Posted on 04/20/2022 6:51:39 PM PDT by conservative98
"To protect CDC’s public health authority beyond the ongoing assessment announced last week, CDC has asked DOJ to proceed with an appeal in Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc., et al., v. Biden, et al. It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health. CDC will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine whether such an order remains necessary. CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health," the statement reads.
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Just seems so simple...that if you are fearful, and don’t want to spread a virus, put on a mask. And if you are not fearful, and you don’t want to mask up, those who are in fear, are fully protected. Just a matter of using logic.
Dr Fubar the mask nazi has his panties in a wad 🤪
The CDC has zero power.
But Admiral Dr. Richard (Dickless) aka "Rachel" Levine says:
MY mask protects YOU.
YOUR mask protects me.
Who can argue with the logic of the self-castrated?
I’d like to fly once without mask nazis scolding me and threatening me.
I flew today. No mask. Some people wore them by choice. Most did not. It was beautiful.
Tell them to FO they’ll get the point.
Just let the judge’s ruling against masks stand for three or four weeks. Then we will know positively if they make any difference at all.
Has a single shred of scientific evidence ever been cited as a reason to mask up?
I haven’t seen any.
Well, it’s confirmed: Power (authority).
They’re gonna lose the appeal.
More of the same BS they have said each time they extend it. We just need 30 more days to monitor the situation, etc. Then a few days before the expiration, just 60 mire days, etc.
Not once have I heard a metric, after 2+ years, that they can say when X is reached masks can be dropped. IMHO, they can't admit they don't have any of the answers, so they will just keep the masks in place and hope Covid just disappeared and try to claim a win.
I read Canada dropped the masks in early March and no piles of dead bodies. I dare the CDC to explain that.
This would all be much more acceptable if the mask mandate specified N95 or P100. You KNOW those are effective. The lack of this requirement opens the whole thing to needless debate.
And btw, it’s not a matter of your mask protects me and my mask protects you. There are US citizens who aren’t capable of putting on a mask. Dementia, quadriplegic, whatever. The CDC is as obligated to protect those citizens as anyone else.
The problem here is CDC (and not just CDC, Public Health ministries all over the world) put all their eggs in the vax basket. They never expected vax to die off in just a few months. This left them with no capacity to fund a P100 for everyone and dug themselves into a statistical hole.
Yes, the blue masks reduce viruses floating around, but not by much at all. A P100 would be much more compelling and people would be as tolerant of those as they are of No Smoking on airplanes Public Health regs.
I’m in New England. MBTA in Boston and PVTA (Springfield area bus service) all dropped the mandate by Tuesday. CTransit which runs bus service, CTRail (Springfield MA to New Haven) commuter rail and Shore Line East (New Haven to New London) commuter rail dropped the mandate Wed after seeing if they would appeal. Despite the appeal they dropped it anyway. Only NYC/MTA still has a the mandate. Every domestic air carrier dropped it, Amtrak dropped it.
Even places like SF and LA dropped the mandates.
I have a friend who was on a Amtrak train today, 80-85% mask less, all crew mask less. As the saying goes, the cat is out of the bag and ran away. I don’t know how they get it back in at this point. They are terrified of the sniffles and are angry the majority of the public isn’t playing along anymore.
Total F-ing BS!! So much for science.
What would make it really more acceptable is if our elected representatives put their political asses on the line and mandated masks.
Instead, they've avoided their responsibilities and handed off to unelected toadies who have a vested interest in continuing pandemic conditions.
If Congress wants us to wear masks, then they can do something about it. Otherwise, the CDC can shut its mouth.
Exactly. All those videos of airline passengers and stewardesses cheering and laughing and crying with relief... Yeah, I want Joe Biden to lead the charge to make everyone mask up again. I really want to see that.
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