Yes Mommy, NO Mommy: Masks, Shots and When Will it End?

A few years into the Global War on Terror, I was teaching a tactical course to a joint forces group of deploying warriors using Simunitions? (non-lethal training aids that shoot a higher velocity paintball out of specially converted duty weapons). My team was comprised of senior noncommissioned officers from Army Special Forces, Navy SEAL Teams, Large City SWAT and DEA and FBI trainers.?Four of my instructors were certified as Simunitions? instructors.?We utilized all the safety protocols.?The reality of Sims training is to address tactical judgment errors sometimes through pain: Sims rounds hurt when they hit unprotected body parts (groins and faces are protected).??

Halfway through the training a senior female officer – an O-6 – stalked into the training area and demanded we shut down the course because it was “unsafe.”??It appears that two of her subordinates complained that they had welts on their abdomens from round strikes.?In response I lifted my T-shirt to show her I had about a dozen welts on my torso. Secondly, I asked her if would rather have her students have welts here in training or sucking chest wounds in combat???It all went over her head as she was tunnel visioned on “safety.”??It should be added that she had zero competency or knowledge to even assess the safety factors at play.??It just felt “unsafe” to her, so she was shutting us down.

When I reported this back to my team and students, one Green Beret said, “Yes, Mommy!”??Everyone laughed, but he was spot on.

Fast forward to 2021.??We are now 18 months deep into this reactionary panic over COVID-19.??People are getting shots, the death rate it turns out is exponentially lower than advertised (especially when one removes those older than 75 with serious comorbidities), yet, “Yes Mommies” in government and positions of authority are still demanding we wear masks all in the name of “safety.”?????

Here in Germany, there are so many stupid signs plastered over nearly every wall or entrance to every establishment warning us to “social distance” and “wear FFP-2 masks” one wonders when, if ever, they will come down???I refuse to use public transportation because of it. If we leave it up to the “Yes Mommies” they never will. It is past time for serious pushback against this incompetent and groundless masking requirements.?