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"’It means,’ said Aslan, ‘that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.’” CS Lewis Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe

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I have been calling it the “magic cootie” for a while and people always laugh. And go on about how funny that is. I don’t find it funny. I find it an ongoing part of the science fiction we are living in where invasion of the body snatchers starts as decent sci-fi but now as you call it the “Dim age” the govt and convening bodies on the magic cootie have gone full Sharknado. When they based their presumption masks stopped respiratory viruses or decreased the spread, they based it on decreased droplets. Unfortunately, they didn’t go the step further and prove decreased droplets did indeed decrease the spread. And as impartial Oxford epidemiologists pointed out, they didn’t because “virions are slippery subjects” in other words, they COULD NOT prove that virus were less transmitted or slowed by that endeavor. And should masks not work both ways? Should not masks also catch the aerosolized particles coming in as well? Is there some valve function on them only out, not in? As more studies show that viruses are transmitting solely to the people who wear masks and almost 99% of the public is masked up, the next magical thing is that everyone who did not wear a mask who despite being asymptomatic must be some kind of super spreader. I joked that I alone in three counties of millions of people was the sole cause of all the local cases because I have been constantly contagious since day one and never wore a mask in public once. I am the super spreader - of JOY, I like to say. I smile at everyone. One of my slogans is “make smiles contagious.” I want to turn the love and compassion message of these fear mongers on its head. They ARE using magic, but CS Lewis penned, there is an older magic and I still believe love conquers hate and fear. It’s the oldest magic there is!

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