Even though the Neanderthals can declare victory at this point, I figured I'd still post some stuff every so often.
Saw this today. No sir, it is not. But most folks are acting like it's over anyway, so not sure it's going to swing any voters.
Mask Mandates Continue 'Indefinitely' Even After CDC Starts to Admit Defeat The endless obsession with masking Ian Miller Oct 5 ▷ LISTEN SAVE It can never be said that the mask zealots aren’t dedicated. Mask mandates have completely failed to prevent the spread of COVID for over two years now, regardless of where they’ve been tried or how often they’ve been worn. Yet for some dedicated proponents of pseudoscience, masking will apparently remain a permanent ritual. Major cities across the United States are still filled with young people walking around outdoors in masks, solo masked drivers, and terrified adults putting a mask on to leave their homes, well after it’s been conclusively disproven as a possible intervention. Mask mandates have persisted into late 2022 in many settings, and despite the CDC quietly lifting their universal masking recommendation in healthcare, for many parts of the country, hospital masking might become a permanent ritual. Colleges remain another segment of society proving to be incapable of moving on from the pandemic, with mask mandates in effect at multiple universities. Now a new report details that several intend to extend universal masking “indefinitely,” despite their own statistics showing it doesn’t work. Liberal colleges like Mount Holyoke (pictured) keep pushing useless mask mandates. Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts is perhaps the best example of this phenomenon, where mask mandates within the school have proven completely useless at prevent the spread of COVID. Which, of course, means that they must continue. An open letter written by the college’s president, Beverly Daniel Tatum perfectly summarized the remarkable lack of logic required to continue masking: “I am sorry to say that because of the relatively high confirmed COVID-19 case counts on campus (approximately 50 per week since the start of the semester) we will need to continue our indoor mask mandate until further notice.” How remarkable is that? The president explains that their current mask mandate has been unable to stop a “relatively high” amount of “confirmed COVID-19 case counts” on campus, and so they’ll need to continue doing it. The less it works, the more we need it. It’s a wonderful distillation of the inherent absurdities among pro-masking groups, exemplified by the cowardice, incompetence and lack of critical thinking now inherent amongst college administrators. Masks aren’t working to stop the rapid spread of the virus, so we need to continue masking. How can these policies ever end with nonsensical thinking like this? Supposedly COVID cases on campus have, according to the letter, “taxed our campus health care system and residential services to the limit.” How can this be happening? We know that college students are at incredibly low risk of serious complications from COVID, not to mention that Mt. Holyoke College, as committed members of the anti-science wing of the left, mandated COVID vaccines for everyone at the school last year. It’s confusing that COVID cases have “taxed” their campus health care system to the limit, when everyone that works at the college is vaccinated and everyone who attends the college is vaccinated. Oh, and they’re boosted too. Every employee and student is required to have at least one booster shot to come on campus during the fall semester. So uh, why do they need to use the health care system when they get COVID? Shouldn’t their vaccines and boosters be keeping them healthy after their mask fails to stop them from getting infected? Unsurprisingly, no one involved in these decisions seems to be willing or able to ask or answer these questions, content to pointlessly virtue signal instead. Another school, Amherst University is going to hold votes to determine masking policies: “Faculty members will conduct an anonymous survey of their classes, either by collecting handwritten (no names!) responses to the question, ‘Should masks be required in this class?’ or by distributing a survey.” If just one person wants to continue masking, it will be required. All it takes is one person who exclusively follows partisan political misinformation while ignoring evidence, data and science, to inflict useless mask mandates on the rest of their classmates. Because “experts” have misled so many people into thinking masks work if used by the community, a single individual’s lack of awareness and undeserved fear can now be used to justify hurting an entire class. This is what they’ve created. Trinity College in Connecticut also requires masking, with no end in sight. Smith College. Hampshire College. All have extended mask mandates, seemingly indefinitely. This fanatical refusal to accept reality is utterly disqualifying for everyone involved. The CDC for not permanently admitting that masks don’t work, colleges for not identifying that their own data disproves their arguments, and cowardly administrators for putting their political ideology above science, data and evidence. Mask mandates are one of history’s greatest embarrassments; a shining example of how experts and those who blindly follow them, panicked, tossed out evidence, and then covered up their failure with arrogance. By not admitting they were wrong, they’ve continued devastating policies which hurt millions, while accomplishing nothing of value whatsoever. Follow The Science™, they say, unless science contradicts what our political party demands.