CDC Orders Sweeping U.S. Transportation
Mask Mandate as COVID-19 Rages
Reuters,
by
David Shepardson
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/30/2021 9:25:43 AM
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a sweeping order late Friday requiring the use of face masks on nearly all forms of public transportation Monday as the country continues to report thousands of daily COVID-19 deaths. The order, which takes effect at 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday (0459 GMT Tuesday), requires face masks to be worn by all travelers on airplanes, ships, trains, subways, buses, taxis, and ride-shares and at transportation hubs like airports, bus or ferry terminals, train and subway stations and seaports. President Joe Biden on Jan. 21 ordered government agencies to
Reply 1 - Posted by:
petrichor 1/30/2021 9:37:33 AM (No. 679146)
I guess some places were much more open. I don't see anything new in this order.
11 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 1/30/2021 9:39:31 AM (No. 679149)
This falls on Trump because of a lack of national leadership. At least that’s what that paragon of liberal stupidity Juan Williams says every night no matter how well Trump’s policy is explained to him. I can see this COVID crap heading into the fall. The lefties love this, don’t they?
35 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/30/2021 9:46:32 AM (No. 679158)
The globalistas will never let go of Covid. It gives them too much power.
57 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 1/30/2021 9:55:51 AM (No. 679168)
Great God in Heaven. We now have The Ministry of Truth.
29 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bmoc 1/30/2021 9:58:21 AM (No. 679171)
The only thing 'raging' is leftist's urge to utterly control and dominate the plebes of the nation.
I see huge trouble brewing ahead.
38 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
tsquare 1/30/2021 10:05:17 AM (No. 679179)
25 days after the holiday travel peak, 50 days after the winter peak in early Dec, the CDC issues a possibly non constitutional mandate to wear a mask on public travel. Already down 40%...cdc will likely claim the drop was do to their new mandate. Guess the virus know it was coming.
18 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 1/30/2021 10:23:04 AM (No. 679193)
This is the problem with fascists. Give them two weeks and they take a year.
22 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/30/2021 10:31:00 AM (No. 679201)
The Covid crisis will continue until the NEXT PANDEMIC comes along.
All good little "citizens" will wear masks for the same reason that military wear uniforms. All look the same.
We are now apparently to wear 2 masks. Soon it will be different colors ?
Blue for officers, green for enlisted. and red for mere civilians.
I'd rather die of Covid than tyranny.
17 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/30/2021 10:38:44 AM (No. 679207)
This is nothing new, except that this Federal rule will be publicized on an official paper. As people who now wear masks will continue wearing masks, and people who don’t wear masks will continue not wearing masks. Since there is no penalty for not obeying this order it will generally be ignored by the massless crowd. Here is is hard to find a person not wearing a mask in public environments. The commercial airlines have already instituted mask mandates for all passengers and have been enforcing those mandates by kicking violators off their flights. So what is new?
6 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
paral04 1/30/2021 10:41:38 AM (No. 679210)
Since they know HCQ is a cure why aren't we using the stuff so people can live normal lives again? Or hasn't Big Tech and the Left gotten enough power and money from this crisis?
17 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/30/2021 10:42:01 AM (No. 679211)
1. Only someone with active symptoms can pass on the virus to another individual. Chances of an asymptomatic individual infecting someone are very low.
2. Avoiding contact with a virus by wearing a mask is like protecting against mosquitos with a chain link fence - a fool's errand.
3. Taking specific steps to elevate and maintain one's immunity is the only effective protection.
4. Vulnerable segments of society should be encouraged to self isolate.
There you have it.
12 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/30/2021 10:45:32 AM (No. 679214)
Dictator!
Is this 2 years old and up?
Can you imagine being totally reliant on the subway or bus and wrestling a two year old into a mask with the threat of losing your only means of transport for groceries or work? My 3 year old won't wear one. Lots of little kids won't. Never live anywhere without a car, never!!
INSANITY!!
10 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/30/2021 10:52:19 AM (No. 679219)
Baa, baa...
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Califedup 1/30/2021 10:53:38 AM (No. 679221)
Unconstitutional, an infringement on States Right and this is a call for mass civil disobedience. Where are the damn republicans both in congress and in our broken judiciary. Do not wear a mask. They do not work.
13 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Califedup 1/30/2021 10:56:01 AM (No. 679226)
One other item - Who says the Wuhan Chinese Bio Weapon Flu is raging? Totalitarian B.S. Where are the damn republicans. Traitors.
12 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
jacksin5 1/30/2021 11:07:17 AM (No. 679240)
This is the first step leading to another National Lockdown. The Marxist/Socialist Left is buying the time it needs to cement its agenda in place. In other words, all control will be passed down from Washington. All National Guardsmen should resign right now, rather than being used as the enforcement wing of the Radical Left. The only reason they are using the Guard is to bypass Posse Commitas.
8 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/30/2021 11:10:52 AM (No. 679246)
The leftists will continue this all the way to the 2022 election, so that they can steal votes AGAIN
8 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bison65 1/30/2021 11:13:01 AM (No. 679249)
CDC adding more nails to lid of the coffin.
3 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/30/2021 11:13:02 AM (No. 679250)
this stuff is getting to be outrageous, at the very least!
5 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
zzzghy 1/30/2021 11:13:16 AM (No. 679251)
Rages?
Really.
Evidently the chinese snot disease is most prevalent on a planet far, far away from mine.
I wear my mucus mask in the grocery store because I live in La La Land --Sodom in the sun -- and prefer to not be Karened every time I go in there.
Never thought I'd say this in a million lifetimes but I'm leaving California for good in a few months. I was always a defender of the once-Golden State but no longer. My girlfriend has already split; I'm wrapping up and following.
17 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/30/2021 11:18:07 AM (No. 679258)
Boo! COVID.
5 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
msjena 1/30/2021 11:29:23 AM (No. 679280)
How is this possible? What's next? Mask mandates in peoples' homes? Covid cases, by the way, are decreasing, not increasing.
5 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/30/2021 11:35:01 AM (No. 679288)
And where are the masks made? Unless you make your own - few would do that - they come from China. Now they are saying “wear two”…
We’ve had to wear masks in all medical offices, grocery and drug stores, barber shops, restaurants.
3 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/30/2021 11:37:05 AM (No. 679294)
Re #2, most here don’t even watch Juan Williams let alone getting their knickers in a knot about the absurd things he says. If he shows up on something we’re watching, we just mute out that section or >> by it if it’s recorded. Simple. Dragging what he says onto any forum is pretty silly.
6 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/30/2021 11:38:33 AM (No. 679296)
PS. I also don’t let headlines - especially the foreign press like Reuters - raise my bp. Pfffffft….
6 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 1/30/2021 11:50:24 AM (No. 679310)
Didn't WHO just e masks were not needed.
I don't think it's raging.
4 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/30/2021 12:17:45 PM (No. 679322)
Covid raging? Hardly. This is a perfect example of fake news. Since they can't cite the real figures, they use a word like "raging".
6 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/30/2021 12:24:39 PM (No. 679330)
Unless the transportation is interstate the CDC doesn't have the authority.
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
red1066 1/30/2021 12:37:09 PM (No. 679346)
Raging? The virus is raging? A recovery rate of 99.5% for anyone who gets it, and even higher if your younger, seems like pretty good odds to me. I'll take those odds every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
5 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/30/2021 12:38:09 PM (No. 679349)
You're not seeing anything new in this order, #1, because there is nothing new there. Every airline, AMTRAK, and every local transport system I'm aware is already insisting that their passengers wear masks onboard. But I've seen this time and again over my Federal career - officials ordering something totally insignificant so that they can be seen as doing something, anything, and then expecting hosannas from on high (and a big bonus) for their insignificant act. It might convince themselves that they are more well endowed than they really are, but I'm not impressed.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/30/2021 12:45:47 PM (No. 679355)
The CDC can't order diddley and Fauci is a proven criminal.
4 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/30/2021 1:02:20 PM (No. 679368)
This just after the CDC reluctantly admitted that the number of cases and deaths from covid have been inflated by 900%.
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
smcchk 1/30/2021 1:17:09 PM (No. 679383)
That early treatments of COVID Have been dismissed, suppressed and maligned is the biggest scandal of modern times. We are being locked down and masked so that the vaccine is our only hope. And thousands die daily, who might have been helped by early intervention. I can’t believe it is happening but it is. Look up Dr. Peter McCullough for early treatment information and demand it from your doctor if you get sick.
1 person likes this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
markantony 1/30/2021 1:20:15 PM (No. 679385)
Under what constitutional authority?
2 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/30/2021 1:44:56 PM (No. 679396)
They love telling people what to do, don't they? They just have to control everything. Can't leave people alone and mind their own business.
1 person likes this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Ribicon 1/30/2021 1:47:32 PM (No. 679399)
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed – and hence clamorous to be led to safety – by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” —H.L. Mencken
5 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/30/2021 3:04:44 PM (No. 679453)
The planes are parked in the desert, not flying. The hotels are empty, as are the restaurants. It is not a pleasure to use the services of any of these companies, so most are not. The leftist intervention in the economy has emptied most stores of customers. People are buying food and online.
1 person likes this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
moebellini3 1/30/2021 3:07:01 PM (No. 679457)
People dying in car accidents, people jumping off of buildings, dying of cancer, heart attacks, murder, drownings and even shark attacks are all listed as COVID-19 deaths. The biggest farce of all is that nobody, except Trump, even talks about China anymore. Think about it, how is it that China's population is basically back to a normal lifestyle and it appears their economy is now humming along better than any other in the world. China always talked about world domination. Well guess what, they did it. How, you can call it biological warfare. Nobody wants to talk about it but look around, they destroyed the world order without ever firing a shot. Got it.
2 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
DVC 1/30/2021 9:17:23 PM (No. 679658)
Thank goodness that I never use most of these and don't plan on being on an airplane for a good long while.
2 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 1/31/2021 1:34:49 AM (No. 679780)
The only aircraft I will be flying in for quite a while, will have ME as the pilot. And on my "airlines" no masks are required. EVER.
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 1/31/2021 9:25:33 AM (No. 679925)
Shows masks and lockdowns don't work. For most people who get the virus, they get over it. The 2 dr - fauci and the scarf dr belong in jail for the amount of damage done to Americans financially and emotionally. This is now the 2nd biggest scam in history. The first being how we were scammed out of our real President. It's so sad, you can tell the good little soldiers out there and these are intelligent people.
1 person likes this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "NorthernDog"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Comments:
Sweeping Federal Mandate makes liberals giddy. How long before Bidenist is mentioned in the same breath as Marxist-Leninist?