{"id":2023094,"date":"2023-09-06T06:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/petty-covid-tyrants-want-to-bring-back-masks-and-lockdowns-dont-let-them\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T06:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T10:36:14","slug":"petty-covid-tyrants-want-to-bring-back-masks-and-lockdowns-dont-let-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/petty-covid-tyrants-want-to-bring-back-masks-and-lockdowns-dont-let-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppose Petty Covid Tyrants Pushing for Masks and Lockdowns. Stand Strong."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpetty-covid-tyrants-want-to-bring-back-masks-and-lockdowns-dont-let-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023094&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A day after First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid with mild symptoms, the White House announced that President Joe Biden will once again be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1699112083965579649?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wearing a mask indoors<\/a> and will only remove it \u201cwhen sufficiently distanced from others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as health officials in \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-u-s-general-in-afghanistan-on-bidens-withdrawal-i-dont-like-leaving-friends-in-need\/\" title=\"Top U.S General In Afghanistan On Biden\u2019s Withdrawal: \u2018I Don\u2019t Like Leaving Friends In Need\u2019\">major urban centers<\/a>, including New York City and Los Angeles, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/other\/will-covid-mask-mandates-return-here-s-where-they-re-making-a-comeback\/ar-AA1g9bvk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">urging Americans to wear masks again<\/a>,\u200b citing a new strain of Covid spreading through\u2064 the country. Some colleges and universities, too, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/vance-to-introduce-measure-preventing-federal-officials-from-imposing-mask-mandates-in-schools-on-airplanes\/ar-AA1ggRra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hhs-report-recommends-bringing-back-mask-mandates\/\" title=\"HHS Report Recommends Bringing Back Mask Mandates\">bringing back mask mandates<\/a><\/a>, as are large employers like Kaiser Permanente \u2062at \u200dits Santa Rosa, California, campus, along with a group \u200bof\u200d hospitals in New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1693700912\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-07be90c10536e2d9fc2dd7ae99779d97 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-07be90c10536e2d9fc2dd7ae99779d97\"><\/div>\n<p>An elementary school near Washington, D.C., \u200don Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1699121666981298286?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imposed a mask mandate<\/a> \u2014 stressing that it \u2062would be passing out KN95s, no less \u2014 on <em>third graders<\/em> after a handful of kids tested positive for Covid.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go again.<\/p>\n<p>Having gotten a taste of what unlimited power and authority they could wield under the pretext of pandemic management, the American public health bureaucracy \u2014 aided and encouraged by Democrats at every level of government \u2014 is gearing up to \u200creassert control over our lives, dictating what we can and can\u2019t do, where we can and can\u2019t go, and what counts, or doesn\u2019t count, as an \u201cessential business.\u201d The reemergence of mask mandates is simply the first sign of \u200dwhat\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u200d doesn\u2019t matter <em>at all<\/em> to them that masks have been more or less conclusively shown not to \u2064work. Over \u200cthe weekend, CNN\u2019s Michael Smerconish confronted Anthony Fauci with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranelibrary.com\/cdsr\/doi\/10.1002\/14651858.CD006207.pub6\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a study from earlier this \u2062year<\/a>, the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the efficacy of masking during Covid, which found that masking made no difference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-483ceb678893d8ebeafb17eb87a80236 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-483ceb678893d8ebeafb17eb87a80236\"><\/div>\n<p>As the study\u2019s lead author, Tom Jefferson of\u2064 Oxford \u2062University said in <a href=\"https:\/\/maryannedemasi.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-lead-author-of-new-cochrane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an interview in February<\/a> that there\u2019s no evidence that \u200dmasks, whether N95s or the plain cloth types, had any effect, \u201cFull stop.\u201d\u2063 Asked about other preventative measures like hand-washing and social distancing, Jefferson said, \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence that many of these things make any difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This\u200d wasn\u2019t some woefully flawed, nonrandomized study of the sort that \u2062too often informed slapdash policymaking during the pandemic. It was conducted \u2063by a dozen experts for a British nonprofit\u2064 called Cochrane, which \u200dis considered the gold standard for health \u2064care data review and \u200danalysis. The study\u2019s conclusions were based\u200d on the results of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/petty-covid-tyrants-want-to-bring-back-masks-and-lockdowns-dont-let-them\/\" title=\"Oppose Petty Covid Tyrants Pushing for Masks and Lockdowns. Stand Strong.\">78 randomized controlled trials involving<\/a> more than 610,000 people in multiple countries. Areas with mask mandates, the authors found, fared no better than areas\u2063 without them. As the pandemic ran its course \u2063in the U.S.,\u2062 this became obvious, as different states (and often cities) had different masking rules. The mandates made no difference.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about this study, Fauci\u2019s response was abject nonsense. \u200dHe simply waved it off with a bit of legerdemain saying, \u201cYeah but there are other studies\u201d that show masking protects at the \u201cindividual \u2063level,\u201d \u2062even if \u2064the data show no effect of\u200b masking at\u200b the \u201cpandemic level.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"hjPL00GCihymSPM9k75ntNxF9e4aIrsxW32jZEs1D38n4a7Q15ze2wS8ILqgdfmAcpUFZvKNdMlEgYqfYAoRRlQXrCKyBObGuoH\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci admits that masks don\u2019t work for the public at large but still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-called-fraud-and-liar-after-being-confronted-with-new-mask-study\/\" title=\"Fauci labeled 'fraud' and 'liar' over new mask study.\">absurdly claims masks work<\/a> on an individual basis.\u2063 \u00a0More subterfuge. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UcjOa8flkr\">pic.twitter.com\/UcjOa8flkr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rand Paul (@RandPaul) \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandPaul\/status\/1698372490639327556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This of course misses the point. Whatever benefits masking might offer to a specific person, there is absolutely no scientific case for masking \u2064as a matter\u2063 of public policy, let alone as a coercive tactic with penalties attached to it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ff56470edbc8a973724ab35c2f0e2a41 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ff56470edbc8a973724ab35c2f0e2a41\"><\/div>\n<p>The same goes for \u2063lockdowns, Covid shots, and the entire slew of pandemic-related policies that were foisted on us by a self-righteous rabble \u200cof pundits and so-called experts. They were all wrong, and those who questioned and resisted draconian Covid measures were right. Time and data analysis have left little doubt\u200d of that.<\/p>\n<p>And yet calls for masking \u2014 and, just wait\u200c for \u200dit, lockdowns \u2014 are\u2064 coming around again, zombielike, \u2063as\u2063 if the past three years never happened, as if \u200cwe don\u2019t know what we all clearly know\u200c by now: None of it made any difference.<\/p>\n<p>The reason these ideas and policies are coming around again has nothing to do with science\u200d or data or \u2063public health or epidemiology, just like the first time around. \u200bIt\u2019s not\u2063 a question \u2062of science but of power.<\/p>\n<p>Covid and \u2064its \u200cever-changing variants are \u200dnever going away. Like the seasonal flu, we\u2019re always going to have some new strain of Covid around\u2064 now. Public health \u201cexperts\u201d and the Democrats who enable them will try to use these variants, however harmless they might be, as \u200da pretext to exert control and trample the rights of \u200blaw-abiding Americans. Don\u2019t let them. <\/p>\n<p>When they suggest you wear a mask, don\u2019t do it. When they demand you wear a mask (to fly, for\u200d example) just do\u200c the bare minimum. If they try to force your kids to wear masks in school, challenge them. Insist they back up their masking policy\u200c with data that show \u2063it\u2019s justified.<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans were forced to wear masks and get the\u2062 Covid shots just \u2063to keep their jobs. This was a huge violation of basic civil rights, for which we have not had a reckoning. None of the people who imposed these harmful mandates and policies on the American people have been held accountable (which is why you\u2064 can still see Fauci bloviating on national TV). Remember that as you \u200cbegin\u2064 to see news stories about school districts and employers\u2064 and local health officials floating the idea of a new mask mandate or a booster shot requirement. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t ever give \u200cthese people the benefit of the doubt. They aren\u2019t interested in keeping you healthy, they\u2019re interested in controlling you. It\u2019s not more complicated than that. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-27f56b0eae2487ea5aef842b02327c20 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-27f56b0eae2487ea5aef842b02327c20\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, continue to recommend mask-wearing indoors regardless of vaccination status due to the Delta variant&#8217;s rapid spread. President Biden&#8217;s decision to wear a mask aligns with the ongoing efforts to prioritize public health and prevent further transmission of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2023095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}