I don't trust Fauci but RFK JR. is a loon.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
I don't trust Fauci but RFK JR. is a loon.

I challenge you to show me one thing in the videos I posted that you disagree with.

Tony Fauci and Company are responsible for countless deaths and you just don't trust him?
Really????

Wisconsin teacher berates vaccinated student for not wearing a mask, video shows This person should not be teaching children.

This should be a non-issue now. You've got your vaccine. If I don't then I'm the one that's going to die. Problem solved. I assume all those maskers are fit and not overweight at all. Or do they just not believe that whole heart disease thing?

I went out and shopped locally today. Masks required signs still up. Staff still wearing masks. But several people including me did not wear masks. Not a word was shrieked. Good times.

It's a weird feeling actually. It's kind of like carrying for the first time. It's legal. It's your right. And yet you feel like odd man out.

California's mask requirement officially in effect until June 15. I see people getting way lax about it long before that, however.

I just got squawked at the gun range for not having my mask on all the way (which it wasn't). Hard to aim when my shooting glasses get all fogged up!

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Wisconsin teacher berates vaccinated student for not wearing a mask, video shows This person should not be teaching children.

She definitely should not be teaching children. Glad someone caught this on video.

There are many teachers in the system who should not be near kids for a variety of reasons. My daughter and both daughters in law are in the public education system. Two student councilors and one teacher. The "don't tell anyone this but" stories they tell are unbelievable.

The things that are allowed to go on because it's a near impossibility to get a teacher removed so it is rarely attempted is insane. The education system is broke far beyond what we even realize.

Feeling good today, we voters in PA approved two ballot questions yesterday that FINALLY strip this Dictator-Governor of his unilateral powers and put it back in the hands of the people!

I'm putting it in this thread since it's Covid related rather than start a new one:

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Pennsylvania voters approve two ballot questions to restrict governor’s emergency powers

By FORD TURNER
THE MORNING CALL |
MAY 19, 2021 AT 11:30 AM

Pennsylvania voters approved two ballot questions that sought to restrict the emergency powers of the governor, making the state the first in the nation to rein in a governor’s authority under a disaster declaration.

At stake was the possible future of the COVID-19 disaster declaration issued by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on March 6, 2020.

Republican House Speaker Bryan Cutler of Lancaster County and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff of Centre County, in a written statement, said voters “resoundingly reaffirmed their desire for a government with strong checks and balances that works in their interests and not for its own power.”

The Republican leaders, referring to Wolf, said voters “rejected the mutation of emergency authority into unilateral, one-person control that seeks expediency over the rule of law.”

A spokeswoman for Wolf, Lyndsay Kensinger, said his office was unlikely to discuss the issue Wednesday because vote counts would likely not be complete.

The questions proposed two constitutional amendments.

One would give the General Assembly the ability to end or extend a declared emergency without the involvement of the governor, and the other would end a declared emergency after 21 days unless extended by the General Assembly.

As of 11 a.m. Wednesday, unofficial, incomplete returns on the state website had voting on the first question — the one concerning ending or extending a declaration — at 1,031,664 voting “yes” and 892,386 voting “no,” or a margin of 53.62% to 46.38%.

The voting on the other question was 1,040,459 yes votes to 901,204 no votes, a margin of 53.59% to 46.41%.

The Associated Press late Wednesday morning called “yes” votes the winner in both questions.

More than 2 million ballots were cast.

Wolf has renewed the original 90-day COVID-19 disaster declaration four times since it was first issued.

The latest extension is due to expire on Thursday.

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^^^^ I've been following your election closely (including the primary for that rat-fuck Krasner which he unfortunately won). Very relieved for Pennsylvanians that those two ballot questions passed. Watch out though, because you know the dems won't relinquish power without a fight. Watch for endless challenges to these amendements.

Just saying ...

If the current Administration has allegedly allowed some 61,000 illegal immigrants to enter the country ...

Lifting current COVID-19 international travel restrictions, and allowing a few more thousand US citizens to return, surely cannot be bad a thing, right?

And apologies for calling you Shirley.
Just don't be late for dinner.

We have a great governor!!

https://qctimes.com/news/local...rce=home-top-story-1

Iowa Gov. Reynolds prohibits K-12 schools from mandating masks, effective immediately

By Erin Murphy
May 20, 2021

DES MOINES - Iowa schools are no longer able to require staff or students to wear face masks during the school day, thanks to a new order that was passed in the final hours of the 2021 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds just after midnight Thursday morning, mere hours before the next school day was to start.

Districts across the state that still had face mask requirements in place for the COVID-19 pandemic sent alerts to parents and students Thursday morning with the news that face masks are no longer required.

Most districts are completing their school year over the next two weeks. Some districts recently had decided to keep their mask requirements in place for the remainder of the school year.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends schools continue to use COVID-19 prevention strategies - including face masks - for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year.

“The state of Iowa is putting parents back in control of their child’s education and taking greater steps to protect the rights of all Iowans to make their own health care decisions,” Reynolds said in a statement. “I am proud to be a governor of a state that values personal responsibility and individual liberties. I want to thank the Iowa Legislature for their quick work in bringing this bill to my desk so that it can be signed into law.”

The new law also prohibits city and county governments from enacting face mask requirements that exceed the state's face mask policy.

Iowa currently has no statewide face mask requirement. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that started in March 2020, the state enacted a partial face mask only from November 2020 through early February 2021.

“This is just more politics over science,” Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said Wednesday night as lawmakers debated the provision. “Masks have saved lives. We should continue to let this decision be made by local officials.”

The measure was introduced in an amendment to House File 847, and passed both chambers on party-line votes, with Republicans supporting and Democrats opposing.

COVID-19 activity has plummeted in Iowa since the deadly winter surge, but the virus is still spreading in the state and new variants continue to emerge. On Thursday, more than 3,500 new cases were recorded, according to state public health data.

Todays experience at the Doctors Office:
I need a minor outpatient procedure. An hour tops, so they said. Scheduling nurse sits down with me and our chat went like this:
RN: You have to get a Covid test 5 days prior the surgery!
Me: Well... If I test positive, what happens?
RN: The procedure would be rescheduled after your quarantine.
Me: So 5 days prior to the rescheduled procedure do I have to get tested again?
RN: Yes!
Me: And if its positive again will I need to be quarantined again and the procedure rescheduled again?
RN:Yes!
Me: Forget it. Cancel the procedure. I will live with the problem until sanity returns to America.

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You got the nurse who skipped Charm school. There are ways to get patients to comply. She belongs in booking.

So are nurses and doctors getting tested for wuflu every week? Why do we have to get tested to see them if they don’t get tested to see us?

If they are getting tested each week, still wrong to force us to get tested but at least they are less hypocritical about it.

I knew the whole thing was going south when she said "we cant allow you in the OR if you are not tested".
At least theoretically, the test/reschedule cycle could go on indefinitely. And I did not even go into the fact that vaccinated people are still testing positive.
What BS.

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Originally posted by konata88:
So are nurses and doctors getting tested for wuflu every week? Why do we have to get tested to see them if they don’t get tested to see us?

THIS is a VERY Good question...Not only that, I can't wait for the opportunity to ask it!

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I knew the whole thing was going south when she said "we cant allow you in the OR if you are not tested".
At least theoretically, the test/reschedule cycle could go on indefinitely. And I did not even go into the fact that vaccinated people are still testing positive.
What BS.

I went to grocery store today they now sell instant tests. I'm sure they are 99% accurate.

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Originally posted by konata88:
So are nurses and doctors getting tested for wuflu every week? Why do we have to get tested to see them if they don’t get tested to see us?

If they are getting tested each week, still wrong to force us to get tested but at least they are less hypocritical about it.

My primary care doc does get tested weekly.