Mr. Mask Mandate, he dead:
Gov. Tim Walz said Thursday he’ll sign an order Friday ending Minnesota’s statewide mask-wearing mandate following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance allowing fully vaccinated people to stop wearing masks.
Calling it a great day for Minnesota, the governor continued to plead with unvaccinated Minnesotans to get their shots to hold back the spread of COVID-19.
“So those peacetime emergencies are done and the business mitigations are coming to an end. I want to be clear it’s not the end of the pandemic, but it is the end of the pandemic for a lot of vaccinated folks,” he told reporters.
It’s the end of many things, actually — most importantly, it’s the end of Karen Nation enforcement and forcing shopkeepers and restaurateurs into indentured scolding, at least on this particular issue. Walz’s Nurse Ratched, Jan Malcolm, admitted as much:
“When things are no longer a rule or a mandate, they think therefore that everything is safe,” she said, noting that Minnesota still has a relatively high level of COVID-19 spread. “People may translate this guidance meaning that the pandemic is over.”
Malcolm said if it were feasible to keep a mask mandate just for unvaccinated people, “I definitely would have liked to see that. I just think that it’s not practically enforceable at this stage.”
I’ll bet she would have liked that. But apparently there is a limit after all. Maybe you don’t need to laminate the ol’ vaccine card.
The economic and social toll of the lockdowns is incalculable — how many families were separated, how many graduations were canceled, how many businesses were shuttered, how many of our elderly were consigned to death in nursing homes without being able to say goodbye or even have a final hug? Meanwhile, we’ve had the joy of experiencing Walz and his coterie treat our fair state as a protectorate. Now, suddenly, we say Goodbye to All That. The signs will come off the doors as soon as tomorrow, but the reckoning is about to begin.
Eliminating the mask mandate will have less of an effect on the covid numbers than the return of mass gatherings this summer.
We’re at a healthy place as a country where one party’s representatives don’t want to say they’ve been vaxxed because it might be a political liability for them.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/politics/democrats-vaccination-rates-house-mask-rules/index.html
Not to mention all of people that were too scared to go to the hospital for other health issues, because the fear porn merchants convinced them that people were dying in the hallways of every hospital in the U.S. Then, how about all of the mental health issues and suicides?
But, the real reasons this “liberation” gets announced now?
1. The jobs report was abysmal
2. Inflation is at over 7% and climbing
3. The economy is tanking
4. The debt is growing from more fiat currency being handed out to-
5. People that won’t go to work because Biden is paying them more to stay home
6. Russian hackers shut down critical infrastructure and Pedo Joe has no respons.
7. China, Russia and Iran, are all jockeying to see how far they can push feckless, demented Joey Biden.
Gotta give the true believers like Emery another shiny object to focus on.
Joe and his feckless band of advisers think they can just ignore the fact that Trump’s presidency altered the political landscape, they behave as though we went in a time warp from January 2017 to January 2021.
This is a mistake on their part. Their project is forever derailed.
Orwell was a socialist, not a marxist. Orwell did not believe in the historicism that is the foundation of marxist thought. He acknowledged that statements about the future are really statements about power. Being “on the side of history” only means being on the side of power.
“Are you getting vaccinated?”
“Nah. the odds of me getting Covid are like a thousand to one”
“What if, in return for getting vaxxed, I enrolled you in a lottery with odds of a million to one?”
“Sign me up”
We are certainly dumb enough as a people to have a 100-million-to-one lottery entice a meaningful number into getting vaccinated in order to enter.
Who came up with Ohio’s vaccine lottery? DeWine: ‘It came from me’
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2021/05/13/ohios-vaccine-lottery-and-mask-mandate-gov-mike-dewine-details/5072570001/
Effing A. Is that vaccine any good or not? If it’s a good and viable means of making yourself resistant, if not immune, to the Kung flu, they why the eff do you care what other people do? Unless total control of society is a goal.
Just heard Target and Galleria will continue mask requirement. Not getting my business then.
MO: I hope not, outdoors with plenty of sun I think we are gonna be okay, especially since we are almost at herd immunity (I think most have had the bat soup flu even if they didn’t know it).
Boss: nailed it to the effin wall. Just like pretty boy in cali promising more checks as the recall approaches. Bread and circuses baby.
Of course, hardest hit by this news will be the trolls, who were hoping for lots of dead in red states, whose graves they could then dance on.
Unless total control of society is a goal.
If you watch Malcolm’s body language and listen to her tone of voice, you might sense that’s part of it, jdm.
Golf Doc: anytime I walk into a place without a mask, and I am told I have to wear one, I will respond: the CDC has said no need for masks if vaxed; don’t you believe in the science? Follow the science! And I will repeat this over and over again. If they ask me to leave I will loudly proclaim that the place is full of science deniers and I can’t give my business to a bunch of medieval science deniers.
Here’s an interesting counterpoint on the vaccines
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/covid-vaccines-must-be-halted-immediately-renowned-toxicologist-tells-cdc
“Unless total control of society is a goal.”
I suppose you could free ride on the backs of those that were vaccinated. Supposedly it’s a conservative principle…
I cannot fathom why a person would be concerned about whether or not another person is vaccinated.
You have 100% control of whether or not you get vaccinated. You have 0% control over whether or not someone else gets vaccinated.
Super smart guy Richard Dawkins:
You can argue over whether masks, handwashing, banning groups etc are effective. What you can NOT argue is that you are personally entitled to take the risk as a matter of individual liberty. You risk other lives as well as your own. It’s just elementary epidemiology.
Nearly everything we do as human beings risks the lives of others as well as your own. The homosexual lifestyle has numerous social pathologies asociated with it, yet we are mandated to celebrate homosexuality.
If their is no risk associated with getting vaccinated, there are no “free riders.” What cost do the ridden bear?
Another failure to do basic analysis by our resident troll.
I suppose you could free ride on the backs of those that were vaccinated. Supposedly it’s a conservative principle…
So. Your vaccine is worthless. Noted.
^^ You’re trying too hard.
Or in other words, *Tilt*
All I can say is that it’s about d**n time the CDC started listening to the science here. Now if only they can finally get around to encouraging some jail time for the mostly Democratic governors who were sending COVID patients into nursing homes and fire the high ranking staffers (e.g. Fauci) who failed to read them the riot act a freakin’ year ago.
MIT scientists discover that “anti-maskers” are better and more rigorous at using science to come up with “unorthodox” science to refute masking; suggest that putting the data out there may need to stop in order to keep it from being “misused”.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf
The CDC would have you believe that epidemiology is about science. Nope. It’s about human behavior. Look at what they are trying to regulate — what kind of commercial transactions you can and cannot engage in, how close you can stand to other people, etc. They are acting like politicians, not scientists.
In other news, Dictator-for-Life Walz has increased the chocolate ration to 20 grams.
Meaningless gesture. As long as he retains the power to fondle the dials at whim, nothing has really changed.
Senate Republicans, are you listening? Shut it down. Shut it all down until the ’emergency’ is ended and the law changed so he can’t unilaterally declare a new one. Raw power, that’s the only thing Democrats understand and you have it so you’d damned well better use it.
Or change your party affiliation to Democrat and be done with it.
Just heard Target and Galleria will continue mask requirement. Not getting my business then.
I have to imagine most big box and chain stores are going to continue to mandate masks for a long time. I also think that most chain restaurants are going to continue the idiocy of “wear a mask to your table, then you can take it off”. The desire to head off lawsuits and uncomfortable Karen-induced situations will win out over common sense. I think only small mom-pop/1 off places will stop mask usage.
I txtd my hair lady about it since she owns the salon. She said she would stop mask enforcement as soon as she gets the all clear from the licensing board. She has to follow them, not a Walz press conference.
(disclaimer: Yes, I go to a salon for haircuts and yes I pay a lot more than you would at Great Clips or Cost Cutters. Before we got married in 1998, my future wife repeatedly made a stink about how my hair looked after an 8 dollar haircut, so….happy wife, happy life. Pick your battles carefully. Added bonus: I get free wine while I am being worked on, so….could be worse.)
New trend so far:
Delta will require vaccines for new employees
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/business/delta-vaccine-mandatory-new-employees/index.html
Headline two weeks from now:
“287 dead as Delta pilot dies mid-flight after getting jab.”
If democrats are smart, their entire 2022 campaign will be about defeating Covid and pictures of people in MAGA hats beating cops with American flags on 1/6.
If democrats are smart
Wishful thinking pretty boy, wishful thinking!
Malcolm said if it were feasible to keep a mask mandate just for unvaccinated people, “I definitely would have liked to see that. I just think that it’s not practically enforceable at this stage.”
Hmmm… Unjabbed people can be forced to wear, oh, I don’t know, a yellow crossed out syringe on their closing for identification. It had been tried and there is no difference in idealogy between Maskers and youknowwho\, so why not?
So. Your vaccine is worthless. Noted.
Just ask Maher. Fully jabbed and tested positive. But wait, isn’t jab supposed to prevent infection?
Is it possible MAGA people will now wear masks because the CDC says they don’t have to?
Is it possible MAGA people will now wear masks because the CDC says they don’t have to?
No, but thanks for asking! As an aside, you’re really phoning it in today — I’ve seen fresher snark on a Dixie Riddle Cup.
Yeah, Emery is reduced to claiming that there is a “free rider problem” when the person being ridden incurs no extra costs and the person doing the free riding receives nothing he values.
The Vaccine Passport should be expanded beyond Covid to include measles, mumps, rubella, you know, all the things genuine anti-vaxxers ignorantly refuse to give their infants.
Since vaccines are perfectly safe and socially necessary, let’s start locking up those parents. Since we know from prior studies they tend to be well educated and well off, St. Paul can begin in Mac-Groveland and work outwards.
With their parents jailed for child abuse, the children should be vaccinated and then placed as refugees in cages along the border, to eventually be given safe and loving homes along with the thousands of other poor waifs waiting there.
It’s a Peacetime Emergency. Dictator-for-Life Walz has unlimited power. Use it.
It occurred to me that lefties, especially lefty whores like Emery, often try to score points by accusing their opponents of the very thing they do themselves. So about this free rider thing and not getting vaccinated… I’m thinking the E is not vaccinated and is too scared to get the jab. So how better to get to that herd immunity than to get others to do it for him?
A Doctor loses her pregnancy to a miscarriage. Weeks later, she receives a COVID vaccination. Anti-vaxxers online then edit and repost her story to reverse the sequence of events.
The unwitting are the target of COVID-19 falsehoods online
https://apnews.com/article/science-entertainment-coronavirus-pandemic-health-8c8345f474db874b1d27806e8d1f5ca1?utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter
A grim story of anti-vax deceit and cruelty.
Even if true, it’s pretty small potatoes compared with the “Russian collusion” deception pulled off by the FBI & dutifully spread by the stooges at AP.
It beats me how any employer can require an employee to take an experimental vaccine as a condition of employment.
If you are not vaccinated, wht are the chances of getting covid & dyinng from it if you are working age? I’m guessing about 1 in 2,000.
Dictator-for-Life Walz has have proven himself completely irresponsible by following the CDC’s guidance and dropping the mask mandate, but there are still some REAL leaders in Minnesota who won’t go along with his proposed slaughter of innocents. Covid can’t beat us that easily.
Mayor Carter of St. Paul immediately imposed a mask order, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will be imposing one as soon as the Judicial Council meets to approve it (early next week, I believe). Plus, local businesses are free to impose mask policies of their own, as well as requiring customers to flap their arms like a chicken, recite the alphabet backwards while standing on one foot, or renouncing the Bad Orange Man and all his works, before being allowed to enter the store.
They are like OCD people who believe some fetish is keeping them safe.
It is amazing how gullible people are. No one seems to realize that the more common path of transmission is through the eyes.
Fear is the mind killer.
Real heroes don’t wear masks.
Jacob Sullum gives us the details on the latest epic fail by the CDC:
https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-cdc-director-misrepresented-the-study-she-cited-to-justify-her-misleading-estimate-of-outdoor-covid-19-risk/?itm_source=parsely-api
In Hawaii, in the spring and summer of 2020, acting on the advice of epidemiologists, the governor ordered beaches and public parks closed, meaning that large families were confined to their homes. We now know that this advice was wrong and the governor would have been wise to tell the experts to stuff it.
I’ll stop with this: https://mn.gov/covid19/vaccine/data/index.jsp
The “freeriders” in Minnesota are blacks and hispanics.
Dictator-for-Life Walz relies on several lies to continue the Peacetime Emergency:
Covid affects everyone equally; all are equally at risk.
Only the Executive Branch of government can protect people from Covid using the unilateral power of Executive Order. The health and safety of society cannot be maintained by the Legislative Branch, nor by The People themselves.
Masking, social distancing, closing certain businesses (bars, dance clubs, churches) and canceling certain holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas) protect everyone equally by preventing the spread of Covid.
Protection must continue until herd Immunity is reached, which will not occur until 70% of the population is vaccinated against Covid because immunity results from vaccination only, not from exposure to or survival of Covid.
With the media and Democrats and Karen eagerly reasserting the lies, and with new Variants being discovered around the world, the Peacetime Emergency may never end; hence, my label Dictator-for-Life is no longer sarcasm.
I’ve noticed that the people who were asshats about masks before are still being asshats about masks now.
They’re asshats. It’s what they do. And if it wasn’t this, it would be something else.
I saw one of those mask asshats yesterday. Wearing a mask. In a car. By himself.
You really put your finger on it in your 10:12, Emery.
California’s positivity rate has also been 1.0% or less for weeks. Herdimmunity?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states
Not only does California’s case curve look a lot like Israel’s, the number of average daily cases is now lower than it’s been in more than a year.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california/
Very little vaccine hesitancy in California.
I tell ya, you got to get your field hands back on the plantation, Emery. Science tells us that the greatest vaccine hesitency in MN is blacks and hispanics: https://mn.gov/covid19/vaccine/data/index.jsp
And this just in: baseball team break-through cases prove getting the vaccine does not provide herd immunity to Covid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/eight-yankees-test-positive-covid-post-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-n1267332
Of course it’s the Yankees who are infected, the team every right-thinking person hates and hopes they all die a horrible death, so it’s okay. But it does more proof that Dictator-for-Life Walz’ lies are exactly that.
The other day on a Brit podcast the minister for something-or-other claimed that in one town in Britain of the people who had both jabs “only eight” were later hospitalized with covid, and “just one” had died from covid. The interviewer expressed alarm that you could still die of covid even after getting the full course of injections, to which the minister responded “she was quite frail,” so I assume she was in her 80s or 90s and on death’s doorstep anyway.
So why subject her to the jab in the first place?
Why not just stop the stupid and get on with our lives?