The link I never click
Does anyone ever send you a link and just tell you to watch it?
“Watch this:”
No other words. Then they send a link to a 67-minute video.
No chance I watch that.
Does anyone ever text you from a number you don’t even have saved and that you have never received a text message from saying:
“More importantly:
Go immediately to 1:10 1 hr 10 min mark in Steve Bannon War Room of today:“ and then send a link with it?
That’s an actual text message I got this past week.
At least he sent a time stamp.
“From whom?” you ask.
I have no idea.
If my own mother sent that to me without a description, I wouldn’t click on it. But, of course, my mother would never send me such a message.
“And why?” you ask.
Because she values my time. And my parents raised me to value my time. She would, at least, take five seconds to write me a sentence of context on why I should click and watch.
Does that stop her from sending me things?
No.
It stops her from pretending like she is entitled to my time.
Which is why, every time I press send on an email to my readers, I ask myself, “Is this really worth interrupting someone’s day over?”
I will never send anything that a friend would not want to hear if we were in the middle of something else important, and I said, “Got a minute for me to share something with you?”
Almost a year ago, as I was writing Face Masks Hurt Kids, I was surrounded by people who had received a few hundred links over the previous year on how bad face masks are. I was also surrounded by people who had received a few hundred links over the previous year on how good face masks are. Both groups likely describe people you know. Yet neither of these groups had any of that information very well organized.
You would think the mask-nazis would at least have their side of the argument organized, seeing that they forced nearly all of society into them, but about that you would be wrong.
So, I decided to sit down and organize all the studies, all the unique anecdotes, all the historical records, and to answer the question: “If all those studies were analyzed alongside each other, what would we clearly see about the net impact of mask wearing?”
The answer is this: We clearly see the harm that a face mask does to a person is abundant and the benefit non-existent. I ended up with about 800 citations in the book.
I hope to one day come out with a book on all the good done by a face mask. It will be a much more slender edition.
Though, Face Masks Hurt Kids is 500 pages long, it can be read and understood in twenty minutes. The chapter titles are there to give you a compact talking point. The titles are also there to help you organize what you already know. And if you need more information on the topic, you have the full chapter to choose to dig into. It is definitely not a book meant to be read front to back (trust me, since that is something I have done some 40 times now).
It is a book written primarily for people who already understand the harm of the mask and want to see the science of the mask, just in case anyone comes along and tries pushing them around — which is continuing to happen.
Truthfully, though, you do not even need that. You just need to be able to bravely say “No!” each and every time. If you need some training wheels on that, Face Masks in One Lesson is for that. But don’t get too comfy in training wheels.
If we are going to get through this mess, we need to understand some basic principles for getting through messes
1.) You are the leader in your life, there is no person more worthy to turn to than you.
2.) You are the leader in your home, there is no person more worthy to turn to than you
3.) You are the leader in your community, there is no person more worthy to turn to than you.
If, through that process, you somehow come across a righteous lion who disagrees with you on who the real boss is, then get back to me. That is a good problem to have.
I wish such a problem for you — since, it will mean we are further along on the rebuilding process than I realize.
The real problem of the era is a lack of decent values and a lack of courage to back that up.
Both are needed from you, dear warrior.
May you have a day filled with opportunities to exhibit both courage and values, and may you rise to that occasion.
Allan Stevo