Gov Edwards has ordered Louisianans to remain in lockdown until August 28th. Face masks, as he has said in the past, are to be the ‘new normal’. We will agree with him to a degree: Masks probably do stop some virus particles from getting into the air. But, having said that, two important things must be kept in mind.
First,
the number of virus particles blocked is so small that it makes very little
difference in the spread of viral diseases.
That is the conclusion, not of conspiracy theorists or
anarcho-libertarians, but of an analysis of 2,862 randomized participants in a
study reported in 2019 in The Journal of the American Medical Association
(the study is linked at the end of this article).
Second,
the mechanism that blocks these few virus particles, impairing the breathing of
the mask wearers, will lead to increased sickness, not less. The principle at work is not difficult to
understand. If the body can’t get rid of
its waste products, its health will decline.
Whether one drinks his own urine over and over again, or breathes in the
exhaled air from his lungs for hours on end, etc., the body is going to weaken
because it is being poisoned. And a weak
body is one that is less able to fight off infections. Gov Edwards’s mask mandate, then, is quite
the opposite of being ‘kind, courteous, and a good neighbor’, as his Office’s web site proclaims.
And
this applies not just to the physical aspect of man but to the spiritual
dimension as well. The Orthodox priest Father
Zechariah Lynch writes in his essay, ‘With Faces Unveiled,’ ‘ . . . covering
the face has deep roots in pagan and occult initiation rites. Masks
symbolize the suppression of “ego” and an interrogation into a new
consciousness, or “normal.” Why? Because the face is arguably the most
identifying feature of a person, by suppressing it the most prominent personal
identifier is suppressed. In such initiations, it symbolizes to a great degree
the loss of personhood and integration into a controlled collective. . .
.
‘Spiritually
speaking a veil represents a darkened and uncomprehending mind, while a fully
revealed face represents an illumined and knowing mind. Thus in Christian
worship participants have always approached God with faces unveiled, even
physically speaking. For this represents the spiritual reality that Christians
are “free children” of God the Father and that we have been given the grace and
freedom to approach Him with faces unveiled. It seems there is a profound
theological purpose in standing before God with unveiled faces.
‘For,
in worship, we are coming, as Moses did, to a “face to face” encounter with the
Living God. This uniquely Christian understanding stands in evident contrast to
the occult and pagan practices of masking the face in order to approach and be
initiated into their “deities.” ’
Knowing
that countries and States like Sweden, South Dakota, etc., that have forsworn
drastic lockdowns have fared much better during the COVID illness than those
that have undertaken them, there is little doubt that would-be dictators like
Gov Edwards have dark, ulterior motives guiding them. Which begs the question, where are our other
elected officials? Rep Echols, Sen
Cathey, police jurors, sheriffs? Did
they seek the duties of office simply to abdicate them all and watch Louisiana
be burned to the ground by this madman of a Governor, this new Nero? If not, then it is time for them to act for
the protection of their constituents before any more harm is done to their
bodies, minds, or souls.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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