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Mike Rowe: Our Country Is Coming Out of the COVID-19 Stupor

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Mike Rowe: Our Country Is Coming Out of the COVID-19 Stupor

By Movieguide® Contributor

DIRTY JOBS host Mike Rowe compared the ever-changing COVID-19 restrictions to the classic fairytale, The Emperor’s New Clothes.

“I think Hans Christian Andersen answered the question perfectly,” Rowe said on Fox’s The Brain Kilmeade Show. “And so in some way, I think that’s what we’ve been living through for the last couple of years.”

In the fairytale, the emperor and his subjects believe the emperor is wearing the latest fashion – invisible clothes – when in reality, he’s just naked. It takes a child calling him out to realize the mistake he made.

“We’ve been asked to believe that which is unbelievable,” Rowe continued. “We’ve been asked to lend credibility to that which is incredulous. We know it makes no sense to stand cheek to jowl in an airport or sit cheek to jowl on a plane and then stand six feet apart in an airport. We know it makes no sense to walk through a diner with the mask, only to take it off when you’re seated.

“We know it makes no sense to cover a kid’s face who’s two years old or five years old or 15 years old, so they can go to school. We know it. And yet, for two years, very few people said anything. Well, now the kids spoke up and people are nodding their heads and we’re coming out of our stupor.”

Rowe’s comments come after California – one of the last remaining states with mask mandates – announced they would be lifting their indoor mask mandate this week.

Rowe has been vocal about various restrictions, throughout the pandemic, especially restrictions that affected the economy.

Movieguide® previously reported:

“We’re all hard-wired to adapt and adjust our behavior to the circumstances around us. There are times when putting safety above all things makes absolute sense, but there has never been a time where arbitraging everything else out of the equation — and venerating safety to the point that nothing else is even allowed to be discussed — there’s never been a point in our history, at least as I understand it, where that’s made a lick of sense,” Rowe said. 

“I think most of the country is going to come through this with the realization that we’re being treated like children and we’re being fed platitudes, bromides, and bowls of warm milk by people who want us to look at them as parents,” Rowe added.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.