Mask Mandate Madness

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It doesn't California have a mask mandate, but San Francisco

(00:02):
announced they're not going to have a mandate for San Francisco.
Is that overriding the state or did the state mandate
go away? Or does anybody pay me attention anymore? And
the reason I bring it up is this, So I
went to a major event in California over the weekend
with my kids. I went to professional bull riding the
other night and Friday night, and there were about twelve
thousand people. They're packed house. So, as I talked about

(00:25):
last week, you had to have a vaccination to get
into the building. My kids aren't vaccinated. Neither are eight
percent of kids nationwide. Um, but my kids aren't vaccinated,
and you have to be vaccinated. So their deal is
you can get vaccinated on you don't get vaccinated, you
can get tested on site, eat a result in fifteen minutes,
and then you can walk in cost forty bucks per person.

(00:48):
So I'd like to know what portion of this is
health and what portion of this is money making scam.
I mean, come on, the line of people to get
tested at forty dollars a pop was unbelievable. I might
have made more money off that than they did popcorn.
In fact, they almost certainly did, so I just wonder

(01:08):
how much of that is. You know, who's gonna want
to pull the plug on that. I don't think we
need to do that anymore. Who's gonna say that when
somebody's making forty dollars ahead, not people doing the tests,
not you know whoever is getting that money. And you
know what occurs to me. You need like moment to
moment updates to keep track of what states, counties, venues
whatever demanding. But a lot of it is driven by

(01:30):
the venue, or the the artist or the promoter. Well, okay,
the COVID policy, but so dig this. So pay eighty
bucks for my kids to get tested real quick, to
come out and say they're clear, and give him a
risk band. Those and I yelled back. I didn't yell back.
Those tests are practically worthless, um, But here's my money.
And so we get our wristbands and we go in masks, mandatory,

(01:52):
masks mandatory everywhere they have debt, the signs everywhere. We
had our masks on. I just wasn't even really thinking about.
We got there and then my kids said, can we
take our mask off? I said now we probably shouldn't,
and they said, nobody else has one line. Looked around,
there wasn't another human being in the place with the mask,
So there were eight There are twelve thousand people in
a mask mandated arena with no masks on, and nobody

(02:15):
said a word about it. The rodeo clown at one
point said, I guess you don't all care about the
law much, do you? And everybody cheered, Um, So what
is going on here? What are we doing to society
where we have actual laws? I mean, this is this
is the has the force of law behind it, and
you have twelve thousand people ignoring that law and nobody

(02:37):
doing anything about it. What is that? Well, it's never
happened in my lifetime. I think what it is is, Uh,
it's that editorial we're discussing last week by the Englishman
about how you get used to the weird. I don't
know what, how do you even describe it? Surreal life?
You're living where everybody lives, everybody ignores the rules or

(03:01):
ignores the responsibilities, and and the authorities lie to you
and you say yes, I know, and then everybody knows
it's a lie. It's just that that dishonesty that's at
the heart of like socialist and communists, right. I think
it's I think it's terribly damaging. It's on somehow in
a way, you know, you just explained it, but in
a complicated way for society. It's a big deal. Like

(03:22):
I said, this never happened in my lifetime where there
was some law that that many people just ignored. So
what is going on with the relationship between power and
people and laws and everything like that? You got signs everywhere,
and nobody cares not to mention the weird Every news
show has an expert on, say a scientists say that

(03:44):
could maybe even February, we can readly nobody freaking cares.
Nobody's listening to you. Who are you talking to? On
the other hand, now this is weird since San Francisco
just announced that they're not going to enforce mask mandates anymore. Buddy,
mine was at a Warriors game. Probably the best NBA
team in America was that a Warrior's game. They had
a mask mandate and they had people patrolling and if

(04:05):
you took your mask off to eat a little bit
and study wide that come by, so you haven't taken
a bite in a long time. Put your mask back on.
Oh my god, that's how big a sticklers they were
for the Goldsday Warriors. I'm not rooting for that liberal too.
You've got twelve thousand people indoors, side by side, breathing
on each other. Nobody in their cared well with lotual
respect to that experience. You watch the Rams Niners game,

(04:29):
They're like sixty people in exactly the same situation, including
the governor of the state, the mayor, various potentates up
there in the sky boxes, totally unmasked, hob dobb and
having a big time. Nobody cared, nobody was enforcing it.
Yet we a whole bunch of us paid forty dollars
ahead to get tested a fake test to go in.
You know what occurred to me, even as I was

(04:51):
talking about how you know, in your totalitarian societies, you're
commun to society's uh there, when people actually this is
a quote from the editorial. We're discussing when people are
forced to remain silent when they are being told the
most obvious lies, or even worse, when they are forced
to repeat the lives themselves, they lose once and for all,
their sense of probity or truth uh, the ability to
to sense and and speak the truth, um and and

(05:13):
But it occurs to me that you know, in commun
communist societies, you end up with a slump shouldered, head down,
waiting in line for a toilet paper, beaten down masses.
In the US, at least to a large extent, you
end up with stadiums full of people in effect with
their middle finger extended, being more kid rock than they are.

(05:34):
You know, I hate to name any of my favorite
artists who like have fashioned their lives around being COVID
compliant and written songs about it for God's sake, and
how much they hate Trump. But I think we got
more kid rocking US as a country than a lot do.
But don't you think that's going to have an effect
on people obeying other laws? I know it is with me.
I I'm I used to be a it's the law

(05:54):
you follow outside of you know, driving faster than the
speed limit, um, more or less law buying citizen. Now
I am much more of I take them on a
take case by case basis, and I think if they
apply or the if the threat is strong enough, I'll
follow it. Otherwise I'll decide for myself, and my kids
are learning that too, in a way that I didn't
as a kid. They were sitting in that stadium where

(06:15):
the law was we had to wear a mask, and
nobody was and everybody laughed about it. Everybody was laughing
about the idea that we're breaking the law. Right. I
think I did a poor job of bottom lining it.
You're going to see a lot of people engaged in
slavish compliance, sheeplike compliance, no matter how idiotic and dishonest
their orders are. And then you're gonna see a hell

(06:37):
of a lot of people engaging in middle finger raised
cynical defiance, which isn't necessarily a good thing ultimately. But
I'm kind of sympathetic to that, not kind of, I'm
sympathetic to that side of it, honestly, Yes, Michael. A
lot of the stores that I'm going into now, they
have the signs up and people walk in with the
mask and as soon as they get through the entrance

(06:58):
they take them off and there is no one forced
meant whatsoever, you know. But some of it is cultural.
It varies from crowd to crowd. So at a you know,
at a pro bowl riding crowd, not surprisingly there were
quite a few people that probably aren't big on the
whole mask wearing thing. Right, So, even though it was
mandatory and we were indoors with the Alma Crown wave
in full force in this area, nobody was wearing a mask. Now,

(07:21):
yesterday I was in a town where I live. We
were outside at the park and every single adult and
child had a mask on except for my kids. That's cultish,
that's scary. Yeah, a lot of these people are good
friends of mine. I got nothing to say, I got
no complaint to do. Whatever you and I don't care
for the people were masks. It doesn't bother me. Um,

(07:43):
if you want to wear a mask, I just think
it's really interesting. Well, why don't you say in advance
that I am a crazy, dangerous human and you disagree
with everything I say? Because I'm gonna let rip And
and with all due respect to people who are nice
in many ways, I'm sure in good hard work and
folks love their kids, but pay their tech to bah
blah blah, you are a freaking cultist or you're just

(08:04):
concerned that everybody around you as a cultist and you
don't want to stir up any you know, dirt and
I'll bet even though only uh, even though eighty percent
of kids in America are not vaxed, fully vaxed at
that park all But it was more like were so
you got a whole bunch of kids fully vaxed in
masks right where a green hat? Where a green hat

(08:28):
everywhere you go outdoors that will do every bit as
much to protect you from a COVID as a mask
will outdoors in the park. There your magical green hat.
The park I was just talking about is as the
crow flies eleven miles from the basketball stadium where twelve
thousand people were not wearing a mask indoors, right right,

(08:48):
and another twelve miles from a large chunk California, where
people at fight you for even suggesting you wear a
mask outside in the park. It's interesting culturally, Hell yes
it is. Barn Strong and Jetty