Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education under the Obama administration, wrote in a since-deleted tweet, “Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? They both blow themselves up, inflict harm to those around them and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.”
At least two suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. service members and dozens of people on August 26, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan
as the United States withdrew from the 20 year war in the country.
Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency Michael Hayden responded to a Twitter user’s posts that read, “Can we send the MAGA wearing unvaxxed to Afghanistan, no use sending that plane back empty?” He replied on August 22, 2021 “Good idea.”
Anti Maskers are assaulting teachers and school board leaders. Anti-masking (and unmasked) protesters yelled angry taunts at Kansas school officials, comparing them to the Taliban. Police respond to school board meetings in Pennsylvania and Nevada when enraged anti-mask audience members became verbally aggressive. Anti-mask demonstrators heckled masked people, some being are Doctors and nurses, leaving an August 8, 2021 Williamson County, Tennessee school board meeting. They followed one man to his car and shouting “we will find you” and “we know who you are.”