Reply To: End of the mask mitzva cult?

Well GH, I was pleasantly surprised to see you accepting the removal of restrictions. I am still waiting to fly wo doing the mask mitzva ritual. Or take 17 covid tests to fly as well, just 5 to be exact. But they do cost money (sometimes doubling the cost of flying) and waste time and are Stam azoy a pointless hassle. And not having to worry if on the dates I choose to fly the country will be closed or not allow flying to or from the country I am flying to.

You know I miss the the old days, when if you wanted to go somewhere you just bought a ticket and went.

The other day I was on the train wo a mask and these crazy masked people gave me dirty looks and very conspicuously walked to the other side of the train while glaring at me. It was funny, actually at the time but very disappointing that 2 years on and people can still be so easily brainwashed and….. So easily manipulatable to hatred of the ‘the ones bringing misfortune’ on our society. Politicians in Israel like Lieberman and lapid are masters of this trade. They have outGobbeled Goebbels. You heard the latest nonsense about haredim causing inflation?!? 1984 is here, but I digress.

It is concerning bc you know, I used to wonder how it was possible that something as horrible as Soviet union or communist china came to be as growing up it seemed like things could never happen in America or the west in general. It was a they problem. Now, I am not so sure as unfortunately, as many of the other responses here (just read through the thread and see syag’s exasperation at trying to get through) on the yeshiva world indicate, many people are still in a panic about covid and are running for their lives to the protective embrace of the mask mitzva cult.