"Mask wearing is not about stopping the transmission of a virus. It is,
instead, about much more. Masking is about control and coercion, it is
about psychological manipulation and conditioning, and it has a
religious component, something that has been addressed by The New
American already and that will be the subject of additional scrutiny in
the future. But masks are also about identifying, classifying, and
separating people: specifically those who are now controlled or willing
to be controlled, and those independent and freedom-loving Americans
hold fast to the Jeffersonian ideals of 1776 who cannot be controlled.
For the latter, those now identified by the researchers cited by
Newsweek as having the "Dark Triad†traits, it is about dehumanization
and demonization.â€