Laura - Excellent, as always! The grim signifiers of medical totalitarianism are upon us. Homemade cheesecloth masks are, perhaps, an option for some? How do I sign up for your email list? Hooray for Age of Autism for promoting the truth!

Thanks for your brilliant article, I agree with everything you said. I went shopping yesterday at Trader Joes and Costco and also went to the bank. While at Bank of America, they had 2 dedicated security people posted at each entrance to enforce CV-19 protocols. I was approached by both guards while there, who asked me to put the mask over my nose. I told him that I have a medical condition that prevents me from doing that. He asked me to present proof such as a doctor's note and I told him that HIPAA regulations state that we are not required to do so. He backed off after that. The same thing happened at Trader Joes only worse, they didn't back down and and followed me through the store to make sure I complied. I have a severely autistic 28 year old son who's been stuck at home since March when his day program closed. He can't go anywhere because he won't wear a mask. So he spends his days watching Disney and YouTube videos, bored out of his mind. People need to start thinking for themselves and turn off the news and all the mainstream media. They are so indoctrinated and brainwashed here in Los Angeles, that you see people wearing masks driving alone in their cars, walking alone on the sidewalks and even jogging and riding bikes in the 100+ degree heat of the summer! How could any virus survive that kind of heat? I'm getting so frustrated because my entire family believes everything the media, WHO, Fauci, Gates, etc., says about CV-19. How do you wake people up? We're participating in a live drill (Mike Pompeo mentioned that at a press conference), a continuation of Event 201!

Covid 19 is real,

No one on this site has even remotely suggested that real lives have not been lost to COVID-19. But,
please consider adding Sweden to your list of countries who have done a great job of managing the pandemic. They chose to establish what all other countries are going to have to get - HERD IMMUNITY. They just chose to get NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY, rather than hoping for a vaccine (or as Del Bigtree of the Highwire calls it - the vaccine unicorn, as it is as non-existent as the actual unicorn). Sweden did not participate in the worldwide lockdowns and now their COVID positive and death rates are extremely low. No masks! Schools are open!

Also, why should people be required to wear a mask when the government and it's minions (the Fake-stream News) have sabotaged all life saving therapeutics that would end the lockdown, end the ongoing destruction of life and end the destruction of our economy and livelihood. Consider the following list:

1. "Doctor-Prescribed" cocktails Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Azithromycin as an early treatment.
2. "Doctor-Prescribed" Hydroxychloroquine and Zinc as a prevention.
3. "Doctor-Prescribed" quercetin and Zinc as a prevention.
4. "Doctor-Prescribed" IV Vitamin C in high dose as a treatment.
5. "Doctor-Prescribed convalescent plasma as a treatment.

I put "doctor-prescribed" in front of each because there are volumes of scientific papers and reports in which doctors, in both this country and around the world, have successfully treated and saved the lives of thousands of people using these methods, but they have been stone-walled and silenced by so-called "medical experts", none of whom are actually treating patients. Just on convalescent plasma alone - with the number of COVID positives in this country, as reported by the news, being 10x the number of deaths, it doesn't strike you as strange that if convalescent plasma was given to everyone in hospitals, the death rate should have plummeted by now???

https://visionlaunch.com/more-than-a-dozen-credible-medical-studies-prove-face-masks-do-not-work-even-in-hospitals/?fbclid=IwAR0hYzDecX6uuiYSAJPKzxuTqp61l1AE68ITatGx_JP1s4bnXWrVKF_98KM

Covid 19 is real. Isn't it a little presumptuous to assume that your view is the only one that counts? AoA is a website for all views. Many of us have read the dangers of mask wearing, particularly for people with breathing problems.

I am sure there are pros and cons, but all opinions should be up for debate.

Sad to see Age of Autism jump on the bandwagon, discouraging behavior that will reduce Covid cases and reduce the demand for the eventual Covid vaccine. All we have to do is look at other countries that are complying with these non-chemical measures to contain and limit the virus, and see how much more successful they have been than we've been in the U.S. Japan and Korea, for example. Encouraging families with medically fragile children to not follow these measures seems highly irresponsible, though I realize many autistic children cannot wear masks and they should of course be exempted from any store or airplane policies.

This type of article will head us straight towards higher incidence of Covid and greater demand for the vaccine that we all want to avoid at all costs.

Non-chemical measures are the answer, even if they are uncomfortable and inconvenient.

Also, let's stop denying the tremendous damage caused by Covid, just like we ask public health to stop denying the damage done by vaccines.

Anyone who says masks don't work should undergo surgery with the entire surgical team not wearing masks.

What sickens me the most is how logical thought is completely gone with most people. I tried bringing up the very argument you mentioned regarding how my inability to wear a mask affects anyone else who is wearing a mask if they are so protective? I got talked down to like I was a child who cannot understand the need to protect others around me and people implied that I was selfish for wanting to breathe like everyone else. I may not be a doctor, but as far as I know violent coughing and gasping for air are a sign that I was suffocating. I am appalled by the fact that people honestly seem to feel that me wanting to BREATHE, you know something that is necessary for my continued survival, is selfish compared to supposedly protecting others who are wearing masks. If masks are so protective, then everyone else wearing a mask is safe and I'm the only one who is at risk. To me people saying masks are needed to protect others is just proof that masks aren't effective enough to be worth the harm they are doing.

A couple of very interesting articles on COVID-19:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285341

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/18/covid-19-vaccine.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20200818Z1&mid=DM627892&rid=943298475

One of the unfortunate aspects of the world is that those who make the decisions are typically not those who bear the consequences. Consider the present global lockdown. Have the politicians and Administrators of every stripe lost their jobs as a result of their imposed lockdowns? Have they gone bankrupt and been driven into despair, as as happened to small business owners?

Vicki,
I have seen nothing on AofA that has suggested loyalty to either political party. I think you might be the one politicizing the issue by your assumption that anyone who questions public health authorities must be some sort of right wing "kook", to use your phrase.
That's a false assumption. All anyone is doing here is questioning what the public is being told regarding Covid or any other health issue. If we're here on this site, we've been burned by the medical profession at least once. It would be idiotic not to ensure we don't get burned again. I'm grateful for the handful of websites left in this country that still allow people to question anything and everything they're being told.

Masks are for fear-mongering and government control. Masks are for community compliance. Masks have been an element of Satanic initiation and godless rituals for thousands of years. Masks do nothing for one's health or the health of others.

From Dr. Tom Cowan, "Understanding Our Current Health Crisis":
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/understanding-our-current-health-crisis/

AN EPIDEMIC OF FEAR

A lot of brilliant people have tried to ad­dress the esoteric third-level question. What is this energy form being put out when people are poisoned in this way? They all come up with the same answer: It’s fear and hatred. That is the energy form that is the spiritual root of contagion, and we know that it has physiologi­cal effects. If you frighten people or make them hate other people, they get sicker more easily. I don’t think it’s a coincidence. I’m not ascribing motives, and I don’t know how this happened, but this rollout of fear has been one of the most intense experiences that any of us has ever seen.

The way I conceive of this is that the dam­age is to the water in our tissues. The water is the part that absorbs this electromagnetic field. The water is the basis of life. Essentially what we’re experiencing is a message from the water: “If you keep poisoning me like this, if you keep degrading my ability to lead a happy, fulfilling life, then I need to put out a message that some­how accentuates that we need a different way of life.” But it’s not quite as simple as that, which is why I go through the whole viral theory, message theory, esoteric theory and energy theory. If you get into the physics of this, it starts looking very complicated. It’s far beyond my ability to comprehend, but I know that we can’t live the rest of our lives in this state of fear and hatred. This is not good for us. It is not good for people to be isolated, with their only contact with life being through a screen. That is not the world that I want to live in.

Also -
https://fee.org/articles/europes-top-health-officials-say-masks-arent-helpful-in-beating-covid-19/

Carolyn Mn Thank you for your kind words.

I demand that every one wear gloves. I don't want to see any more naked hands.

For those that think they are on the side of right and might when it comes to mask, those bare naked hands --- oh the horror!

I am alarmed that a site that I have read for 15 years has become so politicised and offers a forum for kooks to ignore basic hygiene and common sense. No wonder society thinks antivaxxers are wrong, we are giving them fodder for their argument; as my daughter says, take off your tinfoil hat.
My 20 year old son can go to his day program because of masks. I am grateful he can go at all; other medically fragile clients must stay home.
Do we like wearing masks, no way, but I don't want to be responsible for giving covid to another person who might die.
One hundred years ago my grandparents wore a mask during the Spanish flu epidemic and society survived.
Take this anti- mask energy and use it to get out and vote, donate to a good cause, help a neighbor, something constructive. This mask issue is being used to change the subject and create chaos because the people in power don't want you to pay attention to the other civil liberties that are being eroded daily.

John,
Your comment sums up what I have been thinking for some time about my own refusal to wear a mask. Taking responsibility for the "public health" starts with taking care of our own health, which starts with not wearing a mask! (And many other practices). I think everyone, especially those who are preaching about the responsibility of mask wearing, should give serious consideration to all the facts.

@Cia,

I had to stop for a few minutes to help my daughter. Here is the rest of what I was going to post.

You said, "How can you insist that special needs students have an absolute right to in-person care and instruction?"

Many children/young adults with autism are unable to learn through use of online instruction. They need direct (in person) teaching. For example, these students may have been being taught (by teachers/SLPs/OTs) using "hand-over-hand" or "backward chaining" methods for some tasks - those methods cannot be used in online instruction.

If students cannot learn through online instruction - and if that is the only or principal means of instruction - then they will regress. This regression will not necessarily be confined to what they have previously learned - the students may also regress behaviorally. The longer that online instruction continues for these students, the greater the loss due to regression. Since students do not have an unlimited number of years of instruction, the loss to regression may not be able to be made up during the remaining time left before the students have to leave school - particularly if there was behavioral regression as well.

When it is known that a student cannot learn using online instruction, and the school system insists on using that means of instruction for that student, then the school has denied FAPE (free and appropriate public education) to that student. It is my understanding that denying FAPE to any student is illegal. Therefore, those special needs students who cannot learn using online instruction do have a right to direct (in-person) instruction.

Hi , Vicki, Kim here. This is why we ran the piece as an Op-ed. We are not affiliated with either party. Medical freedom has been an integral part of AofA. Covid means the topic has come to include mask for many - certainly not all. Anti-maskers and “anti-vaxxers” are not one in the same. I appreciate your opinion and hope you’ll stay with us.

Thanks.

This website has been hijacked by the right and I am done. Really, 34 comments on masks while Trump burns America to the ground. I thought this website was supposed to be about autism, not Covid denial. I am antivaxx but not crazy. Wearing a mask is about caring for our neighbors and preventing the spread of disease.

Cia; How do you know they were not wearing a mask?
My nephew caught it at his work place when the cashier came down with it. Where he was wearing a mask.

Laura, you are more than welcome. A of A is a powerful platform and I like to share useful information where I can. God bless.

M.

Teresa Malone,

I agree with you. I also am against any mandated vaccine: no one has the right to compel anyone to risk a vaccine reaction often disabling for life. But wearing a mask is easy and it saves lives, the wearer doesn’t inhale germs and he doesn’t expel his own germs to infect others. I am 100% supportive of mask mandates. Wearing a mask when we go out is now second nature to both me and my daughter. I agree that it is childish to insist on a perceived “right” to not wear a mask, a sweeping lack of concern for those who will be disabled or die as a result. No one can be sure he is not infected with Covid. If he wears a mask, no problem for those around him. If he doesn’t, well, a large proportion of those spreading the virus to others have been asymptomatic at the time of transmission. I agree that it is childish to insist that you KNOW for SURE you are not infected. This is magical thinking. The fundamental problem is the very serious pandemic virus. Pretending that everything would be just fine if we just acted like it was 2019 is childish. The fault is not in those who insist on measures to prevent the virus’ spread. How can you insist that special needs students have an absolute right to in-person care and instruction? Do the desired caregivers not have a right to protect their own lives?

Here everyone wears masks and a city-wide mask mandate is in place. I’m not aware of anyone who is against it. Most people are totally on board with protecting the lives of themselves and those around them. If those from outside your family or roommates comes into your home, the law says that everyone must wear a mask. From what I have seen, everyone does, without hesitation and without complaint.

Benedetta,

I’m sorry that so many members of your family have been stricken with Covid. I’m very sorry your young nephew died of it. He and your other relatives would not have caught it if everyone around them had been wearing a mask. I think saving lives is more important than feeling the breeze on one’s bare face. I am happy that most people feel the same way, otherwise this pandemic would only end the hard way, with deaths even more massive than what we have seen.

Although I typically do not respond to those whom I suspect might not be who they say they are, I have chosen to write a reply to "Teresa Malone", who writes in a formulaic and recognizable style that we have seen before when it comes to arguments in support of vaccine mandates. I am choosing to write a response because that which "Teresa" writes is the same that is used to manipulate and deceive our loved ones, and perhaps what I write might be of help when you attempt to speak truth to those whom you know and love.

Teresa Malone,

If you believe that you or a loved one is vulnerable to the point that you believe you or they might get sick and/or die by going to public places where others are present, I doubt that others wearing a mask would make you feel that you or a loved one is then protected. You said as much yourself when you stated that you and your family have been isolated at home since February, despite mask requirements/mandates now the norm in most places. You mentioned that you have all of your grocery items delivered. What makes you feel that those items are "safe" and "not contaminated", as they have most certainly been handled by many people multiple times along their route to you, been set on many surfaces, and exposed to air from many different sources?

I find the comments by your doctor to be unfounded, spouted by someone who no doubt considers himself an "expert", and an "authority", to whom you should listen without question, but who is likely ignorant, arrogant, and possibly corrupt (just like the doctors who still vaccinate)...one who parrots the latest propaganda, no matter how untrue it is. For starters, there is no proof to date that "Covid-19", whatever that might be, is in fact contagious, or in the manner your doctor told you. To learn more, click on this link and read recent articles by Sally Fallon and Dr. Tim Cowan: https://www.westonaprice.org/journal-summer-2020-coronavirus/

You wrote: "Nobody is being mandated to inject anything into their body to protect the weaker members of our society and I will be the first to stand with you against this being done." That is not accurate at all: a growing number of states have vaccine mandates as a requirement to attend school (e.g. in CA, a child cannot attend daycare, public school, or private school without complying with state vaccine mandates); many colleges and universities now require numerous vaccines to attend, and in some cases, to work there; those working in the medical field, or going to school to do so, or whose work requires that they enter hospitals and doctors' offices, are required to be vaccinated with annual influenza vaccines, and often additional vaccines, or be fired/unenrolled; those who work with the developmentally disabled who are paid by insurance companies (as is often the case in CA) are required to be vaccinated with a number of vaccines or be fired; for military personnel, there is virtually no opt out mechanism from required vaccinations; this list is not complete. Perhaps you are new to reading AoA and are unfamiliar with the current, and growing, state of medical fascism.

You wrote that you have a vaccine injured daughter. Having a child or grandchild injured or killed by vaccines is what has brought many/most of us to this wonderful site. We are a most compassionate bunch, and most of us regularly go out of our way, and above and beyond, to not only help our own children, but to help those of others. Again, perhaps you are new to AoA, and do not know this.

Masks not only do not prevent the spread of viruses (many articles have been written about this), but they increase the spread of contamination as people are constantly touching their masks, breathing on both sides of their masks (note the people who have them in a lowered position, then put them up when entering a store), throwing them on their car seats, kitchen counters, and goodness knows where else, contain the person's exhaled waste materials, and are breeding grounds for bacteria, inside and out. Furthermore, masks are dangerous for wearers, as they reduce oxygen intake, increase carbon dioxide/exhaled waste material intake, cause the wearer to rebreathe that which was purposefully exhaled, in addition to built-up bacteria, all of which then travels up the nasal passages, ending up in various places in the body. And, very importantly, masks inhibit communication and positive social interactions, which negatively impacts one's mental state, which in turn negatively impacts one's overall health and well-being.

Just as the constant touting of "vaccines are safe, effective, and needed" is total and inexcusable propaganda, so is the current and constant touting of "masks are safe, effective, and needed". The very people who lie to us about vaccines are the same ones lying to us about everything to do with "Covid-19".

Your anger would be best directed at all those who played a part in your daughter being vaccine injured, which might very well be the same people who played a part in your father having cancer, who are one and the same as the mafia and its many minions described in my article.

For your sake, and everyone else's, I pray, hope, and advocate for individuals and parents to regain the full and unfettered freedom to make their own healthcare and medical decisions. There cannot be mandated healthcare or medicine, in any form, which now appears to include the wearing of masks and physical distancing, in a free and ethical society.

Teresa Malone,
It's always tragic for a child to suffer continual illness, but you seem to be aware that your daughter's condition has been caused by vaccine injury. Your father's leukemia was likely also caused by vaccines received at some point in his life. I too have suffered a vaccine injury and at 67 I am probably one of those more at risk from any virus that may be going round. However, I would not expect others to have to do unnatural things to protect me. The solution to the problem is to stop vaccinating, not further unnatural interventions. Some of your comment is puzzling. For example, shops do not do their home deliveries after the shop has closed to personal shoppers. They would be delivering to peoples homes during the night! I go shopping early in the morning, and I see them filling the orders for delivery then. If you had had this service I think you would have realized that what you've written couldn't be the case. Also, please spare a thought for the people who might die from wearing a mask - they deserve compassion too!

Saturday is shopping day, and shopping is again a pleasure! At the door of Walmart today the greeter returned our greetings and smiles with a smile (we could tel by the eyes). Nary a word about our free American faces, unlike recent weeks. There were three other free American faces inside. Progress!

What about those same rights you so poetically describe for those who can die from covid 19? Is my 7 year old not entitled to those same rights? Is my 80 year old father in law who has recently recovered from leukemia (his 2nd time to defeat cancer) not entitled to these same rights? What about all of the other immune compromised children and adults? Are they not entitled to these rights?
My daughter had a life threatening vaccine injury as a baby which left her medically disabled for life. She has spent most of her lfe in Childrens hospitals receiving treatment as a result. She has to endure daily medical treatments which most adults, myself included, would never be able to endure. Her immune system is basically non existent because of her medical treatments. Years before covid 19 was ever heard of she had to wear a mask in public, social distance, and even isolate at home during flu outbreaks and back to school vaccine shedding times. Nobody is being mandated to inject anything into their body to protect the weaker members of our society and I will be the first to stand with you against this being done. All that is being asked is that you wear a mask when in public spaces like the grocery store. I don't care if masks are not worn in bars, at sporting events, etc. However, I do believe in enforcement of masks at essential places like grocery stores. For years I have had to carefully clean anything brought into my home to lessen the chance of bringing something contaminated in and killing my child. Now, with covid 19 I have to be even more careful. My daughter's doctor has told me that all it takes is one person with covid 19 to sneeze or cough in the grocery store or one assymptomatic person to spray out the virus just from talking or laughing without a mask on to contaminate the items items in the grocery store which I then purchase and bring into my home for it to kill my child. Even with me carefully cleaning each item, I could possibly not clean well enough and bring the virus in. My entire household has been isolated at home since February. We can't even risk having contact with family members who don't live in our home. I have to order all non perishable items online and have them delivered to my home. Perishable items have to be ordered and delivered to my home or picked up using curbside no contact methods. I can't purchase anything from stores that don't offer these options. Do you have any clue how difficult this is for me and my family? Those who CAN go into a store get first dibs on fresh produce, milk, meat, etc. and there is usually not anything left after they shop to fill curbside orders. Do you have any clue how hard it is to have to tell your child, who loves bananas and hasn't had one in months, every day that she can't have one because the 2 stores we are able to purchase anything from don't have any left after the in person shoppers finish their shopping? All that is being asked is that those of you who do enjoy the luxury and priviledge of being able to go inside stores wear a mask for the few minutes you are inside that store. Regardless of the propoganda being spread, masks do work to help protect you and others. Wearing masks for this purpose is not some new idea that arrived with covid 19. It has been done for years. Ask anyone in the medical profession or anyone who has known a child with cancer or that has ever visited a childrens cancer area at a hospital. Heck, just pull up some old St. Judes hospital commercials on youtube to see it for yourself. I just wish people would stop acting like spoiled 2 year olds throwing temper tantrums about being asked to inconvenience themselves for a few minutes by wearing a mask in a grocery store. Mandates about mask wearing would not even be neccessary if people would simply use common sense and have compassion for others. Those of you creating this "you can't make me wear a mask" drama are actually the very ones who are taking away our rights and putting the government in a position to mandate mask wearing and such. Grow up!!!

I am sure any political campaign that says the words “CV19 Vaccine” will get a check in the mail from the drug lords who own Congress and the news media. Very sad for those who have to wear masks all day every day at work. One would think the cashiers would be dropping over everywhere.

If someone says something “against the CV19 Vaccine” or masks the drug lords will quickly send a check to their opponent. The drug lords pay for probably 2/3rds of all the campaign commercials. I recall last winter one radio station was playing the FLU shot PSA 5 or 6 times an hour, look for more of the same this year.

@greyone thanks for mentioning Auden's poem "September 1, 1939", it does indeed resonate!

Amazing, Laura, as always. Thank you for all you continue to do.

Did anyone catch the story about Southwest Airlines? A three year old with autism wouldn’t wear a face mask. They made the family get off the plane. And just in case you think this was a mistake Southwest Airlines released a statement saying that they cannot /will not transport ANYONE who is unable to wear a mask. Sounds like a violation of disabilities laws...

Laura, God bless you for your uncompromising commitment to truth. And may God bless us all during these dark times.

I inadvertently posted this on yesterdays's "Aluminum"blog. Posting again......

Laura Hayes –
Excellent article! Thank you AGAIN for being a beacon of light and leading the charge whenever our God-given Rights are being violated, whether it be mandated vaccines, mandated masks or mandated COVID1984 testing. Your articulate voice in the Resistance Movement is admirable and much appreciated! And yes, sadly, from my own experience, mask compliance among the sheeple is INCREASING. I feel I am living in a sci-fi movie (I have seen that comment often).

@Bob Moffit – Thank you for the great quote from Thomas Paine's "The Crisis". Most inspiring. And also thank you for your spot-on commentaries here on AoA, every. single. day!

@Gary Ogden - I am so glad you mentioned Sprouts. They ARE the leading mask-Nazi company in America right now. I have filed a Civil Rights complaint against them with the State of Colorado and it is moving along nicely. I also filed one on behalf of my autistic son who was denied service. I would encourage EVERY reader on AoA who shops at Sprouts to do the same. Film it on your phone, make sure you get the full name of the person at the door who refuses you entry because you have a “mask exemption” (Of course they cannot legally ask you what the exemption is for – a violation of HIPAA). Write down the name of the store manager and store director. Make note of the day and time you attempted to shop there. Important -print out the Sprouts Farmers Market Code of Ethics and Conduct from their own website. This is also useful to download when you file the civil rights complaint with your state – very easy to do online.

SPROUTS FARMERS MARKET CODE OF ETHICS AND CONDUCT
http://investors.sprouts.com/Cache/IRCache/4a764920-bdea-cf96-cd11-4017a33416e3.PDF?O=PDF&T=&Y=&D=&FID=4a764920-bdea-cf96-cd11-4017a33416e3&iid=4096386

From the above Code, page 16, Public Accommodation and Non-Discrimination:

“Sprouts is committed to providing the best possible service to
our customers. It is our expectation that every customer will be treated with dignity
and respect regardless of their race, religion, color, creed, national origin, ancestry,
ethnicity, age, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, disability, marital status, citizenship, military and veteran’s status, or
any other basis protected by applicable law.
Any conduct by team members resulting in a denial or refusal of the full and equal enjoyment of our stores and services or conduct discouraging a reasonable customer from visiting our
stores, is prohibited.”

Sprouts will tell shoppers that they provide online shopping and curbside pickup for those who cannot wear a mask. “Alternative shopping options” and “curb side pickup” do not meet the criteria for full and equal enjoyment of our stores and service as outlined in the Sprouts’ Code above. Full and equal enjoyment of my Sprouts store consists of shopping in person, browsing the aisles, and picking out my own produce and meat!!

Happy Friday! TGIF, right!....
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

This happened in Austin, Texas recently. Hopefully others will follow their example.

https://banned.video/watch?id=5f35e9d8df77c4044edfa782

“Face masks make you stupid”

https://thecritic.co.uk/face-masks-make-you-stupid/

Thanks, Laura. Technocrats are now fully in charge. Another good source of information and solidarity against this tyranny is Patrick Wood @ technocracy.news and citizensforfreespeech.org. My favorite store, Sprouts, is now enforcing mask mandates with no exceptions, like good little Nazis. Practicing medicine without a license, as the California legislature does. Walmart it is. As much as I dislike Walmart, at least they value their customers. We must not comply.

"Continued compliance will lead to increasing tyranny. We need to act individually and collectively."

Today's "increasing tyranny" is the greatest threat to our country, families and communities in our lifetimes .. as well as our nation's history .. as we experience first hand the growing governmental determination to rule our lives under the guise of "protecting our public health".

In my humble opinion .. our Constitutional Right to LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ought not be restricted by government mandates to wear face masks while meekly submitting to an army of contact tracers issuing quarantine orders anytime they arbitrarily decide to do so .. and .. our children ought not be raised in schools while encased in plastic bubbles forced to avoid any close contact with their teachers and classmates. To me .. THAT IS MORE CHILD ABUSE THAN A PURSUIT OF THE CHILD'S HAPPINESS.

In any event .. we cannot say we were not warned .. Dr Benjamin Rush, a signer of our Declaration of Independence, forewarned over 200 years ago:

"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others, the Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom"

It time we realize that "tyranny" comes in many forms .. most commonly by those wearing military uniforms and armed with guns .. but .. today .. it comes by those holding medical degrees wearing white coats and surgical masks .. armed with syringes and protocols that deny our Constitutional Right to "LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS".

It may now be time to remember Thomas Paine's words like those of Benjamin Rush also written over 200 years ago in his essay, "The Crisis":

"These are times that try men's souls .. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph".