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CDC is Indeed Back to Demanding Americans Wear Masks, and Americans Are Tired of It
Townhall.com ^ | 6 November A.D. 2021 | Rebecca Downs

Posted on 11/06/2021 8:09:56 PM PDT by lightman

For some weeks now, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky has been doubling down on demanding Americans continue wearing masks, adults and children alike, vaccinated or not. It doesn't look like Americans can expect that to change. On Friday, Walensky tweeted an "Ask An Expert" video of "Why Do I Still Need to Wear a Mask?"

"The evidence is clear," Dr. Walensky insists. "Masks can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by reducing your chance of infection by more than 80 percent." It doesn't just apply to the Wuhan coronavirus though, but the flu and even the common cold. "In combination with other steps, like getting your vaccination, hand-washing, and keeping physical distance, wearing your mask is an important step you can take to keep us all healthy."

Twitter did not take too kindly to that demand, as evidenced by the way in which Dr. Walensky's video message was massively ratioed.

Many replies and retweets amounted to calling "bullsh*t." Others pointed to how absurd it was that the common cold was included as a reason for mask-wearing.

Some users pointed out that it's no longer sounding like such a crazy conspiracy theory to say that the powers that be want us to mask up forever.

Others said it amounted to misinformation, leading to a lack of credibility for the CDC.

Many questioned where the 80 percent claim was coming from. One study that cites the 80 percent figure from was reported on right around the start of the pandemic, and before vaccines were available. Chris Westfall, in his article for Forbes from May 12, 2020 cites "research and scientific models from UC Berkley’s International Computer Science Institute and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology."

And, when it comes to vaccines, while testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, Walensky couldn't even tell Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is also a medical doctor, how many CDC employees have been vaccinated.

Of course, Dr. Walensky and President Joe Biden told Americans in May that mask mandates could be relaxed for those who had been vaccinated.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid1984; mask; walensky
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1 posted on 11/06/2021 8:09:56 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

They’re not masks. They’re burkas.


2 posted on 11/06/2021 8:11:26 PM PDT by JennysCool (Our worst enemies: Clueless liberal women and old hippie "activists" who think it's still 1974)
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To: JennysCool
It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!


3 posted on 11/06/2021 8:12:11 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

There’s a meme out there that asks...

“Why must we have a swab stuck half way up our nose, IF spit can spread covid from six feet away?”


4 posted on 11/06/2021 8:12:38 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: lightman

#FOAD_CDC


5 posted on 11/06/2021 8:13:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lightman
A great tweet reply to Walensky...
Feynman
@Feynman_19
Nov 5

Rain dances help increase the chance of rain by more than 80%. Dances may also help attract mates and make you taller and more attractive. Dancing along w/ modern farming techniques and fertilizer are important steps to growing crops.
#WeCanDoThis


6 posted on 11/06/2021 8:15:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: goodnesswins

I’ve often mentioned here how amused I was on chilly days last winter seeing people walking by me with all that BREATH emanating from their masks.

Yeah. Those work.


7 posted on 11/06/2021 8:16:00 PM PDT by JennysCool (Our worst enemies: Clueless liberal women and old hippie "activists" who think it's still 1974)
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To: lightman

Dr Fauci says masks are ineffective during an outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBFs4o0VYk


8 posted on 11/06/2021 8:18:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: lightman

Even if true, then it would also have been true throughout the last century, yet no one was stupid enough to advocate for continuous universal masking, much less to try to mandate and enforce it.


9 posted on 11/06/2021 8:31:59 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: JennysCool
I’ve often mentioned here how amused I was on chilly days last winter seeing people walking by me with all that BREATH emanating from their masks.

The particles in that breath vapor are probably much larger than the viruses. I've also seen demonstrations on Youtube in which exhaled smoke, also with particles larger than viruses, goes right through masks.

10 posted on 11/06/2021 8:32:22 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: lightman
"Masks can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by reducing your chance of infection by more than 80 percent."

That's a better reduction rate than the "vaccines."

11 posted on 11/06/2021 8:38:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She must be eating mushrooms or something. There is ZERO scientific data to support that.


12 posted on 11/06/2021 8:43:18 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: BenLurkin

Well I think with all they’re claiming to be getting covid - I’d say masks don’t work and neither to the shots.


13 posted on 11/06/2021 8:45:23 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: SomeCallMeTim
She must be eating mushrooms or something. There is ZERO scientific data to support that.

Maybe Walensky wants to transition to being a man, to counterbalance Thing Levine.

14 posted on 11/06/2021 8:47:28 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: lightman

Where is the study?

Evidence seems to indicate that if anything they spread Covid because people think falsely they are safe.


15 posted on 11/06/2021 8:48:47 PM PDT by dila813
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To: JennysCool

If you just comply and do this one tiny thing, your civil rights will be restored and the government will not demand anything else from you ever again. Honest.

Just this ONE thing.


16 posted on 11/06/2021 8:56:37 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

There is zero scientific evidence for ANYTHING they are doing, but anybody who opposes them is a “science denier.”


17 posted on 11/06/2021 8:57:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: americas.best.days...

The American military had better decide right quick whether it supports this inept, criminal “Administration” or the American people.

This “Administration” is the personification of the “enemies domestic” they swear an oath to defend us against.


18 posted on 11/06/2021 9:07:31 PM PDT by JennysCool (Our worst enemies: Clueless liberal women and old hippie "activists" who think it's still 1974)
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To: lightman

yup- noticed that places of businesses are breaking out their ‘no mask no service’ signs again- this crap haS to stop- so stinkin tired of listening to people mumble through their masks


19 posted on 11/06/2021 9:12:16 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Local Kroger has the sign up. Less than 15% are wearing one. The kids working there have it below their nose.


20 posted on 11/06/2021 9:17:01 PM PDT by ealgeone
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