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"Denver-based sisters Jacqueline and Alexa Child stay masked while going to concerts and dining outdoors with friends who don’t share the same level of COVID-19 caution.

“We have done everything we possibly could to maintain our mental health and our social life,” said Jacqueline, who has an immune disease that makes her vulnerable to infections.

Jacqueline, 30, and her sister Alexa, 34, launched a dating app called Dateability in 2022 for people who are disabled or chronically ill, though all are welcomed. Users can add a “COVID Cautious” tag to their profiles to signal they’re interested in meeting others who take precautions. The Child sisters say 10% of their 30,000 users add “COVID Cautious” to their dating profiles.

“It’s a market that we didn’t expect to target but we happily accept,” Jacqueline said."

1 posted on 01/17/2025 8:57:54 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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2 posted on 01/17/2025 8:58:20 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Meet one who became and remains seriously ill after the two China disease shots!


3 posted on 01/17/2025 9:00:18 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I quit worrying when all my Ivermectin expired 2 years after the initial idiocy.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 9:00:19 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Whatever floats your boat.

But masks don’t help because they don’t filter out the virus particles.

People still believe the propaganda that about equates Covid with Black Death, and so live in bondage to fear and paranoia.

I get that some people have compromised immune system but they need more of a grip and shouldn’t be expecting the rest of the world to cater to them.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 9:00:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I copied the below letter to my son who served with Federal Protective Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and went through FLETC training. He could confirm the mask mandate was a total fraud based on his training.

He said he was issued a respirator and the N-95 masks. He was told cloth masks would be effective against only droplets and should never be used.

When facing hazards, his training prescribed the N-95 mask could be used, but only after ensuring proper seal and negative pressure by following a three-step procedure. Then after a half hour he had to leave the area and reestablish the seal with a new mask. Masks could only prevent receiving and never prevent spreading biological agents

From: Retain Mike Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 3:26 PM To: keri.lopez@redmondschools.org Subject: Mask Mandate

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) proclaimed its latest policy about masks and our governor mandated wearing by children as school began.

However, the best science the CDC could provide was uncontrolled studies highlighting first such groups as 139 hairdresser clients, 382 sailors on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, 124 Beijing households, and 839 Thailand residents subject to contact tracing. All results came from observation followed by personal judgement, and none resulted from the mathematical disciplines used to rigorously evaluate complex environments.

In the same article the CDC disparaged the 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Denmark involving 4,862 participants, which found no benefit to wearing masks to prevent infection. The disciplines of a RCT divides participants into different groups on a randomized basis. Random assignment means that factors not specifically controlled can cancel each other out by appearing equally in both groups. One group receives the treatment (which in this case was the mask) and the other group does not. Researchers can isolate the one variable and are not able to introduce biases to produce a preferred outcome.

RCT’s are considered the highest standard for this type of research. Therefore, the most reasonable approach for the CDC would have been to consider this study as a benchmark against which others would be evaluated, including studies from other countries which found masks ineffective and even harmful.

The above represents an especially valid approach, since the first four combined citations from their May scientific brief had less than half the participants of the Danish study. The proposed approach is especially valid also because the CDC dismissed the study for involving only .001 of Denmark’s population. At the same time polls predicting the decisions of 150,000,000 voters in a national election were determined by less than 1,500 participants or less than .00001.

Do Masks Work?

https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1

Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/

Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.htm

Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm

Surgeon Shows CDC Top Evidence On Why Wearing Masks Work

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3988508/posts

Face masks for children: Both ineffective and dangerous

https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/face-masks-children-ineffective-dangerous/

All the tragic potential harms of face masks

https://www.wnd.com/2021/09/tragic-potential-harms-face-masks/

6 posted on 01/17/2025 9:03:45 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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Darwin says survival of the fittest is the rule of the jungle. I got Covid and it put me in bed for a day. It was weird. I was just weak. I didn’t know what it was. No fever, no cough, no other symtpms but weakness. The next day I was fine and wondered what I had until I read Tom Hanks went through the same thing - just weak and I put 2 + 2 together. Glad I didn’t take the jab like my in-laws who have recurring illnesses that they didn’t have before.


7 posted on 01/17/2025 9:03:51 AM PST by BipolarBob (I've asked what LGBQT means and have yet to get a STRAIGHT answer.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Scarbro’s bowling league”

Oh, brother. If she is scared to death of COVID, then why is she in a bowling league with all the filthy people and dirty surfaces? Why isn’t she hunkered down at home the rest of her miserable days?


9 posted on 01/17/2025 9:04:53 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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"She hears a sound that breaks her focus. Was that a cough? Will her mask protect her?"

No. No, it won't.

Your move.
10 posted on 01/17/2025 9:04:55 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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The covid fear campaign has turned my communist brother agoraphobic. He stays inside all of the time and has a hand washing fetish.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 9:05:01 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( )
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My mother in law, one of my close neighbors, and 5 other acquaintances passed away from Covid. Another from post Covid pneumonia. Yeah, I know, “It’s just the flu” But I’ve never lost so many people so close together, whatever it’s called in different circles.


12 posted on 01/17/2025 9:05:02 AM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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If you ever want to read insanity, peruse this subreddit.

r/ZeroCovidCommunity

14 posted on 01/17/2025 9:08:26 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The mentally weak and impaired will always be with us. Stop platforming their maladies.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 9:09:38 AM PST by Obadiah (There's a bustle in your hedgerow.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hypochondria used to be considered a mental illness.

Now it’s a virtue.


18 posted on 01/17/2025 9:20:31 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I’m in upstate NY. I wear my mask to keep my nose from turning red...


19 posted on 01/17/2025 9:22:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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“We have done everything we possibly could to maintain our mental health and our social life,”

It didn’t work.


20 posted on 01/17/2025 9:27:16 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I still take precautions, but that’s because I still suffer from Long Covid, so I have to be careful. That said, I don’t wear masks, but I try and ensure that I’m more careful in public.


21 posted on 01/17/2025 9:31:55 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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My goal is to avoid such people, not meet them.


22 posted on 01/17/2025 9:33:39 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Jeez. Not this shit again”


24 posted on 01/17/2025 9:42:38 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I think if Susan Scarbro is so chronically afraid of a cold, then maybe she shouldn’t be bowling with a large crowd. /s


26 posted on 01/17/2025 9:49:14 AM PST by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
They should be encouraged to continue wearing their warning signs.



27 posted on 01/17/2025 10:33:34 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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