CDC lifts mask restrictions for those fully vaccinated

[grsthegreat]

Nope. And I guarantee you as long as we have these clowns obsessed with playing with bats & monkey viruses (for Lord knows why) we will have these mistakes in labs and outbreaks.
Enough already. Stop screwing around with disaster.

Agree. Everyone knows China created this, but are afraid to ruffle their feathers.

 

[Hay Dude]

Absolutely! You nailed it, as verified by the 580,000 that died.

Media created hysteria should be illegal. It is not freedom of speech or expression. It’s SICK and CRUEL. This latest fuel crisis clown show is proof. In any society or supply chain there can be disruptions, viruses, natural disasters.
Start teaching our dumbed down population of this and the calamitous behavior of filling plastic trash bags with gasoline and double masking a teenager while running the 400M hurdles can stop.
ENOUGH

 

[MossRoad]

The county were I live has had just shy of 36,000 positive tests, and over 570 deaths. We are home to the University of Notre Dame (and a few more universities and colleges), so we have around 12,500 ND students from all over the world that interact with the community, and over 5000 faculty and staff. So that's around 17,500 people in close contact. ND has done a huge job in getting over 90% of their students and 70% of their faculty and staff 100% vaccinated. They keep a public website open and updated to let the community see what they've done and the numbers, since it's a big concern here. They had a massive campaign to wear masks and practice social distancing, restrictions on class sizes, restrictions of dorm visitors, masks in small, medium, and large settings, testing before leaving campus to return to hometowns, testing before returning to campus, etc... it was a massive effort.

Just since January of this year, they've conducted over 191,000 COVID tests. 2200 were symptomatic. 189,000 were asymptomatic. They've had over 1500 positive cases this year. I can't find the stats for last year.

The good news is that last week, for the first time since this virus started, they had zero(0) positive cases over the past 7 days!

Masks, social distancing, and vaccines work! There's just no way to deny it. And there's no excuse not to do your part.

 

[Tinhack]

Start teaching our dumbed down population of this and the calamitous behavior of filling plastic trash bags with gasoline and double masking a teenager while running the 400M hurdles can stop.

I say let 'em go. It's natural selection unless they injure someone else. Dumb people breed dumb children. You can't teach common sense to most of them. YouTube is full of the idiots--If you can ever get past the commercials.

Before the internet, village idiots stayed in they're own village.

 

[Hay Dude]

I say let 'em go. It's natural selection unless they injure someone else. Dumb people breed dumb children. You can't teach common sense to most of them. YouTube is full of the idiots--If you can ever get past the commercials.

Before the internet, village idiots stayed in they're own village.

Tinhack, I do agree somewhat, but I would prefer we begin a new education system that relies on a common sense approach instead of an indoctrination approach to education.
Its pure stupidity to force kids to mask during school or athletic events. Its not the kid's fault. Its what they are being TAUGHT.
I think they can be saved from their stupid parents AND "news" media indoctrination/education

 

[Alan W.]

Absolutely! You nailed it, as verified by the 580,000 that died.

I always hear that number. Over a half million people have died from this.
If thats true why doesnt the U.S.death statistics support that. We actually saw a decline in deaths during 2020.
Not political nor tin hat thinking. Actual follow the numbers science.

 

[Jstpssng]

With only 1/3 of the population vaccinated, I have to wonder if the new requirement isn't a mistake. And here in Georgia, only about 1/4 are vaccinated! Are 2/3 of the population invincible, and I'm not?

The vaccinations are stated to offer protection in receiving C-19 but not in transmitting it. And even then it's only 90%-96% effective for those with both vaccinations.

My guess is that we're not done with this epidemic yet.

To some degree I believe that they know they have to loosen things up, otherwise people are just going to do it anyways. Vaccinations are available (free) to most adults who want them, so it's anybody's choice not to get one and roll the dice.

The official stance: CDC director defends new mask guidance saying science 'evolved'

 

[/pine]

I can't believe so many are missing the motive behind the relaxing of the mask protocols for fully vaccinated individuals...

It really has nothing to do with "a step back to normalcy" etc., etc...it has everything to do with encouraging (some may call it duping) people that have not got the shot or gotten the second shot to do so...it's an incentive it's a carrot on a string...! (it's psychology and watch it work)...!
...Heck, most people had gotten used to wearing masks and not making so many fusses over it...

Like I said before...they knew from the onset that masks (on the public and their lack of usage) were by far the least effective action mandated...

The CDC and the powers that be (political) played their lowest value trump* card in an effort to get not already vaccinated people vaccinated...

* it's not a name...it means something holds a higher value than appears...

 

[Jstpssng]

I can't believe so many are missing the motive behind the relaxing of the mask protocols for fully vaccinated individuals...

It really has nothing to do with "a step back to normalcy" etc., etc...it has everything to do with encouraging (some may call it duping) people that have not got the shot or gotten the second shot to do so...it's an incentive it's a carrot on a string...! (it's psychology and watch it work)...!
...Heck, most people had gotten used to wearing masks and not making so many fusses over it...

Like I said before...they knew from the onset that masks (on the public and their lack of usage) were by far the least effective action mandated...

The CDC and the powers that be (political) played their lowest value trump* card in an effort to get not already vaccinated people vaccinated...

* it's not a name...it means something holds a higher value than appears...

Maybe where you are, but there sure is pushback here.

 

[Hay Dude]

I can't believe so many are missing the motive behind the relaxing of the mask protocols for fully vaccinated individuals...

It really has nothing to do with "a step back to normalcy" etc., etc...it has everything to do with encouraging (some may call it duping) people that have not got the shot or gotten the second shot to do so...it's an incentive it's a carrot on a string...! (it's psychology and watch it work)...!
...Heck, most people had gotten used to wearing masks and not making so many fusses over it...

Like I said before...they knew from the onset that masks (on the public and their lack of usage) were by far the least effective action mandated...

The CDC and the powers that be (political) played their lowest value trump* card in an effort to get not already vaccinated people vaccinated...

* it's not a name...it means something holds a higher value than appears...

Masks were minimally effective is right.
Isolating the old and sick/susceptible would have been a much better strategy. Instead we put them into infected environments and wiped out a huge, majority elderly swath of the population.
Heads should roll for that...