THE HORROR WE CREATED TO STAY SAFE

By Danelle Carvell

What a day I had today, venturing out into the land of masked sheeple. I'm glad I can still go to Indian Trail Market without being questioned. The employees there live by faith and don't wear masks. They even have scriptural brochures at the checkout encouraging others to cast away their fears about a virus. 

But the fear is alive and well from what I've seen today. I'm grateful that I can still go to certain local stores without a mask hassle. The last time I went grocery shopping with my husband in Harrisburg, a lady asked us if we forgot our masks within seconds of getting in the door. I looked at her and said, "We don't wear masks," and kept walking. 

I saw a few people at the Dollar General who weren't sucking back their own carbon dioxide, but not many. Most people at the Giant had them on... including my ex-boss who fired me from the library this summer for not wearing a mask. I finally ran into her in the Giant parking lot in Halifax. I wish that I had smiled and wished her a Merry Christmas, but I wouldn't have understood her response. That black mask was pretty snug around her face.

When the guy at the checkout asked me if I had my Giant card, I said, "My driver card?" I couldn't understand him. It really sounded like he said driver card. That's part of the plan I guess, to frustrate us and make communication difficult.We certainly aren't wearing that mask because it actually works. If that were true, there wouldn't have been a line of people waiting outside in the cold at the liquor store in Halifax.

They tell us that the mask protects us and then they confirm that it doesn't by making us stay 6-feet apart and allowing only a certain number of people in the store at a time. I couldn't resist making a comment as I walked past the masked line up. "So Ridiculous!"

I will admit that I have put on the mask when I absolutely must to get what I want and need, such as an appointment with my doctor or a bottle of Southern Comfort. I keep a mask in my purse and I rarely wash it just like everyone else. It probably has as much bacteria on it as the bottom of my handbag.

I've seen people drop the mask on the ground and then strap it back on, blow their nose and then lift it back over their nose, touch anything and everything and then touch the mask, contaminating it with bacteria that lays near their face all day long. I even saw the terrible case of acne one woman developed from mask wearing, which is probably now why she really wants to wear one.

We have a better chance of dying in a car accident than we do of dying from covid. The virus has a survival rate percentage in the high nineties. Frontline doctors and nurses are admitting that many people are actually dying from health conditions they had prior to covid.

Health care workers are speaking out and telling us that in some cases, the cause of death is listed as covid when the patient didn't even have covid. This is done for financial reasons (more funding to the hospital) and to hike the numbers, making the virus seem worse so the scare can live on. Doctors and nurses are also speaking out against masks and telling us they are more harmful than beneficial

The thing I don't understand is why are people so determined to mask up when no one can produce any evidence that it actually works? They defend the mask as if it's an iron-clad guarantee of staying healthy. Yet 85% of people who get the virus are strict mask wearers. And the pores of the most protective mask are 3 to 5 times larger than the size of the microscopic virus. Doesn't that make it clear that the virus can slip right through a mask just like a mosquito slips through a chain-link fence?

A friend of mine said she's at the point where she doesn't want to go out anymore. My husband fears he might flip out on someone if they question him about a mask or they freak out because he got too close. That happened to his sister in a checkout line. Some woman screamed at her because she was standing too close. I've been called heartless and hateful just because I want the right to breathe freely. It's a sick world right now. And the bigger sickness isn't covid. It's ignorance and stupidity. 

I tell myself to feel empathy for people who fear dying so much that they are willing to bully people so they can feel protected. They really need Jesus. Death is not the worst thing in the world. The worst thing in the world is getting to your next home and realizing that it's not a place you want to be for eternity. 

The truth is that we are all going to die. And no mask will stop the destiny God has for you. He created you and he gets to decide when you check out. Some day we will look back on all this and know that is true. 

Some day we will all realize that living by faith is the only way to live. What's been happening since March isn't life, it's prison, it's suffocation, isolation, anger and fear. The real virus is the horror we created by trying to keep everyone safe. 

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