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Quote from: Elwar on Today at 06:05:56 PM

800m, eh? I guess he really does not want to risk catching or spreading Covid. Better safe than sorry!

People may suppose that I be joking. I am not.

For years, I have watched in horror as privacy has been destroyed in all public spaces by the potent combination of ubiquitous security cameras, smartphone cameras, and facial recognition technology.

For years, I have struggled to solve the seemingly insurmountable problem of daily concealing ones face in publicwithout counterproductively inviting suspicions.

Mandatory face masks? Crowds of people in which one more masked non-face just blends in? Amidst a nightmare, it is a dream come true!

On account of my safety-consciousness, my mask is just a tiny bit more... comprehensive than the wimpy masks that I see some careless folks wearing. The most comprehensive mask that I can find of a type that looks like a Covid masksized just a bit too bigwell, Ive got to protect as many facial features as possible from The Virus!

Perhaps now is a good time to raise awareness that concealing ones face in public is a wise idea. There is something very wrong with a world in which thats true. What can we do about that, besides trying to hide our faces?

Quote from: Cryptotourist on Today at 06:51:58 PM

Oh they know exactly what they're doing (as you implied), it's the art of misdirection.
Sooner or later instead of imposing them, they will be banning them again, "because of the masked law offenders".

Hmmm... As if on cue:

Quote from: Smartvirus on Today at 07:19:47 PM

it's sure to arise suspicion and a more mandatory banned would be required to end it's trendy as criminals can also hijack the opportunity to perpetuate malicious master minds or organized crimes.

Its funny how as soon as I point out that masks have privacy benefits, somebody pops up to express fear about bogeys.

No, I am not implying that it is necessarily some type of purposeful operative. To the contrary: It is probably just some garden-variety exercise of Everybodys Right To An Opinion.

People are so brainwashed nowadays that they express this preprogrammed narrative almost without conscious thought, as if by conditioned reflexes. On this forum, I frequently see the same phenomenon in discussions of Bitcoin and KYC. Examples abound.

Quote from: Coyster on Today at 07:42:29 PM

Masks worn by criminals, which covers the whole face leaving just the eye, is different from the type worn to prevent covid-19 spread,

The scariest part:

Quote from: Cryptotourist on Today at 06:51:58 PM

next to zero places to hide.

Hey, you said to wear a mask. OK.