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If Masks Work, Wear One -- and If They Don’t, Why Mandate Them?
American Thinker.com ^ | April 22, 2022 | Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

Posted on 04/22/2022 3:33:57 AM PDT by Kaslin

This week, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transportation methods.

Videos posted on social media showed airplane passengers cheering when told that the now tiresome face mask was no longer needed in the airport or on the plane.

YouTube screen grab

We have been masked up on public transportation for more than two years, with little scientific rationale for this new practice. It's the first time public health officials have recommended, then required, masking to prevent transmission of a respiratory virus. In fact, the CDC and WHO, early in the pandemic, did not recommend facial coverings, except for those who are immunocompromised or otherwise at higher risk.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the beginning of the pandemic,

There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams at that same time agreed, stating,

You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider. Folks who don't know how to wear them properly tend to touch their faces a lot and actually can increase the spread of coronavirus.

Yet the CDC insisted that we all wear masks. Were they following the science? Or political science?

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1 posted on 04/22/2022 3:33:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
If Masks Work, Wear One -- and If They Don’t, Why Mandate Them?

Such clarity--why is it lost on so many? Oh yeah they're democRATs.

2 posted on 04/22/2022 3:41:11 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: Kaslin

Masks are the dumbest thing ever..hope they stay gone.

I hope the appeal fails but I am not familiar with the court in that district.


3 posted on 04/22/2022 3:41:46 AM PDT by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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To: DaBroasta

It was proven that simple paper masks do not work. Crazy democrats and liberals trying to control our lives.

Al Gore is at it again....with his stupid BS...


4 posted on 04/22/2022 3:43:01 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Kaslin

Absurdity that this subject is still talked about. We live in insane times.


5 posted on 04/22/2022 3:43:42 AM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: Kaslin

They were never masks.

They have always been muzzles.


6 posted on 04/22/2022 3:48:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: nikos1121
Crazy democrats and liberals trying to control our lives.

Indeed--and they're as stubborn and persistent as the black knight in Python's 'Holy Grail.'

7 posted on 04/22/2022 3:54:55 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: DaBroasta

There was a time when men would not go outside in public without wearing a hat. Sometime about the late 19050’s or early 1960’s it became increasingly so that men no longer wore hats.

Wearing a hat was a signal you were a “gentleman”, working people wore caps.

Masks have replaced other articles of clothing as a symbol or signal, but beyond probably being effective against particulate matter, they have only an archaic stylistic function. About as effective as neckties in preventing transmission of airborne virus.


8 posted on 04/22/2022 4:04:44 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: DaBroasta

If mask work wear one - And if they don’t, why mandate them?

Mask don’t work period. That’s the science and it’s provable and has been proved over and over again including the N95. They were never designed for airborne pathogens.

The 6 foot rule was a number pulled from someone’s ass, lockdowns made matters worse and the mRNA gene therapy does nothing against covid except kill some people and make others violently I’ll.

The greatest world scam ever.


9 posted on 04/22/2022 4:07:16 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: alloysteel
About as effective as neckties in preventing transmission of airborne virus.

LOL-please keep that thought to yourself--before you know it the "scientists" at Biden's CDC will have us all wearing neckties.

10 posted on 04/22/2022 4:13:58 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: PeachyKeen

The inmates have taken over and are running the asylum ...


11 posted on 04/22/2022 4:25:15 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Kaslin
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!


12 posted on 04/22/2022 4:39:42 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DaBroasta

If masks worked there wouldn’t have been a pandemic.


13 posted on 04/22/2022 4:40:10 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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To: Kaslin

Cloth masks don’t work against covid. But there will also be people that will wear a mask for the rest of there lives. Saw a man yesterday in his truck by himself with windows rolled up wearing a cloth mask. Luckily I haven’t had anyone ask me to put one on through this whole thing.


14 posted on 04/22/2022 4:50:31 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: lightman

Biden’s Burqa sings like ‘Provo’s privy.’


15 posted on 04/22/2022 4:55:17 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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To: Adder

And the dumbest thing about masks is the number of people who don’t take them off when not in use, but just tuck them under their chin, still attached to their ears.

It’s one of the stupidest looking things I have ever seen.


16 posted on 04/22/2022 4:58:24 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

Dumbest by far, healthcare professionals who touch/fuss with their muzzles then go to touch a patient/work surface/instrument without washing/sanitizing their hands first.

And I’ve seen that many times.

I have had to say something, BTW.

Every time.

The HCP never catches it, nor has any colleague who’s seen it.


17 posted on 04/22/2022 5:05:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: DaBroasta

Fearless men, who jump and die. It sings!


18 posted on 04/22/2022 5:47:15 AM PDT by SharpenedEdge (Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
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To: alloysteel

“ Sometime about the late 19050’s or early 1960’s it became increasingly so that men no longer wore hats.”

I believe JFK started the hatless trend. The ladies loved his flowing coiffure.


19 posted on 04/22/2022 6:02:39 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Kaslin
while leaving other passengers, with vaccination and/or natural immunity, free to breathe and talk without a piece of cloth or fabric covering their nose and mouth.

Um, no. No one should have to have “vaccination” or natural immunity to be free. Whether someone is “vaccinated”, or has had “COVID”, is irrelevant. NONE of the crap - the masks, the lockdowns, the “social distancing”, the “vaccine” mandates, the incredibly stupid plexiglas hanging everywhere - was EVER justified.

EVERYTHING about “COVID” is a LIE.

20 posted on 04/22/2022 6:04:45 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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