Thank you for trying to help others, to show them the truth and the light. It’s so very sad and grievous when people want to continue on a harmful path, physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc…I think guiding them is the most loving thing we can do. And always remember Dr. £.10 (I’m going to leave your name the way I talk to text spells it… It’s kind of neat I think!) that you have planted seeds, and hopefully others will water. May God send laborers into the harvest! Thank you for your work, your love, your courage and your testimony. You are such a blessing to us, may God return those blessings to you tenfold!
Thank you God led me to you and other truth tellers early on. I listened to free seminars online and determined in my spirit they were telling me the truth. Thanks be to God I nor one of my family has gotten the bioweapon. Our spiritual eyes and ears are wide open. We were in an adult bible study class with sweet friends and over 90% eagerly got the jabs and wore masks. Our pastor lead the way. We left that church. Couldn’t sit among those who had the spirit of fear and every other pew was roped off for the social distancing!!!! Insane and ungodly!!!
Dr. Tenpenny! at least someone says it out loud. I rarely say anything any more because it's always the same, after a while, seriously? It's their choice. I no longer bring anything up to anyone who has already shown a sneering attitude or raised their tone in response, it's not my job. God gives us free will - so who am I? I begin tentatively with a new person and ask about why are they still wearing a mask. If they say, "Oh, I like it" or blow me off, I do not keep on. Many totally believe in it. It's like the people who were buying up all the toilet paper, which I believe was a test, most likely subliminally broadcast to segments of society from tv or other broadcasting media (phones, radio) to see how it would play out. *This was a forerunner* on how well it works. Remember when we all had to switch to digital from analog programming and no one had a choice in the matter? They wanted us on the same frequency. This run on toilet paper was a test, this is what I believe happened. Just like when they used to splice movie reels and insert, "drink Coke" or, "I'm so thirsty" in a movie theater to make you run to the lobby during intermission and buy a drink. Think about it. Same with the "scary tactics" designed to make you feel like wearing a mask or getting more boosters will make you "safe". I personally just let people be now unless it seems appropriate. Even those who have had friends die after being vaxxed seem to not entertain one single thought about how it could be connected. Separating sheep from goats. Spiritual discernment, critical thinking and permission to use your brain because God gave you a mind and free will. God bless us, we either learn by wisdom or suffering. Most choose suffering, this is why we continue to come back and repeat history over and over and over. Until we learn. God bless those who look to God first.
Matthew 25:33 KJV
“And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”
Superb! Hit the nose on the head, again. Spoke the truth, presented the scriptures sharing the Word of God, shared from the ♥ heart. Thank you for your wisdom and insight and medical expertise. God protect and bless you in all your endeavors.
Thank you Dr T for your strength to continue in this fight and to keep pointing upward to Whom can stand before us in battle. We all need to remember who is the Warrior in us all - as long as we choose to have Him in our hearts. He will fight for us, IF we let Him.
Please LORD convict those who made the choices that show they trust man and not You to confess, repent and pray for their own healing. I pray for those who do not know You to come to You, hear You, see You and take off their masks!
It boggles the mind when I see others still wearing masks, but I have to remember Satan has a hold on them - not God.
I just got done reading Rise of the Fourth Reich Chapter 17 E-Maskulated Kristin Mehgan Kelly wrote a thorough stand on human body common sense and our rights. Thank you Dr.T for recommending this book by Steve Deace and Daniel Horowitz. I hope you're getting some relaxation time. Today's the last day of Holy weeks. He has Risen for all the best reasons 😁💗💯🙏☝️
Many years ago, my late wife, saved the life of an unborn child from abortion. This beautiful baby grew up to be a missionary for fifty years. Lisa gave her entire life, along with family to help and guide thousands to Christ. Her husband died and years later, married a pastor in CA. He went full charge into the lies and they took the shots. Lisa experienced multiple issues with the shots and is now losing her eye sight. When the shots came out, I was watching/listening to you and others and warned her husband of the dangers involved. When I found out they’d taken the shots and the after effects on both of them. I was exceedingly upset with him. Then I realized I had to forgive him so peace would come back into my life. Now, a ‘new’ variant is on the way and am quite sure he will tell her to have more shots. Lisa believes in being obedient to the husband. How many other Christ like women have been led to accept a shot that takes away their dignity, their health and their walk with Jesus and instead, were offered on the fires of Baal because the man of the house doesn’t have a true relationship with our Lord and cares not for his partner in life?
After sending my comment, it struck me, I was still harboring resentment against Lisa’s husband and I asked the Lord to forgive me as I pray to have complete forgiveness for her husband. Who do we obey? I live in a State, where over 90% of everything we need comes by ship. Now, we’ve lost a way to leave this State by ship. As the covid shots have caused a 39% increase of deaths in 2022 over 21 of those people who help to keep our State running properly. We also have a small population. When we were in full lockdown. Our medical system began a drive up program on the weekend to give the covid shots. I was astounded at the long lines which went on for weeks, waiting bumper to bumper, to get those shots. A Christian man, with a large family was going to have all his children given the shots. I told the man the dangers (his wife would never agree) and asked him why he’d force the shots, “If there’s a problem with the State, I’ll have them take the shots.” Problem?! Franklin Graham told millions of Christians, “If Jesus was here, He would take the shots.” Whew! Not only do we have stand against those outside the faith, but inside the faith. Jesus warned us, “When I come back, will I find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:18. We are living in dire times and if we, God’s children aren’t on our spiritual knees in prayer, will the flood will over flow our faith? Dan 9:26. Though tsunami is a better, active, word for a picture in the mind. As we understand the power and speed of a tsunami. In the year, 1993, the Lord brought me into spiritual warfare for two months, Was baby sitting for a Christian who went on a two month vacation. Because of what the person was doing, the house was filled with demons. For those two months, I was terrified! If I hadn’t made a promise stay there, I’d been out of there in flash.
Banging, knocks, items in the house missing in one place and appearing some where else and much more Then, one day, out of the corner of my eye, noticed a rope hanging on a nail on a wall, come flying off the wall and the rope wrapped around my ankles. If I hadn’t seen that rope, would’ve fallen face first on the concrete walkway. After a month of this business, I’d had enough. Late one evening, I began to read scriptures to the demons, where they were going, when suddenly, right next to me, the most horrendous, blood curling scream erupted. I said, “Oh, you didn’t like that one?! How about this one?”
The next night I had a Bible study in the house. The first couple who arrived, when they stepped out of their car, heard noises. Ray heard bells ringing. Amanda heard a scream. Ray told his wife, “Brians out in the woods, with a rope and bells and is playing a trick on us.” When they walked into the living room and I was sitting on the couch, Ray had this puzzled look on his face. When Bible study was over, Ray waited until everyone had left. “Brian, you look upset, what’s wrong?” I told him about the night before and the scream. “I heard bells ringing.” “I heard a scream.” Then Ray looked up at the ceiling with an odd look on his face and said, “I don’t know why, but the Lord told me to tell to you, ‘Plead the Blood of Jesus Christ over you’. It worked. I had a small place around me with the Blood Christ’s protection. The Blood of Christ defeats all darkness as long as we have faith in His shed Blood. This is long and please forgive me. But if we don’t understand the authority we have in God the Father, in Christ Jesus and His Precious Blood. It will be much harder to stand and stand we must in these last of Last Days. May the Lord Bless and protect His children with miracles as in the Bible.
"Masks can also function as an important visual cue, says Joseph Allen, an assistant professor of exposure and assessment science at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
They're a "reminder that we need to be taking these precautions and serve as a reminder to people to keep that 6-foot buffer," he says. "It should be seen as a badge of honor. If I'm wearing a mask out in public, it means I'm concerned about you, I'm concerned about my neighbors, I'm concerned about strangers on the chance that I'm infectious. I want to do my part in limiting how I might impact you."
Klompas agrees — and says that it can also give the wearer a welcome sense of security.
"It feels like you're behind a shield," he says, "and I think that in itself can be reassuring."
And for the others around you, it's a warning. "It says: Watch out. There's a public health crisis right now, there's a virus going around, we need to be on top guard," says Klompas. "I think it can actually be a reinforcer, a reminder of the state of crisis that we face in society."
That terrible history of Honor Badges:
Wear it With Pride, The Yellow Badge
Juedische Rundschau, April 4, 1933 (Jewish Virtual Library)
"The Jew who denies his Judaism is no better a citizen than his fellow who avows it openly. It is shameful to be a renegade, but as long as the world around us rewarded it, it appeared an advantage. Now even that is no longer an advantage. The Jew is marked as a Jew. He gets the yellow badge.
A powerful symbol is to be found in the fact that the boycott leadership gave orders that a sign with a yellow badge on a black background was to be pasted on the boycotted shops. This regulation is intended as a brand, a sign of contempt. We will take it up and make of it a badge of honor."
Once upon a time, long, long ago, as far back as...August, 2019, we knew masked faces were terrible for the health of a society. So terrible that they were banned in public!!
International Law (Pre-2020). Broadly known as the "Burqa Ban's. But applied to all facial coverings - including masks! Unobstructed faces deemed especially important in public settings, like public transportation:
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
2019 (Just months before masked were made mandatory)
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
The Courts had it right pre-pandemic.
So, what exactly is the science behind masking? Behavioral Science!! Not medical science. The science of symbols that provoke a behavioral change desired by authorities. Authorities diagnosed the public as suffering from "Optimism Bias.":
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Optimism Bias Is Psychological Tendency To Assume Bad Things Won't Happen To Us
"The prefrontal influence on facial as well as other channels of emotional expression helps to maintain conflicts at a symbolic level, where the relative strength of the combatants can be evaluated from more or less convincing displays of power and submissiveness, which prevents escalating the conflict into an actual fight that might result in injuries to the participants.
A substantial part of the signaling action in conflicts between individuals centers on the faces of the parties measuring their relative strength. As recognized by Darwin (1872/1998), the design of the face suggests that it has evolved as a means of communication. The facial muscles are unique in their function by primarily moving dermal tissue rather than body limbs, producing coordinated changes in the visual appearance of the face. The basic human facial displays are similar to those of other primates, but the human face has a more complex musculature than that of other primates, with a more versatile neural innervation, suggesting that the human ability to communicate by the face is better developed than that of our primate relatives"
...
"Morris, Öhman, and Dolan (1999) traced the direct thalamic route to the amygdala by examining connectivity between sensory areas and the amygdala during masked stimulation by a conditioned angry face. Supporting the LeDoux (1996) direct route concept to the amygdala, they reported that amygdala activation was related to activation of the midbrain superior colliculus and the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus.
Further support for the idea that the amygdala can be activated without cortical involvement was reported by Morris, DeGelder, Weiskrantz, and Dolan (2001). They presented pictures of fearful faces that could not be recognized because they were presented in blind cortical fields of a patient with blindsight. Nevertheless, masked faces resulted in activation of the amygdala, thus supporting the low road concept by demonstrating amygdala activation in the absence of cortical processing of the stimulus (see Öhman et al., 2007, for a review of the empirical status of the low-road concept)."
FF - The Science (TM) of masks: Fear. Amygdala fight, flight, freeze response. Selected for this very reason. To amplify fear (aka terrorize) so we'd stay apart and obey authority, cure us of our "optimism bias."
Masks on faces are symbols, speech, the oldest form of speech, one doesn't even need to be literate to understand symbols. And symbols are inherently divisive. Symbols designate an "us" vs "them," As any sports team mascot is. Or flag. Or religious symbol like a cross or Star of David.
Like "Honor Badges." Saying, "Be afraid, danger is around us, be very, very afraid." The corollary being a free face saying "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Dangerous speech because it contradicts the epidemiologists chosen NPI of fear. Parents kicked off planes because a mask below their baby's face didn't have a symbol on it that amplified fear. Denied access to life, food, medicine, entertainment, denied our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for not wearing a symbol, for not saying, "I am fearful and you must be, too! Because I care!"
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt has been rolling in his grave since 2020.
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses"
Thank you for trying to help others, to show them the truth and the light. It’s so very sad and grievous when people want to continue on a harmful path, physically, spiritually, emotionally, etc…I think guiding them is the most loving thing we can do. And always remember Dr. £.10 (I’m going to leave your name the way I talk to text spells it… It’s kind of neat I think!) that you have planted seeds, and hopefully others will water. May God send laborers into the harvest! Thank you for your work, your love, your courage and your testimony. You are such a blessing to us, may God return those blessings to you tenfold!
Yesterday, I saw a family with masks on. The children looked about six years old. I was at the beach with fresh ocean salt air. Insane!
Thank you God led me to you and other truth tellers early on. I listened to free seminars online and determined in my spirit they were telling me the truth. Thanks be to God I nor one of my family has gotten the bioweapon. Our spiritual eyes and ears are wide open. We were in an adult bible study class with sweet friends and over 90% eagerly got the jabs and wore masks. Our pastor lead the way. We left that church. Couldn’t sit among those who had the spirit of fear and every other pew was roped off for the social distancing!!!! Insane and ungodly!!!
Dr. Tenpenny! at least someone says it out loud. I rarely say anything any more because it's always the same, after a while, seriously? It's their choice. I no longer bring anything up to anyone who has already shown a sneering attitude or raised their tone in response, it's not my job. God gives us free will - so who am I? I begin tentatively with a new person and ask about why are they still wearing a mask. If they say, "Oh, I like it" or blow me off, I do not keep on. Many totally believe in it. It's like the people who were buying up all the toilet paper, which I believe was a test, most likely subliminally broadcast to segments of society from tv or other broadcasting media (phones, radio) to see how it would play out. *This was a forerunner* on how well it works. Remember when we all had to switch to digital from analog programming and no one had a choice in the matter? They wanted us on the same frequency. This run on toilet paper was a test, this is what I believe happened. Just like when they used to splice movie reels and insert, "drink Coke" or, "I'm so thirsty" in a movie theater to make you run to the lobby during intermission and buy a drink. Think about it. Same with the "scary tactics" designed to make you feel like wearing a mask or getting more boosters will make you "safe". I personally just let people be now unless it seems appropriate. Even those who have had friends die after being vaxxed seem to not entertain one single thought about how it could be connected. Separating sheep from goats. Spiritual discernment, critical thinking and permission to use your brain because God gave you a mind and free will. God bless us, we either learn by wisdom or suffering. Most choose suffering, this is why we continue to come back and repeat history over and over and over. Until we learn. God bless those who look to God first.
Matthew 25:33 KJV
“And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.”
YES HALLELUJAH I stand with Jesus and will not bow my knees to the enemy!!! 💚💚💚
What an excellent letter, Dr. T. I love how you always "cut to the chase." ----Thank you, LORD, for this remarkable woman. Bless her, I pray.
Never bend the knee to this evil!
Superb! Hit the nose on the head, again. Spoke the truth, presented the scriptures sharing the Word of God, shared from the ♥ heart. Thank you for your wisdom and insight and medical expertise. God protect and bless you in all your endeavors.
Romans 6:23 New International Version
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Thank you Dr T for your strength to continue in this fight and to keep pointing upward to Whom can stand before us in battle. We all need to remember who is the Warrior in us all - as long as we choose to have Him in our hearts. He will fight for us, IF we let Him.
Please LORD convict those who made the choices that show they trust man and not You to confess, repent and pray for their own healing. I pray for those who do not know You to come to You, hear You, see You and take off their masks!
It boggles the mind when I see others still wearing masks, but I have to remember Satan has a hold on them - not God.
I just got done reading Rise of the Fourth Reich Chapter 17 E-Maskulated Kristin Mehgan Kelly wrote a thorough stand on human body common sense and our rights. Thank you Dr.T for recommending this book by Steve Deace and Daniel Horowitz. I hope you're getting some relaxation time. Today's the last day of Holy weeks. He has Risen for all the best reasons 😁💗💯🙏☝️
Thank you, Dr. Tenpenny. Thank you.
Many years ago, my late wife, saved the life of an unborn child from abortion. This beautiful baby grew up to be a missionary for fifty years. Lisa gave her entire life, along with family to help and guide thousands to Christ. Her husband died and years later, married a pastor in CA. He went full charge into the lies and they took the shots. Lisa experienced multiple issues with the shots and is now losing her eye sight. When the shots came out, I was watching/listening to you and others and warned her husband of the dangers involved. When I found out they’d taken the shots and the after effects on both of them. I was exceedingly upset with him. Then I realized I had to forgive him so peace would come back into my life. Now, a ‘new’ variant is on the way and am quite sure he will tell her to have more shots. Lisa believes in being obedient to the husband. How many other Christ like women have been led to accept a shot that takes away their dignity, their health and their walk with Jesus and instead, were offered on the fires of Baal because the man of the house doesn’t have a true relationship with our Lord and cares not for his partner in life?
“[T]hey were convinced to enroll their children into studies that injected them with experimental products.”
They’re not experimental.
https://hillmd.substack.com/p/calling-covid-jabs-experimental-is
After sending my comment, it struck me, I was still harboring resentment against Lisa’s husband and I asked the Lord to forgive me as I pray to have complete forgiveness for her husband. Who do we obey? I live in a State, where over 90% of everything we need comes by ship. Now, we’ve lost a way to leave this State by ship. As the covid shots have caused a 39% increase of deaths in 2022 over 21 of those people who help to keep our State running properly. We also have a small population. When we were in full lockdown. Our medical system began a drive up program on the weekend to give the covid shots. I was astounded at the long lines which went on for weeks, waiting bumper to bumper, to get those shots. A Christian man, with a large family was going to have all his children given the shots. I told the man the dangers (his wife would never agree) and asked him why he’d force the shots, “If there’s a problem with the State, I’ll have them take the shots.” Problem?! Franklin Graham told millions of Christians, “If Jesus was here, He would take the shots.” Whew! Not only do we have stand against those outside the faith, but inside the faith. Jesus warned us, “When I come back, will I find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:18. We are living in dire times and if we, God’s children aren’t on our spiritual knees in prayer, will the flood will over flow our faith? Dan 9:26. Though tsunami is a better, active, word for a picture in the mind. As we understand the power and speed of a tsunami. In the year, 1993, the Lord brought me into spiritual warfare for two months, Was baby sitting for a Christian who went on a two month vacation. Because of what the person was doing, the house was filled with demons. For those two months, I was terrified! If I hadn’t made a promise stay there, I’d been out of there in flash.
Banging, knocks, items in the house missing in one place and appearing some where else and much more Then, one day, out of the corner of my eye, noticed a rope hanging on a nail on a wall, come flying off the wall and the rope wrapped around my ankles. If I hadn’t seen that rope, would’ve fallen face first on the concrete walkway. After a month of this business, I’d had enough. Late one evening, I began to read scriptures to the demons, where they were going, when suddenly, right next to me, the most horrendous, blood curling scream erupted. I said, “Oh, you didn’t like that one?! How about this one?”
The next night I had a Bible study in the house. The first couple who arrived, when they stepped out of their car, heard noises. Ray heard bells ringing. Amanda heard a scream. Ray told his wife, “Brians out in the woods, with a rope and bells and is playing a trick on us.” When they walked into the living room and I was sitting on the couch, Ray had this puzzled look on his face. When Bible study was over, Ray waited until everyone had left. “Brian, you look upset, what’s wrong?” I told him about the night before and the scream. “I heard bells ringing.” “I heard a scream.” Then Ray looked up at the ceiling with an odd look on his face and said, “I don’t know why, but the Lord told me to tell to you, ‘Plead the Blood of Jesus Christ over you’. It worked. I had a small place around me with the Blood Christ’s protection. The Blood of Christ defeats all darkness as long as we have faith in His shed Blood. This is long and please forgive me. But if we don’t understand the authority we have in God the Father, in Christ Jesus and His Precious Blood. It will be much harder to stand and stand we must in these last of Last Days. May the Lord Bless and protect His children with miracles as in the Bible.
"Honor Badges" have a terrible history. The moment I read this piece in NPR, early April, 2020, I knew it signified a turn into that terrible history:
Coronavirus FAQs: Is A Homemade Mask Effective? And What's The Best Way To Wear One?
NPR, Goats and Soda, April 3, 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/826996154/coronavirus-faqs-is-a-homemade-mask-effective-and-whats-the-best-way-to-wear-one
"Do masks confer any other benefits?
"Masks can also function as an important visual cue, says Joseph Allen, an assistant professor of exposure and assessment science at Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
They're a "reminder that we need to be taking these precautions and serve as a reminder to people to keep that 6-foot buffer," he says. "It should be seen as a badge of honor. If I'm wearing a mask out in public, it means I'm concerned about you, I'm concerned about my neighbors, I'm concerned about strangers on the chance that I'm infectious. I want to do my part in limiting how I might impact you."
Klompas agrees — and says that it can also give the wearer a welcome sense of security.
"It feels like you're behind a shield," he says, "and I think that in itself can be reassuring."
And for the others around you, it's a warning. "It says: Watch out. There's a public health crisis right now, there's a virus going around, we need to be on top guard," says Klompas. "I think it can actually be a reinforcer, a reminder of the state of crisis that we face in society."
That terrible history of Honor Badges:
Wear it With Pride, The Yellow Badge
Juedische Rundschau, April 4, 1933 (Jewish Virtual Library)
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wear-it-with-pride
"The Jew who denies his Judaism is no better a citizen than his fellow who avows it openly. It is shameful to be a renegade, but as long as the world around us rewarded it, it appeared an advantage. Now even that is no longer an advantage. The Jew is marked as a Jew. He gets the yellow badge.
A powerful symbol is to be found in the fact that the boycott leadership gave orders that a sign with a yellow badge on a black background was to be pasted on the boycotted shops. This regulation is intended as a brand, a sign of contempt. We will take it up and make of it a badge of honor."
Once upon a time, long, long ago, as far back as...August, 2019, we knew masked faces were terrible for the health of a society. So terrible that they were banned in public!!
International Law (Pre-2020). Broadly known as the "Burqa Ban's. But applied to all facial coverings - including masks! Unobstructed faces deemed especially important in public settings, like public transportation:
2014
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/01/france-burqa-ban-upheld-human-rights-court
"Judges at the European court of human rights (ECHR) have upheld France's burqa ban, accepting Paris's argument that it encouraged citizens to "live together".
The law, introduced in 2010, makes it illegal for anyone to cover their face in a public place...the law was not aimed at the burqa or veil but any covering of the face in a public place...
...The European judges decided...that the preservation of a certain idea of "living together" was the "legitimate aim" of the French authorities.
Isabelle Niedlispacher, representing the Belgian government, which introduced a similar ban in 2011 and which was party to the French defence, declared both the burqa and niqab "incompatible" with the rule of law.
Aside from questions of security and equality, she added: "It's about social communication, the right to interact with someone by looking them in the face and about not disappearing under a piece of clothing."
The French and Belgian laws were aimed at "helping everyone to integrate", Niedlispacher added."
2019 (Just months before masked were made mandatory)
https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2019-08-27/netherlands-burqa-ban-enters-into-force/
"On August 1, 2019, the “Act Partially Prohibiting Face-Covering Clothing,”also known as the “Burqa Ban,” entered into force in the Netherlands. The Act prohibits the wearing of clothing that completely or partially conceals the face in spaces where people are expected to communicate with each other. Thus, face-covering clothing is banned on public transportation and in educational, governmental, and nursing care institutions, but is still allowed in such public spaces as on train platforms. The ban applies to burqas, niqabs, full-face helmets, balaclavas, and masks, but not to headscarves."
The Courts had it right pre-pandemic.
So, what exactly is the science behind masking? Behavioral Science!! Not medical science. The science of symbols that provoke a behavioral change desired by authorities. Authorities diagnosed the public as suffering from "Optimism Bias.":
What Is Optimism Bias, And How Is It Affecting Our Response To The Pandemic?
Optimism Bias Is Psychological Tendency To Assume Bad Things Won't Happen To Us
Wisconsin Public Radio, January 6, 2021
https://www.wpr.org/what-optimism-bias-and-how-it-affecting-our-response-pandemic
And since we were "suffering" from "optimism bias" authorities prescribed "fear amplification" to treat us:
Of Snakes and Faces, the Psychology of Fear:
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, November 19, 2009
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00784.x
"The prefrontal influence on facial as well as other channels of emotional expression helps to maintain conflicts at a symbolic level, where the relative strength of the combatants can be evaluated from more or less convincing displays of power and submissiveness, which prevents escalating the conflict into an actual fight that might result in injuries to the participants.
A substantial part of the signaling action in conflicts between individuals centers on the faces of the parties measuring their relative strength. As recognized by Darwin (1872/1998), the design of the face suggests that it has evolved as a means of communication. The facial muscles are unique in their function by primarily moving dermal tissue rather than body limbs, producing coordinated changes in the visual appearance of the face. The basic human facial displays are similar to those of other primates, but the human face has a more complex musculature than that of other primates, with a more versatile neural innervation, suggesting that the human ability to communicate by the face is better developed than that of our primate relatives"
...
"Morris, Öhman, and Dolan (1999) traced the direct thalamic route to the amygdala by examining connectivity between sensory areas and the amygdala during masked stimulation by a conditioned angry face. Supporting the LeDoux (1996) direct route concept to the amygdala, they reported that amygdala activation was related to activation of the midbrain superior colliculus and the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus.
Further support for the idea that the amygdala can be activated without cortical involvement was reported by Morris, DeGelder, Weiskrantz, and Dolan (2001). They presented pictures of fearful faces that could not be recognized because they were presented in blind cortical fields of a patient with blindsight. Nevertheless, masked faces resulted in activation of the amygdala, thus supporting the low road concept by demonstrating amygdala activation in the absence of cortical processing of the stimulus (see Öhman et al., 2007, for a review of the empirical status of the low-road concept)."
FF - The Science (TM) of masks: Fear. Amygdala fight, flight, freeze response. Selected for this very reason. To amplify fear (aka terrorize) so we'd stay apart and obey authority, cure us of our "optimism bias."
Masks on faces are symbols, speech, the oldest form of speech, one doesn't even need to be literate to understand symbols. And symbols are inherently divisive. Symbols designate an "us" vs "them," As any sports team mascot is. Or flag. Or religious symbol like a cross or Star of David.
Like "Honor Badges." Saying, "Be afraid, danger is around us, be very, very afraid." The corollary being a free face saying "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Dangerous speech because it contradicts the epidemiologists chosen NPI of fear. Parents kicked off planes because a mask below their baby's face didn't have a symbol on it that amplified fear. Denied access to life, food, medicine, entertainment, denied our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for not wearing a symbol, for not saying, "I am fearful and you must be, too! Because I care!"
Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt has been rolling in his grave since 2020.
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses"