By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – December 29, 2021 Looking around town lately and even behind the counters of many businesses, the current mask mandate no longer appears to be on many minds these days. More people are starting to wake up to the fact that being masking robots to be virtuous, or feel safe is about like wearing socks while swimming and expecting them to stay dry. Not much of a chance there. The State's "mask mandate" from December 15,2021 until January 15, 2022 does not find near as many takers who inhabit the governor's cow pasture while wearing their masks. Businesses are looking to get back to normal with the ability to look at the customer in the face without wondering whether or not this was a hold up. It has become almost tiresome to repeat that science does not find any value in masking to prevent transmission or reception of viruses. Numerous studies over the past two years have confirmed that little bit of information many times over. Similar to masking, there is no known distance that is completely safe from the same. Social distancing is a phony way for all the fraud peddlers to make you think you can avoid infection and that they are giving you "good" advice to prevent sickness. The Omicron variant of Covid-19 has pretty much relegated all government, media, and medical establishment propaganda to the trash bin. None of the commonly mandated "remedies" for Covid-19 work to prevent transmission or from having the virus infect. Recent announcements by Lord Fauci state clearly that if you haven't had the booster, you are not fully vaccinated. The problem with that statement, is, it is another lie by our Covid in Chief. 73% of all Omicron infections are vaccinated, many of them have had the booster. If it wasn't for the fact that the Omicron version is the relatively weak sister variant of Covid, we may have had "Ice Cream Cone" Joe Biden's version of a "winter of despair and death". Fortunately, that is not the case. The current effort by the spin masters is to say hospitals are over run and we continue to have large numbers of infections, but hospitalizations often result in Omicron infection post admittance and the death rate from Omicron thus far is non existent. Many people seeking treatment from having been tested are admitted and often released in the same day. Crowding continues at hospitals from the over riding fear of the virus that has been imprinted on many Americans by media hysteria on the evening news. It hasn't stopped with the new Omicron variant. Much of the recent flood of Covid patient are normally admitted and released because they have no symptoms or are only mildly affected. This is the mental mania that has been created first with masking, social distancing, hand washing, and lockdowns, now with vaccines, two doses then three. What next, pills for every American to take daily? People need to understand that even if you accept the fraudulent numbers posted by John Hopkins and other media sources, in two years less that ten percent of the entire population of the United States has tested positive for SAR-COV-2. Without masks, social distancing and lockdowns, the flu has reached about the same number of infections every year for many decades. It is irrational to continue with this charade now that the Omicron variant has literally destroyed the mainstream narrative about Covid. Time for the rest of the sheep to come out of the cow pasture.