YOUR LACK OF FAITH IS DISTURBING
The CDC has done it again. It reversed itself on masks for the vaccinated. Remember, it was only 30 days ago that President Joe Biden declared victory over COVID-19. We were supposed to be free of masks. The president even said so — twice — on national teevee. The vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask, he said.
Well, like the president himself, that statement didn’t age well. Even here in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom went from speaking to us through a smiley-face mask of encouragement to threatening us through a Darth Vader mask.
Two weeks ago his own press release promised hope of defeating COVID via the cooperation with local health agencies:
“SACRAMENTO – With nearly 77 percent of California adults at least partially vaccinated, and more than 74 percent of those aged 12+ having received at least one dose, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) will continue work in partnership with local health officials and community organizations across the state to fight disinformation, spur demand for COVID-19 vaccinations and focus on equity as some communities contend with rising levels of illness among the unvaccinated. Vaccines remain the best protection against COVID-19, including the highly infectious Delta variant.”
Now, the governor has ordered all state workers and health care workers to wear a mask or be tested once a week for COVID. He wants local governments and private businesses to adopt the same mask-up-or-else policy, which, of course, most will.
So, color me confused. We were promised by no less than the president of the United States that if we got vaccinated we’d be free of masks. We got vaccinated only now to be told we still must wear a mask or possibly lose our jobs.
That is disappointing in the extreme.
(See the full Sherman R. Frederick column in the Aug. 4 edition of the Novato Advance and Marinscope Community Newspapers.)
have you guys not yet figured out that this cycle is never ending, and as long as you continue to play along with what they say, you’ll continue to receive “booster shots” and mask-wearing mandates? the only way out at this point is herd immunity. there is zero point to a vaccine if we still have to wear masks.