'Strongly Encouraged' Segregation & Intimidation
Mayor Breea Clark Wants A Segregated Norman For A Reason.
Two questions, Norman, Oklahoma:
How many people do you know that have left Norman city limits in the last year and a half?
What does it mean to “strongly encourage” something?
Hold on to the answer to the first question, we will get to that one later.
The answer to question number two depends on who is delivering that ‘strong encouragement’ and why. In the case of the Norman City Council’s upcoming vote to “strongly encourage” masking, the intent behind the two word phrase has a nothing to do with a concern for public health. Mayor Clark is pushing a statistically useless and toothless social mandate. A mandate designed to create government induced peer-pressure to Segregate (to identify), Intimidate, and Extricate the Norman citizens who do not share her regressive, discriminatory, and dogmatic beliefs.
Why? Preserving and increasing power.
Quoting Reese Goreman for the Norman Transcript:
“The Norman City Council is set to vote on a resolution Tuesday that would “strongly encourage” Norman residents to adhere to the guidance put forth by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention by wearing a mask and getting vaccinated, though no official mask mandate is on the horizon.”
Clark has an extensive history of promoting and exploiting divisive issues that statistically are not actual issues in Norman. She usually justifies this based upon confidential resident “requests” or from the occasional screaming crowd in the dead of night, made up largely of activist residents of other cities.
When it comes to a divisive issue, it is hard to beat Covid - and if you ask Mayor Clark about why she thinks this is, she will undoubtedly repeat a reason including one or more of the following: ‘Crazy, racist, science denying, murderous, white supremacist, insurrectionist, sexist, homophobic, colonist, alt-right crazies.’ Because only those kinds of people would be stupid enough to dare question the infallible CDC, am I right?
What we must all remember is that career medical administration experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, and OU Health’s chief quality officer Dr. Dale Bratzler, are not elected officials, they are advisers who report data gathered by other scientists. As such, they are charged with a specific purpose - to give advice on policy, as it pertains to their field.
Advice. That’s it.
And as we can see countless times throughout history - including very recent history - just because an expert is employed by a government or advises government officials, does not mean that the advice they give is right, or what is best for the population as a whole. Make no mistake, like Biden and other Blue Anon, Branch Covidian’s, Clark hides behind “ta science” and “ta experts” to shield herself from shouldering responsibility from the consequences of her decisions.
We must also remember that science, in its purist and most affective form, is an analytical mechanism for challenging popular beliefs and even the most informed scientific assumptions. If you were wiping off your groceries a year ago and aren’t today, you have experienced the numbing panic-whiplash of popular beliefs and informed scientific assumptions. And when it comes to public policy - yes, even public health policy - the persons who are supposed to be chiefly responsible for questioning those informed assumptions are our elected officials.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical expert, but neither is Mayor Clark.
Yet only the result of her comparable medical ignorance will receive high marks for moral virtue, while mine will undoubtedly lead to one of the above aforementioned social pejoratives. Why? My brand of ignorance leads to more questions, while Mayor Clark’s ignorance leads to the blind acceptance of the opinions of unchecked, and unelected government approved medical experts. But there is a reason we don’t require a medical degree to hold elected office. As Mayor, it is Clark’s job to weigh total costs and benefits when she is crafting and promoting city policy. And let me be clear - she is doing just that.
It’s just that the cost she is willing to make Norman pay is for her benefit, and the benefit of her worldview - and that cost it far too high given the actual level of danger that Covid presents to an increasingly more vaccinated Oklahoma.
Lest I be accused of science denial, let’s look at some data on the efficacy of masks mandates. The prevailing world data is compelling; masks and mask mandates do very little to prevent the spread of COVID-19. There are no fewer than 32 studies showing that regular mask wearing can cause both physical and psychological harm - a serious issue that affects literally every citizen of Norman, yet never seems to make it into consideration in Mayor Clark’s public health policies.
And let’s not forget these undisputed facts:
Getting Covid does not mean you will die of Covid. In fact, the data shows you probably won’t, especially if you are vaccinated. According to John’s Hopkins University as of August 20, 2021 - which includes combined data from a mostly un-mask-mandated Oklahoma and before the vaccination was rate was 51% - if you live in Cleveland County, you have an 98.69% chance overall of surviving Covid, without continuing symptoms if you get it at all. Which is actually a higher survival rate than the national average of 97.0%.
Of the 34,799 confirmed cases of Covid in Cleveland County, there have been 457 deaths, total. Since the beginning of the pandemic. With 80% + of those deaths coming from the 70+ age with one or more severe co-morbidities, according to the CDC.
And all of those tragic deaths notwithstanding, the 7 day average for Covid deaths in Cleveland County as of August 20, 2021, was 0. It was the same the week before and has NEVER risen above 13, and that was in May of 2020, before vaccines.
All of this inconvenient truth aside, none of this is about Covid. The level of Covid danger clearly does not warrant useless mask mandates. This is about power. The experts are just the political insurance Mayor Clark needs to get more of what will keep her in power come February - votes.
(Side note question: Has anyone ever asked how it could possibly benefit OU to have the Norman City Council and Mayoral elections in February?)
Mayor Clark will have an un-punishable scapegoat when - much like with your sanitized groceries - enough evidence comes to light to definitively show that mask mandates are useless. You can bet that like Susan Rice before her, no matter what comes out later about the efficacy of mask mandates, you can trust that Rochelle Walensky will end up as Health Secretary or Vaccine Passport Czar in a future Democratic Administration. And if Pete Buttiege is any indication, our own Mayor Clark may well end up in a similar position, a reward for blindly taking her advice. But that is the gift that the CDC keeps on giving to leftist officials all over the country. ‘I mean, what else could Mayor Clark do? The experts told her mask mandates worked, and she is not a medical expert. She did the best she could with the information she was given.’
The buck stops over there.
Remember question number one from the top?
Be honest with yourself, how many of you and/or people you know have left Norman in the last year and a half to move to Moore, or further away because of the mask mandates and Defund the Police? Of those who didn’t move, how many seriously considered it? How many of you or your friends who didn’t moved would escape to Moore to shop, eat in a restaurant, or just avoid having to go out in Norman? How many probably won’t put up with another mask mandate for themselves and their children from now to February or God forbid, next summer?
How many are going to be willing to deal with mask segregation in schools, and the pain, anger, and strife that will cause your children?
Then, ask yourself this: what did Mayor Clark get from the divisive Norman Defund the Police Act?
The old guard police in the department retired in unprecedented numbers, as soon as possible.
Like minded, younger police officers left for departments in other cities, or just left and/or changed careers completely.
This left a larger group of younger police officers who didn't have the option or opportunity to move or change careers because they have a family to support, so they are forced to go along to get along.
Then, she got the police to agree to DEI inspired “equity” trainings, in partnership with OU DEI, making the likelihood of a dissenter applying or staying in the department, much less probable.
A collective sigh of relief when hundreds of thousands of dollars from the central fund was used to create a virtue signaling pet project, a project that was better accepted because the council moved the funding source from the police department budget at the last moment.
This has all led to increased chances of institutional uniformity to her ideological viewpoint, in the city’s highest funded and powerful department.
What will that mean for you when she brings the mask mandates back? Or if businesses start requiring vaccine passports?
This may come as a shock, but Mayor Clark got an even bigger gift than all of that from the valiant, yet failed effort to recall her. She got free opposition voter data - broken down by Ward - down to name and street addresses of at least ten thousand conservative minded voters who did not vote in the last election. She got to peer into an opposition funded crystal ball to see the max number of votes that she will need to overtake, replace, and/or suppress, in order to win re-election.
In other words, Mayor Clark has your number. Literally.
Now ask yourself, what did Norman get from all of that? Has there been any talk about the statistical change in crime or police violence since its passage? I mean, it has been more that a year since the council defunded the police and we have seen no proof to show that the largely non-existent problem of police violence against people of color in Norman has gotten better since then. Nope. All of those midnight protests have disappeared back to the cities from which they came. If there is in fact an epidemic of black people being hunted down, beaten, and killed in the streets by Norman Police Officers, as they claimed, shouldn’t there be still be protests?
All Norman got was, hatred, strife, anger, resentment, divisiveness - or in other words - Segregation. And if you think it was her fault, you are of course, a white supremacist.
Mayor Clark has seven months to help make Norman a place that the wrong kind of medical ignoramus cannot stand. The kind of inquisitive medical ignoramus who asks the question: ‘why are we separating our children with masks and distance, when Covid presents almost no statistical danger to children and an ever decreasing danger to the elderly, due to increased vaccinations?’
In terms of substance, the ‘strong encouragement’ council vote is a waste of time. It cannot be enforced. It can only be used by one side of this divisive chasm to bludgeon the other with. It is nothing more than weaponized government virtue signaling.
Whether it is DEI, medical mandates, or Defund the Police, “The Work” of extricating institutional power is always follows the same order of operation:
Segregate - Intimidate - Discriminate - Extricate - Dominate.
Mayor Clark wants to make Norman feel unlivable for anyone who might be able to put up a fight against her. Her ‘strongly encouraged’ mask guidance is designed to pit the citizens of Norman against each other, and the more useless the fight seems to you, the better for her. Because with you gone, Mayor Clark and President Harroz will be much closer to having what they want.
More Woke Power for Town and Gown.
Sources:
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex-and-Age/9bhg-hcku
https://bao.arcgis.com/covid-19/jhu/county/40027.html
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-
map/state/oklahoma/county/cleveland-county
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/
https://www.normantranscript.com/news/council-to-vote-on-resolution-encouraging-masks-vaccinations/article_c029ebba-037e-11ec-bec1-bfc74547aad5.html