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Just before the end of 2020, the NCAA has gone ahead and done maybe the most 2020 thing ever. The NCAA has filed a trademark for the term “Mask Madness,” as a way to promote the wearing of masks during the Division I men’s basketball tournament known as “March Madness.” “The National Collegiate Athletic Association made the filing on Dec. 23,” Sporting News reports. “According to the filing, the NCAA wants to use the term both to promote public awareness about the benefits of wearing masks, along with advertising and marketing around masks as a protection of viral infections.

A video recorded in Jacksonville, N.C. appears to show the manager of an AMC movie theater refusing to allow a reportedly disabled child from entering the theater without a mask, and calling the police to escort her distraught family from the scene. The child, who was in a stroller at the time of the incident, is reportedly non-verbal and has a condition that precludes her use of a mask or face shield. The child's family members were all wearing masks. Police officers were ultimately asked to escort the upset family from the theater. The Jacksonville, S.C. Police Department and the...

YouTube has censored a video from former congressman Ron Paul, known for his trailblazing presidential campaigns against the Republican establishment in 2008 and 2012. Paul, who is a medical doctor, was censored for “medical misinformation.” “Very disturbing news: YouTube has pulled an episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report and issued a “warning” that any more violations will result in our not being able to put up more programs,” said Paul on Twitter. According to Paul, his video was taken down for “medical misinformation.” Before entering Congress, Paul enjoyed a long career as a medical doctor. He obtained his medical...

Ricky Ricardo is attacked by feral covid mask.

April 19, 2020: “Costco will require all shoppers to wear face masks inside stores.” December 24, 2020: “COVID-19 outbreak at Yakima-area Costco leads to at least 68 staff testing positive.”April 19, 2020: “Costco will require all shoppers to wear face masks inside stores”Source: https://www.today.com/food/costco-requires-all-shoppers-wear-face-masks-inside-stores-t180196December 24, 2020:“COVID-19 outbreak at Yakima-area Costco leads to at least 68 staff testing positive”Source: https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/covid-19-outbreak-at-yakima-area-costco-leads-to-at-least-68-staff-testing-positive/article_ec9be93a-46c0-11eb-9a32-6f4a30d7f576.html

Masks do not work. You just think they do. Like the dumbest of sheep, a multitude of Americans walk around like zombies in blind obedience to an evil cabal intent on stripping all liberty from the citizens of the United States. The ghouls behind this PLANNED-demic are sitting around their corporate board rooms chuckling at how easy it was to gain total control over a mind-numbed citizenry. This entire lock-down has never been about a virus, my friends. It has been about conditioning the American people to blindly obey the edicts of a totally out of control government. All they...

MURRAY, Utah — A woman in Utah says she was told not to return to a Salt Lake County business for asking an employee to wear a mask. Nicole Taylor says she wanted all-season tires put on her car. So, she went to Jeffery P. Davis Automotive in Murray.(snip) After the tires were put on her car, Taylor says she went to pay, and noticed the receptionist wasn’t wearing a mask. “She was coughing,” said Taylor. “I had a mask on. I asked her if she could put a mask on while I paid. I even offered to give her...

Nearly 40% of voters say they'll be ready to stop wearing masks in public in three months or less, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Among the 39% of respondents who indicated as much, the largest share — 27% — said they were "already comfortable" doing so, while 5% said it would be "a month or so" before they felt that way and 7% said it would be "two to three months." A 53% majority of voters, meanwhile, said they'd feel comfortable discarding their masks in three to six months (14%), more than six...

The pandemic has shown how much America has changed for the worse. Our American ancestors were incredibly courageous people but today, we live in fear—of illness, of our fellow neighbors, of intellectual diversity, of alternative ideas, of climate change, of dying from COVID. The world never stopped before because of a virus. How did Americans become conditioned to be so fearful? Dennis's column: When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed

Just under 30% say they already feel comfortable foregoing one. Nearly 40% of voters say they'll be ready to stop wearing masks in public in three months or less, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Among the 39% of respondents who indicated as much, the largest share — 27% — said they were "already comfortable" doing so, while 5% said it would be "a month or so" before they felt that way and 7% said it would be "two to three months." A 53% majority of voters, meanwhile, said they'd feel comfortable discarding their...

“Put your damn mask on” said a guy three seats behind me on a Southwest Airline flight heading to Washington, D.C. to the passenger walking down the aisle. The man's mask had slid down under his nose as he negotiated his carry-on bag while holding his little daughter’s hand. I turned around to see who was making such a demand so rudely. Just as I suspected, it was the guy who came aboard sporting a full N95 mask, face shield cover and surgical gloves. Forget for a moment that the father’s mask slipping actually posed zero risk to the hazmat-protected,...

The Washington Football Team said it is aware of pictures on social media showing quarterback Dwayne Haskins not wearing a mask while attending an event with strippers. The team said Tuesday it will handle the incident internally. Haskins tweeted an apology, saying he spoke with coach Ron Rivera on Monday and "took full responsibility for putting the team at risk. It was irresponsible and immature and I accept responsibility for my action." He also issued an apology to his teammates for "creating a distraction during our playoff push."

Three men who were kicked out of a packed California strip club for refusing to wear face coverings returned with an AK-47 and wounded three people in a drive-by shooting, authorities said. Edgar Nava-Ayala, 34, Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, 22, and Juan Jose Acosta-Soto, 20, were tossed out of the Sahara Theater in Anaheim on Halloween after breaking the jiggle joint’s mask mandate, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

The first televised victims of Covid were collapsing in the streets everywhere in Wuhan. For the rest of the world, the vast majority learned they had Covid via a test or having flu-like symptoms. Covid is now essentially non-existent in Wuhan, its birth place, while it grows more infectious in virtually all other parts of the world. The Covid survival rate is 99.98% but wearing a mask and closing down the economy is necessary. Mask wearing and shutdowns has essentially eliminated the flu. Wearing a mask in a restaurant from the door to where you are seated will reduce the...

Here, life has felt incredibly normal. It's also revealed how abnormal the lifestyle I followed in Virginia really was.OCALA, Fla. — Last Sunday I plopped a steaming hashbrown casserole and a bowl of freshly sliced oranges down on one of a row of endless folding tables covered in those flimsy plastic tablecloths you get at the dollar store. The casseroles were outnumbered only by the pans of homemade cinnamon rolls, and the fruit section was meager: it was a good Southern Baptist potluck. Church ladies buzzed around, removing tin foil from tin pans and putting serving spoons in each dish,...

There’s no evidence that that slowed down the [spread]. … The trajectory of the virus hasn’t been altered at all by any of these things. And the masks are different, too. The N95 mask actually does work to a certain extent, if worn properly and used [with] sterile technique. In the hospital, our doctors — I have a brother and sister who are doctors, they wear the N95 mask, and it’s kept them from getting infected — but there’s no value to the cloth mask, at all. It’s like wearing your underwear. You might as well cut your underwear up...

In an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) weighs in on the idea of a mask mandate. Video...

I have no other words for this... https://twitter.com/rubinreport/status/1340099167964688386?s=21

...Vice President-elect Kamala Harris says there will be "no punishment" for people who violate President-elect Joe Biden's 100-day mask mandate...

George Clooney wants you to know that if you don’t agree with his stance on mask etiquette, you are a “dumba**.” The Batman star told radio shock jock Howard Stern all about how the government forcing anyone to cover up their face is NOT a violation of their freedom. Clooney has a long history of “Hollywood-splaining” to the average American. The Hollywood elite likes to fancy himself as an average guy from Kentucky, but the basic fact is that he is all left coast liberal.