Posted on 07/27/2022 6:28:24 AM PDT by artichokegrower
:: deaths and hospitalizations are lower thanks to the availability of vaccines and treatments ::
Mutations of a virus are ALWAYS less dangerous while being more contagious.
The mutations are naturally reducing to the original virus.
In this case, the common corona-virus.
It’s just a bad cold.
More deaths after the vax than before.
I look upon California as a failed state that is a no-go zone.
Some people just carry a fetish about these G-D masks.
When the Bee finally closes it’s offices, I will hand out free toilet paper by the front door, for people of no fixed abode to use it’s front entrance as a sanitary convenience.
Good luck.
Leftists will hue and cry about 1st Amendment protections and \force\ the government to subsidize failed and bankrupt media outlets...
...even more than they do now.
Too late. We already have. But if we go back and start that stuff again we will have a Great Depression on steroids.
“Masks are detrimental to children’s development.”
That means more money for school speech therapists, resource teachers, psychologists, social workers.....
(I’m not kidding)
It’s a cult. The same people often wore something purple from 2016-2020 to #RESIST. Every June their social media profiles have a rainbow flag and right now, have a Ukraine flag. It’s a virtue signaling cult.
The towns in the North State completely ignored Newsom’s mask edict. I was there visiting during that time and very few people were masked.
If a person wants to walk around with a paper muzzle on their face, well fine. Do so, but don’t try to force others to do the same.
Okay slow people, what does that tell you about the old masks?
Even so, we need constant exposure to to bacteria and viruses of all sorts to keep our immune systems strong. Children need to see faces and lips to develop language skills. These eff’n morons need to cut pushing this crap. There is no positive science behind mass masking. I volunteer to be part of the control group that doesn’t mask, that doesn’t socially distant and doesn’t vax. So STFU moron cowards.
Anyone who wants can wear a mask. No skin off my back.
Just don’t require me to wear one of the useless things.
“has largely abandoned basic precautions like mask-wearing that limited its spread.”
Because it doesn’t. And apparently it doesn’t prevent the spread of Covid either. biden has had at least 5 jabs and still got it. I guess it isn’t a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ anymore, but a ‘pandemic’ of the sheeple.
In Northern CA (Sacramento isn’t Northern CA) mask use went away pretty quickly. There are still some of the Birkenstock/man-with-ponytail/ flameroo liberal bunch that are faithful to the religion that mandates the covering of the lower face. Should you see a masked one, take a good look at (Insert pronoun). You will mutter, “It figures.”
Am I being gratuitously nasty?
Prior to my recent retirement I worked at a large hardware store in the Bay Area. The majority of my coworkers continue to wear masks, despite there being no mandates. Do they all live with at-risk elders?
These are the people who will be the first to die in a real emergency.
If it wasn’t for people posting moronic articles like this on FR, almost no one would ever read it.
Here is the half-truth big lie that makes it clear the author is promoting scare tactics to try to control the public.
They said: “While deaths and hospitalizations are lower thanks to the availability of vaccines and treatments,”
That’s a lie. Yes deaths and hospitalizations are lower but that is because the new variant while seemingly better at infecting us is proving less lethal/severe in terms of illness we get from it - regardless of vaccinations and current treatments.
The virus is on a natural trend of similar viruses, more people get it but it is less of a problem for more people. That is nature’s way of how a virus survives - killing fewer hosts. The variants that kill fewer hosts die out less frequently than do variants that kill more of their hosts. “Being fit” for viruses means NOT killing the hosts it depends on.
These mandatory mask wearers should have to first wipe their butts with the mask before wearing them to prove their intense idiocy and ignorance to the fact these masks cause disease, they stink even before they wipe their butts with them, and they are literally petri dishes of disease causing bacteria.
Mask wearers outside specific conditions like surgery are just nasty.
When will folks figure out that all of these issues have a shred of truth to them. However, politics and business interests distort them for their own benefit and what you end up with is often laughable.
Masks that do not work.
Quarantines and social distancing that have not reduced the total number infected in the end (it just slows it down - However, that can be an argument for quarantines in its own right as this prevents the health care system from being over taxed).
Closing beaches and Jacuzzi's... what exactly was the logic behind that? Are they worried that salt water, high temperatures, UV light, sand or so much chlorine that it beeches the clothes and hair might help spread covid? Where do you think you're more at risk of contacting Covid: (1) in Biden's White House, a in a meeting with Newsome, in most peoples home or (2) at a beach?
MOST of what was done didn't even make any frigging sense. They just said it did, and because they said so, it must be true.
***It was literally a mass exercise of government directed stupidity where every little bureaucrat and politician wanted to make a name for themselves using this issue. Then of course you had those making billions off this issue (hospitals, pharma...). And finally you had the MSM that had their story which captivated the audience 24/7.***
You had fools like Cuomo actually doing the OPPOSITE, of what made any sort of rational sense and likely is responsible for the death of hundreds if not thousands of elderly people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_COVID-19_nursing_home_scandal
And then there are the true believers, the folks that if someone in a white lab coat and with a big title tells them to electrocute their neighbors kid, they would. The true believers simply “believe” and while they use phrases like “following the science,” that is hardly the case.
The die hard true believers still think everyone should drink the cool aid, even though you see folks dropping dead from it. The true believers see the greater good, the higher purpose, and if need be they will force it own your throat. It's always been that way, may it by some idiot in a brown shirt, some idiot in Jonestown, some idiot burning people at a stake, some idiot persecuting folks on trumped up charges of being communists...
We are now at a point where only the true believers are still clinging to their alternate version of reality anmd of course you need to do what they say, or else!
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