Most Americans wanted DJT in 2020...and what did that get?
Besides, mandatory masking on public transport is Chairman Xoe's only "accomplishment"...removing that would destroy his legacy.
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Posted on 02/17/2022 8:15:51 AM PST by lightman
On Monday, I expressed some skepticism about the results of a CBS poll showing majorities of Americans supporting ongoing mask mandates in states and schools. I argued that actions speak louder than polls, and that the stampede away from mandates among blue state governors — plus the election of Glenn Youngkin in Virginia — suggest that the tide had already turned. A new Politico national survey finds President Biden deep underwater (another poll showing him dipping down into the 30's) on overall approval (see update), with a plurality of the public now in favor of axing mask mandates:
As I've been saying for months, the 43 percent of mask dead-enders are more than welcome to wear their face coverings into oblivion. No one is stopping them. But forcing this intervention of dubious medical value (especially among children and wearers of non-fitted, non-medical masks) upon others is indefensible. But the masking cult won't give up easily because the issue has become fundamental to their in-group tribalism. Kevin Williamson offers his theory on how the psychology works:
It may not do much of anything to stop the spread of the virus, but it says something — in some contexts, a great deal — about what kind of person you are...And that is what is making unmasking — and a more general return to normal — so difficult for so many of our progressive friends: It has become a cultural and social issue, and a quasi-religious one at that. For a certain kind of progressive, giving up masking feels like giving in. It doesn’t feel to them like the epidemic has been beaten — it feels to them like they have been beaten, and their cultural enemies (Joe Rogan, and that estranged uncle who is angry on Facebook) have won...Like the declarations of progressives who once swore off “Trump vaccines,” it is a matter of identity, not a matter of policy, much less one of science. That is why a big Republican showing in the midterms will produce a convulsion among progressives, one that looks like a political crisis but that is, at heart, a spiritual crisis. The news on Covid is generally good these days. And I cannot remember another time in which generally good news has caused so much angst and misery.
Case in point — the "angst and misery" on the left surrounding this political loss in Virginia, which is excellent news for children, parents, and anyone who actually cares about real science:
Tribal leaders like hack New York Times columnists are still comparing forced masking opponents — most Americans, at this point — to terrorists, which makes it likelier that the hardcore maskers to dig in further:
It's this anti-science, fanatical posture that leads its adherents to mandate scenes like this in areas of the country where their supremacy is complete. Abusive insanity:
On Sunday, tens of thousands of unmasked fans, celebrities and politicians packed into a mostly-indoor stadium to scream and yell during a football game. Days later, young kids are forced to sit on freezing asphalt, outdoors, to eat their lunches at school (the choices in places like this is outdoors if kids want to talk, with a silent indoor option). Notice the child dutifully masking in between bites, while sitting alone outside. The adults responsible for such psychotic policies should be ashamed of themselves, but they're part of a religious-style movement that encourages such neuroses. Some progressives who are awakening to the sea change in public opinion, belatedly realizing that their capricious restrictions are now very much a liability, may believe that abrupt, unscientific course corrections could spare them politically. The elections are months away, after all. But Noah Rothman's observation about this week's San Francisco school board recalls is a trenchant one:
Some of the worst elements of the school board's program of woke excess (though not all of them) were abandoned nearly a year ago. And the shameful dereliction of depriving students of in-person learning for a year-and-a-half was finally reversed six months ago. But memories and simmering residual anger lingered. And huge majorities ousted those responsible, in the city that is perhaps most closely associated with American leftism in the public's imagination. These issues were potent in Virginia, potent in New Jersey, potent in San Francisco, and could well prove potent all across the country this fall. I'll leave you with this, from President Biden's Education Secretary:
Perhaps he needs to...read the room a bit better? He's representing an administration that continues to endorse forcible child masking in schools, based on baseless official “Science.” Speaking of which, how sciency is this, via NBC News?
Nothing has been finalized yet, but the CDC is considering a new benchmark for whether masks are needed, basing it on the level of severe disease and hospitalizations in a given community, two people familiar with the situation said. The White House has been eager for the CDC to provide an update on its indoor mask recommendation, although it wants the agency to get it right and it doesn’t want to appear as though it is putting political pressure on the agency, said the two people familiar with the plans, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly…Senior administration officials have asked Walensky to provide an update on masks before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on March 1, one of the people said.
Get us that new Science — stat. Before the big political speech, please. Have you seen the polls? So much sciencing.
Most Americans wanted DJT in 2020...and what did that get?
Besides, mandatory masking on public transport is Chairman Xoe's only "accomplishment"...removing that would destroy his legacy.
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They want them gone, yet many still wear masks. Just take the dang things off and tell the would be tyrants, "NO!".
Either the politicians change, or the politicians will change (assuming of course that elections are free)
I want a poll with several alternatives of punishing torments to be applied to Fauci for causing so much of this.
Not on list: Golden parachute exit with life of luxury for Fauci with numbered offshore bank accounts growing by the day. Like our “public servants” in House and Senate after they finally leave.
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Three Points:
1. There never was ‘scientific’ basis for masks
2. Politicians had to show that they were doing something so they instituted masks and lockdowns.
3. Masks become a social virtue signal, ie, “I care, therefore I wear”.
I read a very sad thing yesterday: apparently, there are some children who want to continue to wear masks, especially the girls, because they don’t want anybody to see their faces because they think they’re not good looking, don’t have the “right” type of mouth (I assume that means whatever the latest Instagram influencer has), etc.
Certainly, let it be optional for kids like this. But then get your daughter to counseling immediately. And your son, since the boys who want to keep on wearing masks say they do so because they’re afraid.
I think there’s going to be a lot of people in the CDC and the administration experiencing the joys of millstones around their necks for having hurt these “little ones.”
They can go piss up a rope.
.....”...New Poll Shows Most Americans Want Mask Mandates Gone...”..
so what....?? “most Americans” is shorthand for “peasants” anyway...what do our elites [sic] care what the great unwashed want or don’t want...??
A lady I work with (who is also very conservative) said she read online that libs were reluctant to stop wearing masks for fear of being called a “Trumper”. Good grief. Liberals are the most un-American, unpatriotic people ever. They’d rather keep themselves - and their children - masked forever, than do the right thing. THEY MUST BE DEFEATED.
The CDC recently tried to buck up the mask police by touting research that claims wearing a cloth mask lowers the odds of testing positive for COVID by 56%. It even tweeted out a poster promoting the results. But there’s an asterisk pointing to fine print at the bottom with the message “not statistically significant.” In other words, the margin of error was greater than 56%, which means that wearing a cloth mask could increase the chances that you get COVID.
The Heritage Foundation’s Doug Badger looked at the actual study and reports that it “found that wearing a mask some of the time might make you 46% more likely to test positive than wearing no mask at all. Wearing it most of the time could increase your risk by 5%.”
It was long accepted by the public health community, in fact, that masks weren’t effective at controlling the spread of respiratory viruses. The World Health Organization explained in 2019 that “There was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza!”
Back in August, an epidemiologist and member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board admitted that many face masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of the virus.
But all you have to do is look at states that imposed strict mask mandates and those that didn’t and you see that there’s no difference in the spread of the disease.
Mask mandates are completely pointless when it comes to children. The Atlantic published an analysis of school masking policies by three medical scholars – including an infectious disease specialist at the National Institutes of Health – who reviewed all the available science on school mask mandates “to try to find evidence that would justify the CDC’s no-end-in-sight mask guidance for the very-low-risk pediatric population, particularly post-vaccination. We came up empty-handed.”
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!
Unmasked and ugly black elite Demo hippo in a school!
The cry needs to be ENOUGH!
What’s frightening is how “most Americans” embraced this nonsense just a few months ago. The sheep could flip on a dime once again.
Passing some law to give everyone the freedom to choose to wear a mask or not will not end this conflict. Those that choose not to will go about their way unmasked expecting nothing. But some people for masks will become violent because they will think they are being ridiculed and feel they are in mortal danger of illness, that they will attack the unmasked around the unexpecting.
His legacy needs to be incinerated, buried, p!ssed on and then cement poured over it. Hitler has a better legacy. Look at that nifty highway he built.
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