Abandon ship! Governors scramble to end lockdowns, mask mandates

[Leongsam]

I could have told them way back in March 2020 that masks don't work. It may take a while but eventually everyone will realise just how superior my wisdom and foresight is.

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Abandon ship! Governors scramble to end lockdowns, mask mandates
16 states are now following the science.

Jordan Schachtel Mar 3

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It took an entire year, but lockdowns and mask mandates are officially incredibly unpopular with half of the country, to the point that governors are rapidly making sweeping changes to their year-long COVID-19 policies.



Jumping onto the coattails of pro-individual freedom leaders like governors Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) and Kristi Noem (R-SD), the governors of Mississippi and Texas decided Tuesday to announce an end to business restrictions and statewide mask mandates.

Both Tate Reeves (R-MS) and Greg Abbott (R-TX), who had long taken a nanny state approach to the COVID-19 crisis, acted almost simultaneously to announce the end of statewide restrictions.

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX
I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%. EVERYTHING. I also ended the statewide mask mandate.
March 2nd 2021
24,417 Retweets99,654 Likes
Tate Reeves @tatereeves
Starting tomorrow, we are lifting all of our county mask mandates and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without any state-imposed rules. Our hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted, and the vaccine is being rapidly distributed. It is time!
March 2nd 2021
1,699 Retweets6,167 Likes
The centrally planned solutions to COVID-19 have failed spectacularly, and the American people have taken notice of this reality. Hundreds of millions have now been through a full year of government-imposed tyranny on both a federal and state level. Whether it was a travel ban, an endless series of lockdowns, mask mandates, countless emergency orders, business closures, and the like, not a single top-down order from the federal or state level did anything productive for the wellbeing of Americans.

None of it worked. All of it served as a net negative. The people have noticed.

Now that their constituents have had enough, politicians on the Right are fast departing from the COVID tyranny, and attempting to secure what is left of their political aspirations.

Abbott and Reeves are not the only GOP governors moving fast in ending the restrictions, several other governors have recently acted to roll them back.

On February 12, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte lifted his statewide mask mandate.

Sunshine @MaguirePeters
Newly Elected Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Ends State Mask Mandate via @NationalFile Newly Elected Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Ends State Mask MandateMontana’s Republican Governor, Greg Gianforte, revoked the statewide mask mandate instituted by his Democrat predecessor, fulfilling a campaign promise. Governornationalfile.com
February 13th 2021
6 Retweets6 Likes
On February 8, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds lifted Iowa’s statewide mask mandate along with several other restrictions.

Shirley Zilberstein @SZilberstein
In Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds defends decision to lift mask mandate, other COVID-19 restrictions desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol… via @DMRegisterGov. Kim Reynolds defends decision to lift mask mandate, other COVID-19 restrictionsIn her Feb. 10, 2021, COVID-19 news conference, Gov. Reynolds talks about other statistics considered when determining virus mitigation efforts. Iowa PBSdesmoinesregister.com
February 11th 2021
On February 22, North Dakota took it a step further. Its legislative body took the bold step in voting to make mask mandates illegal.

The Hill @thehill
North Dakota House passes bill forbidding mandatory mask wearing hill.cm/vOSI2IZ

February 23rd 2021
323 Retweets1,121 Likes
As of March 2, there are now 16 states that no longer have statewide mask orders.

However, across the political divide, there remains no end in sight to the corona madness. Much of the Left continues to embrace and root on endless COVID-19 restrictions, and the hijacking of individual rights in the name of a virus.

Governor Gavin Newsom of California took to Twitter in describing the end of restrictions as “absolutely reckless.”

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
Absolutely reckless. https://t.co/3O5GsbSLpM
The Associated Press @AP
BREAKING: Texas is lifting its mask mandate, making it the largest state to end an order intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Gov. Greg Abbott has faced sharp criticism from his party over the mandate, imposed eight months ago. https://t.co/WHPLWzf9jF
March 2nd 2021
1,610 Retweets9,500 Likes
It took long enough, but it’s now official: Governors who continue to impose lockdowns and mask mandates are fast becoming as popular as Red Sox fans in the Yankee Stadium bleachers, at least in half of the country. The internal polling is out, and the draconian restrictions are being abandoned in droves. History will not be kind to the remaining high-handed holdouts.

 

[Leongsam]

https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/to...is-going-to-protect-them.281796/#post-3069680

 

[sweetiepie]

It may take a while but eventually everyone will realise just how superior my wisdom and foresight is.

KNN my uncle is excited to have a contender KNN when the things leelee happened don't forget to put "see everyone ?" KNN

 

[Leongsam]

At the beginning of this covid face mask charade I had already pointed out that wearing a mask without eye protection was like locking the doors while leaving all the windows wide open and still expecting your house to be burglar proof.

This very important aspect of infection control was actually acknowledged by CDC yet absolutely nothing was ever done to mandate the wearing of goggles to stop the spread. Instead that moron Fauci added another mask layer which is like putting two locks on the front door while the windows are still wide open.

Why there was never a goggles mandate is still puzzling. The reason is probably political and time will reveal what went on.


https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ce-shields-goggles-eye-protection-coronavirus


theguardian.com

You’re already wearing a mask – now consider a face shield and goggles | Adrienne Matei
Adrienne Matei

4-5 minutes


At first, wearing a face mask felt a bit strange. Now, over five months into North America’s battle with Covid-19, I feel naked in public without one. Will goggles – previously the purview of steampunks and snowboarders – become the next article of protective equipment to go from weird to widespread? According to Dr Anthony Fauci, the answer is yes. In an ABC News Instagram Live Q&A this Wednesday, Fauci told viewers: “If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it.”

On Thursday, Dr Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, echoed Fauci’s statement during a Fox & Friends interview, saying eye protection decreases “the ability for [wearers] to touch their eyes and spread the virus as well as those droplets coming towards them.”

Like your nose and mouth, your eyes are “mucosal surfaces” – permeable areas of the body that are vulnerable to infection. Research from Johns Hopkins University has found that Covid-19 specifically can be contracted via the eyes, “through exposure to aerosolized droplets or hand-eye contact”. However, the virus does not appear to spread through tears or ocular tissue, meaning goggles protect their wearer, not the people around them (you still need a mask for that).

Neither Fauci nor the CDC has officially recommended protective eyewear for the general public yet. However, goggles or face shields, in addition to masks, are required gear for medical patients being treated for Covid-19, and the healthcare personnel working with them. It follows that if you want to err on the side of caution and achieve what Fauci calls “perfect protection” – the covering of all your mucosal surfaces in public spaces – you need to shield your peepers (and no, regular contact lenses and glasses don’t work – I checked).

Wearing goggles to the grocery store may seem extreme, but choosing to do so ultimately amounts to investing in a bit of extra prevention during an immensely serious pandemic. After all, the United States has been the country worst-affected by Covid-19, with more than 4.3m diagnosed cases and over 150,000 deaths. In his broadcast, Fauci noted that residents of Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana should be particularly careful, as their states are “starting to show that very subtle increase in percent positives among the total tested, which is a surefire hint that you may be getting into the same sort of trouble with those states that the southern states got into trouble with.”

The question remains – if goggles are useful in the battle against Covid-19, why are we only talking about them now?

According to Dr Warren Dinges, a Seattle-based board-certified physician in internal medicine and infectious diseases, the new emphasis on goggles probably reflects our growing understanding of the role of aerosol particles in Covid-19 transmission. “When something is airborne … little droplets remain in the air longer and you could then walk into a stream of suspended droplets that could then transmit the virus to you,” he says. “And by wearing goggles you would prevent those airborne droplets from landing on your [eye] mucus membranes and causing transmission.

“I think it’s reasonable, certainly if you’re not going to be able to socially distance, to wear goggles of face shields based on the evidence of airborne transmission,” says Dinges, though he has yet to wear them going to the office or grocery store himself.

Fauci mentioned another reason eye protection has yet to become mainstream during his Q&A, saying: “It’s so easy for people just make a cloth mask.” Indeed, while goggles are not especially hard to come by (you can buy them on Amazon) you can’t really whip up a cute pair of them, and they’re just one more thing we’re not accustomed to – yet. Perhaps one day soon, wearing goggles will be second nature. It won’t be weird if everyone’s doing it.

 

[face the facts]

masks are useful if you want to whack the fuck out of someone and run away, not against covid

 

[laksaboy]

Masks are helpful if you wish to hide your ugly face, want to hide your identity from enemies or security cameras, you have bad breath, or you want to conceal a Hitler mustache while walking outside.

It also helps you to easily identify who are the idiots around you e.g. wearing a mask while jogging at a stadium or when climbing the Bukit Timah Hill.

 

[tanwahtiu]

That's fucking US.... arrogant, stuoid and racist shitskins. They die their biz...

I could have told them way back in March 2020 that masks don't work. It may take a while but eventually everyone will realise just how superior my wisdom and foresight is.

**************************

Abandon ship! Governors scramble to end lockdowns, mask mandates
16 states are now following the science.

Jordan Schachtel Mar 3

26

43

It took an entire year, but lockdowns and mask mandates are officially incredibly unpopular with half of the country, to the point that governors are rapidly making sweeping changes to their year-long COVID-19 policies.



Jumping onto the coattails of pro-individual freedom leaders like governors Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) and Kristi Noem (R-SD), the governors of Mississippi and Texas decided Tuesday to announce an end to business restrictions and statewide mask mandates.

Both Tate Reeves (R-MS) and Greg Abbott (R-TX), who had long taken a nanny state approach to the COVID-19 crisis, acted almost simultaneously to announce the end of statewide restrictions.

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX
I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%. EVERYTHING. I also ended the statewide mask mandate.
March 2nd 2021
24,417 Retweets99,654 Likes
Tate Reeves @tatereeves
Starting tomorrow, we are lifting all of our county mask mandates and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without any state-imposed rules. Our hospitalizations and case numbers have plummeted, and the vaccine is being rapidly distributed. It is time!
March 2nd 2021
1,699 Retweets6,167 Likes
The centrally planned solutions to COVID-19 have failed spectacularly, and the American people have taken notice of this reality. Hundreds of millions have now been through a full year of government-imposed tyranny on both a federal and state level. Whether it was a travel ban, an endless series of lockdowns, mask mandates, countless emergency orders, business closures, and the like, not a single top-down order from the federal or state level did anything productive for the wellbeing of Americans.

None of it worked. All of it served as a net negative. The people have noticed.

Now that their constituents have had enough, politicians on the Right are fast departing from the COVID tyranny, and attempting to secure what is left of their political aspirations.

Abbott and Reeves are not the only GOP governors moving fast in ending the restrictions, several other governors have recently acted to roll them back.

On February 12, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte lifted his statewide mask mandate.

Sunshine @MaguirePeters
Newly Elected Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Ends State Mask Mandate via @NationalFile Newly Elected Montana Governor Greg Gianforte Ends State Mask MandateMontana’s Republican Governor, Greg Gianforte, revoked the statewide mask mandate instituted by his Democrat predecessor, fulfilling a campaign promise. Governornationalfile.com
February 13th 2021
6 Retweets6 Likes
On February 8, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds lifted Iowa’s statewide mask mandate along with several other restrictions.

Shirley Zilberstein @SZilberstein
In Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds defends decision to lift mask mandate, other COVID-19 restrictions desmoinesregister.com/story/news/pol… via @DMRegisterGov. Kim Reynolds defends decision to lift mask mandate, other COVID-19 restrictionsIn her Feb. 10, 2021, COVID-19 news conference, Gov. Reynolds talks about other statistics considered when determining virus mitigation efforts. Iowa PBSdesmoinesregister.com
February 11th 2021
On February 22, North Dakota took it a step further. Its legislative body took the bold step in voting to make mask mandates illegal.

The Hill @thehill
North Dakota House passes bill forbidding mandatory mask wearing hill.cm/vOSI2IZ

February 23rd 2021
323 Retweets1,121 Likes
As of March 2, there are now 16 states that no longer have statewide mask orders.

However, across the political divide, there remains no end in sight to the corona madness. Much of the Left continues to embrace and root on endless COVID-19 restrictions, and the hijacking of individual rights in the name of a virus.

Governor Gavin Newsom of California took to Twitter in describing the end of restrictions as “absolutely reckless.”

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
Absolutely reckless. https://t.co/3O5GsbSLpM
The Associated Press @AP
BREAKING: Texas is lifting its mask mandate, making it the largest state to end an order intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Gov. Greg Abbott has faced sharp criticism from his party over the mandate, imposed eight months ago. https://t.co/WHPLWzf9jF
March 2nd 2021
1,610 Retweets9,500 Likes
It took long enough, but it’s now official: Governors who continue to impose lockdowns and mask mandates are fast becoming as popular as Red Sox fans in the Yankee Stadium bleachers, at least in half of the country. The internal polling is out, and the draconian restrictions are being abandoned in droves. History will not be kind to the remaining high-handed holdouts.

 

[syed putra]

I was never threatened by covid