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."
Sheeple must comply! Or die!
Most of the people I see indoors shopping etc are still wearing masks
Uh... Dr. Jha: no. Emphatically NO!
Yup, it will make a difference.
It will sicken and kill more people who increase their viral load as they wear their face diapers all the time.
+1
As well as suppress their immune systems.
Here in NH it depends on where you are.
In the more liberal areas of the state, they are still mask compliant.
In some areas, even when the masking was mandated, there were businesses which fought it, were blown in, and won in court.
One business I’ve seen has a sign in the door to please wear your mask for just a little while longer. The sign has been in the door for over 6 months now. Funny how nobody defines what *just a little while longer* is.
I refuse to give any business that does something like that any business. If and when the sign comes down, I may patronize it, but having been forewarned, maybe not either. it’s not like there aren’t other places to buy similar goods.
Hard to believe the ongoing cowardice of the people still gleefully wearing them. Especially the cone faces, the super masks.
.to the mask lovers:...so you are to be a cone-faced loser the rest of your day life? You look so ridiculous! Cowards!
Probably going to be a pretty tough sell this election.
Thank God I live in the middle of Nebraska. I’m not masking up again. If your business requires a mask, you just lost my business. Masks are just about training people to be controlled by fear, by an elitist government, as a distraction from what’s really going on. Wake Up America.
Although it’s common for people to refer to leftists as “liberal”, I always take exception that that. There is nothing “liberal” about these people, who are the REAL fascists. The6 have no problems using massive violence to get their way.
I get your point. They certainly are not open minded about anything.
Screw you Deep State and your dummy.
Is that a joke?
He or she should post the studies being relied on to say it will make a difference. If they hold water, maybe I’d believe a word or two this tyrant’s minion has to say. Otherwise, it sounds like just more ‘Rat lies.
I dont see anyone. They are fine with it.
I dont see anyone. They are fine with it.
done with it, not fine with it.
Dear Dr. Haji, wank off, bastard !
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