Jared Polis, the Democratic governor of Colorado, thinks those of us who oppose scientifically dubious, constitutionally suspect, and dangerously overbroad face mask mandates are "selfish bastards."
I think Polis is a pandering pandemic control freak endangering public health, safety, and sanity.
There. Now that the name-calling is out of the way, let's talk facts.
Contracting COVID can be fatal or debilitating for the elderly, immune-compromised, and physically challenged. But there is no catastrophic public health emergency justifying sweeping government orders and ordinances that would force healthy citizens to wear masks in an increasingly oppressive climate of manufactured fear — completely untethered from pragmatic realities and risk assessments.
There. Now that the name-calling is out of the way, let's talk facts.
Contracting COVID can be fatal or debilitating for the elderly, immune-compromised, and physically challenged. But there is no catastrophic public health emergency justifying sweeping government orders and ordinances that would force healthy citizens to wear masks in an increasingly oppressive climate of manufactured fear — completely untethered from pragmatic realities and risk assessments.
According to the federal
government's own COVID-19 data, 120,675 deaths in America have been tied
to the virus. Tracked weekly by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control,
fatalities peaked on April 18, 2020, with 16,897 succumbing to the
disease. (Keep in mind that many medical whistleblowers have reported
that these statistics are inflated by including "COVID"-related deaths
uncorroborated by lab results and also by including patients who died
with COVID infections, but not necessarily from the virus itself.) In
the 12 weeks since April 18, as states have reopened and protests (or
riots) of all kinds have brought tens of thousands of people in close
contact, deaths have fallen precipitously......To Read More.....
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