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Democrats dismissing their own rules don’t face the same consequences of their subjects. Here are some of their excuses you may use. Two years after the introduction of the novel Wuhan coronavirus in America, children still risk suspension from school if they don’t wear masks, businesses face government fines and closures for inadequate Covid compliance, and patients struggle alone as hospitals maintain bans on family visits. The ability of Democrat politicians to live under the umbrella of rules for thee but not for me also remains more alive than ever. As the mask police continue to patrol school hallways and...

I ordered a Haynes car manual for my kid, but he never got it and I cannot even find the order, so I decided to stop at Half Price books to see if they had one. I walked in and the one of the employees saw me and made a noise like he is being strangled, another one said "You have to have a mask, there are some right there" I said no thanks, "If you don't put on a mask you cannot be in the store" I said really loudly It's ok I am just looking for your Security...

A female student at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts is seen on video being arrested for trespassing on campus in September. After getting expelled for multiple mask violations and being denied a medical exemption, Morgan Mack was allegedly on campus to retrieve her laptop from her car Sept. 12 when the police and Interim Director of Campus Safety Debra Duncan met her. “Video shows Duncan holding her down on the pavement,” wrote The College Fix correspondent Charles Hilu. The student can be heard on camera saying she was on a hunger strike and had not had water for two days,...

MY getting ordered out of the library today. *suddenly* masks are required to enter AGAIN. New rule because the hellhole of denver, colorado runs the library system. "Sir, you can't come in here without a mask!" quoth the mask enforcer. "This is bullsh*t" quoth Dynachrome *New rule" quoth the mask stalinist. "Bullsh*t quoth Dynachrome and exited while giving the finger to the sad looking little gulag guard.

This is a graphic demonstration of the fallacy of masks for the prevention of virus infections.

We all knew this was coming. The same people who were wrong for over a year about the power of surgical masks — at a very painful cost to our children and society — are now seamlessly pivoting to their new position without ever apologizing for their original mistakes. They now want children to wear the even more cruel N95 masks. The twisted irony is that after causing more discomfort and potential medical harms to children, they will still not provide protection against the virus. Like a dog returning to his vomit, Scott Gottleib, a former FDA administrator under Obama,...

Over the past months, many states and the federal government have advised or even required individuals to wear masks in order to stop or slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Taking this relatively small step can significantly reduce the potential of virus transmission — serving as an effective way to protect both ourselves and others. Wearing a face covering of some sort seems like an easy choice to make for the greater good (provided, of course, that you do not have a disability that makes you unable to wear a mask). Yet this pandemic has illuminated another way in...

Since I’m spending this week vacationing with my family in Newport Beach, I thought I’d talk to my son Cameron and let him do a little ranting. Cameron is 43. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two little girls, ages 3 and 5. His wife works full-time as a home loan processor and he has one of the toughest jobs in the world – stay-at-home dad. That means for the last 15 months Cameron has been the parent who’s had to deal the most with the unpredictable craziness of California’s oppressive and unpredictable war on COVID-19. He...

My 9-year-old daughter came home from camp two weeks ago after playing three hours of outdoor tennis in a mask. “I thought I was going to faint,” she told me, looking ill after playing in 98-degree weather. Later that afternoon the camp, run by the Sidwell Friends School, called to complain about her mask compliance. We’re now 16 months into the pandemic and children remain victims of the Covid political theater that has characterized the national debate about masks ever since. We’ve had an entire school year to prove what scientists have said all along: Children aren’t major vectors of...

Here in America, when viewed from a 35,000 foot perspective, we have to look like the inside of an insane asylum regarding the current ‘mask war’ battle taking place at the moment. None of it is based on any kind of hard science at all, but rather on feelings, class status and a firm desire to control the very thoughts of other people. On Thursday, pretend president Joe Biden issued a cryptic threat via Twitter, telling people “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.” Yet, at the exact same...

Grocery stores in central Pennsylvania will continue to require masks, despite new guidance released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new policy states fully vaccinated people do not have to wear masks in most places, including crowded outdoor events. However, the federal agency advised even those who are vaccinated to wear masks in crowded indoor settings like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters. The guidance, which unions and industry groups say could put workers’ safety at risk, complicates rules for retailers, who have no way to determine whether employees and shoppers have been fully vaccinated....

BURT PRELUTSKY / MAY 10, 2021 Mask Hysteria If ever a treatment was worse than the disease, this was it. If this past year has taught us anything, it’s that even Americans can be so easily manipulated, they will quickly surrender their freedom and liberties, including those enshrined in the Constitution. All that was required was that those with political authority scared us into acquiescence by pretending that a virus that was far less lethal than the seasonal flu marked the return of the Black Plague. The people who died were the old and those with decrepit immune systems. To...

Scientists found that some face masks used by the general public are laced with toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens and environmental pollutants. Michael Braungart, a German chemist and the scientific director of environmental nonprofit Hamburg Environmental Institute, carried out tests on face masks that people had worn shortly before developing rashes on the face. He detected formaldehyde, aniline and other toxic chemicals in the used masks. Formaldehyde is used to give new face masks a “clean” smell. It is classified as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization‘s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer. Inhaling formaldehyde over a short...

When I see people walking outside, often alone with no one anywhere near them, wearing a mask, my primary reactions are disappointment and sadness. I am disappointed because I expected better from my fellow Americans. I never thought most Americans would be governed by irrational fears and unquestioning obedience to authority. I have come to realize that I had a somewhat romanticized view of my countrymen. Had you told me a year ago that nearly every American in nearly every metropolitan area would cover their faces for over a year because one man, one political party and the media told...

Sarah Palin has tested positive for COVID-19, and she's urging others to continue taking the pandemic seriously. The former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee-turned-TV personality confirms in a statement to PEOPLE that she contracted the coronavirus as did some of her family members, including 12-year-old son Trig. Of her diagnosis, Palin explains that it began when "one of my daughters awoke to having lost her sense of taste and smell [and] immediately had a positive COVID test, then was quarantined in isolation. "I then observed symptoms in my son Trig, who curiously is the most enthusiastic...

Video: Woman arguing for masks almost passes out from wearing a mask. When someone asked her how one school district without masks was doing well, she answered, “I don’t care.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTySjrIRHE

The Idaho Falls District 91 School Board of Trustees meeting became heated Tuesday afternoon during a discussion on masks. The board spoke about bringing all students back to school five days a week rather than the current schedule of meeting in-person Monday through Thursday. The topic then turned to masks. “The CDC is recommending that all phases of schools reopening, no matter what the community transmission is like, (is) to continue masking so you can stay in school,” Board of Trustees Chair Lara Hill said. “If our goal is to educate our children in our district and keep them in...

A year into the pandemic, a lot has changed. And we're reminded of that every time we go outside (if we go outside). Masks have joined the traditional don't-leave-home-without-them trifecta of keys, wallets and phones - and they are here to stay. There are folks who hate them, who can't breathe through them, or who think they're a sign of political oppression. But for others, the widespread use of masks has made the past year one of liberation. With a mask, you can sing in the grocery store, talk to yourself on a walk, grimace in the gym, leave the...

Covid Derangement Syndrome — it’s real, and there was a massive outbreak of it this week. Three states announced they were ending the absurd yearlong “mask mandates,” and the left’s collective head exploded in outrage. The reason is because this isn’t about public health anymore, or even politics, if it ever was. COVID is now the state religion, and the decisions by these GOP governors aren’t seen as a policy dispute, they’re considered heresy. Only an infidel or an apostate denies that there is a … mild seasonal virus out there. Half the population cowers in abject terror — afflicted...

She did it! MeeMaw, our "beloved" dictator governor extended the mask mandate until April 9. No freedom for us! EDITORIAL NOTE: This is the only ping I'm going to give on this subject. I am disgusted with the china virus.