Another win for the statists who propagandized and want us to fear everything but marauding protesters.
The above thanks to Martin Hill who also notes:
Does this priest not even know, since he adheres to this mask hysteria, that his touching , rubbing & smearing his hands all over his mask, according to the CDC mask guidelines, he has completely contaminated both his hands and the mask. He now, according to protocol which he claims to believe in, must discard the mask entirely, & wash his hands with soap and water. I'm not making this up, you can download the PDF filed on the CDC website. That's the most insane thing about all this. They are so dumbed down that they don't read the actual medical studies or CDC manuals that outline all of this protocol very clearly, even with illustrated pictures that a 2nd-grader could understand.
Here's just a few facts about masks, straight from the CDC & NEJM. A brand new New England Journal of Medicine article points out: "We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. Focusing on universal masking alone may, paradoxically, lead to more transmission of Covid-19 if it diverts attention from implementing more fundamental infection-control measures...The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal.
In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic... fear and anxiety are better countered with data and education than with a marginally beneficial mask, particularly in light of the worldwide mask shortage, but it is difficult to get clinicians to hear this message in the heat of the current crisis."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
The World Health Organization just wrote on June 8: "the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider (see below)...the use of a mask alone is insufficient to provide an adequate level of protection". https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/332293/WHO-2019-nCov-IPC_Masks-2020.4-eng.pdf https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks
Please note: Although the priest is operating from church property and as a representative of the church can on PPS or libertarian grounds ask anyone to leave the property, it is still appropriate to object to the action---especially in this case when it promotes the desire of the state to instill fear and obedience.
In short, there is nothing wrong with pointing out that Father Thomas has become a useful idiot of the statists.
