Mask mandates are a public health menace
BizPac Review,
by
Michelle Malkin
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/16/2020 7:38:58 AM
Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado, thinks those of us who oppose scientifically dubious, constitutionally suspect and dangerously overbroad face mask mandates are “selfish bastards.”
I think Polis is a pandering pandemic control freak endangering public health, safety, and sanity.
There. Now that the name-calling is out of the way, let’s talk facts.
Contracting COVID can be fatal or debilitating for the elderly, immune-compromised and physically challenged. But there is no catastrophic public health emergency justifying sweeping government orders and ordinances that would force healthy citizens to wear masks in an increasingly oppressive climate of manufactured fear — completely untethered from pragmatic realities and risk assessments.
You can always depend on Michelle Malkin to get the facts right concerning the issues of the day. You don't need to be a scientist to know jogging with a mask on is ridiculous.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
greyseal 7/16/2020 8:02:31 AM (No. 479887)
This is simply about control and power. There is no consensus on what constitutes an effective mask so people who are so inclined wear whatever is at hand. We didn't have any masks during April (and no one had them to sell) but luckily there was less of a scare culture here in NC then so you'd see about a 50/50 mix of mask/no mask. That changed at the end of May when larger stores (usually national chains) started mandating masks for entry (Krogers, Harris Teeter, BJ's Warehouse, etc.) and masks started entering the supply chain (so there's plenty of masks but still a shortage of TP - can you wipe with the used masks? :-)
Now we're being told to wear them everywhere. The governor said it was only where "social distancing" couldn't be maintained but no one paid any attention to that. So now I see seniors and kids out walking and riding bikes with their masks on and people driving by themselves wearing them. Like good little sheep we're being conditioned to accept this as "the new normal".
There are so many lies and contradictory "facts" floating around and no source of authority being allowed to state the obvious. Doctors are being sanctioned or their views suppressed if they speak out. YouTube, Twitter, and Google actively suppress anything their "censors" deem not in the public interest (who appointed them gatekeepers?)
greyseal
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GO3 7/16/2020 8:44:41 AM (No. 479951)
Abbott's mandate included an exemption for counties with 20 or fewer cases. The county judge would not grant that exemption. His rationale was that we were close to 20 and people do business in a neighboring county with more than 20 cases. He also cited the advise from his medical advisor, who BTW, went before a state medical board a few years ago for "mismanaging" narcotic prescriptions and was found liable. He doesn't even live in the county. So, this is the same as before. Abbott plays a power game and puts judges and agency heads on point. He doesn't even pretend to take opposing viewpoints into consideration. What's funny is that the establishments here noticed they weren't getting the compliance rates they expected so the solution was to put up bigger signs. Pathetic.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
John C 7/16/2020 8:47:53 AM (No. 479958)
MA legislators today are rushing a bill like this with heavy fines.
Yesterday they were busy taking limited immunity away from police.
Democrats mantra: "Don't let a crisis go to waste"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 7/16/2020 8:49:27 AM (No. 479960)
Seriously, what do you do? Never go into a business you need to go into, or spend all day fighting with poor saps trying to enforce their business' orders?
Problem is, there's no one with any big voice speaking up for the anti-maskers, and there are way too many people either too dumb or too scared or too full of virtue, happily walking around with their stupid designer masks.
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The virus 'crisis' has flushed out America's governors as wbitchy teenagers - quick to anger, a huge capacity for petty grudges and revenge, a lowbrow and often vulgar vocabulary, a pathological desire to be 'right' even when events and science show an unbroken string of incorrect decisions and overreactions.
Governors have hired similar obnoxious individuals to work their comms department hence the undignified tweets. Statesmen? Not a bit of it. These are jumped-up student council presidents outraged at the slightest criticism or opposition.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/16/2020 8:58:21 AM (No. 479970)
..as a baby-boomer going to school in the 50's and 60's we regularly drilled at protecting ourselves from an atomic bomb attack on our city by ducking under our desks and covering our heads ....really !!! ...that was the Govt sanctioned solution !!
....we look back now and ask "HOW could ANYONE accept that absurd practice as legitimate? "
...well, regardless of how obviously ridiculous on the surface this practice was, the public did it because they blindly trusted the teachers and Govt....just like now... they blindly "trust" the media ( who are not allowed to" lie for political gain" ) and minor democrat officials ( like mayors /governors) on an un-Constitutional power-trip..??
...in the not too distant future ( right after Trump's re-election) I'm guessing this charade will end...and people will look back and ask " HOW could ANYONE believe that their bandana, cleverly re-cycled KISS t-shirt, or $2.49 mask from Rite-Aid was effective against a microscopic, viral, pathogen?" ( that only seriusly impacts less than 1% of the general population)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/16/2020 8:59:16 AM (No. 479972)
So you wear a mask for an hour and it become moist from you breath.
You take it off for a while and you put it back on.
Of course the wise thing would be to wear a new mask each time you wear one, but that isn't happening.
So you put back on a contaminated mask . Healthy.? I don't think so.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
spacer 7/16/2020 9:10:16 AM (No. 479989)
Wear a Trump 2020 mask and watch the hall monitors wince.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 7/16/2020 9:39:29 AM (No. 480029)
I wear a gorilla mask and call that my Covid mask. It goes over great at convenience stores and the bank.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/16/2020 9:55:59 AM (No. 480058)
We have to get these emergency orders lifted, or we will never get our lives back. There is no emergency, yet we have governors, county judges, mayors, media, CEO's, and Karens telling us we can't go to work or school, and must wear a mask to enter a store. We have lost all control of our lives. Where are the lawyers from the conservative side? The left files thousands of lawsuits against Trump, seemingly daily, and we cannot get up any lawsuits against these emergency powers? Have we not a single conservative district judge that will issue a stay against emergency powers? This is disgustingly pathetic.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/16/2020 9:56:23 AM (No. 480060)
Retail establishments will require masks for one reason, to keep from getting sued by people who would claim that they caught COVID in their stores because people there were not wearing masks. Even though those civil cases would not succeed it would cost those stores a lot of money to defend against those suits, and even if the stores win in court, the people who lost the suit for the most part would not have the money to pay for the store’s legal fees.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/16/2020 9:56:54 AM (No. 480062)
Masks have become a symbol of compliance for most mask wearers. Some people need masks, but not everyone. Every time I see someone driving their car with a mask on, I think ''Idiot!'' When I see them jogging, alone, widely separated from others, I think the same thing.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Saryden 7/16/2020 10:07:15 AM (No. 480083)
What #2 said. I am dismayed at the number of sheople who have fallen for this mask situation... it appears there was no 'comprehension' learning in their educations. Then it gives them the 'right' to shame others for opposing... which pleases their tiny minds. The vile attacks on our freedom continues as we are directed "no cash... only credit cards" ... and Sleepy Joe says no gasoline cars. That alone should guarantee Trump's re-election. .. so there is Good News!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/16/2020 10:24:00 AM (No. 480113)
This is the best, most common-sense opinion that I have seen on the mask topic. People who wear them constantly might just as well have dunce caps on their heads as well.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/16/2020 10:29:36 AM (No. 480124)
Let's give this problem a number, say like maybe 6, followed by another couple of 6's. A darling in my family shared with me her reconstructed mask. She wears it when she must, but giggles a bit at her own audacity. The county where my grandson lives is not mask-phobic so he didn't put on his mask to put gas in his car. A policeman nearby asked him where his mask was. He replied, ''Same place yours is, Officer.'' The cop smiled and went on his way.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/16/2020 10:40:03 AM (No. 480154)
It's just another way to separate the citizens from their money. Fines equal Taxation without Representation.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 7/16/2020 12:02:54 PM (No. 480300)
I may be forced to wear a mask when traveling cross country. I won't just wear one, but may be forced by some states ....we'll see.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
cor-vet 7/16/2020 1:03:07 PM (No. 480384)
It's always the dem governors or judges that mandate masks, because they are little hitlers in waiting! It's all about the power trip!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GO3 7/16/2020 1:20:40 PM (No. 480412)
#9, Abbott is not a dem. Well...maybe a closet one.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/16/2020 3:58:05 PM (No. 480575)
I have asthma induced by allergies! Can’t wear a mask and almost passed out when I tried! No mask no service? Amazon works for me!
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This crap about masks has gone beyond ridiculous on to ludicrous!! I cannot wear a mask because of my asthma. They severely impede my breathing and I start to panic. However, I am NOT staying couped up in my home. I have things to do and a life to live.