Four US states are 3+ weeks removed from lifting their statewide or county level mask mandates.
Not one has seen an increase in Covid hospitalizations since.
Given what we’ve been told by experts about the importance of masks & mandates, would you think that should be possible?
I myself am extremely confused, since I’ve heard it said by many, many experts and politicians that masks are the most important public health tool, that mask mandates are effective, that they’re a “game-changing scientific breakthrough”, that they’re like a vaccine, etc.I’ve been told that masks are science. They’re incontrovertible science. Inarguable science. Questioning how important or effective they are is equivalent to questioning gravity. Experts have said they work. And we must always trust the experts and Believe in Science™
As this Atlanta paper points out, the greatest crime anyone can commit is ignoring experts. Experts are infallible and MUST be listened to
Oh what’s that? The entire region followed the same curves regardless of interventions or expert following? Irrelevant! Follow them. Always.
[And] If you were wondering how it’s going in Germany since they mandated “more effective” medical grade masks, on 2/3 they were averaging 10,930 new cases per day. Today it’s 14,416, or a 32% increase.But remember! Masks are a “game changing scientific breakthrough”, says science
That’s right everyone, we should be “popping the champagne”! Masks are a crucial way to help “prevent the spread of the pandemic”!It’s science!
Remember that time liberals were right about something they forced on people? Yeah… me neither.
Forcing people to wear masks maybe they should force all the Liberal Demo rats wear masks to cover their whole face so would,nt have to see their dumb faces anymore
Coronavirus cases down across Mississippi; death rate has plummeted since January high
Published 11:31 am Monday, March 29, 2021
Graph shows continued lowering of rates of disease and deaths.
For the sake of idiots, the TOTAL number of deaths graph continues to go up, naturally.
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https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-reports-39-covid-19-cases-no-new-deaths/article_af523c65-3d45-5950-b993-2eed7974156f.html
Montana reports 39 COVID-19 cases, no new deaths
The site reported 935 active cases, compared to 974 last Monday and 1,041 two weeks ago.
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The Trump-incited panic on the part of the Left is subsiding, but a new lower level fear is still being propagated as it is the best way to force Americans to “Show Me Your Papers!”
@Nan G: Why would the same people that impose strict mask-wearing and social distancing rules upon everyone they possibly can be taking illegal immigrants KNOWN to be carrying the virus and spread all around the country? Well, because the battle against the virus is being won (thanks to Trump) and the excuse used to crush civil rights and liberties of citizens is quickly fading away. So, they need MORE infection.
The U.S. fatality count will soon exceed 550,000. Over 100,000,000 adults have been vaccinated, with a new goal of 200,000,000 in another 40 days. All the numbers were looking much, much better. And then people began blowing off masks and social distancing measures, started traveling, and many decided there’s really no need to be vaccinated…
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, on Monday:
I’m reminded of the movie Jaws, where they’ve successfully killed some random shark and jubilant city officials decide it’s safe to immediately reopen the beaches.
I turned on the FOX News channel an hour or so ago. They were running President Biden’s live COVID-19 update where he was pleading for people to be patient just a little while longer, but without the audio. FOX News nitwits were talking over him, essentially telling viewers the pandemic was all over and extolling the resumption of normal activities. Later, no doubt, there will be the predictable snarky Twitter and forum posts about how inept and confused Biden seemed, eagerly read by people who didn’t hear a word he said.
@Greg: No data supports masks and shut downs affecting the spread. NONE. It’s all about control and suppression with Democrats.
@Greg: @Greg:
This woman is nothing more than a political hack who is not following science but following the agenda of her handlers. First she says in the beginning of February it is safe to open the schools
“There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated.”
OK, so she is following the “data” but only to change her mind two weeks later claiming
“”I think we need a lot more resources in order to get the schools safe.”
So which is it? Did she have the “data” or not, did the “data” change and if so, which data is she linking her opinion to?
Of course you are. You live in the world of fantasy. There is NO giant shark going to jump in a boat and eat the crew and the NPR portal shows the BLUE states are the ones with the spikes, not the red states who have decided that enough with the socialist bullshit. Open our nation now.
@retire05:
Like Psaki when she blurted out the “c” word, I’m sure this mouthpiece got spanked for letting too much truth leak out.
@retire05, #7:
Dr. Walensky has degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology from Washington University, a Masters Degree in public health from Harvard, and an M.D. from John Hopkins. She has been a professor at Harvard Medical School for 8 years and has served as Chief of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts for 3 years. She’s considered to be an expert on AIDS and HIV.
She was quick to point out that how successful COVID-19 vaccine would be at stopping the pandemic depend as much upon the speed and effectiveness with which it could be widely distributed and utilized as on the effectiveness of the vaccine itself. Her understanding of that likely had something to do with her appointment.
I suppose you could consider that somehow political, since the Trump administration had developed no national strategy for rapid deployment and mass vaccinations, deciding instead to leave that all up to individual states.
The right idiotically made essential public health responses like mask wearing and social distancing into political issues, promoting childish defiance of common sense behavior. Thousands of people have died unnecessarily because of such stupidity. We’ll never know the full extent of the damage that did, either in lost lives or enormous economic costs.
@Greg:
Suddenly state governments are not able to find people to use a syringe? Centralized federales are required? The red states seem to be doing just fine, NY had lots of burps, You said you got the jab, was Biden there to keep you calm and give full instructions to the inept medical professionals, is he able to do that for the entire population?
I hope you know how far down the stupid trail this thinking is.
@Greg:
One thing we can always count on; give you a couple of hours and you will edit your original post.
Nothing you said does anything to eliminate the fact that Rochelle Walensky is nothing more than a(n educated) political hack.
@Greg:
That’s how our Constiitutional Republic works Zhang. Also funny that NATIONAL PLAN WAS ANNOUNCED AND POSTED DURING THE ENTIRE OUTBREAK AND INTO 2021.
Trump saved millions by shutting down the country when Democrats, including dictator Biden, said that was wrong.
Vaccine rollout, by the millions started in 2020 during Trump’s first term.
Biden is merely executing the plan.
Now he and the rest of Democrats should answer for the caged kids, dying kids, and re-ignition of issues that Trump decisively solved.
#BidenBorderCrisis
Easy for the historians to spell.