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If the right wing would just shut up and be patient, science will tell us when the risk is low enough to stop wearing masks. NJ and DE prove my point.
"Science" should first do a RCT on masks, to see if they work, which masks work, and how well they work (if they work at all). Then make recommendations for improving mask design. None of this has happened. They're recommending masks on a hunch and models, nothing more than that.
If the right wing would just shut up and be patient, science will tell us when the risk is low enough to stop wearing masks. NJ and DE prove my point.
Science can't make up it's mind what it thinks.
I was listening to NPR this morning and if they were saying what they said this morning six months ago it would have been labeled "misinformation" and banned from social media.
Only the fake science posted on your uncle's Facebook feed says masks don't work. Real science published in reputable journals show that while masks are not 100% foolproof, they are effective at reducing spread.
And only the fake data from Boob Fauci says do the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. Your experts have been wrong for the past two years. What about their track record convinces you that they'll be right this time? The D at the end of their name?
Yet the virus spread anyway. They don't work and if they do, they're not good enough to make a difference.
Have you been following the numbers in NJ?
I think not.
It was absolutely horrible until recently.
Our governor is much more data driven than other states. I appreciate how closely he follows the stats and how qualified his medical team is.
NJ is a very (the most) dense state which creates issues. One size does not fit all.
Covid devastated us at the onset. So many in my particular town died and there were refrigerator morgue units outside the hospitals. Zoom funerals. Hard to forget and caution was what the residents want from their elected officials.
Other states may have different policies that better fit their unique needs.
Mask mandates have essentially no effect whatsoever on the spread of COVID.....it's just a virtue signal.
We've known that for a LONG time now, there's no reason to keep pretending otherwise.
No, I think it just shows that in reality, when a state drops mask mandates, mask mandates still exist in the state that dropped the mandates because the mandates are then dished out by cities, counties, health departments and school districts.
In my state there are only 3 counties. We're good...
If the right wing would just shut up and be patient, science will tell us when the risk is low enough to stop wearing masks. NJ and DE prove my point.
Well the science has told us that cloth masks do next to nothing yet our kids are still required to wear masks all day with limited "mask breaks" alone in dark closets with cloth masks still allowed to satisfy this condition. That makes no sense. This whole thing makes no sense. This is not political. This is common sense.
Mask mandates ended in CO months ago but it didn’t stop individual cities and health departments from continuing with them. Most, not all cities have just now dropped them (finally) but the majority of kids are still mandated to wear masks at school. Mask mandates have not ended.
Masks are still mandated around here too.
I was even made to double mask at my last chemo treatment.
And they are having covid positive healthcare workers come in to work.
Keep fighting back don't forget to go to school board meetings and get these people recalled from their positions on the school board. The left have basically proven that if you don't fight back they're going to walk all over you like any bully so it's time to fight back.
There's no science supporting masks on kids none. Period. As I've said before we're just going to add more plastic waste into our oceans as kids throw the things on the ground after school.
The entire West Coast is going to suffer mask mandates for a couple of more years. Pray for my state WA and Or and CA.
Can't speak for WA or OR, but in California, our Dictator is up for re-election this year.
The CA "Mask Mandate" is set to expire on the 15th after it was quietly extended in January. If our resident dictator extends it again, at this point it would probably be political suicide.
Very few stores and restaurants are still enforcing the mask mandate, and many have actually already changed the signs on the door to say that masks are OPTIONAL. I guess people are starting to finally figure out that you have a very low risk of catching COVID(or any virus) in the few seconds you are walking through the restaurant to your table.
Others may still say they require it but if you don't wear one, and MANY people are not, they don't say a thing. I went to an event in LA for a friend, at a place covered under the vaccine mandate, a couple of weeks ago. He told me don't worry about the "vaccine mandate". Sure enough, the place didn't check or care.
People are done with this...
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Your experts have been wrong for the past two years. What about their track record convinces you that they'll be right this time? The D at the end of their name? 
