Same Lunacy. Different Year. Mask Mandates Are Officially Back

by IAN MILLER

If you thought masks were gone forever, think again.

It’s been obvious for several weeks that masks were on their way back, as the media, “experts,” and institutions ramped up the fear and panic over the discovery of new variants.

It’s also been nearly three and a half years since “experts” flip flopped, contradicting years of scientific research with no justification, by deciding to recommend the general public wear masks to stop the spread of COVID. And for a subset of people committed to unblinking compliance with ideologically-aligned authority, it fundamentally and permanently changed their lives.

Masks instantly became an opportunity. Not to prevent the spread of infection, but to signal allegiance to the “correct” set of views and maintain an unearned, inflated sense of self importance.

And there may not be a better description of the Fauci-sycophants in Hollywood than that.

No matter what the data said about masks, no matter how consistently the “experts” were proven wrong. No matter how many evidence reviews confirmed masks didn’t work.

It’s all irrelevant compared to the need for certain individuals to maintain their virtue, avoid acknowledging mistakes or admit they were wrong. And so here we are, in August 2023, and mask mandates are back.

Deadline Hollywood reported Monday that Lionsgate, a major motion picture studio based in Los Angeles, is requiring many, if not most, employees in their offices to wear masks again. In August 2023. Stupefying.

Thanks Fauci.

Permanent Pseudoscience Is Back

According to Deadline, the studio is now requiring that all employees on the 3rd and 5th floors of their building wear masks in virtually every office situation. All in response to “several employees” testing positive for COVID.

And in a tacit acknowledgement that the cloth masks are useless, contradicting years of claims from health “experts,” they’re also required to wear a “medical grade face covering.”

“Employees must wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace,” the memo reads.

Lionsgate is also returning to the earliest days of COVID pseudoscience in requiring “every employee” to “perform a daily self-screening prior to coming to the office each day,” or stay home if they’ve “traveled internationally in the last 10 days.”

Any international travel now means, in August 2023, that you are treated as a potential vector for virus transmission.

There is no evidence that self-screenings or staying home after international travel or wearing masks is remotely effective at preventing the spread of COVID. But that’s almost the point for Hollywood studios and elite institutions.

It’s not about doing what works, it’s about doing what they’re told. Compliance, not effectiveness, is the point.

And as expected by the Hollywood crowd, they’re extremely excited by the opportunity to comply, yet again.

Lionsgate Saying Vaccines And Boosters Don’t Work?

Lionsgate, like virtually every major company in the entertainment industry, had a vaccine mandate for employees.

The return of the mask mandate implies they’re worried about severe complications from COVID to employees who are almost assuredly universally vaccinated. Many, if not most, have likely received at least one booster dose.

Do they doubt that the COVID vaccines actually worked?

If the vaccines protect individuals to the extent claimed by the same “experts” that Lionsgate relies on, what possible justification is there for maintaining further restrictions? This same line of reasoning has been applicable since early 2021, and has never been sufficiently answered.

Not to mention that we have years of data showing that there is no way to prevent the spread of the virus. Masks have proven to be ineffective, no matter the quality. The vaccines and boosters failed spectacularly at preventing infections.

Yet here we are, staring down the barrel of forever restrictions thanks to incompetent corporations led by desperate, panicked individuals who purposefully ignore reality if it contradicts “expert” consensus.

This was always the danger of allowing them to get away with simply moving on from the pandemic without admitting they were absolutely wrong. They’ll always, ALWAYS have an excuse to bring ineffective restrictions back.

And it’s not just Hollywood.

Colleges Bringing Back Masks Too

Some universities like Rutgers have maintained steadfast determination to permanently damage the lives of healthy college students by disenrolling them for not complying with nonsensical vaccine mandates.

Morris Brown College in Atlanta saw that announcement and decided they wouldn’t allow another school to outshine their incompetence.

Morris Brown posted on the school’s Instagram a list of new requirements at the start of school that sound as if they were pulled directly from March 2020.

All in response to a few “positive cases” among students. Students. 18-23 year old students. Who are at little to no risk of serious complications from COVID.

They claim these measures are just for 14 days, but does anyone really believe that to be the case?

How does this ever stop?

The answer, of course, is it doesn’t ever stop.

COVID mandates are now a permanent part of life, because of institutional incompetence, hubris, ego, arrogance and political ideology. As soon as “experts” told the public, inaccurately, that these measures would stop transmission of respiratory viruses, they gave them an indefinite excuse to enact pointless policies. No amount of evidence or data is enough, no amount of time is enough. It’s endless.

The only way to change this was to hold “experts” accountable, and outside of Ron DeSantis, who permanently banned mask and vaccine mandates in Florida, there’s been no political will to do so. And so here we are. In August 2023.

And mask mandates are back.

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