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Masks definitely make your overall well being worse, no matter whether they filter any covid at all or not.
mell saysMasks definitely make your overall well being worse, no matter whether they filter any covid at all or not.
Love the confidence with which you spew non-factual information.
mell saysMasks definitely make your overall well being worse, no matter whether they filter any covid at all or not.
Love the confidence with which you spew non-factual information. Masks may work, they may not... but for 99% of people they are harmless if used properly. Nurses and doctors and fast food workers would all be epidemically sick from prolonged mask wearing. Unless you count some facial acne and sore ears from a tight mask... I’ll give you that much.
Swalwell gave his non-socially distanced defense of mask-wearing when Nick Dyer, a spokesman for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), said to him, "Biden says you can take off your mask."
It's not like the staffer said something really offensive, like, "Biden says you don't have to sleep with Chinese spies anymore" (they have that covered), he was simply making a public service announcement, informing the congressman of the latest science.
You'd think he'd appreciate that.
The Democrat marched over to Dyer and shouted at him, "You don't tell me what to f—ing do!," according to an account that Dyer gave to reporter Scott Wong of The Hill, who watched the confrontation but could not hear Swalwell's words.
Exactly. Only Eric Swalwell gets to tell you what to do:
As far as Swalwell was concerned, he was the victim of a terrorist attack:
"I just frankly had enough with these marauding goons in the Marjorie Taylor Greene crowd who go around trying to terrorize my colleagues."
I picture the halls of congress overrun with Marjorie Taylor Greene goons shouting terrorist slogans many of which bear a remarkable resemblance to the latest CDC guidance.
Swalwell later remarked with the misplaced satisfaction of the impotent:
"Not surprisingly this aide of hers got quite speechless."
Because that's what you do around crazy people.
Swalwell noted that the House physician recommends that the most thoroughly tested and vaccinated people on the planet must continue to wear masks, but in fact, a far higher medical authority is making that call:
Nancy Pelosi is keeping a mask mandate on the House floor despite CDC guidance and pushback from Republicans
No masks for vaccinated customers
Some exceptions apply, including in states and cities that have local mandates.
Aldi
Best Buy
BJ's Wholesale Club
Costco
CVS
Home Depot
Kohl's
Lowe's (Starting Wednesday, May 19)
Macy's
Meijer
Publix
Sam's Club
Sprouts
Target
Trader Joe's
Walmart
... the case for masks making a better than negligible difference to the spread of COVID-19 has always been crap. ... . Mask mandates were initially justified by fairytale computer modeling. But we now have hard evidence in the real world, where there’s been no clear correlation between masking and infection rates, hospitalizations or COVID deaths. In country after country and state after American state, graphs of all these metrics vividly demonstrate that the introduction of mask mandates has had no effect. After these laws are passed, those graph lines don’t ripple, notch or slump. The only slight correlation, which I’m willing to dismiss as a fluke? Masked populations have worse COVID results. A study of demographically comparable groups in super-compliant Denmark also found no significant difference in COVID metrics between those who were told to wear masks and those who weren’t. The whole masking theatre amounts to pointless, gesturing obeisance.
What explains this perverse attachment to self-smothering? In the US, masks are a badge of tribal allegiance — Biden/Harris T-shirts that you tie around your face. They confer virtue and dedication to communitarian suffering. They create the illusion of control (‘I can’t get sick! I’m wearing a MASK!’). They provide the happy opportunity to denounce the recalcitrant and to force the begrudging to do something they dislike. ...
Ubiquitous masking also perpetuates the atmosphere of emergency to which some people have grown addicted. ‘Look, we live in a special, perilous time, and we obey strict protocols with heightened moral urgency.’ The prospect of relinquishing this exhilarating sense of the exceptional could seem deflating.
It’s a cliché now that masks have become a religious symbol. The very poverty of the scientific evidence for their efficacy may help explain the fervidness of their adoption. Masking is not a matter of knowledge but faith — or superstition. One masks to ward off evil. Post-pandemic, a goodly number of folks will still cling to their polypropylene nosebags like rabbits’ feet.
But masking while fully vaccinated entails a baffling contradiction. We’re simultaneously to believe: 1) everyone must get vaccinated; 2) vaccines don’t work. Wrap your head round that. Because if your vaccination overwhelmingly prevents both transmission and disease (meaning it works), even unvaccinated people present no danger to you. So you don’t socially distance. You go to restaurants. You see your friends. And you don’t wear a mask. Yet, bizarrely, in surveys vaccinated Americans express far less willingness than the unvaccinated to resume once-normal activities like hopping on a bus, often by a factor of two. Calling that ‘cognitive dissonance’ may be too generous. Let’s go for ‘state-induced mass hysteria’ instead.
In Osage Beach, MO right now (Ozarks). ZERO masks. It’s even better than FL. Haven’t even seen a token mask wearer. We’ll see today once we get out on the boat and hit up some pool bars. Covid is over down here.
I went to a Wegmans (giant grocery store) in VA Beach yesterday, and even though masks are not required, I was virtually the only one without a mask. Folks have no common sense.
Why did Fauci keep his mask on after vaccination? For the way it looked, not what it actually did. Bingo. That is what "science" has become: a term or discipline to be wielded and utilized not in relation to any actual data, but merely as theater in some vain effort to exert your credibility and provide cover for improperly usurped authority.
... you know exactly why all these folks who stand to lose power and authority the moment life goes back to normal, are ignoring the data that says we're ready to do just that...
This Colorado bus driver slapped a kid HARD for not wearing her mask correctly and it was caught on video
This Colorado bus driver slapped a kid HARD for not wearing her mask correctly and it was caught on video
Okay. Boots on the ground. 2 masks this entire weekend. That’s it. So fucking normal I almost jizzed my pants.
Culture is hillbilly as fuck, but if you’re looking to be “normal” I’d definitely suggest the Ozarks. Was nice to get out on the water too. Bars were packed for off season. Double or triple what we normally experience on this trip.
Where you at?
Where you at? Branson? That’s the hillbilly vegas... without the gambling. Honestly it’s nicer than vegas with the river and the laid back feel.
What's the point of going to Vegas if not gambling?
This was my first time to Vegas without gambling at all.
Went a few weeks ago for a competition for my cheerleader daughter. Stayed on the strip, ate at some places, and fought the crowds.
I am going to start walking into places and make them ask me to put on my mask.
I will put on a dramatic show of pulling it out of my pocket, dusting it off, straightening it out, and then carefully fitting it.
I will then ask, "Is this fine?"
I am going to start walking into places and make them ask me to put on my mask.
I will put on a dramatic show of pulling it out of my pocket, dusting it off, straightening it out, and then carefully fitting it.
I will then ask, "Is this fine?"
Masks litter all over the place in Santa Cruz.
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