I found an article that wonders if it’s true. Go through the links they provide. Just look at the expressions on their faces, and…goodness…the wild look of the screaming, shaved-head woman in that one involving the Trump red hats. And the screaming “Art major”! I think it all proves your point.

Are These Anti-Trumpers Demon-Possessed? [WARNING: graphic content]

https://deplorablefeed.com/are-these-anti-trumpers-demon-possessed/

Joy Marie

[kimberlysteele]

Hi Joy Marie,

Thanks for the comment and link. I'm an introvert too! I can easily hide my introversion and be extroverted when necessary -- more as a defense mechanism than a state I want to dwell in.

JMG says that he "hopes there aren't suicides" if Trump wins and that he sees signs that big quotients of leftists are on the verge of complete psychotic breaks, like the kind of break that has them wandering the streets naked and babbling to themselves. I watched the link you posted -- yeah, I've seen lots of those videos, though some were new to me.

There's also Claira Janover, who thought making death threats would be fun TikTok comedy and got fired from her posh job. Warning, profanity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKaAQU6qUDw

She seems to have been taken over by an entity in this video. Just my opinion, of course. She's wild-eyed, talking fast, and barely coherent. And there's also the detail that creating this video ruined a sizable chunk of her life.

There's also CHAZ/CHOP, the lunatic experiment that resulted in six shootings and two deaths. It was a fine example of what happens when you allow the inmates to run the asylum.

[(Anonymous)]

My family is far to the left, and I'm not sure that they'll all survive 2020. I fully expect at least one of them to have a mental breakdown this year, but I hope it doesn't get too ugly. So from personal experience here, I think he's probably right to think a lot of people are close to snapping, and right to worry about suicides....

Interesting

[(Anonymous)]

RaymondR here, I first came across you through your comments on JMG's site. This is a good post with a lot of thought provoking ideas. I agree that mask-wearing largely about control, although for some of us it is also camouflage or simply a pragmatic practice.

One idea you might want to consider is that the mask is a talisman seeking return to a lost social consensus. Despite abandoning the lower classes, the powers that be long for the time (e.g. WW2) when all classes in society were in general agreement on the wisdom of ruling class. That our rulers lost the trust of the ruled through egregious misrule doesn't preclude them from longing for better time. They seem to say: maybe if we put on this talisman, the mask, the false narrative that "we are all in this together" will somehow aquire veracity.

As a 63 year old semi-retired geologist with a strong rationalist bias, I am sufficiently open minded to take your observations on dark spiritual matters seriously. This is because those dark forces correlate with observable human behavior. I plan to continue to read your articles. Keep up the good work.

Re: Interesting

[kimberlysteele]

Thanks Raymond! I have been wearing the mask as camouflage. I can hardly breathe in it because of my deviated septum, but when I go into the grocery store, I don't feel like being singled out and glared at. I resent having to wear it because of my breathing problems. I wear it nonetheless. The karma for the unnecessary masks and restrictions is already on the mask-adherents. I sense they will be paying for this for a long time. Of course I could be wrong, the masks could be helping (though data has yet to show it) and that's why I don't blatantly refuse to wear masks in public spaces.

I don't mind the distancing at all, nor the hand-washing, because if I have any form of common cold or flu, I don't want others to get it. Still isn't a good enough reason to shut down the economy and people's livelihoods though.

One idea you might want to consider is that the mask is a talisman seeking return to a lost social consensus Yes, this is true, I think. The mask is an ineffective piece of natural magic meant to ward off Death. Its true purpose is as a talisman to bind together what has been flung apart, and it's largely ineffective on that front as well.

Re: Interesting

[(Anonymous)]

It seems there's something seriously wrong with our culture: we have knack for grabbing things which have exctly the wrong symbolism! A mask won't bring us together: subconsciously I think here in North America we almost all associate them with criminals and dangerous people. Making everyone wear them is going to damage our social cohesion, not bring us together. Sigh....

Re: Interesting

[(Anonymous)]

I have a couple of neck gaiters that are easier to breathe through than masks. I don't wear them much at the moment; since they are a tube of fabric you pull up over your nose, much of it is around your neck and in this hot weather that makes them uncomfortable to wear very long. If the mask panic continues into fall and winter, though, I will be using the gaiters more than masks. There have been reports that gaiters are not effective at preventing droplets spreading when you talk, but other sources say they are fine if you use the right type material, thickness, layers, etc. Sounds about like the arguments over the safety and effectiveness of masks, doesn't it? I didn't even know what a neck gaiter was until Covid-19 hit! You might want to look into it, and see if it fits your needs (and deviated septum) better than a mask.

https://www.amazon.com/neck-gaiter/s?k=neck+gaiter

Joy Marie

[(Anonymous)]

One of the more pleasant side effects of a good banishing regime is that it will often banish the crazies from your life along with the astral nasties.

Of course if they persist in hissing and spitting at you from outside of the magic circle, I am a fan of the good old fashioned License to Depart, and, if that fails, the Curse of Chains will do the job. But then I'm a little biblical that way these days.

[kimberlysteele]

I commented off-handedly to some young, self-styled witch who said there was no such thing as karma that when I used to throw curses, I was naturally talented at it. I mentioned that if I talked about what I achieved at the time, I would have drawn the unwanted and copious attention of the government. And this was during a time when I was ostensibly atheist. I stopped throwing curses because my life was miserable as a result of all those bad intentions: blowback. Dragging people down means you get to go for the ride with them. I'm not sure how I'll be paying for all the damage I did to people I did not like in my future lives. I am sure, however, that I will pay. That's why I don't do that anymore. Binding someone from harming me though is a different matter -- that's mostly a territory issue and if they insist on intruding, I have to deal with that in an appropriate fashion. Thank heavens for the Sphere of Protection in my case, which is basic and uncomplicated. I enjoy doing my banishing ritual every morning, actually. It hasn't ever been a chore in the 2.5 years or so I have done it. I just wish I knew about it 30 years ago.

Bravo!

[(Anonymous)]

Dang, Kimberly! Reading this was like a nice cold drink of truth and logic. Thank you SO MUCH for using your blog to create a little oasis of entertaining opinions and facts for us in the parched desert of 2020. I am a Millennial and I am thoroughly disgusted with my generation. It's sickening, honestly. I am praying and cannot wait for Gen Z to come around. In many ways, it seems to be already happening. I followed several social media accounts of people who were presenting alternative perspectives and facts online and questioning the hysteria that's being pushed on all of us, only to be shocked when attending a live stream from one of the accounts that the lady who I thought was probably my age was actually only 19 or 20! This then happened to me several other times, during the same period in which I was unfollowing a lot of people my age and older, too. I am very impressed with some of these gen Zers and am definitely rooting them on in the background. It seems like we're in such an interesting phase because on the one hand, "woke" ideology seems to dominate our culture, is present at almost all our sporting events and everywhere we go if we dare to venture out into the world for anything less than absolute necessity, and the mask wearers are constantly pushed as "appearing" to be a majority in polls and so on, though I often doubt the professed veracity of the results. So this attitude seems to be at the height of power and influence right now. It's almost hard to imagine that this political and racist ideology is going to fall out of dominance, but I agree with you, I think it is going to implode on itself soon. It's just hard to imagine given the messaging that it appears to be so powerful / popular right now. Anyway thanks for your blog, truly it is very appreciated!
xoxo K

Re: Bravo!

[kimberlysteele]

Thank you! It's possible but improbable that Biden could win, but if he doesn't, I think the Left and all its pet causes such as race-baiting, COVID paranoia, and woke cancel culture will be facing a tremendous wave of backlash. That's why they're increasingly hysterical. Grad school is over, they have their doctorate in Women's Studies, they haven't got a job in their field of study, and they are facing the hard reality they will have to move back into their childhood bedroom at mom and dad's house. The bills are starting to come due. I see a great many governors who will get sued as well as class action lawsuits aimed at woke corporations as Gen Z gets past its teething stage. I am not sure how angry they will get. I don't think it will come to leftist heads on pikes unless Pedogate spins completely out of control.

Re: Bravo!

[houseofmirrors]

race-baiting, COVID paranoia, and woke cancel culture will be facing a tremendous wave of backlash. That's why they're increasingly hysterical.

The bill, if indeed it comes due, is getting steeper. Our friend Tim Pool just broke news that merely days after Seattle voted to defund police, BLM rolled into the residential areas demanding that white people "give back your houses to the black people you stole them from with gentrification."

You heard it. They're coming to evict you from your house, and just as soon as there are no police to stop them. How much you want to bet though that the police would be quickly on the spot to arrest you if you were to shoot a group of raiders coming to steal your house? This is literally communist revolution.

We also are seeing calls that looting is justified, and that it is simply reparations.

I fully expect that the next step will be that white women in cities like Portland and Seattle can be compelled to have sex by force with any "man of color" and it will simply be fair repayment for slave rape on the plantation, and a form of fair recompense for the "racist preferences" that have been revealed in studies put out by dating sites. Long and tortured articles advocating this will appear in the New York Times and Salon.com. And if you dare to protest you're a racist.



as Gen Z gets past its teething stage. I am not sure how angry they will get. I don't think it will come to leftist heads on pikes unless Pedogate spins completely out of control.

I'm beginning to wonder if they will get past it. The millenials are doing their best to start the leftist indoctrination as early as preschool now. A few years ago, I was privy to plans for a very woke, very white-guilt, and very black-rage curriculum to start even in kindergarten.

[lincoln_lynx]

I'm something of a germaphobe and find the measures taken ridiculous. People buying all the sanitizer in stores, wearing masks, staying 6 feet apart, etc. It's all a show, none of those are sufficient, and even I can't go to the lengths required to make sure I never get exposed, meaning there's no way they can.

Back in 2016 when I saw sychronicites pile up suggesting a Trump win, the idea occurred that the Left wanted to lose, self-loathing and victim complexes had grown common within their ranks, and what better suffering could they ask for than a Trump Presidency? I doubted nonetheless, figured Trump would narrowly lose, extort Clinton out of a sizeable payoff in exchange for his accepting the results, and that that would be the end of it. (I still think that's what Trump really had in mind when he ran.) This time I'm certain a large factor in the Left's behavior is their desire to lose again and that they will do whatever it takes for that to happen.

[kimberlysteele]

The Democrat's choices are so comically bad over the last 6 or so years, they have begged the question: Is this actually a Republican psy-op? By choosing Hillary Clinton as a presidential contender and then Biden/Harris four years later after a campaign of cross country race riots designed to punish American businesses that were already on the brink from Democrat overreaction to the flu, one could easily imagine they are trying to lose. Or maybe it's like a spoiled brat who goes on a hunger strike, never once imagining they could actually die and/or cause permanent organ and brain damage. Then one day they wake up and they haven't gone through puberty at age 19 and will never be able to have children because of the damage they did at age 10. Yes, I'm thinking of a girl named Greta who was so bad, she was horrid...

[lincoln_lynx]

We know the DNC coordinates with the media which makes Biden choosing Harris all the more baffling unless we assume they want to lose. I mean after months of inflaming anti-police sentiments they think picking Harris won't backfire in a hilarious manner? She's the worst possible choice after what they did.

[(Anonymous)]

Kimberly says: 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…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…The end goal of mask enforcers is a permanent government funded welfare state of mandatory shelter in place.

I’ve been mulling over the action of mask wearing as a social conformity/virtue signaling/power-enforcement of the officially approved appropriate behavior that every citizen is supposed to blindly agree with and support enthusiastically. They are presently running trials for the Covid-19 vaccine. That is being rushed through so as to save us from the Covid-19 virus as soon as possible, even though it usually takes several years to run enough trials for the proper data to be collected to prove both the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine in question. All of those now clamoring for everyone to wear masks will then demand that everyone MUST be vaccinated against Covid-19! (Biden has called for a national mask mandate—I wouldn’t doubt he’d support a national vaccine mandate.) I can see that anyone refusing the vaccine (if they allow you to refuse) will be required to continue wearing masks, while those vaccinated don’t. Then we will see a reversal of the current situation: those wearing masks will be reviled as disobedient and non-compliant dissidents, while not wearing a mask will become the marker of the virtuous vaccinated conformist. Masked people will be the potentially diseased pariahs of society, perhaps barred from working and moving freely in public. This flip-flopping throws people off, and convinces them that they should just follow orders, as it is too hard to think through all the changing positions the elitists promote. Masks are good…oh, wait…a vaccine to the rescue…now masks are bad…what next? Oh, just gimme the vaccine so I can get back to Netflix, virtual sports and my bowl of Cheetos. (As thought by the average person.)

Joy Marie

[kimberlysteele]

I'm seeing a great deal of resistance from Generation Z. They are going to be quite angry at their Millennial elders in a few years, I think.

I'm not getting vaccinated. I don't care if we go into a Brave New World situation where I have to live on the outskirts of civilization: there's no way in hell they will vaccinate me, and if the US decides to go completely against its own Constitution and make vaccines mandatory for everyone, I will be packing my bags and moving elsewhere. I feel that strongly about it. I would understand if COVID was as deadly or disfiguring as Ebola, smallpox, or bubonic plague. It most certainly is not.

[kimberlysteele]

Also I can guarantee you they eat Cheetos straight out of the bag and don't bother with the bowl! I used to love those things...

[andrew_b]

Hey there Kimberly,

I enjoyed your essay. Yea, this mask thing is getting incoherently bizarre to the point I find it comical. I see people driving alone in their car...wearing a mask? I see fellow millennials out in the woods hiking...wearing masks? And as you and other here have commented, it has already just become another class signifier- it marks you as one of the thoughtful "good people". If I ever bring up the various scientific and medical reasoning against masks, people wig out in a hurry.

And your last paragraph hit home for me as well. I'm a millennial (32 years old), and I've suddenly realized something since this "crisis" started: I really don't have any friends in my generation. I find my richest and deepest talks and relationships come from older folks. Not to make generalizations, but I find the majority of folks in my generation to be completely institutionalized and unable to function without screens. And I know this, cuz I used to be like that, until I worked up the courage in my early 20s to walk away from all that (that proved to be the best decision I ever made!). I'm worried what effects this could produce for our already beleaguered country and society as my generation starts to gain political power, but at the same time, as Gen Z is forced more and more by the long descent into an actual physical economy, I'm hopeful it will all balance out.

And finally, this is kind of related to all your posts, but I thought you would get a kick out of this:
https://babylonbee.com/news/time-names-karen-person-of-the-year

[kimberlysteele]

I am fortunate that on my lower middle class block, there are only two neighbors (husband and wife) who insist on wearing masks. Everyone else -- and this is in a population-dense little area -- just doesn't wear them. It is 100% a class signifier. It's a way of saying "the salary class and its aspirants are on the right side of history! They need to get the goodies and perks of Empire forever because they deserve the best!"

Millennials were trained well by their Boomer parents to be TERRIFIED of death and the aspects of nature death represents. These are children who rarely played outside, who don't remember what it is like to come home caked in mud with scratched up knees and bruises on one's arms from doing stupid, dangerous kid stuff. Somehow my Generation X survived playing outside and what did not kill us made us stronger.

The parents of Millennials (mostly Boomers) were the first generation to almost wholly abandon gardening for housing association lifestyles. They don't recognize death as "real" because they haven't dealt with it in their sanitized environments. So to have death push its way into their lives, sort of, via the Nothingburger flu, was unforgivable. The intrusion of reality into their aspiring salary class bubble was gross and scary. It needed to be blamed on someone (anyone!) and who better than the deplorable Trump voters, those unwashed masses who hide around every corner and under every rock? Anything is easier than looking a problem straight in the eye and contemplating it by putting one's own failings in the spotlight and trying to rectify them.