Dakota Beacon

Ok.  So I went to the Farmers’ Market in Grand Forks today.  I was glad I did - it is an absolutely perfect day, only a couple of little fluffy white clouds to be seen, blue sky, about 80 degrees, no wind to speak of.  Popejoy was there playing vibes with a combo, there were fresh and exotic vegetables, clever crafts, soaps, fresh bakery items, wood carvings, in short, just what you want in a Farmers’ Market, right?  Except at this one about half of the customers, wandering about the street in the warm sunshine and all of the vendors were wearing ugly masks.  I kid you not.  At this open-air event  on a beautiful end-of-summer glorious day, all these suckers were wearing masks (and I use the term “sucker” advisedly).  The band looked like some post-apocalyptic punk interpretation for your low-end Saturday morning cartoon show.  

I approached the table set up by the organizers.  A couple of nice young girls were manning it to answer questions, etc.,  I gave them a piece of my mind (I’m generous  that way) as nicely as I could.  I know it wasn’t their fault (or maybe it was - I just gave them the benefit of the doubt).  I told them about the story I had just read earlier this morning - that doctors in Spain are treating COVID 19 patients with fresh sea air.  That’s right.  It should come as no surprise.  Fresh air and sunlight kill the virus.  Any virus, not just this year’s.  So why on earth would sane human beings be out in the clean, fresh air and sunshine wearing masks?  Even children were being deprived of the sustenance of life - oxygen - by plodding around wearing these hideous masks.

I also spoke with a few vendors who informed me that the masks were “required of vendors”.  None of them that I spoke with was at all happy about it.  Why would they be?  They are capable enough to produce things we want and industrious enough to come out to sell them - why would they park their brains at the door and wear these ugly masks willingly?  I suggested they should visit with one another about this and just boycott all future Farmers’ Markets until this “requirement” is lifted.  Why should we even have to fight for air to breathe?  

It is not about COVID 19 and never has been, as it turns out.  If it had ever been about this virus we would not have had the dizzying 180 degree spin from the so-called “experts”, would we?  We would not have heard Dr. Anthony the Predator Fauci declaring that under no circumstance should we be wearing these masks last March, only to be “mandating” them now.  We would not see an increasing demand that we submit to this nonsense as we see the disease waning.  Perhaps with enough mask-wearing we can create a resurgence.  One congressman, Louie Gohmert, blamed wearing a mask on a flight for his contracting it.  He recovered very rapidly because he took the banned and discredited hydroxychloroquine/Zithromax/Zinc combination.  

What this is really about is testing to see how willingly human beings do things they know make no sense in logic and reason when an authority “mandates” it.  That is why we see parents bandaging over their kids’ noses and mouths with these repulsive masks, this is why intelligent, creative and very competent individuals at a Farmers’ Market are submissively sitting at the tables they pay for the privilege of selling at - wearing masks in the fresh air and sunshine.  It is about demanding compliance in spite of logic and reason.  It is not and arguably has never been about combatting COVID 19.  The disease itself, while a killer of the elderly and those struggling with other serious illnesses and conditions - is but a virus.  I might get it.  If I do I will pretend that I have lupus and get the hydroxychloroquine, and advise you to do the same.  We are all mortal.  If one thing does not kill us eventually something else will.  

Meanwhile we have seen a frightening increase in other kinds of health issues, from domestic abuse to cancer - because of the RESPONSE, to COVID, not the DISEASE.  People are not getting needed treatment or diagnosis for other serious illnesses - they are dying because of it.  Others who don’t have the disease are separated from loved ones while battling illness in hospitals because of this warped response.  My uncle had no one to advocate for him during his last hospital stay and died from administration of deadly drugs he did not need and should not have had - because no one could be there to advocate for him.  Our elders are giving us their last words via Skype.  It is obscene.  NONE OF THIS WAS EVER NECESSARY.  

I don’t intend to downplay the necessity of taking reasonable precautions.  We should probably avoid or postpone cross-country flights to huge family weddings, we should avoid large crowds and we should be careful to wash our hands.  We should stay away from others if we are sick (with anything, not just COVID).  We should get as much fresh air and sunshine as we possibly can.  We should avoid the use of masks except where logic and reason call for their use.  

We are being set up for the kind of treatment that the Chinese under the CCP live with.  Do you want that - for yourself or your children?  I would think not.  If not, then it is time to govern YOURSELF with logic and reason.  If there is no good reason to wear a mask DON”T WEAR A MASK.  If there is a good reason, then obey that reason.

The reason I was at the Farmers’ Market today is because of our local grocer’s (Hugo’s) edict that the police will be called to arrest you if you don’t wear something over your face to restrict your breathing while in their store.  I won’t shop there anymore.  In fact, I used to go just about every day into our local Hugo’s.  Not because their prices were great, but because they were conveniently located and I came to like their staff - mostly very nice people.  I have not been there in more than a month now.  I shop exclusively in Grand Forks because of Governor Tim Walz’s (by the way, there is a petition to recall him - sign it if you haven’t already) demand that everyone wear these stupid masks in public.  I won’t so I don’t shop in any East Grand Forks business - and I won’t probably ever return to Hugo’s.  I find I am saving a lot of money shopping at other stores now.    (Someday I will have to look more closely into the dark bargain between Hugo’s of Grand Forks and Hornbacher’s of Fargo - who were said to have made an agreement creating monopolies in both cities.  It doesn’t work, though, because Hugo’s can’t buy off the Walmart.)  

So that is my entry for Saturday, September 5, a beautiful last-of-summer weekend in Grand Forks.  I would love to post the photo I took of the band that was playing.  I wonder why they didn’t just get some of those “plague doctor” masks - at least it would have looked more deliberate and interesting on stage.  

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