Peter Hitchens: Calls for a return of facemasks are about fear and control
We are already hearing wails for a return of facemasks and mandatory vaccinations, especially in light of the chaos out of China where its failed zero-covid lockdowns actually made things worse, not better, by preventing people from catching COVID and building up a natural immunity. Peter Hitchens, a columnist for the Daily Mail, recently responded to an editorial in The [London] Times, entitled ‘Wear a Mask, where the newspaper called for people to start wearing facemasks. “It is none of my business, and none of the Government’s business,” Hitchens writes. “What other people wear, on their faces or anywhere else (except for the needs of personal modesty).” “In return, I ask only that you do me the same favour, and do not urge me, let alone try to compel me, to don a garment which I think silly, pointless and politicised.” Hitchens believes this call for a return to facemasks is ultimately about fear and control. But he didn’t stop with just that, Hitchens then pointed to the mountain of evidence that showed that facemasks …