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RegularJam

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14. The mask regulations are and have been based in science.

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Tue Jun 15, 2021, 12:53 PM

Jun 2021

Everyone is pro-science when the science matches their personal wishes and then full blown conspiracy theorist when it doesn’t.

The mask change made perfect sense considering the information we have.

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i have a suspicion that this murder yesterday is why cdc backed off masks. [View all] mopinko Jun 2021 OP

And yet the CDC knows that the Delta mutation is killing lots of Scrivener7 Jun 2021 #1

Five percent of deaths due to Delta are vaccinated people. Phoenix61 Jun 2021 #3

I'm seeing 30%. Scrivener7 Jun 2021 #10

i dont think they dropped it. i think it got knocked out of their hands. mopinko Jun 2021 #4

That data is based on the AstraZeneca vaccine, which wasn't as effective to begin with. NutmegYankee Jun 2021 #9

I doubt that was the CDC's reason. MineralMan Jun 2021 #2

If you are talking about the cashier in Georgia? Karma13612 Jun 2021 #5

yes. and it is the guns. mopinko Jun 2021 #6

Yeah, and I caught a maskless fundie down the street who did not get vaccine. He said, "Who'd know?" TheBlackAdder Jun 2021 #7

And this is what gets me gratuitous Jun 2021 #13

Murder happened after cdc backed off masks. LisaL Jun 2021 #8

it's been like this from day 1. mopinko Jun 2021 #17

and people actually thought that vaccine passports would work in a country that can't even enforce yaesu Jun 2021 #11

Uh, no. BannonsLiver Jun 2021 #12

The mask regulations are and have been based in science. RegularJam Jun 2021 #14

A fix, cruel but effective Traildogbob Jun 2021 #15

That may be part of it IronLionZion Jun 2021 #16