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Politics of The Mask
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Nurses Union to CDC: Bring Back the Mask Mandate
Well, I guess we should have expected this to happen with the Delta variant. The nation’s largest registered nurses’ union is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate the mask mandate to curb the spread of coronavirus. They already were against the loosening of regulations concerning the vaccinated. They say their call to reinstate the mask protocols is based on science, and that no vaccine is 100 percent effective. They can go shove it (via The Hill):
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...created-covid-n2592424?utm_campaign=inarticle
Well, I guess we should have expected this to happen with the Delta variant. The nation’s largest registered nurses’ union is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate the mask mandate to curb the spread of coronavirus. They already were against the loosening of regulations concerning the vaccinated. They say their call to reinstate the mask protocols is based on science, and that no vaccine is 100 percent effective. They can go shove it (via The Hill):
Oh, go to hell, lady. We’re done with all this stuff. The pandemic is over. Sorry, but states are loosening regulations and we’re not going back. All three vaccines are effective against the Delta variant. And the masks that you have fetishized don’t curb the spread of COVID. Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that store-bought masks do nothing to stop the spread so can we please stop the science fiction. Also, following the advice of the China-infested WHO as well?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...created-covid-n2592424?utm_campaign=inarticle
Anthony Fauci Is Wrong About the Need for 3-Year-Olds To Wear Masks
Fauci expressed concern that unvaccinated, unmasked kids could contract the disease and spread it to adults who might be at greater risk of negative health outcomes.
But this is rapidly becoming an unpersuasive reason to require masks, given that all American adults who want to get a vaccine are basically able to do so, and 90 percent of the most vulnerable population—seniors—are already vaccinated. In other words, it's increasingly unlikely that a sick child would spread COVID-19 to someone who would be in serious danger of dying from it, unless this hypothetical person obstinately refused to take the vaccine. And in that case, it doesn't seem fair to continue to require children—who are not themselves particularly vulnerable to COVID-19—to continue masking up.
Make no mistake: Unvaccinated children have as much natural protection from COVID-19 as vaccinated seniors do, according to Brown University economist Emily Oster, who writes that parents shouldn't be so quick to abandon their summer plans due to the delta variant.
"Twice a close-to-zero risk is still close to zero," notes Oster.
Fauci expressed concern that unvaccinated, unmasked kids could contract the disease and spread it to adults who might be at greater risk of negative health outcomes.
But this is rapidly becoming an unpersuasive reason to require masks, given that all American adults who want to get a vaccine are basically able to do so, and 90 percent of the most vulnerable population—seniors—are already vaccinated. In other words, it's increasingly unlikely that a sick child would spread COVID-19 to someone who would be in serious danger of dying from it, unless this hypothetical person obstinately refused to take the vaccine. And in that case, it doesn't seem fair to continue to require children—who are not themselves particularly vulnerable to COVID-19—to continue masking up.
Make no mistake: Unvaccinated children have as much natural protection from COVID-19 as vaccinated seniors do, according to Brown University economist Emily Oster, who writes that parents shouldn't be so quick to abandon their summer plans due to the delta variant.
"Twice a close-to-zero risk is still close to zero," notes Oster.
Masks Are Back in L.A. County Because Libs Are Really Anti-Vaxxers, Too
While it’s true that polls are even bigger garbage than the mainstream media, this illustrates the lengths to which the Left will go to blame Republicans for everything bad about COVID-19.
If any serious spikes in COVID cases led to a return of mask mandates, surely that would happen in a place that’s loaded with conservatives, right?
Yeah…no.
ABC7NY:
I lived in Los Angeles County for almost 25 years. I’ve only been gone three years but I’m sure that the demographics haven’t changed. If memory serves me well — and it usually does — Los Angeles County is positively reeking with a Democratic majority. Almost three-quarters of the registered voters there are Democrats and, trust me, the majority of those who aren’t registered are also libs.
What in the world could be the problem? Surely a county with just under ten million people that’s predominantly liberal doesn’t have a vaccination problem.
Um…
While it’s true that polls are even bigger garbage than the mainstream media, this illustrates the lengths to which the Left will go to blame Republicans for everything bad about COVID-19.
If any serious spikes in COVID cases led to a return of mask mandates, surely that would happen in a place that’s loaded with conservatives, right?
Yeah…no.
ABC7NY:
I lived in Los Angeles County for almost 25 years. I’ve only been gone three years but I’m sure that the demographics haven’t changed. If memory serves me well — and it usually does — Los Angeles County is positively reeking with a Democratic majority. Almost three-quarters of the registered voters there are Democrats and, trust me, the majority of those who aren’t registered are also libs.
What in the world could be the problem? Surely a county with just under ten million people that’s predominantly liberal doesn’t have a vaccination problem.
Um…
The Existence of Vaccines Weakens the Justification for Mask Mandates
We know the vaccines used in the U.S. are highly effective. We know that people who are vaccinated hardly ever get COVID-19, and on the off chance they do, they don’t get sick enough to require hospitalization and aren’t at risk of death. We know the vaccines are effective against variants. As for vaccine side effects, just look around. Jim Geraghty put it well a few days ago: “More than 159 million Americans are fully vaccinated, more than 184 million Americans have at least one shot. Nobody’s growing a third eyeball.”
Vaccines solve the problems that mask mandates were created to mitigate. The negative externalities argument goes away because vaccination is a freely available individual defense against the potential costs of other people’s behavior. People who don’t get vaccinated are putting themselves at risk for being infected, and people who are vaccinated are unaffected by their decision. The precautionary principle argument is gone because the uncertainty about how to stop spread of the virus is gone. The solution is vaccines, and we know it.
Vaccines have been available to every American adult for free since the middle of April (and we know that the risk the virus poses to children is vanishingly small). If people have not been vaccinated yet, that’s their decision. They know they have a chance at catching the virus, and they’re fine with that. Vaccines allow for the individualized approach to virus mitigation that was impossible before they were invented. Society-wide measures like mask mandates are leftovers from the pre-vaccine period, when we knew less and were genuinely defenseless against an easily transmissible virus. Those conditions no longer hold, thank goodness.
We know the vaccines used in the U.S. are highly effective. We know that people who are vaccinated hardly ever get COVID-19, and on the off chance they do, they don’t get sick enough to require hospitalization and aren’t at risk of death. We know the vaccines are effective against variants. As for vaccine side effects, just look around. Jim Geraghty put it well a few days ago: “More than 159 million Americans are fully vaccinated, more than 184 million Americans have at least one shot. Nobody’s growing a third eyeball.”
Vaccines solve the problems that mask mandates were created to mitigate. The negative externalities argument goes away because vaccination is a freely available individual defense against the potential costs of other people’s behavior. People who don’t get vaccinated are putting themselves at risk for being infected, and people who are vaccinated are unaffected by their decision. The precautionary principle argument is gone because the uncertainty about how to stop spread of the virus is gone. The solution is vaccines, and we know it.
Vaccines have been available to every American adult for free since the middle of April (and we know that the risk the virus poses to children is vanishingly small). If people have not been vaccinated yet, that’s their decision. They know they have a chance at catching the virus, and they’re fine with that. Vaccines allow for the individualized approach to virus mitigation that was impossible before they were invented. Society-wide measures like mask mandates are leftovers from the pre-vaccine period, when we knew less and were genuinely defenseless against an easily transmissible virus. Those conditions no longer hold, thank goodness.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
If I may ...
For those that think you're gonna get compensation from injury, illness, or death, due to the experimental vaccine, and since the pharmaceuticals are exempt from all liability, that leaves only the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
And for the past 11 years, from 2010 through 7/1/2021, the total number of CICP claims filed: 1,657. And of those claims, over the past 11 years, only 29 claims were compensated. So good luck if the shot injures or kills you, or someone in your family. Oh yeah. You only have one year from the date of getting the "vaccine" to file a claim. If an injury, illness or death occurs after one year because of the "vaccine"? Sucks to be you. You will find no joy from this program, nor from anyone else.
Look over the data right here and notice how many claims for the COVID19 "vaccine" have been filed already. "436 allege injuries/deaths from COVID-19 vaccines".
www.hrsa.gov
For those that think you're gonna get compensation from injury, illness, or death, due to the experimental vaccine, and since the pharmaceuticals are exempt from all liability, that leaves only the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
And for the past 11 years, from 2010 through 7/1/2021, the total number of CICP claims filed: 1,657. And of those claims, over the past 11 years, only 29 claims were compensated. So good luck if the shot injures or kills you, or someone in your family. Oh yeah. You only have one year from the date of getting the "vaccine" to file a claim. If an injury, illness or death occurs after one year because of the "vaccine"? Sucks to be you. You will find no joy from this program, nor from anyone else.
Look over the data right here and notice how many claims for the COVID19 "vaccine" have been filed already. "436 allege injuries/deaths from COVID-19 vaccines".
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) Data | HRSA
HRSA’s CICP aggregate data for countermeasure injury claims for fiscal years 2010 – 2024.
TPD
the poor dad
After the American Association of Pediatrics or something like that came out today and highly recommended masks for all kids 3 years and older when returning to school, the great one wasn’t long getting on CNN and agreeing.
www.foxnews.com
Fauci supports medical group's call to mask 3-year-olds and older in school: 'Reasonable thing to do'
Dr. Anthony Fauci argued Monday that the decision by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to recommend all children aged 3 years and older wear masks when schools reopen regardless of vaccination status was "a reasonable thing to do."
www.foxnews.com
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Wearing the same mask all day just increases the chance of bacterial infection from all that crap breeding in the hot, wet environment of the mask, and is inhaled with every breath. And I'll bet no one changes masks during the day, or even weekly.
This is why I chose a bandana. At least the bottom was open, but it still fogged up my glasses. I did make sure they were laundered regularly. I can't imagine being a wee one and expected to keep one on all day. These peeps are crazy.
AdorableDeplorable
New Member
After everyday use at school, my toddler son's mask is covered in snot, food, dirt, grass stains, you name it. All it seems to do is ATTRACT germs, not repel them.
Kinnakeet
Well-Known Member
10 years from now there will be TV adds foe this shot hopefully Captain Kirk will still be able to make a commercial for the DC hammer..Mike Slocom..lolIf I may ...
For those that think you're gonna get compensation from injury, illness, or death, due to the experimental vaccine, and since the pharmaceuticals are exempt from all liability, that leaves only the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP).
And for the past 11 years, from 2010 through 7/1/2021, the total number of CICP claims filed: 1,657. And of those claims, over the past 11 years, only 29 claims were compensated. So good luck if the shot injures or kills you, or someone in your family. Oh yeah. You only have one year from the date of getting the "vaccine" to file a claim. If an injury, illness or death occurs after one year because of the "vaccine"? Sucks to be you. You will find no joy from this program, nor from anyone else.
Look over the data right here and notice how many claims for the COVID19 "vaccine" have been filed already. "436 allege injuries/deaths from COVID-19 vaccines".
Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) Data | HRSA
HRSA’s CICP aggregate data for countermeasure injury claims for fiscal years 2010 – 2024.
Biden White House Mulling New Mask Mandates, But There's a Catch...And It Involves the Midterm Election
There are tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans who are also eligible to vote. Do you really want to kick that hornet’s nest? Inflation is rising. It could be a more salient 2022 issue. Violent crime is also an issue. The economy is in a state of anemia. And all of this as Democrats barely cling onto their majorities in the House and Senate. This will be classic ‘all talk, no action’ theater. Or at the very least they’ll try to delegate this out to other agencies, giving them the ‘well, the CDC gave a recommendation. We’re just following their advice’ escape hatch (via The Hill) [emphasis mine]:
There are tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans who are also eligible to vote. Do you really want to kick that hornet’s nest? Inflation is rising. It could be a more salient 2022 issue. Violent crime is also an issue. The economy is in a state of anemia. And all of this as Democrats barely cling onto their majorities in the House and Senate. This will be classic ‘all talk, no action’ theater. Or at the very least they’ll try to delegate this out to other agencies, giving them the ‘well, the CDC gave a recommendation. We’re just following their advice’ escape hatch (via The Hill) [emphasis mine]: