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CDC ‘Looking At’ Whether Masks Are Still Needed Outdoors
epoch times ^ | 22 April A.D. 2021 | Mimi Nguyen Ly

Posted on 04/22/2021 8:17:03 PM PDT by lightman

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is “looking at” whether people should continue to wear masks outdoors amid the pandemic.

“This is a question that we’re looking at,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on the “Today” show when asked about the matter. “One of the things I think that’s really important to understand is, while there’s wonderful news and we’re getting more and more people vaccinated every single day, we still had 57,000 cases of COVID yesterday, we still had 733 deaths.

“And so now, we are really trying to scale up vaccination. We have this complex message that we still have hot spots in this country. And we will be looking at the outdoor masking question but it’s also in the context of the fact that we still have people who are dying of COVID.”

Show host Samantha Guthrie then asked, “I understand this is really complicated, but if people are getting vaccinated but they still have to wear masks—they’re outside in the fresh air and the warm weather but the CDC is still saying, ‘Well you should probably wear your masks’—What’s the incentive? Isn’t part of this part of a reward thing where, ‘Do the right thing and you’ll be rewarded?’ Do you balance that at all when you’re making these decisions about the guidance that you give?”

Walensky responded, “We absolutely do and as we look at the guidance to revive—the guidance of what you can do when you’re vaccinated, that will be easier and easier to do as more and more people get vaccinated.”

The CDC’s guidance for wearing masks, updated on April 19, advises, “Masks may not be necessary when you are outside by yourself away from others, or with people who live in your household.” The guidance notes that some areas in the United States may have mask mandates while out in public.

The agency said it generally recommends that people should wear masks “in public settings, at events and gatherings, and anywhere they will be around other people,” as well as on any public transportation.

The CDC in another guidance updated April 2 noted that people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should “keep taking precautions” in public spaces, such as wearing a mask, staying six feet away from others, and avoiding crowds.

COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, is known to spread mainly via respiratory droplets that a person exhales. When the respiratory droplets are inhaled by another person, or is somehow deposited into the other person’s mucous membranes that line the inside of the nose and mouth, infection may occur. The droplets can range in size, and small droplets “can also form particles when they dry very quickly in the airstream,” according to the CDC.

If the small droplets and particles manage to remain in the air for minutes to hours, COVID-19 can be spread via airborne transmission, and affect another person who is further than six feet away from the infected person. Only N95 masks protect against smaller particles.

The disease is less commonly spread through touching contaminated surfaces.

A review in the The Journal of Infectious Diseases published in November 2020 found that the likelihood of spreading the virus indoors was 18.7 times higher than outdoors, and that less than 10 percent of reported global CCP virus infections occurred outdoors.

Currently, 26 U.S. states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, require people to wear masks in public. A total of 13 states have lifted their mask mandates.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid1984; mask; maskeraid; masks; vaccine
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And we will be looking at the outdoor masking question but it’s also in the context of the fact that we still have people who are dying of COVID.”

Can we be sure that they are "dying OF" COVID or merely "dying WITH" COVID...testing positive post-mortem?

After all, consider the source:


1 posted on 04/22/2021 8:17:03 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Well I’ve never worn a mask outdoors.


2 posted on 04/22/2021 8:18:47 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: lightman

If you get the vaccine then you should definitely keep wearing the mask.


3 posted on 04/22/2021 8:21:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: caww

That makes two of us.

I want maximum vitamin D laden sunlight absorption.

But I’m not a “naturist”!


4 posted on 04/22/2021 8:21:24 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

I see some people walking in the park wearing masks. How dope is that?


5 posted on 04/22/2021 8:22:37 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: caww

😄


6 posted on 04/22/2021 8:24:41 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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Oh puhleeze


7 posted on 04/22/2021 8:25:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: lightman

In theory the virus live less than 15 seconds in sunlight.

BUT, buried in a mask who knows?


8 posted on 04/22/2021 8:26:12 PM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: lightman

Can you tell me if this sounds abusive? 😔

My friend’s husband won’t let her visit any friends or family. He has made her stop all contact with them unless it’s on the phone or computer. He reads, monitors and often deletes things on social media.

He makes her feel like she’s going crazy for thinking he’s controlling, and that she is being ungrateful. (After all, he’s only doing this because of how much he cares about her.)

He doesn’t want her going to the gym anymore, so she doesn’t go. He also doesn’t let her go to work anymore (he told her to only rely on him for income and that he will take care of her).

She’s not really allowed to go out anymore, unless it’s for necessities, and when she does, he makes sure to have people guilt trip her about it and shame her for it.

He wants her to have this medical procedure done and tells her that if she does it, he will allow her more freedoms.

He constantly says he’s only doing all of this because he cares... he is just doing it for her own good.

Oh wait....did I say husband? I meant the government.

My bad.

You have been conditioned to be outraged if another person did this to their spouse, but be passive & compliant when it comes to our government.

Please wake up!😔

(Copied, edited and pasted from a friend, but so worth the share. Share it if you agree as well)


9 posted on 04/22/2021 8:26:52 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tflabo

Neighbor was wearing a mask while mowing her yard. A known moron.


10 posted on 04/22/2021 8:27:37 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: lightman

“Masks may not be necessary when you are outside by yourself away from others, “

Are people really that stupid?


11 posted on 04/22/2021 8:28:42 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: lightman

JUST posted this on another thread. Seems appropriate here.

It’s good for us all to remember from this point forward that pretty much all it takes to get a disease panic going is a few well-paid-off people in the CDC, some more well-paid-off people in the WHO, and an official policy that pays a hospital BIG bucks if they make the “right” diagnosis.

Add in an almost-completely-Leftist media to spread the scare far and wide, and demonize anyone who doesn’t go along, and you have one helluva bright gaslight.

As he often did, Mr. Twain’s extremely apt (when wasn’t he?) comment in my tagline provides the last word.


12 posted on 04/22/2021 8:30:04 PM PDT by JennysCool ( "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." ― Mark Twain )
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To: lightman

They were never needed outdoors.


13 posted on 04/22/2021 8:35:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: lightman

AT this point, F___ em all.


14 posted on 04/22/2021 8:36:02 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: lightman
......”I want maximum vitamin D laden sunlight absorption”.....

Yep....and breath fresh air instead of recycling my own breath!

15 posted on 04/22/2021 8:36:44 PM PDT by caww ( lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. Matt:24:12)
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To: tired&retired

Cool post.


16 posted on 04/22/2021 8:37:19 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: caww

i never have either


17 posted on 04/22/2021 8:37:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lightman

Well the NIH thinks masks are both useless and harmful.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/#__ffn_sectitle


18 posted on 04/22/2021 8:38:00 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Secret Agent Man

and if i did believe there was a reason to wear an air filter

i would be wearing an industrial, effective air filter.


19 posted on 04/22/2021 8:38:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man; All

i seriously want to know, if any of you care to divulge

do any of you have a biohazard suit if you need one?

and could you clean it if you had to once inside your house, without contaminating the inside?


20 posted on 04/22/2021 8:40:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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