Masks On, Freedoms Gone

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

Finally, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rule mandating that passengers mask up on-board commercial airliners has been rescinded. 

Never mind that evidence to support such a mandate was never provided to the public. But note that flight attendants, the FAA’s enforcement arm for this rule, celebrated the change. Pilots never bought into the need for the rule in the first place. Behind secured flight-deck doors, masks were rarely worn. 

While many passengers embraced the elimination of face-stifling face coverings, those who wanted to wear a mask could continue to do so. This noted, the delusional psychosis of fear remains. The Karens are still out in force on U.S. flights. 

I was on a Southwest airline flight from Orange County to Dallas recently. To my great surprise, a larger than expected number of passengers donned this abject symbol of compliance. But was it out of fear of Covid, out of habit or out of ignorance — they just never got the word that the rule had been lifted?

I noticed a mother lifting his small child out of a stroller to board the aircraft, carefully adjusting the little kid’s mask to be sure it covered her nose. It amazed me. After more than two years into the Covid-19 tyranny and with countless studies to bolster the point that masks do not prevent respiratory viral illnesses and in the case of young children can even be harmful to them, how could a loving parent continue to participate in this charade? 

Fear is a more powerful motivator than I realized.

When you are scared you will do things that do not have any logical basis. From the media to the unelected healthcare “experts,” we were instructed to fear the Covid virus more than we love our Constitutionally-protected freedoms. This Mass Delusional Psychosis, a term coined by my colleague Dr. Mark McDonald, seems to be quite resistant to logic and scientific facts.

Fear, it turns out, is much more contagious and far longer lasting than the pandemic itself.

The Covid era should more accurately be referred to as a pandemic of fear than a pandemic of a disease.

We have all heard about the horror of a stampede of people at a soccer match, rock concert or meeting crushing and killing people trying to escape danger. We are now witnessing a stampede of fear that has swept the world and has crushed our freedoms and does not seem to be abating here in the United States.

Next up, the Monkeypox pandemic?

These freedoms were established by our founders and fought for by our military; we are now at risk of losing them forever. We have gotten used to being told by the government how to behave during this pandemic. First we were not allowed to go to church. Then, we were forced to wear a mask to enter buildings. Subsequently, we were told that in order to keep our jobs we must put an investigational vaccine in our bodies. Now, the government is coming after our children as the FDA and CDC are recommending that everyone from 6-month-old infants upwards get jabbed. 

When I see a young child being forced to wear a mask or hear of a parent planning to vaccinate their 6 month old baby, I have a visceral reaction that I am witnessing the end of the American experiment, a slow motion train wreck antithetical to the principles set forth in our Declaration of Independence of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Masks on, freedoms gone.