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by tablespoon 1476 days ago
> its probably part of a pipeline to make a reliably isolated and scared voting base that will always vote to give big brother more power because they don’t know how to socialize so they are more susceptible to propagand

No.

1. You're describing a deliberate conspiracy, but providing zero evidence for it. It's not enough to show that the policy will lead to the results you allege (which I do not grant you), but that the policy was deliberately chosen for that reason and not another.

2. From what I've read, the actual result of masking and COVID has been increased behavior problems and acting out in students, not increased compliance.