U.S. Government Report Recommends Return of Mask Mandates and Social Distancing
Masks and social distancing should be mandated or encouraged in public to protect people from possible ‘Long Covid’, according to a new report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The New York Post has the story.
The report by the independent research agency Coforma, published Monday, was based in part on interviews with more than 60 people – including patients dealing with lingering COVID-19 symptoms, as well as their caregivers and health care providers.
The recommendations included establishing public policies that purportedly protect “everyone from Long Covid” – including the reinstatement of a mask mandate.
According to the document, jurisdictions dropping mask mandates some two years into the pandemic has made life difficult for those struggling with Long Covid.
“The lifting of mask mandates and indifferent attitude towards masking and social distancing typical in many public and private places further isolates people with Long Covid,” the report says.
“Many people with Long Covid avoid public spaces and events due to a fear of reinfection and the potential worsening of their Long Covid symptoms and health impacts. Some may experience PTSD symptoms as a result of trauma they incurred during their acute infection.”
As a result, the report says, policymakers should “encourage or mandate policies and protocols regarding masking and social distancing in public spaces that protect people from infection or reinfection and possible Long Covid.”
What kind of world do these researchers live in where coerced changes for an indefinite period of time to what individuals may wear and do in public constitutes a proportionate response to some people’s medical condition? Ah yes, that’ll be the world of Covid.
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Yes, and it’s clear why. We are communicating with one another too much and the truth is coming out.
That is way too infectious!
Plus there are probably a few tens of billions of masks in warehouses that need to be used
up.
Some people are simply immune against this. Eg, the local M&S cashiers are still predominantly masked (to varying degrees, eg, only mouth or nose and mouth) and one of them will gladly take cash payments from anyone but me. I – so she insists – must put the money onto the counter so that she won’t accidentally come in contact with my obvious filthyness. Ironically, when coming to close to her, one becomes painfully aware that her idea of personal hygienie certainly doesn’t include too much bodily contact with water.
Tell her she needs a wash.
Next time, just give her this:
Zing! You just won the internet today.
The only thing which isolates people with diffuse, unspecific health symptoms they blame on COVID because authorities have told them so for two years in a row is their own credulity and cowardice and the only people responsible for that are said authorities. I therefore recommend to triple-mask them to prevent them from ventilating about horrendous viral threats in public and advise the timid ones to ensure that they always socially distance from everyone who’s triple-masked.
Long Covid- the gift to the authoritarians that keeps on giving.
60 people asked? C’MON MAN!
Even shampoo manufacturers must ask a few more.
It’s no coincidence that only those who have jabbed themselves at every opportunity and are worried about reinfection are the same ones that want everyone else to mask up and stay 20 feet away from them.
I have Zero sympathy.
Indeed, once the legendary Dr. John Ioannidis et al. showed repeatedly and irrefutably that the infection fatality rate was at least an order of magnitude or more lower than what the fear mongers claimed, those same fear mongers had to pivot to….Long Covid. Unlike death, that particular phenomenon is so vague and nebulous and heterogeneous that it can really mean anything anyone wants it to mean. I’m sure some people really do get legit cases of Long Covid, and it probably is quite hellish indeed. But the mainstream media clearly has exaggerated it by orders of magnitude.
Long Covid may be bad, but Long Lockdown and Long Jab Injury are worse.
“Long Covid” a.ka. Bone Idleness
Watch out for Longer Syphillis and Longest Diarrhea. Killers those.
I caught the end of the Germany vs Japan match and was delighted to see that nearly all the Japan fans were unmasked despite what we are told about the Japanese by the MSM.
Spoiler alert. Do not follow the link below if you don’t want to know the result: –
https://www.news24.com/sport/soccer/worldcup/live-fifa-world-cup-teams-announce-squads-as-football-spectacle-beckons-in-qatar-20221111
The result was that Germany lost 1:2. OTOH, these days, the Schaft[*] seems to be about little else but Pride posturing and the less time they spend on playing football, the more is available for this much more important topic.
[*] Originally called Nationalmannschaft (national team). At some time during the great awokening, someone apparently though that National (national) sounded too national for a contemporay German timel, almost fascist, so to say, and consequently, they were renamed to Mannschaft (team). OTOH, since they’re anything but manly and Mann (man) really sounds as if it were all men, ie, as if women were excluded, they should really drop that as well, hence, Schaft (shaft).
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On this basis we should remove all staircases and steps from all buildings and public spaces as those unable to use them may feel ‘disadvantaged’ by having to use the ramp or the elevator instead.
Do you know that stairs are one of the biggest causes of accidental deaths at home? I expect a few thousand elderly were killed by stairs in 2020, and not found for a long time because of Saint Boris’s stay at home order, and his gospel truth that anybody visiting granny was killing granny.
Stairs also cause short-term memory loss. I have only noticed this as I got older. If I rush up the stairs for something, when I get to the top, I have forgotten what it was.
Leave a notebook at the bottom, simples. Actually, notebooks at the foot of all staircases should be made mandatory, and if you aren’t carrying a taxpayer-funded, Chinese-made pencil at all times you aren’t allowed to go upstairs. Anywhere. Full stop. To be permitted to go up a level, you must record your reason for going upstairs and your phone number. To stay safe, y’all. And tattoo a barcode on your forehead, so you can be scanned before approaching the first step.
PEOPLE ARE DYING ON STAIRCASES!
Bath tubs are also a frequent source of lethal household accidents.
And life itself is the ultimate killer
A deadly STD
A bad dilemma indeed. Life is going to kill you and the only way to escape from it is death. Not even vaccination can help: Vaccinating someone against life (current Pfizer and Moderna products are already available for that) would again just bring death.
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I would hazard a guess that your favourite local M&S till-attendant is highly unlikely to suffer this fate…
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Indeed. Reductio ad absurdum, basically.
It seems counter intuitive, given the history of the country, but the US is actually full of commies.
I’m not surprised people want to hold on to their guns no matter what. The moment they take their guns away, the US population will become slaves under a fascist, technocratic tyranny faster than anything we’ve ever seen.
I was with the Dems and anti gun lobby for all of my life, despite knowing that owning a pool is more risky to ones children than owning a gun.
The Covid red pill changed that, for good.
Welcome to the world of the sane.
Indeed, as an American, I can vouch for that. The USA is basically a one-stop shop for every political ideology one could imagine, from communism to fascism to everything in between. And from puritanism to libertinism as well, and everything in between. Totalitarians of various flavors have always been with us to one degree or another, and those of us who are not sheeple know that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
“Many people with Long Covid avoid public spaces and events due to a fear of reinfection and the potential worsening of their Long Covid symptoms and health impacts. Some may experience PTSD symptoms as a result of trauma they incurred during their acute infection.”
Those that choose to “avoid public spaces” can do so but my behaviour won’t be changing for a few hypochondriacs. I didn’t do masks last time, or antisocial distancing so it’s a big fat F O to any more fascist claptrap.
And The $cience can do one as well.
No masks or signage anywhere over here. I did see one sole loony in the supermarket the other day, after literally months of not seeing one. A young woman in her 30s. She probably was on number 5 clot shot as well! She must have felt the weight of my evils as she looked at me and I laughed at her. But I see no staff anywhere wearing them either. But what’s interesting is that it may be a direct result of the msm here actually reporting on a couple of virologists saying there’s no restrictions on the horizon as Covid is just another winter virus, which was refreshingly honest. As soon as the msm change their tune I’ve no doubt the circus will start all over again and once more I’ll be outnumbered by nutters, but I actually don’t think they could pull that off again here. They report that the Covid ”cases” and those hospitalized are dropping, no need for restrictions, but they omit the fact our excess deaths are climbing. Well they’re climbing all over the place aren’t they? And there ain’t no amount of masking or distancing gonna save you from dying from those lethal injections.… Read more »
22 Carat S H 1 T Heads !!!
Sometimes Freddy your amiable politeness just gets the better of you.
They want to reintroduce these measures specifically to pander to people who have an irrational fear of reinfection – has the US gone mad?
It always was. Everywhere is. Especially “The West”.
The aim of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to avoid finding oneself within the ranks of the insane.
They’re just trying to work with what they have left: By now, everybody knows that acute COVID is a usually harmless disease which may become fatal in rare circumstances, mostly, if the people who get it are already on the brink of dying. Hence, they have to resort to long COVID, an ill-defined, open-ended set of symptoms some people claim to have developed because of COVID, although not necessarily after a detectable Sars-CoV2 infection. That’s – once again – the sympathetic minority (Who could be so cold-hearted not to sympathize with someone who’s suffering! Only a bad person would ever not do that!) whose human right to health and a fullfilling life (eternally masked among eternally socially-distanced other masked zombies) is violated by the selfish majority of people who couldn’t care less and just don’t want to wrap n layers of cloth around their faces for the remainder of their lives to protect others! Stereotypical woke empathy whoring in order to justify a police someone wants to see implemented. They’re also not pandering to the people they claim to want to protect. They’re trying to keep them in eternal fear by telling them scary lies in order to have this… Read more »
Given the resources of the public health industrial complex finding only 60 neurotic hypochondriacs for their study seems a bit of a poor effort. I suggest that with Covid long gone as a serious threat Admiral Autoegyophilla needs to widen the net on long covid. symptoms are now “feeling not quite 100% mentally and physically” That should do it. Seriously this is some of the poorest research methodology ever used to support a non critical public policy issue. It really shows they are now taking the piss.
Today I don’t feel 100% mentally and physically. Never had the ‘rona or a jab – could it be because I consumed too much alcohol last night? Hmmmm
Ridiculous on so many levels! I really don’t even want to dignify this with a response.
Must be a Mail- in- Ballot requirement for the Democrats
‘The Department of Health and Human Services’ there’s a misnomer for you.