{"id":213517,"date":"2021-03-29T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mask-nagging-gives-free-pass-to-passive-aggressive-sociopaths\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T23:22:50","slug":"mask-nagging-gives-free-pass-to-passive-aggressive-sociopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mask-nagging-gives-free-pass-to-passive-aggressive-sociopaths\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mask Nagging gives free pass to passive-aggressive sociopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mask Nagging gives free pass to passive-aggressive sociopaths<\/strong>”
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We\u2019re all familiar with Mask Nags, people who occupy themselves by scrolling through social media<\/a> and leaving comments wherever they see a photo of someone who isn\u2019t muzzled. \u201cNice picture, but where\u2019s the mask?\u201d Or who, upon hearing about a small gathering, gasps, \u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a pandemic!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Will the Mask Nags\u2019 meddlesome reign ever be over?<\/p>\n

Last week, Ted Cruz stood inside the Capitol building and prepared to deliver remarks to assembled reporters, one of whom, off-camera, asked, \u201cDo you mind putting a mask on for us?\u201d The Texas Republican responded that he would put one on when he was done with his comments, and the same reporter answered, \u201cIt would make us feel better.\u201d Cruz, to his credit, told the hypercautious scold, \u201cYou\u2019re welcome to step away, if you\u2019d like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Predictably, the blue-check Twitterati framed Cruz\u2019s response as reckless and callous. But the exchange demonstrated the extent to which mask theater has authorized the most officious and passive-aggressive members of society to assert unquestioned control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is hard to take the reporter in this instance seriously, because, as everyone should understand by this point, masks are at best an ineffective means of controlling transmission of the novel coronavirus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neighboring jurisdictions with completely different mask mandates, such as the two Dakotas, have had identical rates of infection. Countries like Poland that initially were praised for the success of their universal masking rules later suffered the same intensity of contagion as the rest of Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover, nobody wears masks in accordance with protocol. People take them on and off with dirty hands, stick them in pockets with loose change or toss them on tables. Even when handled perfectly, their use is dubious: A British study\u00a0found that masks worn by surgeons during operations didn\u2019t reduce bacterial wound infections in the people being operated on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But gripped by panic over a contagious disease that mostly affects elderly and infirm, much of the public has embraced universal masking as a sign of commitment to doing . . . something. There is a superstitious element to masks \u2014 a form of propitiation to the epidemiology gods to save us from contagion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But at its worst, Mask Nagging gives busybodies license to intrude on other people\u2019s business for clout or purity points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cult of Absolute Safety now covers many sins \u2014 from the greed and sloth of vaccinated public-school teachers who want to work remotely while their students sit in class, to the false compassion of officials who demand that businesses fail so they can impose total government control of the economy. Even for those without any political power, the mask regime is a source of self-righteous pride.<\/p>\n

The reporter who interrupted Cruz to ask him to put on a mask said it would make him \u201cfeel better,\u201d and this whiny petition betrays the falsity of his distress. If he had been genuinely afraid of catching a deadly disease from an immunized person standing at least 10 feet away, he would have fled the building. But it\u2019s obvious that he just enjoyed telling a senator what to do. We haven\u2019t seen such meddlesome scrupulousness since the days when women would be arrested for wearing bathing suits too many inches above the knee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s getting harder\u00a0to take seriously a pandemic that requires constant publicizing of its dangers. Public-health authorities who insist that nothing \u2014 neither overwhelmingly successful vaccines nor better treatments \u2014 will soon return us to the pre-mask normal ultimately make fools of themselves.<\/p>\n

Yes, the virus will be a feature of modern life. But it\u2019s unrealistic to imagine we can achieve a state of total risklessness \u2014 especially when the quest to do so blinds us to so many other risks: such as unschooled children, shattered economies and lockdown-damaged minds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In telling the\u00a0Mask Nag that he was \u201cwelcome to step away\u201d if he was so afraid of being near him, Cruz offered a sensible prescript<\/a>ion for dealing with the virus that we should have adopted a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u00a0People who are elderly or vulnerable ought to be encouraged to \u201cstep away\u201d from daily life \u2014 with all available courtesy and assistance brought to their aid. Meanwhile, the rest of society should be allowed to pursue the precious business of normal life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of the forthcoming book \u201cThe Last Days of New York.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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“#Mask Nagging gives free pass to passive-aggressive sociopaths” We\u2019re all familiar with Mask Nags, people who occupy themselves by scrolling through social media and leaving comments wherever they see a photo of someone who isn\u2019t muzzled. \u201cNice picture, but where\u2019s the mask?\u201d Or who, upon hearing about a small gathering, gasps, \u201cWe\u2019re in the middle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/ted-cruz-mask.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[99826,1545,37699],"class_list":["post-213517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-28-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}