The Beast Is Back: Georgia Institution Reinstates Covid Mask Mandate — Just for “14 Days”

As late singer Charlie Daniels might’ve said, “The Devil went down to Georgia.” What, though, is he looking to steal?

Health?

Confidence?

Security?

Common sense?

Or, is it an election?

One commentator wonders about the latter with news that a Georgia institution, Morris Brown College in Atlanta, has just re-instituted a restrictive Covid-19 mask mandate. And here’s the kicker:

It’s “a precautionary move for the next 14 days,” reports WSB-TV. My, “14 days.” … Where have we heard that before?

Bethany Mandel, conservative author Seth Mandel’s wife, reminds us via a Tuesday tweet (below).

For a refresher, first we heard during peak-Covid-hysteria days that we had to lock down “for just two weeks” to “flatten the curve.”

Then that wasn’t enough.

So, next, it was “We can’t re-open until there are 14 (or 15) straight days of declining infections.”

That didn’t last, either, though.

Consequently, we thus heard that we “can’t get back to normal until we have a ‘vaccine.’”

But then, too, we heard, “Nay, nay, people are still getting sick because … because of the unvaccinated!” That was some time before the authorities admitted that that Covid shots don’t actually stop viral transmission or contraction.

Anyway, the above is what Dr. Anthony Fauci — the erstwhile St. Fauci — at one point during a rare honest moment called “moving the goalposts.”

But, don’t get confused, the aforementioned commentator, American Thinker’s Olivia Murray, assures us. It’s “not like last time where those ‘two weeks to slow the spread’ got a little out of hand and obliterated the economy, bankrupted millions of small businesses and families, and allowed Joe Biden’s ‘most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization’ to undermine a presidential election,” she writes; “this time, it’s ‘only fourteen days’ as a ‘precautionary’ measure, of course!”

As for the slight change in terminology, Murray cutely writes, “Seems like ‘fortnight’ instead of ‘14 days’ would have done a better job at throwing people off their scent.”

For sure. Just say with a clipped British accent, “We shall merely have to lock down for a fortnight, old chap.” No one today will know what you’re talking about — and hundreds of millions of young people worldwide will be giddy. They’ll think it’s a government-prescribed video-game bender.

As for Morris Brown College, with the resumption of classes there just last week, all students and staff will be required to don the face diapers. WSB-TV provides more detail, writing, “Officials say there have been no confirmed COVID-19 cases among its students, but they have received reports from other schools in the Atlanta University Center.”

“The mask mandate is a precautionary move for the next 14 days,” the site continues. “Morris Brown College will also not allow any parties or large student gatherings on campus during this time.”

“Other precautionary measures include: temperature checks upon campus arrival, social distancing and contact tracing,” WSB adds. The school also has a gene-modification-agent (GMA, aka, “vaccine”) requirement, though it does offer religious and medical exemptions.

Of course, this move reflects true scientific obscurantism, from the side (COVIDians) who made “Follow the science!” an imperious, didactic mantra. Even Fauci admitted this year that mask mandates do little to nothing “at the population level,” which isn’t surprising since he was against masking before he was for it or, now, against it again.

The New York Times, too, in February, confessed that mask mandates “were a bust.” Citing the “most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies” on the matter, the paper writes that those “skeptics who were furiously mocked as cranks and occasionally censored as ‘misinformers’ for opposing mandates were right.”

(By the way, as one of those “cranks,” I can say that the censorship was more than “occasional.”)

Note here, however, that The New American and other Truth-oriented outlets have been reporting for years on mask mandates’ folly. Moreover, there are studies indicating that continual masking is unhealthful, as masks may cause oxygen deprivation (apparently, CO₂ isn’t a boogeyman when its level rises in people’s bloodstreams) and, becoming pathogen traps, can be like Petri dishes on wearers’ faces.

Also realize that as Dr. James Hamblin wrote at the left-wing Atlantic early on in the pandemic (February 2020), because of viral mutation, “‘cold and flu season’ could become ‘cold and flu and COVID-19 season.’” This has happened, too; meaning, Covid is just another respiratory disease now, like the cold or flu. So what explains Morris Brown College’s failure to learn?

The saying “Never attribute to malice what is better explained by stupidity” comes to mind. But Murray floats a different theory. She posits that with President Trump trouncing his GOP challengers in the polls despite the multiple-indictment “legal” witch hunt targeting him, the Democrats must perpetuate the vote-fraud insurance policy that is mail-in voting.

Of course, the election isn’t till next year. But perhaps the idea is that if you want to institutionalize mail-in voting, you must institutionalize Covid hysteria — and skipping a year doesn’t facilitate habituation.

Some would welcome Covid tyranny’s resurrection, too. Just consider a picture Murray posted to X (formerly Twitter) of a woman who is just one step away from donning a Darth Vader-like helmet.

Murray rightly states that such people should be mocked; social pressure is, after all, a powerful vehicle for shaping norms.

Of course, it would be comforting if social pressure were all we had to worry about regarding Covid restrictions. Unfortunately, though, the COVIDian power seekers use the iron fist of the law.