Sketch: Watch a Libertarian Make a DIY Face Mask
Politicians aren't the only crafty ones.
HD DownloadThis homemade mask requires a few minutes of sewing, which is admittedly more work than most congressmen put into reading the last stimulus bill.
Written, directed, shot, edited, and produced by Meredith and Austin Bragg
Music: "Wholesome" by Kevin MacLeod used under an Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license
SCRIPT:
First they said don't buy a mask, now they say wear a mask.
So here's A Quick Guide to Making Your Own Mask at Home Because The Government Clearly Doesn't Have a Clue and It's All on Us Now.
Thanks to the Baltimore aerial surveillance program for these overhead shots. That's some seriously dystopian shit.
Cut your fabric into two 10" by 6" rectangles. When you measure, imagine you're redrawing your own congressional district: give yourself some extra room for any stupid mistakes.
Needles are sharp, so be careful when you sew—we've got enough tiny pricks screwing things up right now.
Thread the needle like a Clinton on gay rights, fold like Republicans on free trade, and hem right down the line like way too many votes in the Senate. Republicans, I know you guys love closing borders, so this part should really tickle your nuts.
Use string, fabric, or elastic to make ties for your head. Politicians will need a little extra to get around that thick empty skull.
So there you have it: the Joe Biden of facemasks. I don't want it, It might touch your face in a strange way, I doubt it can even do the job, but the only alternative seems dangerous and irresponsible. Yet if I even consider a third option somehow that makes me the asshole.
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Pointless exercise. Does no good.
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Basically it's just for busybody Karens so they can signal and shame everyone and feel like they have a modicum of control over their lives. People are just putting off the inevitable with this thing. Nation of cowards.
Yeah! Real men have scarred lungs and then pass it on to their family! F*ck it if meemaw dies she had her time!
"Fuck the tens of millions of people's lives that are destroyed so I can virtue signal"
Fuck you, coward.
Let's end your life early
Or... avoid Karens OR avoid fines and jail time in some areas.
The purpose of wearing a mask is to keep your saliva in not to keep the virus out. As a libertarian I'm sure you don't want to harm others don't you?
Down thread you note the need for a paper towel insert for the mask to be effective. This video didn’t include that. Thus, my original comment is correct.
And you are a pussy.
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That narrator sounds strangely similar to the narrator on the First Amendment videos. Could it be .... Prof. Volokh?!?
No, it's Austin. Don't you remember his voice from the Heaton videos?
I thought he became mayor of some town in Virginia.
Watch a libertarian go outside and interact with others WITHOUT A MASK!!!!! RISKING CERTAIN DEATH TO THE CHILDREN!!!!!
My wife is making masks for friends and family back in California: "Star Wars" - themed, "cat-themed," "Twin Peaks"-themed, etc. It's the latest trend in fashion.....
I find it obscures my ability to check chicks out. Which enrages me.
I am trying to imagine what it must be like to be "single" during all this. NO FUN at all!
It's not bad at all. there are a ton of horned up scared chicks looking for a man. It's the apocalypse baby.
My mother made honey badger face masks if you want something more aggresive.
Cool!
Tyrann Mathieu masks? (Go Chiefs!)
Don't be a commie. leave your face masks at home.
I cannot countenance the distribution of a video showing such a shockingly blatant interference with interstate commerce. There are professional and unionized maskmakers whose jobs are being stolen here and you monsters are applauding the food being stolen from the mouths of their children. YouTube must take this video down and ban your account.
This is a good question. Occupational licensing? hello.
I used to be in the building trades. Once I entered a home to estimate a bid and discovered a significant clothing manufacturing business. Illegal as all hell. Undoubtedly illegal immigrants, certainly not union. It was not a sweatshop. No one looked like they didn't want to be there.
I understood then all the pointed questions by the client. He was trying to check which way my attitude towards authority went. I did NOT turn them in.
God bless those people. Being productive, making "essential" goods, providing income for families. Yes they were probably illegal. So fucking what? Better than being a legal citizen staying at home waiting for the welfare or disability check to come in.
amen brother.
You skipped a step - take a marker and write "FUCK YOUR QUARANTINE" on the outside of the mask.
I don't think we want little kiddies reading that, do we? 🙂
This is the biggest flaw among libertarians. The commies know to get them while they're young. Not in a chemjeff way. You know what I mean.
If that's too much for you, there's a million quotes from Thomas Paine that would work. For example:
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
Don't Breathe on Me (w/the snake)
Give me social distance, or give me death!
Stay home and visit basel sex for sexy chat relaxing
like Martina Hingis?
These are the times that try men's souls.
Truer words, never spoken.
Some of us don't have sewing machines. Such instruments of home production are not considered "essential" and are thus outlawed.
I congratulate you on your rebelliousness.
Crazy glue would work. Or go for the full psychopath look and use staples.
Brass nuts and bolts for steam punk.
Every man should own a sewing machine. I sew shit all the time.
i hear there's a market for coronamasks
Pfft. Real men do their sewing with needle and thread... no thimble. If you don't have blood specks from needle pricks on your blue jeans patches then you might as well grab a Zima and go watch The View.
I got that beat. I sliced my fingernail off with a rotary blade yesterday... while making damn masks.
I've got a cookie tin with thread and needles. Never used it.
Terrible design. Double over the material to make a pocket and insert a paper towel. That will keep your saliva from getting out which is the whole point of wearing a mask. It WILL help stop the spread.
I thought guys liked the spread.. Hugh Hefner did
pretty witty
This video was perfect. Thanks, Austin!
Real libertarians wouldn't waste their time making ineffective masks to comply with arbitrary and unconstitutional government diktats.
Next video:
"How Libertarians Chop Wood in the Gulag: A Man's Guide to Outdoor Living."
It's funny because it's true!
Here in Arizona, at first, several people were using the mask. I think it was mostly women, but it was about 1/4 to 1/3rds of the people I encountered. It's dropped off since then. I was in a crowded Walmart yesterday and only a handful of people had the masks.
I just refrain from coughing, sighing (bad habit in these times), and touching surfaces outside my house.
I've been popping a cough drop *just in case* before entering public spaces.
For some reason, I'm worried about being attacked in public.
Wearing of mask correlates to level of TDS.
Bandanas are just as effective and are scary to Karens, clerks/cashiers and cops.
Most of the guys around here are going with that. Combine the bandana with sunglasses and a hat, I have a scruffy looking Resistol straw cowboy hat, and you have no issues with people keeping distance.
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I just cut the sleeve off a t-shirt and wore it like a gaiter. But it was more to keep people from eyeballing me than function.
+1
Humorous.
Except the Republicans are right to close the borders during a pandemic. Hello.
Up here PM Moist closed it and he's acting all tough about it. Even though he and his inept imbeciles said it would have been racist to close them the second it was known the lie was found out.
No one has a fucken clue.
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Happy to see this. There are lots of people still using their hanky as a face mask. Would be really great if they can see this.
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