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Masking for a friend: my response to a reader

When your only friend is very scared, what do you do?

Tessa Lena
Dec 06, 2023
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This story was inspired by an email from a reader. He asked for my thoughts on his circumstance, I was touched by his openness and decided to share my detailed thoughts as an article, with love (and please be kind, I am going to stand by my reader regardless of what I think about masks, it takes courage to be spiritually naked and spill one’s heart).

Here is what he said (sharing with his permission):

I have been an alternative health / health freedom type of thinker (as well as generally questioning-of-official-narratives) since 2009. So nothing that happened during 2020-21 particularly surprised me. From the very beginning I didn't waste a moment being afraid of the actual virus/illness, though I was quite concerned about what people's reaction to the fearmongering might lead them to do, and about being forced to be 💉'd (nothing made me feel more betrayed about having voted for Biden than when his administration tried to push through that m…

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