Masks and social distancing should be mandated or encouraged in public to protect people from possible ‘Long Covid’, according to a new report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The New York Post has the story.
The report by the independent research agency Coforma, published Monday, was based in part on interviews with more than 60 people – including patients dealing with lingering COVID-19 symptoms, as well as their caregivers and health care providers.
The recommendations included establishing public policies that purportedly protect “everyone from Long Covid” – including the reinstatement of a mask mandate.
According to the document, jurisdictions dropping mask mandates some two years into the pandemic has made life difficult for those struggling with Long Covid.
“The lifting of mask mandates and indifferent attitude towards masking and social distancing typical in many public and private places further isolates people with Long Covid,” the report says.
“Many people with Long Covid avoid public spaces and events due to a fear of reinfection and the potential worsening of their Long Covid symptoms and health impacts. Some may experience PTSD symptoms as a result of trauma they incurred during their acute infection.”
As a result, the report says, policymakers should “encourage or mandate policies and protocols regarding masking and social distancing in public spaces that protect people from infection or reinfection and possible Long Covid.”
What kind of world do these researchers live in where coerced changes for an indefinite period of time to what individuals may wear and do in public constitutes a proportionate response to some people’s medical condition? Ah yes, that’ll be the world of Covid.
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It’s not “propaganda” to use Boycotts against a rogue state Toby.
Its a strategy.
Who is this Mary Wanaker fellow?
Loved the section on uxoriousness…
Toby, you may need to go to AA (if you really want to give up alcohol). Nick is right about it being easier to give it up entirely. I have close relations who have to be teetotal and continue to attend AA even years on and the whole point is that you have to get to the point of being able to be with and watch others drinking without being yourself tempted off the straight and narrow. My husband and I now very rarely drink at home (for health reasons and we sleep far better as a result) and only drink a little when out with friends. No alcohol, along with taking vitamin C and magnesium, has revolutionised my sleep.
Re your UK section: I think the Tory party will make themselves a laughing stock if they get rid of yet another PM and I very much doubt that Kemi B will make the slightest difference (taking on the job of PM here is becoming like drinking from a poisoned chalice!). None of this makes any difference – we are effectively in a one-party state. I intend to go to vote, but to cross through my ballot sheet and write ‘none of the above’. Reform are a sidetrack, a distraction and will only serve to split the vote further.
Re the US section: I totally agree with everything Nick said re Trump, though, sadly, I think he is part of the pantomime that we are being forced to watch. BTW, Toby, Biden is the opposite of all the things you said you were looking for in a president of the US: weak, senile, dishonest if not actually criminal, etc etc.
Loved the uxoriousness bit!
Agree with most of what you say, but I cannot fathom how anyone on this side of the argument could possibly even contemplate Trump as being the saviour. Have Nick and others forgotten that he oversaw the ‘vaccine’ campaign and still passionately supports it? That is all you need to to know about this guy. For once, I agree with Toby, Ron DeSantis is the far better choice… unless you want to live your life under the threat of mandated ‘vaccines’ of course
Toby, your position on President Trump is pathetic. You scrabble around trying to find something negative to say about him and come up with precisely nothing. It’s ok to not like someone, I don’t particularly like him either, but he is a leader and not a career politician which is exactly the point and is therefore the only hope for America and by extension the western world. Oh and you conveniently for to mention North Korea. Please try to get a grip to see beyond your very obvious bias on this issue.