News reports and rumors are starting to suggest that the CDC is going to modify their recommendations on mask wearing. That will eventually trickle down to businesses, institutions of learning, etc. Now we have a new problem: the likely millions of people who believe that COVID is terrifying and everyone must be required to wear a mask, and if COVID-19 is now endemic, we must all wear masks forever.
Today I heard conversations like this… “if the [school environment] doesn’t require masks anymore, can some teachers require them if they are high risk? or afraid?” So to accommodate the fears of a few, we must continue to require masks of all? Even if asymptomatic spread is rare, and masks don’t work and are potentially harmful, if one person in a room of 50 is “high risk”, everyone has to wear a mask?
The CDC, the government, health agencies, and the media have all pushed this fear of COVID down everyone’s throats, and now people don’t know how to release that fear. Just today I heard of a medical care facility that was requiring double masks… that is so 2021 (for what, a whole month?)
The lie has to stop. The deception must end. And re-education must begin. Yes, we all know that no one will admit they were wrong, or lied, or ignored a ton of the science. But these fear-mongering agencies that whipped society into being a flock of scared sheep, they need to fix the problem.
If people are still terrified for their lives, let them stay home, and the rest of us live.
Yes and amen!!!
You are so correct! Thanks you for articulating my thoughts- so why do I feel just a bit guilty for thinking this way? Guess I’m not a team player -My grandchildren still wear masks at school - the schools own covid dashboard currently reports 0 (zero) Covid cases in 20 of the district schools and only 3 cases reported at 1 elementary school - 12,000 students and 13 Covid cases 2/15-2/21 and 2,000 staff and only 2 cases during that time period. I have sent emails but the reply is always “maybe next week” we will lift the mask mandate.