I agree that mask mandates should be lifted, but please respect and don't judge people who continue to wear masks; they may be symptomatic or immunocompromised.
I believe CDC’s guidance today about masking was because they realize the data shows masking doesn’t work so they have to lay blame on the type of masking or masking “technique”. This is an admission that simply “face coverings” was a failed policy they pushed for almost a year
We have multiple therapeutics, almost 2 years of knowledge, multiple vaccines and a lot of infection conferred immunity. We shouldn’t be talking about Covid anymore. At this point it is all politics.
Want to hear a secret? For the first month of masking I was actually for it. So what changed? Well the data revealed they made no difference. That is what following science and the data really looks like.
Dr Fauci was not elected or voted on by anyone. He also architected a monumentally harmful response to HIV in the 1980s. He is incompetent and not a good man.
The message should be:
“We are getting back to normal. Please do an individual and situational risk assessment for yourself. We have wonderful treatments available in case you get sick. We are living with Covid”
Simple.
Life is short. This is why everyone should be so infuriated for the govt taking 2 years of it away from people with useless NPIs. Conversely people should be grateful for governors who refused to do so.
A question we need to address collectively as a society:
When “experts” are wrong so much why do they keep the title of “expert”? They have not shown any actual expertise.
Two empirical facts of the pandemic after more than 2 years:
1) Masks don’t work
2) Vaccine mandates don’t work.
This has to be accepted before having any meaningful conversation about anything pertaining to Covid and/or the pandemic.
One question that I keep asking myself is what would happen if all compulsory testing for Covid was ceased and we only tested for it like we do for Flu (mostly); go into a doctor, you are sick and you get a test. IMHO it would fade into the background here within 30 days.
Today we had
@PressSec
say wearing a mask is more helpful against Covid than losing weight or living a healthy lifestyle. Don’t pretend this is about Public Health.
@DrJBhattacharya
@MartinKulldorff
Told my very pro masking brother (he is intelligent so don’t go there) that at different times during this last wave mask and vaccine mandate cities (DC) had the highest per capita case rates in the nation. He said he didn’t believe that. This is the narrative the MSM has painted
Ron DeSantis, Brian Kemp, Glenn Youngkin and Kim Reynolds are the foundation of what the GOP should be, a thread. The "foundational four". Our snapshot in time Mt Rushmore for what the GOP should be.
3 of them are in 2020 swing states and all outperformed Trump by wide
I will not be getting a booster. I’ve lost too much trust in Public Health. I’m in my 30s, JnJ shot, MPH in epi student and data scientist of 12 years so yes I’m very educated on all aspects of this. There is no off ramp.
If you are a proponent of child masking you should have to wear a mask at ALL times. Anything less is hypocrisy. In between bites, when speaking, when outside, exercising. All. The. Time. Take your own medicine.
Again im a conservative and not a Never Trumper but for the life of me I cannot understand how someone could ever vote or support Trump in 2024 over DeSantis.
Imagine if the
@CDCDirector
framed the conversation on vaccines this way.
Bizarro world where well spoken NBA players have more nuanced conversations on vaccine policy than govt. public health professionals.
Based on what Politico is reporting this administration wants permanent masking. This admin cites the possibility of new variants, well these will always happen no matter what is put into place.
A vote for Dems is a vote for permanent masking
#UnmaskAmerica
Biggest issue i have with all of these mask mandates rolling back is that they did all of this while still refusing to admit that masking/mask mandates were ineffective. They'll come back so we need to establish empirical peer-reviewed research showing they dont work
Get vaxxed if you so choose. Get boosted if you so choose. Wear a cloth mask if you want. Wear an N95 if you want. Go out every night if you want. Stay in if you want. Just don’t make me do any of this because of your mental shortcomings.
Ive done everything wrong. Ive tried to wear a mask as little as possible here in DC. Ive gone out and done whatever I wanted to. Ive traveled around the US. I have not changed my life one bit unless absolutely forced to...and still havent gotten Covid.
@mcuban
She is currently in office. By not enacting these “amazing” ideas now she is saying that Biden is against them. It is very odd she is trying to play both sides.
Trump’s biggest mistake was kowtowing on Covid. In 2009 Obama was faced with a pandemic and he basically refused to panic (rightly so). Fauci was there but he didn’t platform him. Trump did. Despise Obama but Trump was far worse than Obama handling a pandemic.
After hearing the complete lies that Kagan, Sotomayor are spouting about Covid data it makes me feel like our country is doomed. The stats they are spouting arent exactly hard either. These justices either arent equipped to do this job or this is intentional.
In 10 years there is going to be a generation of kids asking their parents and political leaders "why?". Why did you take away two years of my life when there was nothing to support doing so? Why did you ruin the lives of so many kids? Why?
If someone you know votes Democrat that means they are voting for YOU to have to wear a mask. For YOU to have to show vaccine status. For YOU to have to be worried about school closures. A vote for a Democrat is a vote against YOUR freedoms. Period.
One thing that gives me faith in humanity are the people with no kids that have advocated for normalcy for kids for the last 2 years. They easily could have turned their backs on kids and they didn’t. Very cool.
Today Texas dropped below 3000 hospitalizations for the first time since June 18th. Oklahoma dropped below 200 for the first time since June 21st. Mississippi is at their pandemic low (by far) of 217. All removed mask mandates 3-4 weeks ago. Neanderthal thinking right?
Absolutely enjoy all of the mask mandate announcements today but remember this was coordinated and political. They will do this again. Don’t forget.
#RememberSmiles
Everyone is relieved states are announcing the end of mask mandates. Children should be included in all areas but this is progress. Then……
@CDCDirector
opens her mouth. She always makes it worse. She needs to be fired.
With this announcement I’ve gone from yeah I don’t want to make a scene so I’ll put my mask on where forced…to I’m just not going to do it and they will have to ask me to leave.
I am going to be as direct as possible. The
@CDCDirector
is ruining and negatively affecting more lives than any appointed official. In the future anytime we think of failings in education, think of her. She is the cause. I am angry and frustrated. She is a disgrace.
According to
@MonmouthPoll
, 7 in 10 Americans (70%) agree with the statement that “it’s time we accept that Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives”.
Public healthy policy must take the sentiment of the weary public into account.
It was never "just a mask". It was no emotion. It was no connection. It was fear. It was divisive. It was ineffective. It was political. It was oppressive. It showed us how intrusive our govt could be. Im sorry it was never "just a mask".
I’m not a Never Trumper at all but all I want to say is this:
Donald Trump tapped
@JeromeAdamsMD
Ron DeSantis tapped
@FLSurgeonGen
Whom do you trust to fill positions if elected as president?
Nuff said.
Back in the great state of Texas. There aren’t even signs for recommending masking. Every liberal in blue cities in blue states should have to visit red cities in red states to see ppl have lived with Covid for over a year.
My 6 prong approach (like I have any say ):
1 - Delineate between positives and clinical cases
2 - Push focus away from cases to severe outcomes
3 - Campaign to push therapeutics
4 - Push ending masking in K-12
5 - Acknowledge immunity from infection
6 - Acknowledge seasonality
Prediction: Biden will announce tomorrow the definition of fully vaccinated has officially changed from a full series of any 3 approved vaccinations to a full series plus mRNA booster.
CVS is not requiring shoppers to wear masks if fully vaccinated (will not be checking for status). Walgreens still is. Shop at CVS and not Walgreens. Very simple.
There was no metric given. This is what Rep Jordan was asking for and Fauci could not give it. A competent person would be able to give a multitude of measures he/she is looking for and Fauci cannot. Just pure incompetence or (even worse) willful malice.
People want masks to work so badly because they want validation of how good of people they are. Same with lockdowns. They want to believe their “sacrifices” weren’t in vain. They want to or HAVE to believe they made an impact. They didn’t though and that’s hard to accept.
I’m very pro vax. I’m very anti NPI. I’m also very anti mandates for masking or vaccination. Want to wear a mask? Go for it, don’t force me to. Your choice to get the vaccine. My choice as well. Calculate your risk profile. Make your choice. This isn’t hard, at least to me.
The CDC has put out two flawed studies on mask mandates (temporal issues). Today put out one of the worst studies I’ve ever seen and has used mannequin lab experiments to try to show the effectiveness of masks. All show how desperate the CDC is. All very bad science.
This has been a very good day but make no mistake the fight is not done. There are still politicians in office that did this to us. There are still vax passes on the books and, worst of all, there are still draconian "state of emergency" laws on the books as well. Vote them out.
He masked us. He put Fauci, Birx and Adams in charge. He said he had the power to open and close states. He gave the cdc power to enact an eviction moratorium. He said the vaccine saved 100m American lives. Forgive me if I’m a little hesitant to stand by the guy who started
If you don’t stand with President Trump after all he’s gone through, you are NOT a Patriot.
He took on the Bush and Clinton dynasties, two phony impeachments, the Mockingbird Media, Department of Injustice, and crazy prosecutors across the Country all for WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
He wanted ppl to lose their jobs. That wasn’t militant, that was downright criminal. In my MPH program there isn’t a chapter in any of my textbooks that says threaten ppl’s livelihoods as part of intervention strategies. Hotez is evil.