PA Counties locked down

[JAKIII]

We try to have a little something for everyone. I have these on the way: https://www.therestaurantstore.com/items/397439

I always got A's in elementary art class... skilled at coloring between the lines.

I don't get over your way much, although will surely be on the lookout for the black trailer if I do.

[streaker69]

I always got A's in elementary art class... skilled at coloring between the lines.

I don't get over your way much, although will surely be on the lookout for the black trailer if I do.

You failed art class. The trailer is dark blue.

[JAKIII]

You failed art class. The trailer is dark blue.

I'm glad you told me that... I'd have driven right past a blue trailer.

[JenniferG]

Where is fauchi? Haven't seen him in the news.

Enjoying his ill gotten gains.

[ImminentDanger]

UPMC seems to have done away with the masks last week… I didn’t even know they came back.

That's good to hear - They required them the last time I was there - and I'll be there again this week.

When I walked in the last time, the receptionist called out 'Sir, you need a mask' - which they gave me.
I held it in my hand until I reached the elevator, then put it in my pocket.
No one else mentioned it, even though most were wearing masks.

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[staylo]

I went into the family doctor for an annual physical, and I noticed everybody on staff was wearing masks. The patients in the waiting room were wearing masks, but everybody walking into the office was not, so I assume they were requesting and being given masks from people at the desk. I walked up and I was asked my name and my birthdate, and then told I could have a seat. I was surprised I wasn*t handed a mask to wear. So I sat down in the nurse came and got me and took me back to the room.

When we got back to the room she finally asked *would you like a mask?*.

I replied *I don*t mind either way.*

So then she says to me *well everyone else is wearing one, and there*s lots of people who are sick and stuff**

Once again I said *I don*t mind either way, if you want me to wear one I*ll wear one.*

She just stared at me for a couple of seconds and finally, clearly frustrated, says *OK, we*ll just leave you alone then.*, meaning she*ll stop asking if I want a mask.

The way she said it was almost as if I were being argumentative about it in some way. I was about to tell her that I told her twice that I didn*t mind wearing one if they wanted me to, but at that moment I decided F them. Clearly, me saying I would wear one if they wanted me to wasn*t good enough. They wanted to bully me into *requesting* one, and I wasn*t having it.

[STBear]

We try to have a little something for everyone. I have these on the way: https://www.therestaurantstore.com/items/397439

The crayon eaters will love them.

[SevenMilePete]

Enjoying his ill gotten gains.

His pension alone is 400K annually. And he somehow made a profit of almost one million in investments in 2020 alone. What a guy. 400K! You could almost live on that.

[priell3]

UPMC seems to have done away with the masks last week… I didn’t even know they came back.

Yes, my wife works for UPMC. The masking requirement ended 02/29.

[ImminentDanger]

Biden quietly revokes COVID executive order requiring masks in federal buildings
By Social Links for Steven Nelson - April 12, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-new...ral-buildings/

WASHINGTON - President Biden retracted several COVID-19 executive orders Friday - including one imposed on his first day in office to require people to wear masks in federal facilities.

Biden's Executive Order 13991 - titled "Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing" - was issued after the wearing of face masks became heavily polarized, with outgoing President Donald Trump and his aides rarely wearing them and focusing on "reopening" from lockdowns.

The order is "hereby revoked," the White House said in a Friday afternoon announcement more than four years after the virus brought mobile morgues to New York and shut down schools and businesses across the country.

Under the prior order, federal agencies were told to "immediately take action" to "require compliance with CDC guidelines with respect to wearing masks, maintaining physical distance, and other public health measures by: on-duty or on-site Federal employees; on-site Federal contractors; and all persons in Federal buildings or on Federal lands."

The enforcement of mask requirements long ago subsided, with the White House lifting its own internal mask requirements more than two years ago in March 2022 after the CDC adjusted its mask recommendations to account for local risk reflected by hospitalization rates.

Biden on Friday also retracted Executive Order 13998, adopted on Jan. 21, 2021, that sought to impose mask mandates on flights, trains and buses, and Executive Order 13910, adopted by Trump on March 23, 2020, to forbid the hoarding of medical supplies.

The announcement additionally terminated federal positions created to manage the pandemic.

"The positions of COVID-19 Response Coordinator [vacant since June 2023] and Deputy Coordinator of the COVID-19 Response are hereby terminated," Biden decreed.

The developments mark a near complete return to pre-pandemic rules after a gradual easing of enforcement.

Biden in June 2022 ended requirements that travelers entering the US - including American citizens - present negative COVID-19 tests. That rule was announced in January 2021 in the final days of the Trump administration.

Biden in May 2023 ended his mandate, imposed in September 2021, that all federal workers submit to COVID-19 vaccination or lose their jobs unless they had a qualifying religious or medical exemption.

Other pivots back to the pre-pandemic status quo have worried Biden's critics, including his administration's April 2023 decision to resume funding for the EcoHealth Alliance, a group that did risky US-financed "gain of function" research on coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan, China, before the pandemic's origin in the same city in late 2019.

The FBI and Energy Department have assessed that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak.

Recent scientific studies in China on the same virus family have sparked concern that reckless research could lead to future pandemics.

Nearly 1.2 million US residents died from COVID-19, according to CDC data. Roughly 400,000 of the deaths occurred during Trump's tenure and the remainder under Biden.

SHOUT THE LIE! - Whisper the truth. (1.2M out of 300M Pop. = .4% died - 110M recovered)


What I said after the first couple months of the CORONAVIRUS-PANIC (March/2020) ...

There is little effort to make real facts available to THE PEOPLE and let them decide for themselves what risk they believe is acceptable and what actions, for themselves, is appropriate.

As long as EVERYONE is being treated as if everyone is THE MOST VULNERABLE the panic and hysteria will continue to destroy the fabric of society. Without discernment and differentiation, without considering the true facts, everyone is acting as if getting the virus is a death sentence!

Who will be held responsible for this outrageous assumption and the hysterical reaction? No One - The economy will be in shambles and NO ONE will be to blame. The same old story - Those who take the actions are not held responsible for the consequences.

With such hysterical reactions, how will people 'get back to normal' if there are still cases of the virus within 500 miles? And there will be cases of this virus for a long time - decades I suspect - It will not be eradicated. Someone, somewhere is going to have the virus and it will continue to be passed on to others, just like most other diseases.

After the hysterical damage is done, people will decide they have to go on and live with the risk it represents. They will take reasonable precautions and get on with their lives. Which is exactly what they should have decided at the start of this whole unnecessary panic.

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