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Should masks return in fall and winter to prevent a COVID surge?
ABC News ^ | September 23, 2022 | Mary Kekatos

Posted on 10/16/2022 11:59:25 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Evidence has shown COVID cases and hospitalizations tend to rise during the colder months when people congregate indoors. Some health officials warn the virus could surge again in December and January.

Currently, cases and hospitalizations are on the decline in the U.S. after having peaked in late July, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Those who are vaccinated and boosted are at much lower risk of falling severely ill and dying from COVID-19. CDC data shows unvaccinated Americans have a five times higher risk of dying compared to those who've received just a primary series and a seven times higher risk of dying compared to those who also received at least one booster dose.

Experts told ABC News that while vaccination is the best protection against COVID-19, some people may need to consider masking to protect themselves in case infections rise.

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KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; covid; covidstooges; fall; masks; media; obamacare; vaccinemandates; winter
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ugly people hocking snot ought to wear masks.
Helmets even.

Especially the screeching kids. Put a bag over their heads at least.


41 posted on 10/16/2022 12:33:20 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ugly people should wear masks. ;)


42 posted on 10/16/2022 12:34:27 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Masks should never return. They’re useless and they litter. They clog our waterways because leftists are too lazy to dispose of things properly.

And people look stupid wearing them unless they’re medical personnel or people who are using machinery that creates a lot of dust.

They become bacteria-infested within 20 minutes of wearing them. They’re gross and unsanitary.

I don’t own a mask and don’t intend to.


43 posted on 10/16/2022 12:35:22 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is this just a preparatory step getting ready to shut down the US again? Or maybe it is just getting ready to shut down 2022 elections due to a Covid national emergency.


44 posted on 10/16/2022 12:39:08 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Steely Tom
I’m already noticing more masks on customers in stores.

I haven’t seen one here in a long time.

A colleague of mine just got back from the DC area and said a lot of people are wearing muzzles there.

45 posted on 10/16/2022 12:40:26 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: MinorityRepublican; All

Dumb. Everyone knows that Covid masks don’t do anything except make the wearer look like a moron. Even Fauci admitted on 60 Minutes that they do not protect.


46 posted on 10/16/2022 12:41:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Allegra
I haven’t seen one here in a long time.

You live in a semi-sane state. I say "semi" 'cause of Austin.

47 posted on 10/16/2022 12:43:00 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: sasquatch

Farts will never not be funny.


48 posted on 10/16/2022 12:43:38 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ComputerGuy
"Absolutely! My glove box is full of them. Besides, it’s cool to be with it."

LOL! I stopped taking KF-94 masks out of the globe box to wear them before going into stores more than six months after the last booster and finally caught COVID. ;)

The latest booster? Yes, on top of the natural immunity. Mask? Probably not, unless something like a COVID-Ebola strain comes along. :O

49 posted on 10/16/2022 12:44:07 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: ComputerGuy

A good mask helps to avoid the smells in Walfart. For real. ;D


50 posted on 10/16/2022 12:46:01 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Walrus

Didn’t thery just tell us that covid is not spread by aerosol but by contact?

For your entertainment, repeat quickly.

I’m not a fig plucker,
Nor a fig plucker’s son,
But I’ll pluck you figs,
‘Til the fig plucker comes.

Rinse, repeat.


51 posted on 10/16/2022 12:46:13 PM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So in Feb 2020 when we’re we’re starting to see COVId in China etc, I saw people wearing masks - so I thought maybe I should be prepared and get some for my family. Actually went to Amazon and out a box in my cart - they were plentiful at that time. But then I asked myself - “Do they really work?”. So I googled it - article after article, study after study said masks do NOT protect against viruses because the particles are too small and the masks are too porous. Which is why you see people in full hazmat suits who work with viruses. Anyway, went back to Amazon and removed the box of masks from my cart and went about my business. Two months later, after Fauci flip flopped on the effectiveness of masks and everyone was going nuts with mandates and you are killing grandma if you don’t wear a mask, I was determined to show everyone all of the studies I had found. So I did my Google search - not o it were all the studies and articles that I had seen before purged , they were replaced with new articles claiming masks were effective. That was when I figured out that we were dealing with corrupt liars and I haven’t believed a single thing they say about anything ever since.


52 posted on 10/16/2022 12:46:22 PM PDT by GMLORGMD (20+ year lurker, new poster. )
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To: Steely Tom
You live in a semi-sane state. I say "semi" 'cause of Austin.

Yep…that’s a whole ‘nother world there. I stay away now.

In the 80s and 90s, it was fun and quirky. Great music scene. A tad to the left, but tolerable.

Then the Californians started coming and they destroyed it.

53 posted on 10/16/2022 12:50:24 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: CatOwner

Up here in occupied Alberta, Calgary in particular, the vast majority of those masking up, in public, are of Asian descent. Of course, hospitals, most nursing homes and most clinics, still require masks for all visitors.

The good news is that our new Premier, Danielle Smith, announced on Tuesday, her first day in Office, that Dr. Deena Hinshaw-Mengele, is finished as Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) of Alberta. Smith will create a new Board of Health Care advisors to advise the gubmint on health care issues. Unfortunately, Tyler (ShamWow) Shandro, the former Minister of Health and current Minister of Just-us, has not been punted for his mistreatment of Alberta residents, nor has JUSTIN Kenney, the mealy mouthed cork soaker who ordered the arrest of Pastors who chose to follow the Bible, rather than the diktats of Oberführer Kenney, while he was Premier.

As May 29, 2023 is the next election date, hopefully the Conservatives will maintain their majority. Smith can then cull the authoritarians out of caucus.


54 posted on 10/16/2022 12:50:26 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Only if you’re dumb enough to believe they are effective.


55 posted on 10/16/2022 12:52:08 PM PDT by G Larry (Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: Steely Tom

We’re surrounded by faggots, cowards, and retards.


56 posted on 10/16/2022 12:53:28 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

NO!


57 posted on 10/16/2022 12:55:39 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: sasquatch

I think most guys knew that guy…


58 posted on 10/16/2022 12:56:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Steely Tom

I’ve noticed it here in NH as well.

So much for Live Free or Die.


59 posted on 10/16/2022 12:57:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sure! Let’s do a double mask, coupled with a face shield while wearing latex gloves and a suit made of disinfectant wipes, along with protective shoe coverings, that should do the trick. I am soooooooooooo sick of these mask wearing psychos who still wear the latex gloves and go through miles of disinfectant wipes before touching a shopping cart AND there are still idiots who panic when someone else enters an aisle they’re in, SMH.


60 posted on 10/16/2022 1:00:30 PM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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