You're way more likely to die of heart disease than COVID but I don't see any great push by Walmart for people to eat better. They sell a lot of unhealthy foods. And how can we possibly continue to drive our cars when there's a 1 in 103 chance you'll die? Higher odds than COVID. Obesity way more dangerous than COVID but I don't see Walmart taking any measures to stop people from eating like hogs. And the big winner is, tobacco.  Walmart still selling all the tobacco products you can buy. When was the last time states, businesses, churches, schools were shut down for the flu. Still way more deadly that COVID. 

Private business have every right to put any demands on their customers they want too. So why this madness about masks all of a sudden? It has nothing to do with protecting your health or the health of their associates. It's all about their liability. Sooner or later, the lawsuits will start to fly from people claiming they got the COVID from Walmart or one of the other big retailers who are now requiring masks. If the state or feds would pass liability protections for businesses, a lot of the crazy stuff would end.

Isn't requiring a mask four months after a pandemic started a little like using birth control after your wife's three months pregnant. Face it, it's likely we're all going to get the COVID before it's over. There's no way to stop it.

Every day there are new, legitimate stories of those in charge, cooking the books on the positive tests and deaths related to COVID. How can you believe anything being reported? Did you read the one in Florida where the guy was killed in a motorcycle wreck yet reported as a COVID death? When confronted, the doctor replied, who's to say he didn't have COVID. Then the guy here in middle Tennessee who received a call that his test was positive, yet he had never even taken the test.

Politically, the crazy left wingers that love government control, are really excited to see how easy it has been to force people to give up their rights and even control your lives and behaviors with fear. Don't for a minute think this will be the last time this tactic will be used. There's way more politics involved here than anything else.

And for all you mask bullies out there, do you really believe that mask you're wearing is doing any good at all? Check out the picture above of the guy after sanding sheetrock. Sheetrock particles are 100 times larger than the virus particles. You're fooling yourself if you think most of the masks that are being used are doing anything? Might keep you from sneezing on someone but every time you touch your face where the sneeze of cough slobbers are then touch a surface, you've just passed your juices along.

Big picture, if wearing a face diaper makes you feel better, so be it.

The big question is, just how long will the masks be needed? Forever or just till the November election is over? I bet I know.

Op-Ed: Complying with Tyranny on Masks Will Bring on More Tyranny, Not Less

By Karen Kataline westernjournal.com The left has sprinted past what we previously thought was a line in the sand between personal freedom and forced state dictates for personal behavior.

The breach of that boundary has led to numerous other fundamental rights crumbling to dust along with our historical monuments.

There is still time to restore those boundaries and our rights but only if we start telling the truth en masse and defying unjust edicts from lawless lawmakers.

Sadly, we can no longer expect that there will be enough lawful lawmakers to protect our liberties. We must protect them ourselves.

Coronavirus is still being used as an excuse to crack down on our freedoms despite false projections that even the CDC dramatically ratcheted down months ago.

Democratic governors and other politicians are refusing to relinquish the “emergency powers” they have awarded to themselves that allowed them to continue lockdowns and restrict businesses.

As if they somehow thought of it independently, they continue to act simultaneously to tighten their demands and micromanage our lives. They have now moved from suggesting to demanding that we all, no matter our health, risk level, or opinion, be forced to wear masks in public.

What a perfect and ever-present reminder that we are not in charge of our lives. They are.

Even weak-willed Republicans like Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas have become lost in this masquerade.

To leftists, it doesn’t matter whether masks work or make sense. It only matters that they have been a wildly successful tool for obedience training in collectivism for Americans. Socialism can’t take hold without it.

Both the secret and the avowed socialists among us are engaged in an all-out battle to punish America for being built on individualism and for flourishing because of a Constitution that was created to protect it.

While Democratic tacticians have their Democratic politicians ramping up threats of fines and jail time for refusing to wear a mask, they’re also pushing the idea that masks are “cool.” There is a whole new cottage industry marketing masks as an opportunity to make a “signature” fashion statement.

There’s nothing quite like superficial individuality to “mask” one’s prostration to serfdom and conformity.

Savvy watchers of the left were suspicious early on when they noticed a familiar leftist tactic being warmed up and served for public consumption. They went to work making it socially acceptable to vilify dissenters and brand them as selfish. They rush to reward it.

How dare anyone question the efficacy of masks or the use of bullying and intimidation to force Americans to comply? How dare anyone care about their own personal freedom and the freedom of their fellow citizens, even those too ignorant or complacent to care? “We’re in the middle of a pandemic!” they self-righteously scold.

Masks create further alienation and suspicion between friends, neighbors and business associates. They muzzle us while helping snitches to easily identify dissenters.

We have seen how deadly the combination of collectivism and social bullying can be. It can often lead to mob rule and violence. At that point, politicians don’t have to worry about enforcing their unconstitutional orders. The mob does it for them.

Masks also blur the lines between criminals and law-abiding citizens. We are indistinguishable from antifa and other groups who now commit heinous crimes in plain sight and with impunity. The backward subliminal message is that masked people are law-abiding and unmasked people are criminals.

After watching the same Democratic politicians refuse to impose their own orders on rioters, looters and vandals, their credibility is lower than the fatality rate of the coronavirus.

In light of such a blatant dereliction of duty to protect their innocent constituents, they still have the chutzpah to claim that it is compassion that compels them to order us to wear masks.

The good news is that a growing number of people believe that these suffocating orders are ridiculous and even dangerous. The bad news is that most still only whisper it in muffled tones behind their cloth masks.

As we have seen, complying with the orders of authoritarians only brings more authoritarianism. Masks will continue to be a major battleground on which we can beat it back.

Previously polite, law-abiding citizens must unmask themselves and let their voices be heard. Unlike their oppressive opposition, they have little interest in vilifying those who choose to wear a mask for their own reasons.

In the 1982 film “Gandhi,” Ben Kingsley portrayed Gandhi as saying, “100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.”

It’s time to stop cooperating.