Yep....NSFW

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Originally posted by Graniteguy:
The WHO is FOS - this virus has all the traits of the original Corona virus that was being studied in Wuhan - and of course all the little extra "gain-of-function" goodies that the Chinese tossed in as well.

Ironically, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, John Hopkins U and the WHO sponsored a Pandemic exercise in Oct of 2019 featuring the accidental release of the Corona Virus and a global pandemic. I believe this was titled Event 201. (yes, for real)

Yep.

Well fuck me...

Doubling down. Literally.

CDC updates coronavirus face mask guidance, endorses 'double masking'
CDC guidance remains that anyone above the age of 2 should wear a mask

By Alexandria Hein | Fox News

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its mask guidance on Wednesday to include data from a recent lab experiment that found placing a cloth mask over a surgical mask, as well as using a properly fitted mask, was effective in stopping coronavirus spread.

The update, which was announced by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a White House coronavirus briefing, comes after a lab experiment using simulated respiratory breaths found that placing a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask or using a medical procedure mask with knotted ear loops and tucked in sides decreased exposure to potentially infectious aerosols by about 95%.

The new guidance advises adhering to two important steps, namely making sure the mask fits snugly against the face, and picking a mask with layers to "keep your respiratory droplets in and others' out." Additionally, the CDC advises using a mask with a nose wire, using a mask fitter or brace to improve fit, and checking to ensure there are no gaps where air may flow. 

However, at this time, the agency advises against using two disposable masks, as they are "not designed to fit tightly and wearing more than one will not improve fit." It also does not advise combining a KN95 mask with any other mask. 

"The bottom line is this, masks work and they work best when they have a good fit and are worn correctly," Walensky said. 

The CDC had announced several weeks ago that it was studying whether using two masks was effective in stopping coronavirus spread after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, had said doing so "makes common sense." 

The agency had been waiting to see "hard data" before making any adjustments, Dr. John Brooks, the CDC's chief medical officer of the COVID-19 response, said during an Infectious Diseases Society of America briefing held late last month. 

"We want to put out there all the options that are available to people," he said, at the time. "If we can people to mask period, that is the big first step." 

https://www.foxnews.com/health...orses-double-masking

Twilight Zone. All I can say.

I am convinced that if the government announced drinking your own urine would prevent Covid-19, half the country would be peeing in a cup before you finish reading this...

In other news...

Tightly wrapping your entire head in a plastic bag and duct tape has been shown to prevent 99.7% of transmission.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
I am convinced that if the government announced drinking your own urine would prevent Covid-19, half the country would be peeing in a cup before you finish reading this...

Un...
Freaking...
DOUBTedly.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
In other news...

Tightly wrapping your entire head in a plastic bag and duct tape has been shown to prevent 99.7% of transmission.

A new use for Gorilla Glue!!!! They could glue two or three masks together, then glue them over their nose & mouth. I don't see it specifically stated on the warning label NOT to do it.

When the mask stupidity started, I thought that within a few months people would get tired of it and gradually most people will give it up but it didn’t happen. It keeps getting worse. Where I live, it looks like 99% mask compliance. Half of everyone is still scared to death and the other half seem to love a diaper on their faces. I’m afraid that the CDC will eventually say we need a mask forever. The stores will never stop requiring them and people will just accept it as a part of everyday life.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Well fuck me...

Doubling down. Literally.

CDC updates coronavirus face mask guidance, endorses 'double masking'

Why be a piker and stop at two?

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
In other news...

Tightly wrapping your entire head in a plastic bag and duct tape has been shown to prevent 99.7% of transmission.

A new use for Gorilla Glue!!!! They could glue two or three masks together, then glue them over their nose & mouth. I don't see it specifically stated on the warning label NOT to do it.

Spray with Flex Seal for that extra layer of protection.

We can't even use straws anymore.

How much waste is single and double masking going to produce? And for what - just a feeling of safety? And to give more money to the fucking chinese?

I would feel that gloves are more effective in slowing spread than masks. No word about gloves?

I'm so sick of these fucking idiots in charge. I avoid reading the news as much as possible now. But sometimes I get a little curious. And then Bam! my blood pressure skyrockets.

Right there with you, friend!

All you need is $50. They aren't wearing them in the foam warehouse though...

https://philadelphia.cbslocal....e-think-about-masks/

Look, the Left wants to get rid of the Right. Make masks optional. If the Left is right and masks are effective and the Left keep wearing masks while the Right opt to not wear masks, only the Right will get sick and die. That should be a win for the Left, right? So, can the Left just leave it as optional and go away? The Left have nothing to lose if they do so, right?

And then those of who don't believe in masks and/or the data and/or the risks, can live freely and business can get back to normal. Everybody wins, right?

Said tongue in cheek but not fully.

Wearing a mask into a convenience store in coming out with less money just feels like I'm doing it wrong.

AOC And Schumer Want Taxpayer Funding For COVID-19 Funerals

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ng-covid-19-funerals

US residents whose family members died with or of covid will be eligible to receive $7,000 for funeral and related expenses, New York senator Chuck Schumer (D) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) announced.

During a briefing in Queens on Monday, February 8, the duo announced that $267 million of the federally funded funeral benefits would go to low-income families in New York alone. The package, Schumer added, is part of a $2 billion disaster funds program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that will provide benefits to families nationwide.

In her speech, Ocasio-Cortez explained that families “are having to pay for the storage of the bodies of their own loved ones” in addition to covering the funeral and burial expenses.

“This is wrong,” she added.

The announcement was received warmly on social media, so it wasn’t a surprise to see few people questioning the duo’s intentions.

But if the goal is to help those impacted by the pandemic, why did neither Democrat bring up plans to provide aid to the families who lost loved ones to various state governments’ responses to the coronavirus?

An Undeserving Bunch
Following the first reports of infections, most states had stay-at-home orders in place as early as March 2020. While some governors started lifting some of the restrictions in June, the majority kept them in place, tightening restrictions once again by Thanksgiving.

By now, we already know that the forced business shutdowns created a pattern of destruction that will be hard to remedy. According to Yelp’s data, 97,966, or 60 percent, of the 163,735 businesses listed on the platform that closed between March and August won’t reopen. To many of these small business owners and their employees, unexpected closures meant poverty, depression, and lack of access to healthcare, all problems that also lead to deaths.

According to some estimates, deaths associated with factors other than coronavirus make up at least one-third of all excess deaths during the pandemic.

Deaths of despair, which include suicide and drug abuse, have been on the rise everywhere in the country since the beginning of the lockdowns, as well as deaths caused by delayed or interrupted medical treatment. The rate of domestic abuse is also growing, putting a greater number of lives at danger. One would think congressmen would try to use the lockdown-related data to push yet another benefits package. However, they all seem to play down the deaths and suffering caused by governments’ shutdown orders.

Before pushing for funeral expense reimbursements for families whose loved ones had covid, Ocasio-Cortez tried to play down the Democrats’ support for lockdowns by blaming Republicans who don’t wear masks for “forcing” states to shut down.

"Here’s what’s ironic to me: all these Republicans, all these people who were anti-shutdown, were the same people who weren’t wearing masks, who forced us to shut down in the first place," she said in an Instagram Live video.

Despite her claims, two of the states hardest hit by the pandemic, California and New York, were also two of the first to enact mask mandates. But on Monday, February 8, the New York congresswoman had no words of sympathy for the families whose loved ones died due to the tyrannical mandates enacted by governors such as New York’s Andrew Cuomo, who now believes that lockdowns have gone too far.

“We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high," he tweeted following the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

If Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez are indeed working to help the low-income families who lost loved ones in 2020, they are letting down a great number of Americans

Two Masks, now?

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In her speech, Ocasio-Cortez explained that families “are having to pay for the storage of the bodies of their own loved ones” in addition to covering the funeral and burial expenses.

As opposed to what? Did they not have to pay for any other cause of death? COVID bodies don’t require any special extra expense handling as far as I know. This is just the continued fleecing of America.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
This is just the continued fleecing of America.

Yep, what I call "bullshit on parade". And AOC is the queen of shit.