U.S. Federal Government health officials have told Americans they should wear masks again in areas with high coronavirus infection rates. Yahoo! News has more.
Desperate to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spoiling a third consecutive summer, federal public health officials said Wednesday that masking should return in parts of the country with rapidly rising rates of infection. But although cases have been rising for several weeks, local and state leaders have thus far shown little willingness to reimpose mask mandates, even in Democratic municipalities and states.
“We urge local leaders to encourage the use of prevention strategies like masking and public indoor setting and increasing access to testing and to treatment,” the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said at a briefing Wednesday of the White House pandemic response team.
She also said that given the efficacy of one-way masking and over-the-counter availability of testing, people did not need to wait for Government action to take action of their own.
“In areas where community levels are high, everyone should be using prevention measures and wearing a mask in public indoor settings,” Walensky said, adding that in areas of moderate community spread, people should “consider” masking as well, based on individual risk factors like age and overall health.
She noted that 32% of Americans now live in a community with high or moderate coronavirus levels, an increase of 8% since the previous week. Hospitalisations are rising, too, though deaths remain at a relatively low level, a testament to the effectiveness of treatments like Paxlovid.
Testament to Paxlovid? Pfizer will be pleased with the plug, but I’d have thought it has far more to do with the mildness of Omicron, which the CDC itself has said is 91% less deadly than Delta.
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So? And what do the minority of sensible Americans tell the US Government?
Do these people have functioning higher brain areas?
Nowhere either within the USA or elsewhere has mask wearing/non-mask wearing shown any positive/negative effect discernable in the data for infection rates, hospitalisation or death rates.
Masks are used as political signalling.
‘They’ will never let this go.
efficacy of one-way masking
Does anyone know what that’s meant to mean?
You wear a mask and move forward only so that you are constantly escaping from the nasty SARS-CoV2 virus particles that are creeping up from behind.
The definition of insanity on full display.
The USA look no further than the Uk. Covid ripped through the Uk Feb, March and April. Literally there was hardly a triple jabbed covidian who did not get covid. Keep vaxxing america, enjoy the journey.
Of course.
There’s a mid term election coming up and the Dems need those mail-in ballots to cheat their way to another win.
Yahoo News? Really! Yahoo News is a joke! There have been some howlers on quite a few stories. In 2020 the administrators disabled the comments facility. One wonders why…
Everybody knows the only real news comes from Russia Today and Pravda.
Dr David Martin strongly advises we should focus on the main issue (that we have been subjected to a premeditated attack with a biological weapon) and not get sidetracked.
And Trudeau benefitting from the injection sales.
https://rumble.com/v153ybt-dr.-david-e-martin-gives-explosive-jaw-dropping-information-in-canadian-zoo.html
Masks and restrictions and boosters and variants forever. No exit. Another whackjob conspiracy theory brought to you by Lockdown Sceptics since 2020.
There can’t be a person alive that hasn’t seen photographs of the elite in close social contact with others, maskless and without a care in the world even during the hight of the pandemic. Yet the general public still go along with the theatre of it all. How stupid are these people.
They are very stupid, and governments know this, which is why they have been laughing about how easy it was to fool them.
What can you say? Governments + SAGE 1, Stupid People 0.
The photo below is from the G7 meeting in Cornwall, when a deadly pandemic was ravaging the world, and people were told to Stay At Home in case they spread the virus through breathing. People are still being told to wear face masks to this very day.
Loved the picture of Trudeau greeting the maskless boy-Charlie with a mask on only to be seen in conversation a few minutes later maskless. Is he thick or is it Canadians generally?
I think it’s just the most militant Covidians, the world over. Many of them behave like this.
the US federal government should know its place
There is no end to the lies and the Evil behind them.
A friend was talking about dear old Henry Kissinger tonight and how he reportedly suggested ways of taking total control of people’s behaviour through a manufacatured health scare many years ago, in the audienece was Klaus Schwab.
They have been planning this for 50 years – since the founding of the EEF ( now WEF) with CIA backing.
Masks do not stop Covid infection and are damaging to your health. Surely this is now accepted as fact , not opinion?
Yet here they go again.
Don’t be too sure we aren’t warming up to the next big thing.
I guess we will find out soon if Van den Bosch is correct…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-coming-covid-catastrophe/id1227863378?i=1000512827970
Did you mean: vanden Bossche ?
Desperate to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spoiling a third consecutive summer….
Hmmm, masks might prevent the ‘spoiling of a third consecutive summer’ eh? I must be a bit dim, but if masks were previously being worn – yet summer spoiled despite the wearing of masks ……
Oh, it really bugs me when people say: so and so said Wednesday. Why can’t they bleedin well just say said on Wednesday, or, On Wednesday, so and so said.
Agree 100%. Talking / writing like this is lazy and offensive.
Did you mean: “I agree 100%” ?
It’s an Americanism.
Psychological warfare on the people
The permanent New Normal the Old Nazi has planned for us!
These people have no evidence that masks make any difference to Covid spread.
Their pushing for masking is worse than useless — they could encourage vulnerable people (old, obese) to take risks because they think they’re protected.
The only thing that would make a difference is getting the highly vulnerable to self-isolate for the 6 weeks or so that each Covid wave takes — but they never suggest this, particularly.
It is almost as if their main requirement is for everyone to stay frightened for as long as possible.
“It is almost as if their main requirement is for everyone to stay frightened for as long as possible.”
I think you’re being generous. More accurate:
“Their main requirement is for everyone to stay frightened for as long as possible.”
I think you are being generous too. More accurate:
“Their main requirement is for everyone to be terrorised until they become gibbering husks of intelligent beings, ready to hate the next political target on instruction by the media.”
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead. (Bill)
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will. (also Bill)
The madness continues. Maybe the people who say it’s not madness, it’s perfectly ordinary pocket-lining, are right. Some explanation is clearly called for.
I’ll vote for the String’emup Party.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/portugal/
‘Cases’ now shooting up in highly vaxxed Portual right as we go into holiday season.
What about getting the headline right? The US government – not that it had any voice in the matter – isn’t telling anyone that. The female[*] double-muzzloid who happens to be director of the CDC is urging people that they should be wearing masks again and – that’s especially important – routine-test themselves more frequently.
[*] I’m unsure if these faceless entities have biological sexes similar to our’s, but out of courtesy, I’ll address it as if it had.
Thanks for that clarification.
I like your post but, “Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said at a briefing Wednesday of the White House pandemic response team” which includes Joe and Harris. (my emphasis)
The first paragraph states “federal public health officials said Wednesday that masking should return in parts of the country” (my emphasis)
Which indicates it may have been government officials who announced it.
I think the distinction is important because the government could make policy changes. On their own, all mere officials can do is blather. Annyoing and potentially a future problem, but not immediately dangerous.
Desperate to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spoiling a third consecutive summer, federal public health officials said Wednesday that masking should return
...well that took about 2 seconds for a govt to fabricate a problem then produce a policy of complete and utter cretinous failure.
Yet again.
MasksMail-in voting returns for the mid-terms.A shrewd suggestion.
They need to engineer another coronapanic justifying mass mail-in ballots for the mid-terms (enabling the same level of ballot rigging they achieved in Nov 2020).
It’s all they have left.
Monkey pox social vote haemorrhaging mail in ballot fever disease is increasing exponentially!
Ding-ding-ding, winner.
I wonder if they’ll go for believable narrow winning margins, or just Full Michigan it and buy a massive margin purely in order to say “You couldn’t possibly buy such a massive margin!”
All hail Paxlovid.
Americans should tell the US Government where to get off….using the sort of blue collar language that they tend to use in other situations….
War on Breathing resumes after short ceasefire.
When is the counter-offensive?
Consolidating the changes to our world.
Humans are walking bio weapons
We should use masks regularly as a reminder.
We should be tested to check if we are “dangerous”
We should be jabbed regularly to be deactivated.
These people basically hate humankind.
It’s a sustained attack, isn’t it?
Yes – they hate humanity: messy, argumentative humanity with all its weirdos and wonders, destructiveness and creativity.
Where most of us either hate or just get seriously pissed off with a few humans here and there, some hate whole categories: entire nations or religions or any other category they decide is determinant (left, right, black, white, etc).
And there’s a handful, who were probably always there but now include people of immense wealth and power, whose contempt is far more sweeping.
They divide their world into gods (themselves, their friends and favoured relations) and those who should serve as slaves or machines.
They are the real “transhumans” – they do not deserve a place in the Human Race they so openly despise..
Fixed some of the article:
Desperate to keep the coronavirus pandemic…spoiling a third consecutive summer, masks are back!