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WookieMan says

Panhandle FL does have the best sand I’ve personally experienced.

Clearly you have never been on the beach in Atlantic City.

I'm a little disturbed by the increase of mask wearing I've been seeing during my commutes on the NYC subway. Just two months ago it wouldn't be unusual to have at least two other people unmasked on the train at any given time, but now they've started to disappear.

The mandates likely took away the freebreathers jobs thus negating their need to commute?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbUISdrnZ8

Booger says

Clearly you have never been on the beach in Atlantic City.

Needles don't wash up on the beach in the Panhandle.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Needles don't wash up on the beach in the Panhandle.

They don't in Atlantic City either!

https://newjersey.news12.com/lifeguards-reportedly-find-over-100-needles-along-jersey-shore-following-recent-storms

This shit is so old and ongoing, I remember hearing about the Jersey Shore needles washing up back when I was a kid and my dad was listening to 1010 WINS or 880 WCBS.

Can't believe Sliwa is running for Mayor, hope against hope.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-true-meaning-of-masking/

Masking can act as a tool through which a particular relational dynamic is enacted. The coercive nature of mask mandates means that masks are experienced as being in one part of a coercive relationship. The relationship can be described as:

-moralizer vs those in need of moral correction, or

-enforcer vs enforced. ...

In the “enforcer vs enforced” or “moralizer vs ‘needing of moral correction,’” the ‘enforcer’/’moralizer’ role can be enticing – after all, exerting power from a position of moral judgement has been an attractive position for government and those in positions of leadership in institutions since time immemorial.

However for those on the other side of these relationships – those experiencing enforcement, or being moralized – it is an oppressive and suffocating relationship. In these circumstances, removing a mask is not a sign of ‘not caring;’ rather it becomes a safety valve and one small step towards exiting a controlling and oppressive relationship. ...

Wearing a mask, therefore, signals to others “I consent to this system, I consider myself to be an infection risk to others and wish to be governed as such” and significantly “I invest in the medical system as the authority to make and impose decisions on society independent of democratic and legal safeguards.”

In this context, choosing to not wear a mask can be a simple act of rejection of medical power, of affirming the reality that our lives are complex, and our relationships diverse, and therefore do not consent to diminishing ourselves to a risk that needs to be managed, but rather assert our humanity and dignity, and most importantly our respect for our fellow citizens.

Not wearing a mask, therefore, can make a statement of “I respect that we all have unique relationships to health and to authority, with our own individual perspectives. I am curious to hear what you think, and I do not view you as a risk to be managed, but as an equal citizen with whom I am privileged to share the world.” ...

However the invocation of the legal system and other coercive functions of the state to enforce one set of meanings, one understanding of health behaviours onto others, needs to be resisted. We all must live in this world and our society together, and therefore need to listen and be open to different perspectives – however it is only possible to do that once the threat of mask mandates and other tools of coercion are removed.

https://notthebee.com/article/biden-met-maskless-with-pope-francis-even-though-hed-met-with-covid-positive-jen-psaki-the-week-before

Biden met maskless with Pope Francis even though he'd met with Covid-positive Jen Psaki the week before

No, Masks Do Not Work Against The Flu
Somehow the inaccurate narrative refuses to die

https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/no-masks-do-not-work-against-the?r=kt9k9&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net

Fortunately, in 2019, the World Health Organization collected a thorough review of the literature for their “Non-pharmaceutical public health measures for mitigating the risk and impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza” planning document.

It bears repeating just how little evidence there was for the organization to suggest that masks would impact the flu:

1. Ten RCTs were included in the meta-analysis, and there was no evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

Ah wait, it wasn’t that there was “little” evidence. There was no evidence. None.

Ten randomized controlled trials. Ten of them. All resulted in zero evidence that face masks are effective in reducing transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.

Here’s a relevant portion of their discussion, explaining just how little impact masks had:

…the evidence was insufficient to exclude chance as an explanation for the reduced risk of transmission

Literally, the potential reduction in transmission was indistinguishable from random chance. This is what the media are promoting as an indefinitely necessary measure.

https://covidreason.substack.com/p/whats-up-with-masks-where-you-are

Booger says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

PBC is dropping it November 15th, they've been fighting DeSantis and Judge Shopping for months, time must have run out.

WineHorror1 says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

Yes, so how did she get suspended?

WineHorror1 says

Booger says

I thought the Florida school system was forbidden from requiring masks.

Libtards in SE Florida probably have or has mask nonsense.

Didn't DeSantis forbid mask mandates in FL?

Patrick says

Didn't DeSantis forbid mask mandates in FL?

Yes. Teacher Guild School Boards disobeyed it and tried to Judge Shop, but they are running out of time. Some gave up.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/never-ending-mask-mandate-rochelle-walensky/

Resist the never-ending mask mandate
The CDC director has endorsed the idea of permanent masking to prevent the spread of the common cold and flu

Nearly two years without a head cold, let alone flu. Same with my kid. Masks work anecdotally for me. I’ve never been without atleast a head cold for this long in my life.

BoomAndBustCycle says

Nearly two years without a head cold, let alone flu. Same with my kid. Masks work anecdotally for me. I’ve never been without atleast a head cold for this long in my life.

I find that as I age, I get sick less often - which is paradoxical, but when I get sick, I get sick.

When I was in my late 20's and actually gave a damned about being in shape, I used to run about 5 miles every day. I got the flu. I was sick in the morning and recovered entirely by the afternoon but I was sick.

I haven't been sick in years. I had a touch of something early this year which MIGHT have been sars-cov2-19, it was mildly annoying, food started to taste bland for several weeks, but I was otherwise fine within a day.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/apple-store-lets-go-brandon-corporate-mask-policies/

I was dress shopping for a wedding at Tyson’s Corner in Virginia last Thursday when I saw two security guards and a man wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirt having a heated discussion.

Usually I would assume shoplifting was involved and move on, but considering the left’s freakout over the “Let’s Go Brandon” chants sweeping the country and their insistence on punishing those who use the phrase, I stopped to listen to the exchange.

I soon gathered that the man, who later identified himself to me as Alex Caballero, was kicked out of the nearby Apple Store for allegedly violating their mask mandate. Caballero told the security guards that he entered the store because he had a service appointment. When the store’s security guard told him he needed to wear a mask, he pulled a gaiter up over his face. The store guard and manager insisted that Caballero’s gaiter wasn’t good enough and told Caballero he would need to wear a mask provided by the store or leave. Caballero asked to see the store policy indicating he could not wear a gaiter, but the guard and manager refused and instead threatened to call the police. No one involved refuted Caballero’s version of events.

After about a 15-20 minute conversation outside of the store, one of the security guards told Caballero that he was “free to go”, because apparently it’s not only legal, but a good use of time and resources to detain someone because Apple didn’t like the type of mask they were wearing.

The Apple Store mask policy does not specifically prohibit gaiters. The company website says the following:

N95 masks with valves, and masks that do not cover your nose and extend below your chin — such as bandanas, are not permitted at Apple Stores. Replacement masks will be provided as needed.

Does a gaiter not extend below the chin and cover the nose? I asked the manager of the store if he could clarify the mask policy, and he declined and told me to call corporate. I reached out to Apple via their listed contacts for media and did not receive a response.

Caballero told me he suspects his “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirt played a part in the hostility showed to him by the Apple Store employees and Tyson’s Corner Security guards.


What is more obvious is how absurd it is that people are still dealing with inane corporate mask policies more than a year and a half since the start of the pandemic. We have seen time and again how businesses implement poorly defined, unnecessarily strict, or just plain unscientific mask mandates in the name of “public health”. To most sane employees, enforcing these policies is an inconvenience. Some, unfortunately, abuse this new power they have over customers, leading to incidents like the one at Tyson’s on Thursday.

You know what’s even sillier about the Apple employees’ insistence that a gaiter wasn’t an acceptable mask? Just a day later, Bloomberg reported that Apple would remove its mask mandate for customers at over 100 stores due to declining COVID-19 cases and rising vaccinations across the country.

I went into that same exact Apple store as I live but a mile or 2 from Tysons Corner mall. I was refused entry. I went in anyway, called everyone in there faggots via raised voice and gave everyone the double finger salute. Then I left. I was going to switch to Apple but changed my mind to NEVER will I.

Lol, I went in the Apple store outside the new Apple HQ. Took off my mask and walked around a bit. No one said anything.

Attitute towards masks in West Texas

I love it.

https://strongandfreecanada.org/vlog/masks-useless-and-potentially-lethal-interview-with-mask-expert-chris-schaefer/

Chris Schaefer is the director of SafeCom Training Services in Edmonton, Alberta. He has been training professionals, including health care professionals, in the proper use of masks for over 25 years. In this interview, Chris reveals that masks are not only completely ineffective for preventing the spread of a virus, but are actually extremely hazardous to our health, and especially for children.

On blood clots…

“They know hypoxia causes thrombosis. We know the breathing barriers [masks] cause hypoxia. So people think the only way they’re going to get circulatory blood clots is through the vaccine? No. You can get it through the breathing barrier too. It’s a recipe for death.”

On what masks are doing to our kids…

“This is torture, what they’re doing in the schools by mandating these breathing barriers [masks].”

On the harms caused by masks…

“When you trap this carbon dioxide, it causes two immediate, measurable harms that can be measured within the first 10 seconds that somebody is wearing it. Gradually increasing levels of hypoxia, which is insufficient oxygen and gradually increasing levels of hypercapnia, which is high carbon dioxide, high dangerous levels of carbon dioxide accumulation.”

On the impossibility of blocking a virus with a mask…

“Viruses can’t be filtered by any type of mask. Because viruses are too small. In order to see that viruses even exist you need to look at them through an electron microscope. Now that’s how small they are. There is no filter that is small enough to filter any viruses, including coronaviruses. There is nothing fine enough to filter viruses. It’s impossible. It’s always been impossible.”

This is true. At first they thought that Fauci's virus might be spread through "fomites", or things you touch. Turned out to be false.

Then they said it might be spread through exhaled water droplets. Turned out to be false.

It's spread through aerosols, incredibly tiny particulates that masks to literally nothing at all to stop.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/12/cdc-study-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-people-getting-coronavirus-wore-masks/

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks
OCTOBER 12, 2020 By Jordan Boyd
A Centers for Disease Control report released in September shows that masks and face coverings are not effective in preventing the spread of

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/calvinrobinson/status/1463052732210761731#m

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-imposes-mask-mandate-inside-private-homes-regardless-of-vaccination-status/

Thu Nov 25, 2021 - 10:37 am EST
SANTA CRUZ, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California county has imposed a mask mandate for all indoor gatherings regardless of vaccination status, including those in private homes.

On Monday, Santa Cruz County announced that, effective Sunday, wearing masks will be required in all indoor settings where people from more than one household are present, including gatherings in private homes.

“What it looks like to the public is that we’re going back and forth and can’t make up our minds. What it really is, [is] science evolving as we speak,” said Dr. David Ghilarducci, the county’s Deputy Health Officer, in the announcement.

Patrick says

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/california-county-imposes-mask-mandate-inside-private-homes-regardless-of-vaccination-status/

Thu Nov 25, 2021 - 10:37 am EST
SANTA CRUZ, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California county has imposed a mask mandate for all indoor gatherings regardless of vaccination status, including those in private homes.

On Monday, Santa Cruz County announced that, effective Sunday, wearing masks will be required in all indoor settings where people from more than one household are present, including gatherings in private homes.

“What it looks like to the public is that we’re going back and forth and can’t make up our minds. What it really is, [is] science evolving as we speak,” said Dr. David Ghilarducci, the county’s Deputy Health Officer, in the announcement.

Another *ucci prick? How original.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10247315/Face-masks-harm-childrens-development-Study-blames-significantly-reduced-development.html

COVID rules are blamed for 23% dive in young children's development: Disturbing study shows scores in three key cognitive tests slumped between 2018 and 2021, with face mask rules among possible culprits
Face masks and other social distancing measures may in fact impede on children's development, a new study executed by Brown University has found
The probe analyzed the cognitive development of the youngsters through infancy, childhood and adolescence
In the study, researchers first analyzed 1,070 assessments administered on 605 kids prior to March 2020, when COVID lockdowns and masking began
A further 154 assessments from 118 kids administered between March 2020 and June 2021, during the height of the pandemic, were then carried out
Thirty-nine children born in 2018 and 2019 were analyzed over the course of the pandemic, into 2021.
The report found that there was a 23 per cent drop in scores measuring kids' intelligence quotients since the start of the pandemic
The study also found similar dips in the same span in regards to developing children's ability to communicate, both verbally and though subtle facial cues

https://summit.news/2021/11/30/oxford-professor-official-data-shows-face-masks-made-no-meaningful-difference-to-infection-rates/

Oxford Professor: Official Data Shows Face Masks “Made No Meaningful Difference” to Infection Rates

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/study-342000-adults-finds-masks-effective-against-covid-based-20

Researchers shoot holes in study touted for confirming 'masks work' in curbing Wuhan Virus

An acclaimed study on the effectiveness of masks in reducing symptomatic COVID-19 is facing new scrutiny after a researcher highlighted the minuscule infection differences between "treatment" and control groups randomized across 600 Bangladeshi villages.

Accused of design flaws and overstating its findings when it was released in late August, the study's newly released data show only 20 more symptomatic COVID cases in the villages that didn't receive masks and related education, reminders and "role modeling by community leaders."

In a total study population of 342,126 adults, 1,106 people in the control group tested positive, compared to 1,086 in the treatment group. The latter group represented 52% of the study population.

"I have a hard time going from these numbers to the assured conclusions that 'masks work' that was promulgated by the media or the authors after this preprint [not yet peer reviewed] appeared," University of California Berkeley professor Ben Recht, who studies machine learning, wrote in an essay last week.

He said he was frustrated that the "raw number of seropositive cases" was left out of the preprint by researchers led by Yale University economists Jason Abaluck and Ahmed Mobarak, preventing him from "computing standard statistical analyses of their results."