A few days ago I mentioned how masks among the services workforce has created a dangerous situation where a visible signifier of a lower class job seperates our society. Masks, regardless of their benefit or lack thereof, signify a lower importance, inferior social position for entry level workers. I don’t like it one bit!
This isn’t just from State or Federal regulation; which theoretically apply to everyone. It’s from corporations and applies largely to lower respect jobs. It’s a very local thing but I can and do go about my business without a mask. As I do, certain employees, as part of their job, have to watch me do what they can’t do. They’re getting sick of it. Corporations created a lower caste of people who are forced to wear a mask as part of their job. Workers are responding by quitting. Here’s a quote from that post:
…getting served by masked subservient (and almost universally female) servants feels hinky. It makes me nervous. It feels like they’re lower class and I’m upper and I hate the very idea of that!
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For the masked, a formal line is drawn and they’re clearly lesser beings than the unmasked freak driving the truck. I try to mumble “thank you” but they almost subconsciously have eyes averted like there’s something unclean about their job at the drive through.
The phrase “supply chain disruption” does not explain any of this.
I didn’t bother to find a photo to explain my concern. Today I stumbled across this:
Look at this image. It shows DOCTOR Jill Biden, the President’s wife. She’s receiving ceremonial delivery of the traditional Christmas tree. Do you see that she does not wear a mask? Do you see that everyone else in the photo does wear a mask. Do you see that the people operating the cart MUST wear a mask while the high social status wife of a prominent politician doesn’t? Do you see that a person in a military uniform (!) is wearing a mask while the high social status wife of a prominent politician doesn’t?
If masks are necessary because of a virus, why is the politician’s wife not wearing one?
If masks aren’t necessary because of a virus, why are the workers FORCED to wear one?
This is not good. If I were in a photo like this, I’d be embarrassed.
It’s a photo that shows different social classes forced/not-forced to wear a mask in a way which shows who is inferior and who is dominant. The society that existed just two years ago is better than the mess that DOCTOR Jill Biden, wife of a highly placed politician is clearly enjoying.
A.C.
P.S. Hat tip to American Digest.
P.S. Also a friendly nod to kind words from Nebraska Energy Observer.
P.S. Everyone says if they were magically transported to the past, they’d stand up against oppression in that era. What luck! We don’t need a time machine and the stakes are much lower. The servants of the wife of a highly placed politician are getting shit right now. It’s happening right in front of us. There’s nothing hidden. This is “just another day” to our red coated, unelected, serving in no official function, Marie Antoinette and you can see the same unfair treatment I see. DOCTOR Jill’s victims are right there; including a military person who’s technically willing to put their life on the line to defend the nation. It’s obviously not the same thing as a slaver with a whip, but it’s on the spectrum. Jill is right before our eyes separating a lower class from her higher and more important standing. The time to stamp it out is now.
I am surprised the HORSES are not wearing masks as well. At BOTH ends!!!
Remember that beer commercial from a few years ago?
The glorious horsefart beer commercial was a work of art.
The difference between a knights war horse and a dray horse is …
One darts into the fray, the other, well, you know what that on does! >};o)
I wonder if it got them any customers, however, or if instead it was like those Isuzu commercials? Now THOSE were truly “works of art!”
The young lady in uniform is out of uniform as she has no cover being outside
You mean she needs a hat?
Mike, there are tons of situations where it is permissible to be ‘outside’ and uncovered. Flight line operations, a set piece photograph (such as an A-school class graduation photo), a formal function or event held either outside or where transiting to and then attending the event in-doors would make storing of all the covers worn in from the parking lot burdensome (have done this both ways Many MANY times)… or where the wearing of covers would interfere with the general social demeanor expected of the attendees (who wants to walk around a wedding or service birthday ball saluting all the time?). In the case of the White House aides, they have special allowances. They (both males and females) are, in part, selected as much for their physical appearance as for their aptitude (you might have noted this in the picture above). The services recognize such placement is a tremendous recruiting tool with all the opportunities for bonus media exposure.. you’ll never see an.. ahem.. unsightly (out of shape, sloppy uniform, hung over looking, etc.) ‘nuclear football’ courier or White House Ball military usher. And the marine ceremonial guards at the West Wing doors are ALWAYS physical specimens. Without exception. The young LT being without her cover is firmly within her accepted and approved protocols (I assure you, SHE is WELL aware of when it is appropriate to be without said cranium adornment).