Posted on 09/06/2023 6:54:06 AM PDT by Heartlander
A day after First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms, the White House announced that President Joe Biden will once again be wearing a mask indoors and will only remove it “when sufficiently distanced from others.”
The news comes as health officials in major urban centers, including New York City and Los Angeles, are urging Americans to wear masks again, citing a new strain of Covid spreading through the country. Some colleges and universities, too, are bringing back mask mandates, as are large employers like Kaiser Permanente at its Santa Rosa, California, campus, along with a group of hospitals in New York.
An elementary school near Washington, D.C., on Tuesday imposed a mask mandate — stressing that it would be passing out KN95s, no less — on third graders after a handful of kids tested positive for Covid.
Here we go again.
Having gotten a taste of what unlimited power and authority they could wield under the pretext of pandemic management, the American public health bureaucracy — aided and encouraged by Democrats at every level of government — is gearing up to reassert control over our lives, dictating what we can and can’t do, where we can and can’t go, and what counts, or doesn’t count, as an “essential business.” The reemergence of mask mandates is simply the first sign of what’s to come.
And it doesn’t matter at all to them that masks have been more or less conclusively shown not to work. Over the weekend, CNN’s Michael Smerconish confronted Anthony Fauci with a study from earlier this year, the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the efficacy of masking during Covid, which found that masking made no difference.
As the study’s lead author, Tom Jefferson of Oxford University said in an interview in February that there’s no evidence that masks, whether N95s or the plain cloth types, had any effect, “Full stop.” Asked about other preventative measures like hand-washing and social distancing, Jefferson said, “There’s no evidence that many of these things make any difference.”
This wasn’t some woefully flawed, nonrandomized study of the sort that too often informed slapdash policymaking during the pandemic. It was conducted by a dozen experts for a British nonprofit called Cochrane, which is considered the gold standard for health care data review and analysis. The study’s conclusions were based on the results of 78 randomized controlled trials involving more than 610,000 people in multiple countries. Areas with mask mandates, the authors found, fared no better than areas without them. As the pandemic ran its course in the U.S., this became obvious, as different states (and often cities) had different masking rules. The mandates made no difference.
Asked about this study, Fauci’s response was abject nonsense. He simply waved it off with a bit of legerdemain saying, “Yeah but there are other studies” that show masking protects at the “individual level,” even if the data show no effect of masking at the “pandemic level.”
This of course misses the point. Whatever benefits masking might offer to a specific person, there is absolutely no scientific case for masking as a matter of public policy, let alone as a coercive tactic with penalties attached to it.
The same goes for lockdowns, Covid shots, and the entire slew of pandemic-related policies that were foisted on us by a self-righteous rabble of pundits and so-called experts. They were all wrong, and those who questioned and resisted draconian Covid measures were right. Time and data analysis have left little doubt of that.
And yet calls for masking — and, just wait for it, lockdowns — are coming around again, zombielike, as if the past three years never happened, as if we don’t know what we all clearly know by now: None of it made any difference.
The reason these ideas and policies are coming around again has nothing to do with science or data or public health or epidemiology, just like the first time around. It’s not a question of science but of power.
Covid and its ever-changing variants are never going away. Like the seasonal flu, we’re always going to have some new strain of Covid around now. Public health “experts” and the Democrats who enable them will try to use these variants, however harmless they might be, as a pretext to exert control and trample the rights of law-abiding Americans. Don’t let them.
When they suggest you wear a mask, don’t do it. When they demand you wear a mask (to fly, for example) just do the bare minimum. If they try to force your kids to wear masks in school, challenge them. Insist they back up their masking policy with data that show it’s justified.
Many Americans were forced to wear masks and get the Covid shots just to keep their jobs. This was a huge violation of basic civil rights, for which we have not had a reckoning. None of the people who imposed these harmful mandates and policies on the American people have been held accountable (which is why you can still see Fauci bloviating on national TV). Remember that as you begin to see news stories about school districts and employers and local health officials floating the idea of a new mask mandate or a booster shot requirement.
Don’t ever give these people the benefit of the doubt. They aren’t interested in keeping you healthy, they’re interested in controlling you. It’s not more complicated than that.
I’ll do my part.
The bastards.
The hospitals have had two years to prepare for any “surges”.
There is no justification for another round of draconian government excesses.
My thoughts exactly.
Now we know why brandon is wearing a mask...and saying CDC says so.....even though he doesn’t have it. strange....no one around jill has it.
And they NEVER will be.
Our county Republican party just passed a resolution opposing all mask and other Covid mandates. We’ll be pushing it out to all our elected officials.
And how exactly do you stop them without the physical force that they will ultimately bring to the table?
We HAVE representation in Congress?
It’s not happening. Even in the big cities only the same 5% that never stopped wearing masks are wearing them. Nobody is responding any more to “the boy who cried COVID”.
I don’t need a mask, a vaccine, or a lockdown. I identify as COVID free.
I can’t help it, I was born that way.
Shame on you if you question me.
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!
This being California we still see random people wearing masks. What kills me are the ones who wear masks driving solo vehicles or walking outdoors (not in crowds). It is tempting to ask them why but why bother?
>What kills me are the ones who wear masks driving solo vehicles
Don’t miss this short vid.
The Branch Covidians Death Cult leader demands you wear the mask, you take your 142nd booster and obey their decrees no matter how much your common sense and logic tells you not too.
I wonder how many of the FR jab proselytizers will line up and take the latest covid booster without a second thought.
Not me.
I stopped with Moderna II in February 2021.
I’m done with it.
I CHOSE to get vaccinated....my CHOICE.
If the vaccination is even half of what it is claimed to be I really don’t give a rat’s rump whether anyone else is vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked, coughing or calm, close or distant!
I am pro VOLUNTARY vax.
I am barely tolerant VOLUNTARY mask.
I am anti MANDATORY vax.
I am vehemently anti MANDATORY mask.
I have ZERO need to “feel safe” on the basis that everyone in a venue, a health care facility, or any other place has dutifully shown their papers.
America will remain “the land of the free” ONLY if we demonstrate that we are “the home of the brave”!
Places that insist visitors wear masks will be getting a visit from me without a mask and we will just have to see what happens. Stores, churches, workplace, parks, all of them I can get to. The tyrants want a fight and they’re going to get one.
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