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Melbourne — The Victorian Premier turned up for his weekend delivery of coronavirus infections, gruffly delivering the news.  It has become grim if compelling viewing: the announcement about the next spike in coronavirus infections, the next gruesome statistical spread on transmission.  On Sunday, Daniel Andrews had a pose that has become legend, a cross between plasticine figure and instructive despair.  Stern, humourless, with little to be humour filled about, his role of late is telling people what to do.  With stern command he had a message: All those in the state of Victoria,

Personality is persona, a mask…The mask is magic…Larva means mask; or ghost…it also means mad, a case of demoniacal possession.
– Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body, 1966

I bet Trump wishes he could gracefully back down from his utterly boneheaded, pointless, dysfunctional position on masks. But he's not the kind of person who can admit he was wrong. Over tech weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Caitlin McCabe, Face Masks Really Do Matter. The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.

Every pollster or prognosticator who concludes that Trump has no path to victory says something to the effect of "but it's a long time until November 3 and things can change." Well, things will change. You don't have to be Nostradamus to figure out that if Trump keeps doing what he's been doing or his whole life, Wyoming, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Mississippi will eventually be battleground states. Yes, things change but there is no reason to imagine that they will change in favor of Trump and the GOP.

I never thought I’d see the day when publicly wearing a muzzle would constitute a proof of virtue in the same country whose government, less than twenty years ago, rationalized the bloody invasion of Afghanistan as a way of saving women from veiling their faces.

Georgia was one of the early, hard-hit states in the pandemic. But unlike other early states, Georgia is led by a right-wing ideologue, Brian Kemp, who learned nothing at all about public health and seems to care no a whit about the residents of his state. While the coronavirus is under control in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and the other early states, Georgia's pandemic is bigger than ever.Wednesday, Georgia reported the 4th biggest one-day new cases in the country, right below Texas, Florida and California-- and worse off than Arizona!

I doubt Senor Trumpanzee and his Death Cult are going to be happy about this, but in a JAMA interview yesterday, CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield said and wrote that universal masking would stop the pandemic. "I really do believe that if the American public all embraced masking now... rigorously... over the next 4-8 weeks we could bring this epidemic under control.

It has been announced that the wearing of face masks in shops will be compulsory from 24 July. This will make it intolerable for maskaphobes.

Incredibly, the issue of masks has become a partisan political issue in America. Are people reacting to a genuine threat to public health, or are they simply reacting to a constant stream of government-media medical propaganda?

Why have government health officials like Anthony Fauci and the W.H.O. been sending the public mixed messages?
Valuetainment’s Patrick Bet-David reviews some of the mainstream research and reasoning behind wearing masks. Watch:

by NoahThat's one small mask for a man. One smaller man who's trying to kill us all.Once we found out that Trump's Moscow-based handler was paying bounties to the Taliban for the corpses of U.S.