OPINION:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told a group of high school students standing behind his podium to take off their face masks — to go ahead, just take ‘em off — and then he chastised, “We’ve got to stop with this COVID theater.”
The fact only some students, not all, removed the face masks shows how deep the cultural damage from the left’s exploitation of COVID fear has gone.
The fact that any students were wearing masks speaks volumes — and it says: We are obedient.
Democrats are laughing in their mask-free offices. Of course, you won’t see that laughter because they’ll have face masks covering their upturned lips whenever they appear in public.
What a sham.
“Honestly,” DeSantis told the students at the University of South Florida, CNN wrote. “[the masks aren’t] doing anything. We’ve got to stop with this Covid theater. So if you want to wear it, fine. But this is ridiculous.”
He also said, “You do not have to wear those masks. I mean, please, take them off.”
That the students hailed from a county, Hillsborough, with bureaucrats who’ve advised that the wearing of indoor masks is the best medical practice is inconsequential. Search and ye shall find — in almost any county in almost every state there are medical bureaucrats who will advise, or are advising, or will continue to advise, that the best and safest medical practice is to wear a face mask.
The bigger theme here is the state and status of critical thinking.
What are face masks supposed to do, anyway?
If they’re supposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, well, checkmark on Failure.
If they’re supposed to protect the user from contracting COVID-19, well, checkmark once again on Failure.
If they’re supposed to humble the wearer into showing his or her blind obedience to unconstitutional government mandates and ridiculous unscientific standards — well then, ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.
Train the next generation in the way to go and he or she shall not depart from it.
Face masking a generation of youth is slowly and surely training the nation’s next leaders to be compliant, bendable to government will, utterly dependent on bureaucratic dictates, and unable to uphold any notions of individual rights, individual choice, personal accountability because of a complete ignorance of American principles and a total inability to stand tall for principle.
In other words: good little Democrat voters.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise Or America Will Fall,” is available by clicking HERE.
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