#mask mandates

[chronicallycouchbound]

Almost twice as many people died from COVID-19 in 2021 than all unintentional accidents. COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death. COVID rates are on the rise.

The least you can do is wear a mask.

#chronically couchbound #US Specific statistics #COVIDpunk #disability #disabled #covid19 #covid isn't over #covid cautious #cripple punk #cripplepunk #disabled pride #disability pride #mask mandates #wear a mask #solidarity #disability rights #disabilities #disability advocacy #covid 19 #covid #long covid #pandemic #public health #covid pandemic #coronavirus #leftist #leftist praxis #leftist theory #cripple shit #crip punk

[probablyasocialecologist]

At the start, masks helped flatten the curve to protect our hospital systems, and since, masks have helped make public spaces and essential services more open and accessible to everyone. Many studies show that masks work, and they work best when everyone wears a high-quality one to protect each other. Masks are magnificent.

Yet, three years into the pandemic, we still see conflicting stories in the news about masks on a daily basis. The latest culprit powering the confounding headlines is a new scientific review published in Cochrane. The paper analyzes many different studies that assess how physical measures – including masks – fare against respiratory viruses.

The analysis is flawed because it compares apples to oranges. The paper mixes together studies that were conducted in different environments with different transmission risks. It also combines studies where masks were worn part of the time with studies where masks are worn all the time. And it blends studies that looked at Covid-19 with studies that looked at influenza.

If apples work and oranges don’t, but your analysis mixes them together, you may come to the false conclusion that apples don’t work. Out of the 78 papers analyzed in the review, only two actually studied masking during the Covid-19 pandemic. And both of those found that masks did protect wearers from Covid-19. But these studies are drowned out by the greater number of studies on influenza included, where the benefit of masking is harder to detect because it’s a far less contagious virus than Covid-19.

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The mischaracterization of the Cochrane review by its authors and like-minded supporters is deliberate. Those with vested interests are sowing doubt about the science of Covid-19 protections by using the same disinformation playbook that tobacco companies, the fossil fuel industry and the anti-vax movement have used in the past.

The overselling of the Cochrane study is a classic example of cherry-picking, where biased groups highlight a subset of data that support their position, while ignoring the larger pool of evidence that disagrees with them. Many direct studies in labs show that high-quality masks significantly reduce the number of viral particles mask-wearers inhale and emit, but these are intentionally omitted in the arguments of anti-maskers.

These disinformation tactics are successfully quashing public health policies. Policymakers are susceptible to bad faith arguments about masks because they are beholden to short-term corporate interests. Masks are a visible symbol that the pandemic is ongoing, and politicians fear that these reminders stop people from consuming. It’s easy to lie to those who want to believe.

#coronavirus #covid19 #masks #mask mandates #public health #Cochrane

[commonsensecommentary]

Forcing us to wear the face diapers never had a thing to do with science. It was always about spreading fear, exerting control, and justifying election fraud. We were played for suckers by the Deep State Marxists, and we’re now suffering the consequences.

#covid #covid 19 #covid tyranny #masks #mask mandates #masks don’t work #election 2020 #election fraud #election interference #fauci lied #deep state #do not comply

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Some health-care workers in British Columbia have started receiving notification that they will once again be expected to wear masks in medical settings, but the language is ambiguous about what exactly will be required and for whom.

CTV News has obtained a memo from Brian Sagar, executive director of communicable disease prevention and control for B.C., notifying workers that “in preparation for the viral respiratory illness (season) this fall and winter” they will be reinstating enhanced infection prevention and control measures in hospitals, family doctors’ offices, and clinics effective Oct. 3. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #British Columbia #mask mandates #healthcare #public health

[newsfromstolenland]

"Most Canadians say they would support or share some support for the return of face mask mandates this fall in indoor public space if deemed necessary by officials, according to a new survey conducted by Nanos Research.

The poll conducted for CTV News found seven in 10 Canadians said they would support the return of face masks mandates to some extent. Fifty-two per cent said they would support the return of such mandates, 17 per cent said they would "somewhat support" them, while 22 per cent would be against them. Eight per cent would be "somewhat" opposed to the idea."

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so can we please do this already?

tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

#masks #masking #mask mandates #coronavirus #COVID-19 #canada #canadian news

[contemplatingoutlander]

#scotus #women's reproductive rights #mask mandates #hypocrisy

[inter-volve]

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[saywhat-politics]

With the U.S. seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past few weeks, mask mandates are in the news again, prompting Republican governors to vow they will prevent their return.

Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a 15.7 percent increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations from August 20 to 26, compared with the week before. While those hospitalizations are still significantly down from peaks in 2021, the CDC recently released a warning about a new coronavirus variant, BA.2.86, which it said "may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines."

Newsweek reached out to the CDC via email for further comment.

#covid 19 #mask mandates

[triple-tree-ranch]

#coronavirus #mask mandates #corona scam

[royalteachitchat]

🙈🙉🙊 Selected for a reason!

How many voters do you think Taylor can persuade to cross over? How many fresh new voters will follow her lead? Same goes for the jab.

I can't IMAGINE how much they are getting paid for this... ���

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[rickmctumbleface]

#abortion #mask mandates #body autonomy

[lifewithchronicpain]

The strike down of the transportation mask mandate is just another message from abled people that disabled people don't matter. When people say "wear a mask if you want to, what's the problem?" The problem is masks are more effective in preventing sick or asymptomatic people from transmitting the disease. It's less effective as just a personal protection.

Furthermore the masks were lifted while people were already on planes, so if someone felt safe in a masked plane, suddenly didn't have that without any warning. I know masks mandates can't last forever, and I get nauseous from masks especially in the hot summer humidity. However that discomfort saves lives. I'm sick an tired of rules relaxing and then surges happening.

Disabled people are just never a part of the conversation, and if we are were just talked about rather than involved in the discussion.

#disability #ableism #spoonies #mask mandates #covidー19

[probablyasocialecologist]

Last week, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle struck down the CDC’s transportation mask mandate using a bizarre misinterpretation of the 1944 Public Health Service Act. In what law professor Erin Fuse Brown called a “breathtaking amount of political judicial activism,” an un-elected conservative judge in Tampa single-handedly halted the CDC’s transportation mask mandate.

After news of the ruling broke, videos soon went viral showing flight attendants and pilots making gleeful mid-flight announcements pressuring travelers to remove their masks. People erupted into loud cheers and ripped masks off––as if the dynamics of viral transmission suddenly, magically differed as the result of Mizelle’s ruling. “Wearing a mask cleans nothing. At most, it traps virus droplets,” Mizelle wrote. “But it neither ‘sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ‘sanitizes’ the conveyances.” Mizelle framed the issue as being about the freedom of travelers who, like plaintiff Ana Daza, have “anxiety aggravated by wearing a mask,” not about mitigating infections.

However, despite this unilateral ruling, the reality of Covid infections have not changed: high levels of community spread continue to contribute to the durability of the pandemic, the virus has hardly been “defeated.” Regardless of these facts, which remain constant, the sociocultural winds have shifted, as many desperately cling to their sick, sad fantasy that the pandemic is always already over.

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The debate about mask mandates is actually a debate about the human, social and economic rights of everyone, not just the medically vulnerable. It is a conversation about the value that our society wishes to place in protecting each other from sickness, about the value of recognizing or rejecting our interdependence, and about the worth of the people whose suffering may soon be minimized as “deaths pulled from the future” or merely the “cost” of reopening. The broad rejection of masking as a solidaristic act, and the turn of the United States’ Covid response towards individualistic frames of personal responsibility, is ultimately a rejection of the right to “social life” for all those who are well within their rights to refuse to consent to needless and repeated Covid infections.

#covid19 #coronavirus #mask mandates #masks #ableism

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

I am sure this important study will get fact checked and it will be ignored by the establishment because it wasn't blessed with the pro "trust the science™" regime.

#new study #the free thought project #mask mandates

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta Health Services says enhanced masking requirements are now in place at seven hospitals, including:

• Royal Alexandra Hospital (implemented October 13)

• University of Alberta Hospital and the Stollery Children’s Hospital

• Misericordia Community Hospital

• Grey Nuns Community Hospital

• Alberta Hospital Edmonton

• Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital

• Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre

The requirements are also in place at the Central Alberta Cancer Centre, which is located at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre.

Staff, doctors, volunteers, and contracted workers must wear masks in all patient care areas, elevators, stairways, common areas, gift shops, cafeterias, and continuing care areas.

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[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #us house of representatives #118th congress #2023 #speaker of the house #rep. byron donalds #conservatives #republicans #gop #2020 election #trump's big lie #house freedom caucus #mask mandates #covid restrictions #felony bribery #republicans be like #conservatives be like