The NOLA School District has okayed the wearing of BLack Lives Matter face masks.
www.WGNO.com

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
The NOLA School District has okayed the wearing of BLack Lives Matter face masks.
www.WGNO.com

Can you provide a more targeted link than that? Please.

Sorry...I am on my phone which link unfriendly. The article is on the right side of the main page.

https://wgno.com/news/two-stud...hool-board-decision/
^^^^^^^^^^^^
As it says TWO students who took it to the school board.

And of course the ACLU got involved.

My wife has an old friend in Wickenburg, AZ. Her husband is scheduled for his first covid vaccination at the Arizona Cardinals football stadium, down in Glendale, AZ (Phoenix suburb) at... 1:45 am! About all I can say is that Wickenburg is in Maricopa County, but having to drive 50 miles in the middle of the night seems crazy to me. Yes, vaccinating 24/hours day at the stadium.

Department of State Fact Sheet:

For more than a year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has systematically prevented a transparent and thorough investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s origin, choosing instead to devote enormous resources to deceit and disinformation. Nearly two million people have died. Their families deserve to know the truth. Only through transparency can we learn what caused this pandemic and how to prevent the next one.

The U.S. government does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus—known as SARS-CoV-2—was transmitted initially to humans. We have not determined whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

The virus could have emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, spreading in a pattern consistent with a natural epidemic. Alternatively, a laboratory accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure included only a few individuals and was compounded by asymptomatic infection. Scientists in China have researched animal-derived coronaviruses under conditions that increased the risk for accidental and potentially unwitting exposure.

The CCP’s deadly obsession with secrecy and control comes at the expense of public health in China and around the world. The previously undisclosed information in this fact sheet, combined with open-source reporting, highlights three elements about COVID-19’s origin that deserve greater scrutiny:

1. Illnesses inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV):

The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was “zero infection” among the WIV’s staff and students of SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.
Accidental infections in labs have caused several previous virus outbreaks in China and elsewhere, including a 2004 SARS outbreak in Beijing that infected nine people, killing one.
The CCP has prevented independent journalists, investigators, and global health authorities from interviewing researchers at the WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019. Any credible inquiry into the origin of the virus must include interviews with these researchers and a full accounting of their previously unreported illness.

2. Research at the WIV:

Starting in at least 2016 – and with no indication of a stop prior to the COVID-19 outbreak – WIV researchers conducted experiments involving RaTG13, the bat coronavirus identified by the WIV in January 2020 as its closest sample to SARS-CoV-2 (96.2% similar). The WIV became a focal point for international coronavirus research after the 2003 SARS outbreak and has since studied animals including mice, bats, and pangolins.
The WIV has a published record of conducting “gain-of-function” research to engineer chimeric viruses. But the WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the COVID-19 virus, including “RaTG13,” which it sampled from a cave in Yunnan Province in 2013 after several miners died of SARS-like illness.

WHO investigators must have access to the records of the WIV’s work on bat and other coronaviruses before the COVID-19 outbreak. As part of a thorough inquiry, they must have a full accounting of why the WIV altered and then removed online records of its work with RaTG13 and other viruses.

3. Secret military activity at the WIV:

Secrecy and non-disclosure are standard practice for Beijing. For many years the United States has publicly raised concerns about China’s past biological weapons work, which Beijing has neither documented nor demonstrably eliminated, despite its clear obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.
Despite the WIV presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.
The United States and other donors who funded or collaborated on civilian research at the WIV have a right and obligation to determine whether any of our research funding was diverted to secret Chinese military projects at the WIV.

Today’s revelations just scratch the surface of what is still hidden about COVID-19’s origin in China. Any credible investigation into the origin of COVID-19 demands complete, transparent access to the research labs in Wuhan, including their facilities, samples, personnel, and records.

As the world continues to battle this pandemic – and as WHO investigators begin their work, after more than a year of delays – the virus’s origin remains uncertain. The United States will continue to do everything it can to support a credible and thorough investigation, including by continuing to demand transparency on the part of Chinese authorities.

https://www.state.gov/fact-she...stitute-of-virology/

I am glad I always wear a mask and also that my agency supplies KN95 masks. I was in an interview room with a person for over two hours on 1/11 and we wore masks the entire time and had the chairs 6’ apart.

Yesterday I was notified the person’s son tested positive on 1/12 and my suspect tested positive yesterday morning. I went and got tested yesterday evening and was notified today my test was negative.

I think it shows that wearing a mask and social distancing really helps. I will be allowed to return to work in two more days out of caution.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
I am glad I always wear a mask and also that my agency supplies KN95 masks. I was in an interview room with a person for over two hours on 1/11 and we wore masks the entire time and had the chairs 6’ apart.

Yesterday I was notified the person’s son tested positive on 1/12 and my suspect tested positive yesterday morning. I went and got tested yesterday evening and was notified today my test was negative.

I think it shows that wearing a mask and social distancing really helps. I will be allowed to return to work in two more days out of caution.

All this shows is that you didn't contract the virus. The vast majority of the people I know testing positive for C19 are dedicated mask wearers.

^ This ^ My trainer contracted it from a client who was wearing a mask, while he was wearing a mask. He felt sick for a couple of days, went in and got tested, it came up positive. His wife and three kids never got it, never tested positive. If what they say about masks is true, he wouldn't have gotten it, or his family would have gotten it.

I hope what’s happening is the final hump of this goddam thing and it’s going to be a quick receding from here as after 10 months of not really knowing anyone around me getting COVID, there seems to be a flood of people I know now getting it; several coworkers, a couple friends and now my in-laws

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
I am glad I always wear a mask and also that my agency supplies KN95 masks. I was in an interview room with a person for over two hours on 1/11 and we wore masks the entire time and had the chairs 6’ apart.

Yesterday I was notified the person’s son tested positive on 1/12 and my suspect tested positive yesterday morning. I went and got tested yesterday evening and was notified today my test was negative.

I think it shows that wearing a mask and social distancing really helps. I will be allowed to return to work in two more days out of caution.

All this shows is that you didn't contract the virus. The vast majority of the people I know testing positive for C19 are dedicated mask wearers.

I think it all depends on the details of the situation and you don’t know the full truth unless it is you. People can wear masks and if it is family and they hug or get in close proximity then they are in a different situation of me socially distancing and wearing a mask.

I feel the precautions I took made a difference and was just trying to share my experience.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
I am glad I always wear a mask and also that my agency supplies KN95 masks. I was in an interview room with a person for over two hours on 1/11 and we wore masks the entire time and had the chairs 6’ apart.

Yesterday I was notified the person’s son tested positive on 1/12 and my suspect tested positive yesterday morning. I went and got tested yesterday evening and was notified today my test was negative.

I think it shows that wearing a mask and social distancing really helps. I will be allowed to return to work in two more days out of caution.

Or, your suspect wasn't contagious when you interviewed him, considering he didn't test positive until 5 days after his son did. It's good you have access to the types of masks that might actually protect you, although, KN95 is a Chinese rating.

Or it shows that you're one of the people who simply are immune to begin with.

Studies show that there is a segment of the population that doesn't contract some viral diseases. Although the Wuhan is fairly new, I don't see why this wouldn't bear out in future studies as it has with older more established viral illness.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:
Or it shows that you're one of the people who simply are immune to begin with.

Well that sure would be great! I know some people disagree with mask wearing and social distancing, but I plan to continue to do it in my personal life. I have to take care of my mom who has cancer and is going through chemotherapy.

As far as work, I have no choice. If you are caught not wearing a mask, you will be fired on the third offense. I like having an income and being healthy.

I am not pushing anything on anyone. I just thought I would share an experience.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

I know some people disagree with mask wearing and social distancing, but I plan to continue to do it in my personal life.

Forever?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

I know some people disagree with mask wearing and social distancing, but I plan to continue to do it in my personal life.

Forever?

Forever? Seriously? I will do it as long as I feel this virus is a threat since I am having to take care of my mother. This is new to all of us.

My question is would anyone not take precautions if you had to take care of your mother with cancer going through chemotherapy? If I did not take precautions and ended up giving it to my mom and she died from it then I would never forgive myself.

I guess I never should have shared my experience here. I am sorry I did. I am a lifetime conservative Republican and it is sad I feel I can’t express an experience in this thread so I am done posting about this.

The problem with you sharing your experience is that back in March, Fauci told the world that wearing a mask wouldn’t help.

He reversed himself after the lefty governors decided to unConstitutionally mandate them. Infection rates didn’t go down, and yet lefties are still crowing “Masks WORK!!!!”. The evidence indicates they don’t. Overwhelmingly indicates they don’t. If the evidence for any other product was as sketchy as the whole mask thing, we you be a hard core supporter? Of course not.

This makes people skeptical. So much so that most people are tired of hearing about it.

Now, we are seeing vaccinations. People who “by the science” can no longer carry the disease are still required to wear masks. Why? “It saves lives”. When you question it they scream “it’s science!!”

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Originally posted by jljones:
The problem with you sharing your experience is that back in March, Fauci told the world that wearing a mask wouldn’t help.

Jones, as a fellow law enforcement officer, or even just a SigForum member, it disappoints me you feel there is a problem with me sharing my experience. I respect you a ton. I am only simply sharing my experience and I feel I am being attacked for doing so. I should be able to express my experience. This virus is totally new to us and we are learning as we go and I am not saying anyone is right or wrong. I am just sharing my experience.

Like I said, I have not read all 600+ posts. I never should have posted my experience. I am sorry I did.

Perhaps you should take a breath.

I simply, and reasonably, explained why people are skeptical.

No one is “attacking you” from what I have read.

People have used this thread to troll. Nerves are frayed because of it.