Is It Selfish to Not Wear a Mask?

 Another day on the streets of San Francisco and another confrontation with a mask Nazi.

I was walking in the financial district, again, without a mask. A man standing to the side said to me as I passed by in a meek voice, "Don't be selfish, put on a mask."

I stopped.

My reply, "So you think I am selfish because I am not wearing a mask?"

"Yes," the meek voice replied.

My response, "You know, I just don't fear a virus that does not pose a serious threat to 99.9% of the population. And I really don't like you promoting the idea that the virus should be feared by the general population and harassing people who are not interested in your mindless coprolite.

"Your support of tyrannical government mask-wearing, lockdowns, etc. has resulted in an explosion of suicides and who knows how many people in serious mental depression.

"Your fear of a virus that, again, is not of serious consequences to most is resulting in the deaths of untold youth. Your support of such measures strikes me as selfish and you have those deaths on your soul, not me."

"I'm sorry," he said in an apologetic manner and walked away with his head down.

BTW here is some of the data on the explosion in suicides.

The New York Times reported on Sunday in a story that carried the headline, "Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen":

The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., have come in droves.

Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.

The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible...

“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore,” said Jesus Jara, the Clark County superintendent. “We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They’ve got to start seeing some movement, some hope.”... 

Greta Massetti, who studies the effects of violence and trauma on children at the C.D.C., said there was “definitely reason to be concerned because it makes conceptual sense.”

@AlexBerenson tweets:

1/ Meantime, overdose death figures are coming in for 2020. They are horrific. Maricopa County (Phoenix), had at least 700 more deaths in 2020 than 2019, with 550 more to be investigated. That’s ONE (large) county. Cook County (Chicago) also expects deaths to rise at least 750...

2/ San Francisco reports 699 overdose deaths - a rise of ~60%, and nearly one death for each 1,000 residents.

It is now obvious that the rise in overdose deaths (not the total number, just the rise) in the US will # outstrip the overall #Covid death toll in people under 50...

3/ That comparison takes no account of OTHER lockdown deaths - Or the fact that #Covid deaths are substantially overcounted in people under 50 (I have lots of examples, and the death certificate matching practically guarantees it).

LOCKDOWNS KILL.

Any government official who has ordered lockdowns and those who encouraged them (Psychopath Fauci, Boozer Birx) should be tried for crimes against humanity.

It is not as though the suicides couldn't have been foreseen. In March of last year, I warned about it in a post titled, Suicide Attempts Could Increase By 58,500 Per Month During the Lockdown:

[W]e have enormous swaths of individuals on lockdown inside their homes and apartments without having in-person contact with others. This certainly is not good for those on the stress edge. Tragically, Emily Owen, a 19-year-old, is one of the first to be confirmed dead because of a suicide attempt related to the lockdown.

It could be argued that this period may be more stressful than during the period of the 1929 stock market crash.

Two days later, I wrote:

Emily Owen

I can't imagine the emotional turmoil a person must be going through who chooses to commit suicide in the face of the lockdown.

The British teen Emily Owen, who committed suicide because of the lockdown in England, was diagnosed with “high-functioning autism.” She was probably struggling all her life with trying to fit in, and might have been well on the road to better understanding herself in relation to others when the bastard Boris Johnson shutdown all her relationships.

I put her death directly on the shoulders of Johnson. It wouldn't have happened in a libertarian world. There will be others.

The next day, I posted this: Knoxville, TN Has Seen 10% of Its Annual Suicide Rate in Just the Last 48 Hours:

“That number is completely shocking and makes me wonder if what we are doing now is really the best approach,” Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs said. “We have to determine how we can respond to COVID-19 in a way that keeps our economy intact, keeps people employed and empowers them with a feeling of hope and optimism – not desperation and despair.”

These posts are nearly a year old, the developing trend was obvious back then. The mini-Mao tyrants and midget-Mao enforcers have death on their hands of societies most vulnerable.

It is not selfish to go without a mask, it is a heroic middle finger to the state. A state where its members for bizarre reasons want to treat all non-state humans as cattle, while they party it up.

Gov. Newsom during the lockdowns and mask mandates.

Not wearing a mask is a signal of support to those who sense evil is in the air but don't have the courage to walk free in defiance of the state and its supporters. 

-RW