Opinion by Samuel Strait – March 22, 2022 While driving through town yesterday, I could not help but notice a group of young, fit women walking towards the "Y" along highway 101, all maskless but one. It was clear they knew one another as they were talking as they walked North. It was with great difficulty that I suppressed my urge to laugh out loud as the masked up woman who no doubt felt virtuous outside showing off her political correctness with the mask she never needed to wear. Seniors, the people with a large amount of extra weight, or those whose immune systems were failing might have an excuse for the idiotic behavior displayed by the young woman. It is altogether humorous, yet, sad for such a person to be so enslaved by her politics, that mask wearing is the only way she can broadcast to the world that she is unable to set aside her political religion. Nearly everywhere else masks have been dispensed with and the science has remained the same before Covid, and now after. As comical as those that remain bound to the silliness that mask wearing has become, there remains a shrinking group of useful idiots that cling to the statement being made by their failure to reveal their faces in a world that is now for them in Covid porn chaos. This young, fit, and healthy human being is wearing her mask like a shield against anything that distorts her world view, no matter how ridiculous. It continues to validate her view of the world no matter how much the world has gone off and left her and many others wondering when the draconian, dictators will return and demand those that freed themselves to mask up. Order restored… The masked have become like a tribe all occupying the same political tent waiting breathlessly for the masking to resume so they might say "I told you so, it is not over yet, look at me". While hilarious and entertaining, I often wonder just how long the charade will last. Or will the "safety squad" return and put their collective foot down at the slightest excuse to do so. After all, things like freedom, personal choice, and individualism are only for the dweebs that populate the Walmart parking lot in less than sensible shoes. They are the "white supremacists", racists, and xenophobic haters that show up at school board meetings protesting against Critical Race Theory, Marxist educators, and the garbage that passes for education. The mask is a symbol insisted on by Teacher's unions and other mask wears that affirms that they are continuing to "fight the just cause". Masks have been off for most of the rest of the nation for months, if not for an entire year. Here on the West Coast and other "blue states" we are barely beginning to transition to a maskless society, yet a surprising number of people continue to wear their face decoration as if to say we are not ready to give up our power to coerce and dictate to the remainder of the world that does not share our politics. The message by the masked is that they are on board with what has transpired over the last fourteen months where inflation has gone crazy, gasoline is at $7 and $8 per gallon in San Francisco and Los Angeles, set to go higher. They are overjoyed with rising crime, a flood of illegal immigrants on our Southern Boarder, and the Biden foreign policy that resulted in the catastrophe of Afghanistan, and now the Ukraine. They revel in gender dysphoria where women's sports have been destroyed by trans men and feminism has become speechless in the face of "there are certain things that distinguish men from women". Sports in the glaring spotlight of reality happens to be one of them….. It remains unclear when the bubble of the past two years will finally burst for those that continue to hide behind masks, hopefully sooner rather than later. I think it will be much harder for those that held sway over the masses for the bulk of the pandemic to reinsert their political will now that all sorts of messaging has burst through the gates of Media narratives and censorship by social media. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the CDC and the FDA have largely been exposed as political players who follow the will of Washington DC. Many in the medical community and academia will find it far more difficult to be trusted with the Nation's health and safety going forward. Opposition to control freaks on the left has now become a national sport, that will not die quite as easily this time around. Much of America is "over" being frightened by the crazed leftists in this Country and wish to get on with their lives in a free and nannyless state……