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The Campaign for Permanent Masking Who's behind the campaign to make masks permanent? Michael P Senger On Monday, the CDC’s mask mandate for US airlines was struck down. This made for some comical takes captured in my  previous article . But some takes weren’t so funny. In this tweet, which has 137,000 likes and counting, an anonymous doctor makes the case for permanent masking in the most explicit possible terms. Amy G Dala MD @AmyGDalaMD People: aRe yoU goInG to mAsK fOreVeR Me: well I still wear seatbelts & helmets, use sunscreen, get vaccinated, wash my hands, drink pasteurized milk, cook chicken before eating it, & don't drink water straight from the lake so 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ April 19th 2022 24,821 Retweets 137,810 Likes Below are some examples of quote tweets of this doctor’s tweet. Many sought to normalize the concept of permanent masking, emphasizing that wearing a mask forever is no big deal, and anyway is “cool.” plummysims | elfathiera 🇮🇩 @plummysims I fee...

How To Lose Wars And Influence People The United States is ruled by a fanatical death cult Frank Wright The USA did not win World War Two. The vast majority of casualties occurred on the Eastern Front between the Red Army of the Soviet Union and the German Wehrmacht. It was Hollywood which claimed the war was won by the USA (and not, as was the case, the Russians). Lend lease – far more generous to the USSR than that which bankrupted Britain – was of course a huge help. The USA has not won a war with a near peer enemy since the 19th century. The Spanish-American war of 1898 ended Spanish imperial claims in the Americas and the Philippines. The first postwar US adventure was in Korea, to halt the spread of communism on that peninsula. Initially wildly successful, the US and its allies were pushed back to the current ceasefire line by a massive Chinese counterattack, resulting in the division of the country into the communist North and the US-sponsored South. In the next decade the US br...