The ‘experts’ info IS common sense….
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that mask mandates were linked to a decline in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
The study also found that allowing restaurant dining was linked to increases in cases and deaths.
The death growth rate was 1.9 percentage points less 81 to 100 days after a mask mandate, the study found, with smaller declines before then, starting as soon as one to 20 days afterward. Case growth rates declined up to 1.8 percentage points.
On the other hand, allowing restaurant dining was linked to a 3-point increase in the death growth rate 81 to 100 days later. There were no meaningful increases until 60 days after restaurant dining was allowed. Case growth rates were about 1 percentage point higher starting 41 days after dining was allowed.
The study examined the period March 1 to Dec. 31 of last year. It did not make a distinction between indoor and outdoor dining. Experts have long said outdoor dining is safer, given the ability of the virus to spread through poorly ventilated indoor air.
The study provides additional empirical backing for mask mandates and limiting restaurant dining, at a time when some states are opening. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) this week ended his state’s mask mandate, as did Mississippi’s governor….
image…healthline.com
Who you gonna believe?
Them damn Lyin’ scientists or Governor Greg Abbott ?
Stupidly….
Patrons at a Mexican restaurant in Texas threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on employees over their refusal to work maskless, according to the establishment’s owner.
“This has been ongoing through COVID,” Steven O’Sullivan, an owner of Cantina Barba in Houston, told The Washington Post….
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“ I demand that you infect us! Or surrender your job to a real, legal American who will and find your supicioous, masked self another job in sunny Maskico! ”
This post is actually three degrees removed from it original source, since The Hill quoted the Wash Post and the Post quoted The Houston Chronicle. — in fact a Lifestyle section article by their entertainment, food and wine writer, Emily Balter (who is clearly an illegal alien agitator against Lone Star freedom since she was born in Paris!)
It’s also worth reading some of the 263 comments.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/lifestyle/article/houston-restaurant-threats-mask-mandate-abbott-16003339.php
In fact it appears that most Houstonians support the restaurant owners and staff who require masks. Some who dislike masks still uphold their proprietorial right to make their own rules.
And the owners and staff say they were greatly heartened when the positive encouragement they received after these horror stories first broke exceeded the negative reactions with which they’ve had to deal.
The fight for mask wearing….
Texas judge clears way for San Antonio to mandate masks in blow to Gov. Greg Abbott
A county judge in Texas on Tuesday cleared the way for officials in San Antonio and Bexar County to require masks in public schools and municipal buildings, temporarily overriding an order by the state’s Republican governor banning mask mandates in the state.
The ruling is a blow to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has resisted pressure to allow local governments to require indoor masking as coronavirus infections in Texas surge and soaring hospitalizations send health-care systems into crisis mode. A similar showdown is underway in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has threatened “financial consequences” for officials who defy his order banning mask mandates…
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In Florida, DeSantis, too, is facing a wave of opposition to his order barring mask requirements in schools.
The Miami-Dade Public School district is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday that it is requiring masks in schools, joining other Florida school districts that have announced plans to buck the governor, a person familiar with the discussion said.
DeSantis has argued that mask-wearing should be a matter of personal choice even if health authorities say otherwise. This week, the governor’s office said superintendents who institute mask requirements could have their pay docked.
“Schools wouldn’t be defunded,” DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw said on Twitter. “Only the salaries of those superintendents and school board members who intentionally defy the EO and the subsequent rules protecting parents’ rights. Think of it like targeted sanctions.”…
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(I’m sure Abbort will bump this up to the state’s highest court which tents to favor the Governor).
The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) in Texas will continue in maintaining its mask mandate for students despite a Texas Supreme Court ruling that upheld Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-Texas) ban on such measures.
DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said on Sunday, “Until there’s an official order of the court that applies to the Dallas Independent School District, we will continue to have the mask mandate,” according to The Dallas Morning News.
The Texas Supreme Court had blocked temporary restraining orders that had allowed local entities to issue mask mandates….
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