Ross: Banner claims ‘masks don’t work,’ but what is working?
Dec 30, 2020, 6:58 AM | Updated: 9:47 am
Harlyn Thompson from Battleground, Wash., joins others at a Patriot Prayer and Peoples Rights Washington rally protesting the state mask mandate outside the Clark County Sheriff's Office on June 26, 2020 in Vancouver, Washington. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
(Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
Driving along the freeway last night I could see brake lights flickering up ahead. I checked the navigation map 鈥� no obvious blockage 鈥� but we soon saw why everyone was slowing down.
It was a couple of people on a pedestrian overpass, one marching back and forth waving the Stars and Stripes as if he鈥檇 just captured the overpass from the enemy 鈥� and the other standing behind a giant banner stretched along the fence.
鈥淪top COVID tyranny,鈥� it said. 鈥淢asks don鈥檛 work.鈥�
I had plenty of time to read it because it slowed us all down to 30 miles an hour.
What I couldn鈥檛 figure out was who it would be directed at.
They do say this virus affects the mind 鈥� what if it has evolved so as to cause people to make giant banners that spread ideas that HELP it reproduce?
Why else would anyone spend a rainy night holding a wet banner over the freeway?
At the same time, it is an accurate observation. When you see hospitals in LA turning away ambulances and treating patients in the gift shop, it鈥檚 clear that masks don’t work 鈥� in that people clearly aren鈥檛 effectively.
But then nothing’s really working yet, is it? The vaccine isn鈥檛 working yet, attempts to reopen the economy haven鈥檛 worked yet.
And actually 鈥� based on the energy and enthusiasm of those wet demonstrators, you could conclude that if you don鈥檛 like masks, there鈥檚 no safer place to be than spending a rainy night holding a wet banner over the freeway!
Maybe it made sense after all.
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