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."
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KMA you bitty
Show me the science, Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Wuhan Coronavirus Response Coordinator, show me the SCIENCE!! Show me any controlled experiment that concludes anything other than the FACT that these masks do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reduce the transmission of the Covid-19 virus. SHOW ME THE SCIENCE, “ Doctor “ !!!!
We must refuse this foolishness, on the basis of THE SCIENCE!!
Prove it, or give it up.
Wearing a mask made a difference in Kansas. But the wrong one. Mask counties had a significantly higher death rate than those with no mandate. Guess the idiot missed that one, since it doesn't fit the narrative.
God created us to exhale freely.
Rebreathing your exhale is not healthy. Period.
My dad lived by himself on 50+ acres and, on the rare cases that he did go out in public, he wore a mask everywhere, - and he still died of COVID. This guy can go to hell.
uh, sheesh
People are O.V.E.R. it, sheesh.
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