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Texas sues CDC to stop mask mandates on planes
The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, is the latest in a string of measures to limit coronavirus safety measures.

BY SNEHA DEY FEB. 16, 2022

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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02/16/texas-planes-mask-mandates/?source=patrick.net

Texas sues CDC to stop mask mandates on planes
The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, is the latest in a string of measures to limit coronavirus safety measures.

BY SNEHA DEY FEB. 16, 2022

If these airlines are a private business, they could still require the mask, correct?

If these airlines are a private business, they could still require the mask, correct?

All the airline CEOs have come out as anti-mask. It is ButtPlug's doing.

“We’ve been poring over the data, specifically the opinions of suburban women in swing states, and it’s become clear that masking children has suddenly become completely ineffective for preventing COVID,” said Democratic pollster scientist Bob McNeill. “It’s really a shocking turnaround, as just last week masks were super effective and anyone who disagreed was a murderer. Gosh, science is amazing!” ...

At publishing time, Jen Psaki was decrying Republicans as the party of masking children while her fan club nodded furiously.

The nice thing is the study showed that masks don’t work, but you’d never know it from reading the paper. You’d only know it if you saw the actual data. And they don’t show you the actual data. They only want you to see the data that supports the “masks work” narrative. They do NOT want you to see the data that doesn’t.

We asked the authors for the original data and we plotted the results for purple masks vs. placebo.

Guess what? Yup. NO DIFFERENCE!




They never even mentioned purple cloth masks made no difference whatsoever. It had ZERO effect. ZERO.
Was this graph noted in the paper? Nope. It was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND IN THE PAPER!

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

Patrick says

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

You are and it's bad. Hung out with two Chicago cop friends over the weekend. I'm convinced this only gets worse. I think Covid kind of goes away, but the underlying BS might be here to stay if that makes sense. Masks and vaccines will go away, but they've figured out the manipulation. It's not going anywhere. I don't have a guess as to the new form of manipulation coming.

I was in Trader Joe's just now and almost everyone else was wearing a mask, even though they don't have to anymore. On the way out an old woman without a mask thanked me for not wearing one either. It was just her and me in the store without a mask.

It's like I'm living in crazy-land.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-pandemics-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-64f411f3b8c91faa091332ada342ab19?source=patrick.net

CDC to significantly ease pandemic mask guidelines Friday

Went to Safeway last night, happy that the mask mandates were over. To my surprise there was a mask poster at the entrance with the notice, "We suggest that the unvaccinated wear masks". I walked in without one and everyone inside was wearing them. Clown World.

So strange that the public health experts are choosing to shift how they analyze the Covid numbers as soon as the public opinion on Covid restrictions started to shift.

Just a strange coincidence.

And let's not forget, Biden has a State of the Union address just next week.

And it's not like the CDC chose to announce this new plan on a Friday afternoon, the same day as Biden announced a SCOTUS pick and everyone was paying attention to Ukraine.

Oh, wait. They totally did.

Just thought they could slip it past us there.

The three left coast states – California, Oregon, and Washington – are all set to finally drop their insane school masking policy, in accordance with the (political) science.

All three states are simultaneously suspending the indoor mask requirements on March 11, because Covid can still spread on the 10th, I guess.

Mask mandate and testing requirements lifted at work.

The Facts:

Michigan State University has announced that its indoor basketball stadiums will drop mask and vaccine mandates.

Inside its classrooms, mask mandate will continue.

The president is an infectious disease physician.

I think we have reached a new low.

The university’s policy cannot be explained by caring about COVID19 spread. If you truly cared, you could ban basketball games entirely. Or hold them in dramatically reduced capacity. You could even mandate n95 mask wearing inside the stadium. The players could also wear masks, just like we ask school kids to at recess in several California cities. After all, many believe these do not impair exertion in any way. These actions however would cost MSU massive revenue, so would never be entertained. Moreover, I would never advocate for this.

The policy can’t be about protecting faculty. Because faculty’s greatest risk comes from outside of work: their vacation, dining, cocktail party, travel and conference habits. MSU is not suspending all work related gatherings and advising faculty not to go on vacation/ leave their homes. Most faculty I know are living large.

The policy is not about science, but worse: it flunks the common sense test. It shows only that MSU can enforce mask mandates on a population that has little recourse (students in class), and little ability to push back.

At least one reason Americans are fed up with COVID-19, and unlikely to be favorable towards public health going forward are naked contradictions like this. If people with power to set policy punish only the powerless, and have policy that is clearly self-defeating, why should they even have power? Why should anyone take them seriously?

I feel bad for rational folks left at MSU, and I know there are many. Sadly, the leaders have lost your trust.

Now that the CDC has acknowledged the reality that cloth masks were ineffective to stop the spread of airborne COVID…
Now that entertainment elites write and perform little skits making light of the very mask-abuse they promoted and amplified against…
Now that the same governmental leaders who authored the unnecessary laws and enforced the harmful guidelines have now themselves demonstrated on national television they no longer see them as useful…
Now that Hollywood stars and music moguls have dropped their own charade and paraded through packed stadiums without the masks they so frequently endorsed on social media…
Now that the president has gone silent after using his bully pulpit to hang guilt and shame around the neck of everyone who dared to point to evidence questioning his administration's mitigation decrees…
Now that the architect of so many of these rigid yet inconsistent, intrusive yet arbitrary policies, who crowned himself the personification of science itself has seemingly been intentionally removed from the public eye entirely…
Isn't it time for some heads to roll? Isn't it time for fair-minded people with any shred of moral conscience to forget criticizing the governor who tells kids to stop wearing pointless and harmful masks and start holding the governors, legislators, mayors, superintendents, and school boards who bullied vulnerable kids into strapping them to their faces?

Get rid of masks on planes
There isn’t a single study with a control group that shows they work. Follow the science!

March 10, 2022

It was bad enough in the early days of COVID lockdowns to treat people to the indignity of being declared “essential” or not. Then the mask orders began and with them an avalanche of absurdities, with the “actively eating and drinking” exception being one of the most risible. They stuck them on cooks sweating in hot kitchens. High school athletes gasped through them up and down the court. Greeters and receptionists had to try to welcome you with a muffled burble or frustrated gestures.

Worse than all that, however, were the repeated revelations that political leaders, the super wealthy, elite celebrities, and a select few others enjoyed permanent exemption from coerced masking. Social media was filled with pictures of the mandaters and maskier-than-thous enjoying life as normal. They seemed like moralizing TV preachers caught with their pants down, except they gave no tearful mea culpas.

This behavior didn’t hail from hypocrisy, it stank of privilege. Hypocrisy was the point; it reinforced their higher social standing above the cloth-covered proles. You must comply because you’re subject to our rules; we, of course, are above all that.