That is interesting, if the police backed off if they felt they had a legitimate reason to interfere with what was going on in the church. It is said the church had already violated regulations, a number of times. And church members in the video are not wearing masks.
If the police are that concerned, they need to play by the book, and get a warrant. The fact that they left with their tails between their legs is a strong indicator that the law was not on their side. As I've said before, this is about police looking for easy targets (including people who don't know their rights), and it's happening all over the world in relation to COVID policing.
I would say yes. But I don't feel it is much of a sacrifice to wear a mask so others are safe around me and they can come out safely.
I'm happy to wear a mask indoors, if it makes other people feel safer, although I'm not convinced that masks make much difference. I think the main reason masks are being pushed is to condition people to accept restrictions, by starting with small restrictions such as masks, before moving onto huge restrictions that would have been unthinkable if people hadn't already been trained and softened up to be obedient using masks and other restrictions first.
Certainly here in the UK, we've had an entire year of the government manipulating the public into giving up all our freedoms. Every single oppressive measure starts off being a rumour, and is then quickly downplayed as un-British, unnecessary, or whatever, by some government minister. Then, lo and behold, after a month or so, it is official government policy, becomes law, and we all have to do it (that's how the mask mandate began). Slowly getting people used to having their freedoms removed is their modus operandi.
Are you aware that for the last 3 months, it's been illegal for British people to leave their home, except for a short list of permissible reasons? And even before that, we'd already endured several months of severe restrictions. Many people had been unable to see their grand children and other relatives. And elderly people in care homes died of dementia due to lack of contact with friends and family. A lot of people are very unhappy about all of that, and the fact that the police are now often little more than the government's uniformed bullies.
We've also had to endure endless government gas lighting, and endless carrot and stick tactics, whereby the carrot is dangled, but never gets any closer because the government keeps moving the goalposts for what we have to do before we can have any freedom or relaxation of restrictions. In short, we've been lied to repeatedly and deceived on a massive scale. If the government was a spouse, their behaviour of the last year would be considered domestic abuse, and the abused partner would be urged to get a divorce from their abusive spouse ASAP.
I'm also concerned about the long term effect of masks on society. God gave us all a unique identity, and our faces are a huge part of that. He also intended us to be social creatures with expressive faces. Covering faces with masks is a denial of our God-given unique identity and our social nature.
But if you drive unsafely, you may be prosecuted, even if it is not your intention to kill and maim people because of your drunk driving.
It is understood that unsafe behavior can result in killing people with the COVID.
That is a fair comment. But it all hinges on whether masks are effective. I gather that there has been some peer reviewed research published indicating that masks don't really help much, but of course it hardly sees the light of day, and is largely ignored by the MSM because it doesn't fit the narrative.
If children were the primary victims, being killed in the hundreds of thousands, would you feel ok with going around without a mask if masks could help to cut the killing of children?
But that is not what is happening. Here in the UK, the average age of a COVID death is greater than average life expectancy. Of course some younger people have died, nobody is denying that. However,
there have been some particularly nasty strains of flu from time to time, that killed some young people, such as in 2018, but nobody wore masks or locked down the country over that. And as Christians, we accept that the vessels we were gifted for our time on earth are mortal and temporary. The idea that we can eliminate all COVID deaths is a secular point of view. I'll also add that 'Think of the children!' is a logical fallacy that is known as an 'appeal to emotion'.
