In WW2 the government did nonsense things like selling war bonds, asking people to collect scrap metal etc. A great example is New York's dimouts.lol of course the CDC just reversed its stance, and yet they wonder why people don't trust them or take them seriously.
I'm starting to think a lot of people LOVE being told what to do and have some weird emotional fetish for rules, mandates, and virtue signaling. it's the only explanation I can think of for why so many people seem to get off on how "good" they are for following The Ever-Changing Goalposts of the Science.
Flashback: NYC's War Time Dimouts
In the 1940s New York City went dark, with defense officials realizing that New York's glow was a big threat after Pearl Harbor.
gothamist.com
"Dimouts were the best and most easily achieved defense: New York's began on May 18, 1942, and lasted until 1945. All illuminated advertising had to be shut off permanently. Theaters were allowed faint outside lights, but only on the undersides of their marquees to guide patrons leaving and entering. At home any lamp visible outdoors had to beam downward. Anyone living above the fifteenth floor of as skyscraper with lights visible from the sea had to douse them or hid them behind black out curtains.
Yes the government ordered black outs to make life harder for enemy bombers. The fact neither the Japanese or Germans had the capability of bombing the American mainland in 1942 let alone 1945, was besides the point. The aim was to focus the public away from helplessness to feeling they were 'doing their part' for the war effort, even if what they were doing was pointless and retarded.
Masks are proven to be completely useless at stopping transmission of viruses outside of very controlled environments were N95 or P100 respirators that can be used properly by trained professionals.

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health …
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This study was published SEVEN months ago and conclusively proves that whether you wear or mask or don't wear a mask makes no difference to Covid transmission. But governments all over the world insist their citizens wear them. I have agency and I'm empowered because I wear a mask, I'm doing my part to fight Covid. It's psychology 101.
God damn this one makes my blood boil, because they did this to all of the stores in my town. They closed off all of the doors except 1 at a time, and everyone's forced to use it for entry and exit. There's a fucking CVS near my house that had 2 sets of automatic doors -- an entrance and an exit. Get this: they closed the 2nd door, and force everyone to use the 1st door -- but they disabled the automatic functionality of the door, and instead we're manually forced to open the door with our hands!!! There's a sign on the door which says something like "Due to Covid restrictions, the automatic door has been disabled, please open with your hands" whilst the 2nd door remains locked shut.
This is retarded beyond all logical comprehension.
Most retarded thing that's happened to me was when I was in a hardware store about a year ago. They put signs up limiting the number of people allowed per aisle, because reasons. But even better they'd split the aisle in two with tape, 2 people on one side an 2 on the other. I wandered past a dude who was waiting at the end of the aisle to buy some nails and he went ape shit.
"What the fuck are you doing! Can't you see I'm waiting in line for the aisle to clear? You mother fucker! You trying to kill people."
There was only 2 people in the aisle but I'd gone down the wrong side. I stepped one foot to the other side, and he was like "yeah that's better, don't try that shit again"
Goes without saying he was a boomer.
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