There has been increasingly visible media promotion of various municipalities reinstituting mask recommendations to battle a new BA.2.86 covid variant.
Today, the New York City Dept of Health became the latest large metropolitan area to recommend the return to face masks; however, no government mandates yet.
[…] Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, along with other proven prevention tools – like masking, testing, and staying home when sick – continue to be our best defense against COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses. (link)
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QUESTION: Are you starting to see increased emphasis on mask wearing in/around your local area?
Southeast Michigan here: nothing on the mask front up here. This article is the first I’ve heard of any COVID talk.
No mandates, or even discussion of mandates that I have heard of around me, but I have seen a massive increase in mask wearing by folks voluntarily. But I live in a HIGHLY Democrat area and they are good little sheeple, doing everything the state tells them.
Let’s see. We now have 2.86. Will 3.86, 4.86 and P.entium follow? Just asking.
For a friend, right?
Been seeing people here n there wearing them in se north carolina. This guy gave me one to wear while at his house working on the internet, he had an Oberlin college sticker on his car, lol
666 comments, now 667. There is no covid.
Who the hell is getting tested?
It said they were testing “sewage”.
OPh, so that’s the new nickname for Deplorable Empty Vessels.
UMass Worcester Memorial hospital here in MA has brought back masks for staff, not yet for patients. There’s another hospital in MA doing the same. I’m supposed to have a colonoscopy in October but I need to cancel. I’ll let them know if they insist on masks, I won’t be coming to the doctor office. And their staff should be able to breathe air freely. I’m done with the tyranny.
I’m closing in on 70 and passed the camera up my doo-da parade totally by. Last time I went to a doctor was for a voluntary physical and that was nearly 30 years ago. My reasons don’t involve Covid but it sure pointed up one solid reason for starving the medical community and leaving its humans to twist in the wind, preferably from construction cranes.
I haven’t got to the latter yet but starving them for business and eschewing the health insurance industry and starving it have been peaceful, lawful things I can do. Better, I’m poor so the state pays my mandated Medicare premium for me. Poverty, perceived poverty, has benefits. Still healthy. Fight the fight and go to God with a smile on one’s face. 🙂
I stay as far away from these doers of iniquity as I can. No yearly scans of anything as before covid. I occasionally ask for their advice but rarely take it because I don’t trust any of them. They have earned my distrust.
Totally agree with you Joan, I avoid doctors as much as possible, but now I have to take meds for blood pressure, and the doctors in my area have started holding our automatic prescription renewals hostage … you MUST go in for a checkup every 6 months ($160 for a 5 -minute “examination”) or NO MEDS FOR YOU!!!!
“Cut the cord” on medical “care” and “health Insurance” is just like cutting the cord on MSM, Social Media, etc.
It requires recognising REALITY, and eschewing the unreality they are espousing.
I detirmined I have slightly high B.P. (not difficult to ‘diagnose’ conclusively with a manual B.P. cuff.
So, I ordered Losartan, from India (Global pharmacy).
No bullshite; no Drs appointment, no mask mdandates, no co-psys, deductibles, out of pockets, etc.
Price was far lower than buying the Losartan from CVS, and the lack of stress,….PRICELESS.
Concur with what Dune says, regarding “poverty.
We pay GINORMOUS surtax, for the ILLUSIONS of “Security, Prosperity and Convenience” and sacrifice our Liberty and Independance in the process.
I don’t pay for Medicare, don’t HAVE it, except part A which is mandatory but costs me nothing.
Because I have no health Insurance, the local clinic has me on “abulity to pay” so $40/ visit, and $30 for labs, and meds at no charge, that if I DO decide I need something from them I can’t do myself.
I am my “primary care” physician, I use THEM when I need lab tests, proceedures or a Rx. I can’t just get from overseas.
No credit, either as I don’t WANT it.
We are starting to see them here on a few people, here in central NC. (I was shopping in Raleigh this past week.) It is all I can do to tolerate people’s nonsense. I do realize that people have their own experiences, and maybe they “got it” one or more times and are scared. Maybe they have a lot of other health issues and they just FEEL protected if they wear one. But, there are also those who comply no matter what.
Piedmont NC- Few masks observed but there were a few who never stopped wearing them for whatever reason.
Had a couple of medical appointments in last week- no masks required.
Save these or print them out. The first 3 are studies done this year showing masks do not work. And the last one is a study that was even shared by the NIH showing mask wearers, especially N95, could be exposed to toxic volatile organic compounds (TVOC) that cause cancer. Not sure it will help, but at least you have it and can maybe change some minds.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-15624-9
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.23292338v1.full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112860/
Here in Central Illinois (I moved but didn’t change my commenting name), there have always been the “wackos” who have never taken their masks off, but I have not seen any significant increase in the mask-wearing populace. I guess we’re just waiting for our esteemed governor and future minimum-security prison inmate (happens to most IL ex-governors) to decree it so. Then I can return to being a rebel and not wear it. Even doctor’s and dental practices have signs saying “masks not required”.
A face-mask indicates that you are a sheep. That you will do anything Daddy Government tells you to do.
Wearing a face mask means, “i’ve bent over”
Lets face it, there ARE some people who SHOULD wear face diapers, particularly whenever they are in public;
Those who TALK sh*t,
are FULL of sh*t,
and have diahreah of the mouth.
Not seeing any increase yet, but then living in a ruby red, 2A sanctiary County, in a 2A sanctuary STATE, I suspect any mask mandates will be limited to hospitals/clinics complying with Medicare/Medicade requirements,…seriouslyddoubt we will see it in retail establishments like grocery stores and restaurants again,…not HERE, anyway.
IMO, it’s a great way for Communists and their collaborators to signal and communicate with each other. They are ‘of the body’.
I would expect such alliances to accelerate as the election cycle progresses. Group think is important to Communist success. Signaling is part of that.
Conversely, patriots are often hiding in plain sight and we need other ways to coordinate and communicate and the will to put aside our rugged individualism to collaborate and cooperate in what’s to come. Green Dragon 🙂
Good Landru reference. They’ve been absorbed.
The BS4U variant.
MORE “Bullpucky for you” as if we haven’t had enough.
UPstate South Carolina: not too much yet but can see that people are starting to wear them in public. It’s starting to become a common site. I suspect these are folks listening to NPR or watching local news (owned by Fake News).
I’ve been on the highway a lot the last couple weeks in CA and OR and have yet to see a mask worn. However, I’m purposely patronizing relatively rural areas along the corridors to personally interact with humans, essentially spending my resources in patriot country on my trips. Still, regardless of where I’ve been, no masks.
A real test comes this weekend, when Communists invade our beach locale to play with their toys. I’ll be curious to see how it goes. Seems, so far, the attendance is lighter than normal. Here it is Saturday morning, the sun is out, beautiful day and I hear exactly zero beach buggies fired up and blasting up the dune roads behind the house. Odd!
I’m in rural California, no masks but occasionally see a masked driver alone in a vehicle on the highway.
You made me laugh with sun out and nobody enjoying it.
I went to our free public outdoor shooting range and was surprised to get the best spot. I set up my targets but didn’t hear shooting from the other spots-didn’t hear anything other than frogs and birds. So peaceful…
I took some shots and went back to car to reload and noticed a new sign.
No target shooting after noon due to increased fire danger.
Not quite as bad as my buddy who asked me to swim to this sign way offshore at Miami Beach. I stayed on the beach. He looked a little paler when he returned. What’s the sign say, I asked? Caution-Shark Breeding Area!
I love our NorCal town. The shooting range backstop is Democrat mountain!
Good number of folks getting sick with “Covid” round here – East Tennessee, symptoms sound like flu to me. Nothing changed much here in 2020, maybe 30/40% with masks. Doubt it will change much now.
Not yet, but this IS communist MN… I used this to thwart communist madwomen in 2020:
“A person whose identity is concealed by the person in a public place by means of a robe, mask, or other disguise, unless based on religious beliefs, or incidental to amusement, entertainment, protection from weather, or medical treatment, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Minn. Stat. § 609.735
1963 c 753 art 1 s 609.735; 1971 c 23 s 73; 1986 c 444; 1995 c 30 s 1″
I was Massachusetts General Hospital (in downtown Boston) this past Monday. My wife’s hematologist came in the examining room wearing a mask. When see saw that we were not wearing masks, she took off her mask and explained that as a default she wears a mask so as to not offend the sensibilities of many of her patients. (This is a common position for many people who live in this epicenter of rabid liberalism. This is not my position nor my wife’s; we are rather defiant about not wearing masks, for all the good it does.) So far masks are not mandated at Mass General (where they were required for everybody up until a few months ago). We will see how long that lasts.
Send that hemotologist a big Christmas gift. She earned it.
WNY not a lot of mask wearing. The occasional senior citizen at the grocery store.
Upstate NY. I’d say there’s talk of a new uptick in Covid, but not any talk about masking. I will not be masking.
As a fellow Upstate NYer, I am not seeing much change in stores so I was surprised to come across national reporting that some Upstate NY hospitals have returned to mask mandates.
https://www.newsweek.com/mask-mandates-return-list-places-restrictions-1823069
Variant BA.2.86 has been detected in 5 states —these states are where I’d watch for masking to return first:
Michigan, New York, Ohio, Texas, Virginia.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/new-covid-variant-ba286-now-5-states/story?id=102858143
Nothing in the St. Pete Beach area. we ain’t doing it.
Yes, been reading articles like this about return of Covid and masks.
Kern County, CA, Speaker McCarthy is my Rep. (UGH!)
But everything I hear from people I know is “will not comply” or a big fat “NO!”
I used to work in oil patch when it was gritty conservative and my moniker for Kevin is ‘McCommie’ 🙂
He’s no conservative, for sure.
Agreed! A member of one of McCarthy’s Super Pacs came to our local Republican meeting last month. I called him out for donating money to Anti-MAGA candidates in the last election. He tried defending that RINO, but others joined in on a number of issues. I venture to say, he was sorry he attended. Haha.
My friend encountered a shrieking harridan/mask Nazi at the local grocery store. “Where is your mask?” she shouted. “None of your damn business” was the response.
An equally good response is, “Up your butt”.
Exactly. Its scary, confronting someone who is deranged, but its necessary to STAND UP TO BULLIES, EVERY time.
We the People will NOT comply! We stand with DJT!
Nothing yet in Berks Cnty PA but i know some people that work for the school district and they havent heard anything either, we’ll see.
Naperville suburban Chicago
Many Indians never stopped wearing a mask.
Started seeing increased fear couple weeks ago from broader leftists sheep
Expecting to see more idiots next week sitting alone in cars lining up for the next jab
Yes. Last time it was older women. Now it’s older men.
With the ginning up of Covid FEAR I thought I’d drop this here.
This Fauci paper puts things in context for coronaviruses and vaccines for them.
(He conveniently published this Jan 11, 2023, AFTER he retired)
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(22)00572-8
Viruses that infect your airway and STAY THERE cause significant death and illness and are public health concerns.
On his list are Influenza A (The HxNx viruses), SARS-CoV-2 (a specific CoV) and……
ENdemic coronaviruses (that are NOT SARS-CoV-2)
ENDEMIC…coronaviruses have been infecting humans year after year causing morbidity (illness) and mortality (deaths) ALL ALONG.
We’ve ALL had them before.
Our immune systems were NOT NAIVE to coronaviruses.
Doctors have treated them all along
We just never counted them before 2020 except when:
1) a version we named SARS1 went EPIdemic
2) a version we named MERS went EPIdemic
In 2020, a version went PANdemic ( we named SARS-CoV-2) and we started counting them in earnest:
We started surveilling them in the poo. (That’s how all these variants are id’d and named)
We started counting them in sick people.
We started counting them in HEALTHY people. (People that weren’t symptomatic but were forced to get tested)
And we put all those numbers on a scoreboard PERMANENTLY ATTACHED to our TV screens 24/7.
Prior to 2020, if you went to the doctor with flu symptoms he would usually give you 2 tests: influenza & strep.
Ever have them come back NEGATIVE?
Well something made you sick and the doctor didn’t have a test to tell you what it was.
So he called it an “upper respiratory infection” or maybe “bronchitis” or simply “the flu”
Good chance it was a coronavirus.
Here’s vaccine evangelist TV Doctor Paul Offit telling Doctor Z Doggy Dogg how human infecting CoVs have been around since the days of George Washington and Abe Lincoln and are responsible for 20% of all “flus” every year: (24 min mark)
(Side Note: Dr ZDogg is kind of a joke, a vaccine pied piper. However his conversations with Dr Offit are very enlightening. If you watch them you’ll notice a very different story than the TV tells about vaccines.
On TV vaccines are all about ANTIBODIES in the blood “SEROPREVALENCE” or “VACCINE INDUCED IMMUNITY”.
Dr Offit talks about cytotoxic T-Cells and B-cells being KEY)
Fauci’s paper explains the truth about vaccines for non-systemic respiratory virus and how they are VERY different from other ones like measles, mumps and rubella (as well as non respiratory viruses like smallpox and chickenpox)
The vaccine evangelists dogma is entirely based on HOPE.
“More than 50 years ago, the development of successful vaccines against some of the most important respiratory viruses, including measles, mumps, and rubella, led to the hope that vaccines could soon be developed for all other respiratory viruses.”
This HOPE is what fuels the vaccine industry.
The vaccine salesman Fauci even says:
“influenza had for many decades been the deadliest vaccine-preventable viral respiratory disease“
He then describes in detail there is absolutely no science to back up that claim. NONE.
DESPITE 60+years of trying we have made LITTLE PROGRESS on a vaccine for them that will prevent infection and transmission.
WE’VE NEVER MADE ONE
The best they can claim is that the ANTIBODIES our “LESS THAN SUB OPTIMAL” vaccines induce are a “CORRELATE of PROTECTION against SEVERE DISEASE”
The problem is NOT simply “they mutate every year” (RSV is “non-drifted” i.e. doesn’t mutate)
The problem is the HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM does NOT MAKE complete (prevent) and durable (long lasting) immune responses to THESE TYPES OF VIRUSES.
The immune system CANNOT or perhaps WILL NOT** make that type of immunity.
So a quick way to determine whether ANY vaccine will make a “VIRUS STOP WITH YOU” starts with this:
What happens when a human gets sick with virus X?
1) Do you get sick ONE TIME and never again
2) Do you keep getting that same sickness periodically over your lifetime
If the answer is 1) than MAYBE we can make a vaccine to control it.
A vaccine will not turn your immune system into the Incredible Hulk.
**”Will not”
“Natural infections with mucosal respiratory viruses may not be fully controlled by human immune responses because the human immune system has evolved to tolerate them during very short intervals of mucosal viral replication”
In other words, letting these viruses in provides some benefit we don’t quite understand.
On Omicron and beyond:
“The Alarming new variant OMICRON” was ALARMING because of the ALARMING number of mutations in the spike protein gene.
Not because it was more transmissible, higher morbidity or higher mortality….
The high number of MUTATIONS.
Mutations that evolutionarily SHOULD NOT BE THERE.
The DELTA spike protein was kicking ass…it was the “FITTEST”.
So why on earth would it accumulate 1 mutation much less 32 mutations?
The ALARMING part was the PCR tests.
The PCR tests were set up to look for gene sequences specific to CoVs in general and then that of the novel spike protein gene of SARS-CoV-2
The novel spike protein gene accumulated so many mutations that…
The PCR tests we were using NO LONGER PICKED UP THE SPIKE PROTEIN GENE at all. (S gene drop out)
In simple terms, when the PCR tests no longer registered the SARS2 spike protein gene…..we had effectively “lost” the SARS2 NOVEL virus.
By this time though we are NON-STOP surveilling CoVs in the poo and coronaviruses have been ENdemic for centuries.
The poo is FULL of them.
We are only now finding them and NAMING them.
A bait and switch has occurred:
There were always CoVs infecting us making us sick.
With the exception of SARS1 and MERS
We never named them
We never counted them.
We lumped them in with “the flu”
Along came a CoV with a novelty that got our attention. That novelty was the spike.
That novelty was used to track it.
That novelty disappeared with 32 mutations.
Which led us to look for new predominant spikes in the poo…that we now name, test, and are to be concerned about.
We pulled out coronaviruses from what we used to call “the flu” and now call Coronavirus Infectious Disease:
Fauci has successfully created a new industry around a virus that was always there.
COVID, Inc.
Now he instructs at Communist think-tank Georgetown University. Gotta admire Communist zeal and the way they operate as a coordinated body, to the death. 🙂
The journalism of the ‘New Woke Times’ in a nutshell.
What did our elected officials do to stamp this out before it ever happened again? Who did not see this coming?
Why do we demand so little of our ‘leaders’?
We all voted for this.
Very few of US “voted” for this.
Our elections, like Public Opinion more broadly, has been MANIPULATED for many, many years.
I’m in blue Maryland and have seen an increase in masking. Many Blacks never stopped wearing them. Can’t quite figure out why. Lots more at Sam’s, Safeway, Wegman’s.
Wonder if its just covid they’re trying to mask up for? They do have a lot of new people in the state. Crime in on the rise there too, isn’t it? Nothing like a lot of the unreckonable.
Now it’s a what if followed by a big lie designed to redirect wandering weak minded ignorant sheep back into the compliance compound. Well what a surprise. Either Wuhan has now re-engineered covid or it has self mutated to infect sewer lines. Well, the bottom line is that the sewer is not the most pristine place in the world for a picnic destination and the actual fact is that there are a lot worse infective agents floating down it than covid that the woke medical/public health quacks need to worry about. But according them, no problem, because if the covid vaccines that people stupidly acquiesced to take, falsely believing that they would provide immunity, hasn’t resulted in a severe/debilitating/fatal cardiovascular related medical condition they need to just mask up to visibly designate their compliance and then patiently go into isolation while waiting to take the upcoming covid vaccines for the new variant which will finish the job the other vaccines didn’t do.
Who’s to say the Covid in the sewers isn’t a result OF the vaccines, in which case monitoring sewer systems for Covid, is kinda stupid, no?
No. 1: Covid vaccines contain no infectious agents such as covid virus. Also, the mRNA in the vaccines is very labile. So, zero problem with that. No. 2: Individuals with a covid infection have indirectly been urinating and defecating in sewers since 2020. If that was a problem, every major city with a sewer system, would have a continuous wave of covid infections. That has not occurred. Also, the virus needs a stable environment (for example pH, etc.) to survive. No. 3: There are more serious/deadly infectious organisms lurking in the sewers that can definitely pose more of a health threat than a covid infection which can successfully be cured with inexpensive repurposed FDA approved drugs.
Here in the People’s Republic of Peterborough NH more people are beginning to wear masks again. But in all honesty some never stopped wearing them. Drivers are frequently seen driving around town masked up and all alone. This town is very liberal and apparently obey everything they are told to do by our new Fascist government. When did liberals become Fascists?
They’ve always been fascists…they were just in denial
SOOOO beautiful there! Such a shame.
My sister-in-law(SE- PA), is a concierge hairdresser. She has one couple that she sees once a month. They have asked her to wear a mask EVERY time since this started (2020). She sees them tomorrow. She wears the dumb thing because they pay her $250 for 1 hour. She pulled her mask out from between her car seat today. Ridiculous!!!!! I (NE-NC) have seen a few at the grocery stores. Mostly elderly and blacks.
I think I’d have to up my price for them, say $500 apiece. 🤣
Local paper for small population county had an article again on Covid–discussing how everyone needs the booster and how the new vaccine is good for for children, age 6 and under. This was a couple of weeks ago and I am in a radically blue state. I’ve noticed an uptick in mask wearing, outdoors cause I am not usually indoors–people at the fair were discussing the new vax as they wore their masks; guy recovering from prostate cancer can’t wait for the new vax. So yeah. One gal at the local hardware store–in her 20s–I’ve never seen her face. She sports a huge black lycra shiny black mask. I was extremely well-liked during the pandemic and had all sorts of interesting arguments where things got really heated. I’m still viewed with disdain at the library.
Look at you, showing off your God-given rights! The horror. 🤣👏👏
It goes without saying that OR is run by Communists. However, in our deeply conservative, pro-Trump, State of Jefferson annex, I’ve seen nothing of substance so far.
However, for patriots anywhere in the country, don’t rest; the Communists are always pushing, always infiltrating, always invading. Stay frosty and alert. Particularly watch the schools and law enforcement. We watch those like a hawk.
It’s a shame that the librarian profession has become overrun with liberals.
I love to read, but I avoid libraries because I want nothing to do with their liberalism. There are plenty of other sources for quality reading material.
I notice more old people have gone back to wearing masks at my grocery store. There have always been a few younger people wearing them and I haven’t noticed any increase among that crowd, here in southern Colorado.
I am sure the picture will change as soon as the DOA sounds the all aboard whistle to the six big media firms. I think this comes once the farmers eat corn campaign is ready for launch. These are only my impressions of what I see right now. But I am sure there will be enough twists and turns to screw the pooch by the new year. Hitch up the mule team, Tonto. We are riding the wagon today.
I live in southeast Alabama and I am a civil servant at Fort Rucker under the Department of Army. On July 26, the undersecretary of the Army released a memorandum basically relaxing all rules with COVID. No quarantine, no mandatory mask wearing, no mandatory testing. This was on the heels of Joe stating the pandemic was over. Then two weeks ago, an employee’s daughter contracted COVID and we sought clarification given there was was conflicting information on how to treat. My command acknowledged the overarching guidance from the July memo, but citing concerns from the command surgeon, an O6, stated they would default to previous guidance (Jan 2023) which mandates quarantine, masking, and separation. So an O6 at the local level with concerns can override the undersecretary’s guidance. People here are pissed and defiant
It will be official when Biden comes to the podium wearing a mask.
That will happen soon I’m guessing.
NE Florida – will occasionally encounter a nut job wearing a mask when out and about.
Sadly though, I encounter more masked individuals on the military base than I do in town.
Love the Cat in the Hat and am sending it along to friends and family.
I quit wearing masks 60 Halloweens ago!
Ashwin Vasan: Add his name to the short list of uber-class migrants from Indian nations, who are attempting to redirect America’s direction and destiny.
Who invited these folks? Who empowered them? Can’t be Ninrod Nikki Haley ‘cuz she ain’t POTUS yet.
Democrat politicians systemically destroyed New York City.
Woke New Yorkers are mindless sheep.
The mindless sheep are told to wear a mask.
Glad I don’t or NEVER will live or visit again NEW YORK. However, I will NOT nor NEVER DID “wear an mask” people around where I live for the most part “have more sense than that”.
My motto going forward is “I WILL NOT COMPLY” unless I’ve looked into it and “it makes good sense to ME”
As far as vaccines go unless “GOD HIMSELF” says it’ll be good for me, no way and btw what’s the chance GOD will take the time out of his busy schedule to confer with little ole “me”? Didn’t think so.
God Bless and don’t forget to USE the brain GOD gave YOU to DISCERN what right & wrong for YOU.
The Woodlands, TX. Not really. Noticed my vet tech had one on the other day but was the only one in the clinic so assume shes a leftist now. Shes the only one I have seen so far.
new Dr. Mobeen Sayad you tube where the 5th Circuit court ruled that the FDA overstepped its authority regarding the use of Ivermectin.
Perhaps if enough of us demand no more masks, no more isolation and insist on being able to get Ivermectin over-the-counter (if possible) perhaps that will let us, and the powers that be, know just how effective the voices of the forgotten Americans can be when we go after the big one – election integrity?
26 minute video:
Here, people are gearing up for resistance.
The comment I hear again and again is, ‘when it’s severe enough they are patrolling the southern border the way they patrolled LA beaches, that’s when I’ll mask again’.
In the DC area, some people never stopped wearing masks. Now they are like a freakish cult of COVID lifers.
Arlington, Virginia, here. In this upscale über Progressive enclave mask-wearing (by a sizable minority) never ended as it was/is a symbol of fealty to the Progressive Agenda of the Democratic Party. I expect to see an increasing number of masks in the supermarkets and elsewhere now that a “new variant” has been declared.
I’ve noticed that upscale areas tend to be progressive. I suppose their money shields them from reality which allows them to become suckered into the delusion of liberalism.
I realize that Arlington, VA is next to Washington, DC, so it’s extra progressive.
Just traveled across country in a commercial airliner. Several folks wearing masks, but at least one person was trying to look faux hip, you know, with the mask pulled down under the nose.