With the rollout of the vaccine now actually happening the CDC has changed their page to now say that the vaccine+ masks+ social distancing are needed. New ads are going out on the radio stating the same. This is not about a virus.
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With the rollout of the vaccine now actually happening the CDC has changed their page to now say that the vaccine+ masks+ social distancing are needed. New ads are going out on the radio stating the same. This is not about a virus.
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Psychological conditioning.
3 things that I can think of.
First, it has some degree of plausibility behind it so the average person can say "ok, I can see that" and get on board.
Second (probably most importantly) it makes it VERY easy for the Karens. Just at a glance, anyone can quickly see who is playing ball and who is not and the busybody people will jump all over the non-compliant folks. If you want to keep your boot on someone getting some people to keep fighting with others makes like much easier.
And finally, facial recognition is minimally important these days. Keep in mind, cameras have already been branded racist by the Woke Mob (aka, the foot soldiers for the authoritarians). And, for the type of surveillance that the govt actually wants, facial recognition is mostly useless. Tracking people's phones and monitoring social media is a lot better at IDing Wrongthink than cameras. And if you really want to track someone on surveillance camera footage you can get things like gait recognition going.
One more thing: it reduces sympathy felt for people when you can't see their face. Social isolation is very important for demoralization.
Why do you need a mask to identify a person when everyone is carrying a tracking device in their pocket?
Even better, Gates and pals have unironically been pushing for nanomachines to be added to vaccines to "ensure your health" and "give a record of vaccination."
External controls are outdated.
Don't be surprised if soon we see some massive obvious false-flag on the scale of 9/11 that will be used to justify a legal and public national registry and tracking database.
Based off of what I've said before, probably to intentionally infect people with bacterial pneumonia and pass it off as Covid. Most doctors and hospital staff I know wont wear the same mask for more than 2 hours and even the diehard maskers would avoid answering when I ask if they seriously believe that people wear their masks as directed and dont reuse them multiple times between washes, on top of the fact that the high temp treatment needed is not really within standard dryer range. The fact of the matter is that masks are horrendous for your personal health and giant cesspools for harmful bacteria.
Not unless the patient demands testing for a bacterial panel, and even then a 'positive' covid test result will be all they mention as the cause for pneumonia.
I'm not telling you where this is coming from:
I think they actually believe this. The absolute morons.
You have to wear a mask with a vaccine, and the disease mutates at an extremely accelerated rate, to the point where it's likely that there are currently multiple strains in a year.
You're a god-damned fool if you think that the masks are ever coming off:
If you don't have 100% vaccine adoption, there will to be too many people who haven't been vaccinated to allow the lockdowns to be lifted and the masks to come off. If you do have 100% vaccine adoption, there will be another strain that the vaccine won't cover, and therefore there will be too many people who don't have the new vaccine to allow the lockdowns to be lifted and the masks to come off.
You only get to not be locked down, or not be forced to wear a mask if you've donated your blood to a government tracing service and/or if you are a member of the inner party.
There is a third option...
Turn off minecraft, dehumanize yourself, and face to bloodshed?
So they make better facial recognition that can't be fooled with mere Lone Ranger bandit masks, since the filthy dog-eating chinkystinkyfinks wear masks as a matter of course, because it's so crowded and dirty in asia. This is in fact what they're doing, just search for the tech articles on the matter, and start keeping an eye specifically on sci-tech news, not general headline nonsense.
Masks interfere very little with facial recognition. China has been able to use facial recognition despite mask wearing for a while already, and there is no better time for the West to adopt that tech. They're already pushing for it to see who is 'complying with public health guidelines'.