Can We Stop Being Stupid, Please?
The President of the United States has now, on several occasions, held virtual meetings while wearing a face mask. He has also had meetings with other vaccinated leaders and continued to wear a mask.
Progressives are fretful about wearing masks outside until Dr. Fauci gives the okay, despite the best science for an entire year showing it is safe to be outside without a mask on. In Massachusetts, one must wear a mask outside even if alone with not a soul in sight.
This is getting ridiculous.
Israel is now on consecutive days with no COVID deaths because Israel has been able to get its population vaccinated with a clear message of returning to normal.
The Biden Administration’s message continues to be to get a vaccine, possibly skip a day of work to feel miserable, then go back to isolation, mask wearing, social distancing, etc.
That is exactly not the message to offer up if you want Americans to get the vaccine. The President should be leading by example — take off the mask and live a normal life, emphasizing he can do so because he is vaccinated.
Public health officials need to be beating the drum as loudly as they can — get vaccinated and take off the mask. Instead, our public health officials are playing it so cautiously that they are risk undermining their entire message. They themselves, through their repeated behaviors and statements, have helped undermine the desire of many Americans to get vaccinated and go back to normal.
This starts at the top. The President of the United States needs to make it clear that he can take off his mask because he is vaccinated and everyone else can too after they get vaccinated.
The status quo risks a set back as Americans both stop wearing a mask and fail to get vaccinated because the public health talking points continue to be too risk adverse.
This is all very stupid. The bottom line is that the vaccines work and the government of the United States is, on a daily basis, signaling that they don’t.
Erick- I could not agree more!! As a physician who specializes in respiratory diseases (ENT) and as an avid vaccine fanboy, I am so tired of the stupidity coming from the Feds. First, Fauci and the US Surgeon General told us we did not need masks 1 year ago. They lied by concealing the fact that they really wanted to conserve our limited mask supply to health care workers. This lie was so transparent to the average American that they lost all respect as truth-tellers. Operation Warp Speed would have been somewhat more effective if, in addition to its incredibly effective sponsorship of vaccine development, they also mandated the manufacture of billions of N95 masks(MUCH more effective than other types) for mass distribution rather than 10's of thousands of ventilators that were rarely deployed. Now they are lying again with their claim that we should continue to wear masks even when immunized. The CDC and NIH were, in my mind, the rare Federal institutions that were largely uncontaminated by political quackery. Sadly, no more.
The Left is addicted to mass population madates because the entire movement is determined to move us all to totalitarianism. Biden is like the kid who starts a round of "Simon Says"!
Our national leaders are indeed creating a crisis of trust in regards to vaccinations and masks. My wife and I have had both doses of the Moderna vaccine. I am enjoying being able to go most places without a mask. Wasn't that what we were told about getting the vaccine in the first place? Take the vaccine and go back to normal life?