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And just like that … the “masks required” signs, the stern orders to pull it up over your nose, and the Karens who delight in glaring at you if you dare to let it slip down to just over your (death-emitting! ) mouth … are GONE!
Somehow, overnight (I was at my medical facility just a few days and got “the treatment,” today, the signs were gone), the danger is GONE, the orders are GONE, and the stern looks from Karen are GONE!
As if by magic, perhaps by the wave of whatever wand Lord Fauci carries around with him, for which he gets paid zillions of dollars (truly a story for another day!), the danger is OVER!
Is this a great country or what?
We are being “led” by people without sentient minds.
God Bless America!
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They seem to have given up on the Masks for Monkeypox crusade. There are levels of ridicule that can penetrate these mighty lead-lined brains.
I’m still amazed at the number of people still wearing masks around here, but this is quite a blue area so…
Is that facility part of a hospital system, Jim? I’d love to see Advent do the same, although the hospital tends to be pretty conservative. Still, good for you!
With an election looming on the horizon, . . .
Dictator Inslee declared that the rest of the Covid medical restrictions will end on October 31. Sounds good, except when you read the fine print, you see that the medical-facility mask requirement will not end. Bastard. And with the deadline not until the end of October, he has plenty of time to rescind the recision due to a “surge” in “cases”. Bastard.
According to a friend who is a doctor in Florida, it’s been known and discussed within the medical/hospital community for quite some time that the masks are unnecessary…they just don’t know how to quit. Having created an inordinate fear of contagion, and habituated people to the notion that a mask is somehow crucial for preventing plague…they can’t bring themselves to just say “yeah, never mind!”
Allow me to tell a tale that will seem if from another eon, not a mere three or four years ago: We used to wander around hospitals maskless all the time! If I went to visit a new mother and her baby, or someone languishing in a hospital bed after a bout of pneumonia or surgical procedure, no one ever asked me to put on a mask.
Seven years ago, one of my colleagues was preparing to receive stem cell treatment for cancer at a hospital in Boston, his immune system had first to be basically nuked.
I’d drive down to Boston, park in one of the parking structures nearby, then stride through the hospital building, use the elevators, stop off in the coffee shop or ladies’ room… all bare-faced, spewing germs and picking them up from all the maskless people around me! Once arrived on the chemo/stem cell unit, I’d greet maskless doctors, nurses and other visitors: We’d get within six feet of each other and chat! I’d remain completely mask-free until I actually went into my friend’s little room. The room had a sort of sally-port made of thick vinyl panels where I’d wash my hands well and at last don a protective gown and mask. Then I’d enter, hang out, watch an old video of JAWS, massage my friend’s feet…
Passing back out through the sally-port, dropping mask and gown in a bin as I passed, I’d walk once more through the whole hospital and back to the parking structure…naked faces everywhere, inhaling and exhaling, no “social distancing” no fear of contagion. Amazing.
Hah, I recall going to China before 9/11 and carrying an entire case of IC Light in then all new fangled aluminum BOTTLES as carry-on luggage. Wrapped them up with sparkly mylar wine bags as gifts from Pittsburgh PA for my Chinese friends and associates.
Nowadays, you can’t even get a single half used, 3.5 oz shave cream thru carryon security.
It’s easy to get around that if you get yourself on a congressional intelligence committee and sleep with a Chinese spy.
Everyones doing it these days.
I am surprised at your ingratitude. The mask mandates, lockdowns and vaccines chased away the bad virus because #SCIENCE^tm. Fauci will start touting the victory narrative when his book hits the shelves and many people who need cover for bad decisions and bad behavior will echo that bs.
Guess my innate cynicism just got away from me!
I have been to several different medical facilities this week and noticed one most interesting phenomenon- the medical professionals are, to a person, free of masks and will readily tell you how overjoyed they are to be relieved of that requirement. However, by a very rough, totally unscientific, estimate of my own, based on what I have witnessed at these three difference places this week, a good 70-80% of the patients still have their masks on and are making sure it is up over their nose! Go figure!
There was a great book many, many years ago by an author whose name was, I think based on my admittedly faulty memory, Packard, the title of which was “A Nation of Sheep.” For some strange reason, I have thought about that phrase quite a bit lately.
William Lederer. Vance Packard wrote “A Nation of Strangers”.
Thanks! Jim
Not in Oregon. Masks still required in health care facilities.
And no exhaling. Carbon dioxide. you know. Scarier than Covid, even.
Same in Massachusetts. I got yelled at by my boss the other day for sitting 10 feet apart from a patient and chatting with her, both of us being maskless. A medical assistant must have seen this when she knocked and brought in some lab values.
Informers. They’re everywhere.