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Dr. Ashish Jha Advocates For More Mask Mandates: 'It Really Will Make A Difference'
Townhall.com ^ | 17 July A.D. 2022 | Scott Morefield

Posted on 07/17/2022 3:52:20 PM PDT by lightman

Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Wuhan Coronavirus Response Coordinator, advocated for the return of state and local mask mandates during a Sunday morning media appearance.

With the rise of the BA.5 subvariant, the usual suspects are again peddling the same tired "solutions" they've hawked for more than two years. Among the tiredest are mask mandates, which have consistently been shown to have negligible effects on transmission rates when areas with mandates are compared to those without them.

This time around though, with deaths and hospitalizations remaining fairly low and the vast majority of cases being something akin to a common cold, the public doesn't seem to be buying into the media hysteria.

It's a pattern reporter Martha Raddatz lamented when interviewing Jha on ABC's "This Week," saying: "You know, I have to say I’ve been traveling again this week, on airplanes, in airports. So few people wearing masks, and in New York City, where they have a 15% positivity rate, The New York Times described it as kind of a 'meh' reaction to this variant. So what do you do?"

Jha responded by claiming, without evidence, that wearing a mask indoors "reduces your risk of infection and reduces your risk of spreading it to others."

Raddatz brought up the fact that Los Angeles County is again considering an indoor mask mandate before asking Jha if that is something he would "support."

"Should other states look at this?" she asked.

"Yeah, my view on this has been for two years, well before I came into this current role, my view on this has been very clear, which is local jurisdictions, cities, counties and states should make decisions about mask mandates because communities are different and their patterns of transmission are different," he responded.

"That said, C.D.C. has clear guidance on this as well through their Covid community levels and the CDC recommendation is that when you’re in a high zone, that sort of orange zone, as l.a. county is, people wearing masks indoors in really important and it really will make a difference."

Finally, if you somehow missed the memo that mask mandates have more to do with politics than any actual attempt at stopping Covid, consider this tidbit about Los Angeles County's actual 'from' Covid hospitalization rate:

L.A. update: "As of this morning we have no one in the hospital who had pulmonary disease due to COVID. Nobody in the hospital. We have 24 people who have tested positive for COVID but nobody, nobody who had COVID-19 diease as we would see in the past."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: branchcovidians; covid1984; invasion; itllworkthistime; mask; masks; scamdemic; shamdemic; thistimeforsure; whitehousetaskforce
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To: lightman

Nope.

If Karen and Kyle want to wear masks, they can.

But you ain’t mandating cr@p, you little power-tripping nobody.


21 posted on 07/17/2022 4:24:15 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: csvset

His Tie is too tight it’s making his head swell up


22 posted on 07/17/2022 4:25:10 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lightman

Is this an election year where Democrats would benefit from mail in ballot fraud? Not saying it is, just crossed my mind as a possibility.


23 posted on 07/17/2022 4:26:48 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: csvset

Look at the size of that cranium!

It’s got its own weather system!


24 posted on 07/17/2022 4:27:57 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: butlerweave
And most if them have an IQ of a brick. Ask them why they can smell smoke through the mask, but how that same mask keeps out viruses that are the same size as a smoke particle?!

When I see a mask, I question the intelligence behind it!

25 posted on 07/17/2022 4:29:24 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (When Ashli Babbitt’s video-taped murderer Michael Byrd is indicted, I’ll start paying attention.)
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To: lightman

Hey Doc, I think you’re deadlier than Doc Holliday. Do not set foot in Texas, por favor.


26 posted on 07/17/2022 4:35:13 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

You need this T-shirt:

“If you can smell my f@rt
Your mask isn’t stopping s#it”


27 posted on 07/17/2022 4:37:02 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

so if BA.5 subvariant is extremely contagious then a mask is no good and hand sanitizer would work better , with all the face touching and phones


28 posted on 07/17/2022 4:40:19 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: lightman

“reduces your risk of infection and reduces your risk of spreading it to others.”


First it was “wearing a mask does not to protect you but protects others

Then it was “wearing a mask helps prevent you from getting the kung flu”

Now they combined them....

Next?? “Wearing a mask protects you from getting the kung flu, prevents you from giving the kung flu and increases your chances of winning the lottery by 50%!!!!


29 posted on 07/17/2022 4:49:35 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh; Rebelbase

That bird 🐦 flew right into his head!

Like he couldn’t avoid it!


30 posted on 07/17/2022 4:58:50 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: lightman

What is this talk of “mandates” in a constitutionaly free country?

It is all nonsense. Never give in.


31 posted on 07/17/2022 4:58:59 PM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

People still wearing masks are probably either just virtue signaling, or they belong to the cult of Fraudchi.


32 posted on 07/17/2022 5:37:54 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: csvset

...another in a long line of little brown socialists...a Fauci-style TRUE believer.


33 posted on 07/17/2022 5:42:08 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: lightman

Nope. Masks make zero difference but they do cause disease and mental issues in many people; especially the young.


34 posted on 07/17/2022 6:32:37 PM PDT by Boomer ( George Orwell: “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”)
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To: No name given

People still wearing masks are probably either just virtue signaling, or they belong to the cult of Fraudchi.

Amazon is selling Anthony Fauci votive candles. What sick weirdo would buy them?


35 posted on 07/17/2022 6:46:05 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: drSteve78

So spoke Dr. Ahshit Jihad Moran!!! Sarcasm I think!!


36 posted on 07/17/2022 6:55:39 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: lightman

muzzles or training burkas


37 posted on 07/17/2022 7:24:07 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: SisterK
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!


38 posted on 07/17/2022 7:26:53 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
When I see a mask, I question the intelligence behind it!

yep
it is an IQ test/independent thinking gauge

39 posted on 07/17/2022 7:28:10 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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To: lightman

compliance

and as a whole, this nation folded like a cheap suit


40 posted on 07/17/2022 7:30:43 PM PDT by SisterK (recognize and resist tyranny)
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