Do Not Take Medical Advice From Facebook Videos Featuring The Joker
Thanks to the dozen-odd people who forwarded the “It’s Just a Mask” video. I’ve watched it. If you’d like to see it for yourself, I’ve embedded it below…
It’s a fun piece, but it just doesn’t hold up.
First of all, the number of people required to carry out a conspiracy of this scale makes the likelihood of the secret being kept virtually zero.
Secondly, just because the creator claims there’s “no scientific basis” for the guidelines and (sometimes) regulations being implemented doesn’t make it so: The inability to understand a thing doesn’t negate it.
Magnets exist,
even if I’m not exactly sure how they work.
Finally, if this was such a red-pill slam-dunk why wouldn’t the author want credit? Using the default avatar of the InCel Collective to be edgy doesn’t inspire confidence in the good faith of the creator.
I think if you walk it back, you’ll see a fairly creative piece meant to excite and amuse the folks hip to the Joker meme. This is click-bait for “Mr. Robot” fans.
I know these are trying times, and the inconsistent and constantly evolving information is exhausting. Adding in the folks who are actively trying to get people to take unnecessary risks and you’ve got a recipe for anger (if not disaster).
Seriously, if you’re really unsure about the wisdom of masking up or if you believe you’re at risk by doing so talk to your doctor. Get ahold of the man or woman you trust to help guide your health-related decisions in every other circumstance and ask questions.
At the absolute minimum: do no harm. If you simply refuse, regardless of what doctors or your neighbors ask, to wear a mask and/or practice social distancing STAY HOME. Have your stuff delivered and get down with your anti-social self. But I promise you, if I see someone coughing on a baby or screaming at a cashier because of advice from a fake Joker video of unclear origin, I will give them a wedgie that will change their perception of spacetime.
We might spend a minute on this sometime this week…or not. Who knows? It’s too hot. I should go find my pants…
PS: the solution to the cash/change thing is to round up. There’s isn’t a proprietor in business who will turn away a few more cents while the pandemic rages on. You spend – at most – another 99 cents, but the whole “the government is tracking the credit/debit card I voluntarily signed up for and have been using for years without incident or worry” is off the table. Or, you know, roll some change and spend it. Or pay with exact change.