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Biden and Lightfoot know mask rules are idiotic — so why haven’t they changed?
NY Post ^ | 18 October A.D. 2021 | David Marcus

Posted on 10/18/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by lightman

...The latest example of COVID hypocrisy, if you have enough hard-drive space to keep track, is a viral video of President Biden traipsing through a ritzy DC eatery with no mask, in defiance of the city’s strict rules. In Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot was photographed at a basketball game, the only bare face in a sea of muzzled fans.

This kind of thing has been so common that it is hard to stay outraged, even though we should.

But there is another, deeper question at play here. Why won’t the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update its masking guidance as vaccinations increase, case numbers diminish and politicians, among pretty much everyone else, ignore it across the nation?...

Why is it being ignored? Because much of its application is nonsensical on its face, so to speak. What possible health benefit is there for wearing a mask from door to table, then taking it off to eat and drink and talk all night? Every one of us knows that 10 seconds of following the hostess to your table is not a potential superspreader event. It’s such performative idiocy...

So why do these absurd rules — which most people don’t follow anyway, and seem to be based on about as much science as Tarot cards — still exist at all? And more importantly, what metrics do we need to hit for them to go away? That’s one query the exultant and high experts will never answer...

People can decide for themselves whether they want to keep wearing masks, if they are high-risk or nervous. As for the rest of us, what are we waiting for? We have long passed common sense. We need some answers about how and when these rules will end. And we need them now.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: biden; chicago; covid1984; davidmarcus; districtofcolumbia; illinois; lightfoot; lorilightfoot; mask; newyork; newyorkpost

1 posted on 10/18/2021 11:42:03 AM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

VIDEO: Press Secretary Jen Psaki defends Biden violating the D.C. mask mandate
https://rumble.com/vnwosj-press-secretary-jen-psaki-defends-biden-violating-the-d.c.-mask-mandate.html


2 posted on 10/18/2021 11:43:23 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: lightman

Maskless Joe photo....

Doesn’t his expression look like his inner mind?

As in blank.


3 posted on 10/18/2021 11:44:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: lightman

Control, pure and simple.

Let’s go, Brandon.


4 posted on 10/18/2021 11:44:12 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: lightman

Add their two IQs, add 5, and you’ve finally got a double digit sum.


5 posted on 10/18/2021 11:44:16 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: lightman

Control and submission..


6 posted on 10/18/2021 11:44:23 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

7 posted on 10/18/2021 11:54:16 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

“Set an example??? For whom?!?”


8 posted on 10/18/2021 11:59:01 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: lightman

The Pritzker Family owns LBP Packaging in China which packs and ships the majority of PPE to the US - The corrupt Pritzker Family has made $$$millions from Covid.

Putzker and Mayor Lighthead both announced that the Mask Mandate will stay in place for the rest of 2021 and probably through 2022.


9 posted on 10/18/2021 12:00:23 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: EC Washington

“The Pritzker Family owns LBP Packaging in China which packs and ships the majority of PPE to the US - The corrupt Pritzker Family has made $$$millions from Covid.”

In Illinois, we affectionately refer to Governor Jelly Belly as “Prickster”

Just thought I would share.


10 posted on 10/18/2021 12:16:55 PM PDT by gracefullyparanoid
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To: lightman
The DC mask mandate was null and void once Joe Biden violated it with impunity.

Any action taken against a person or business from that point forward is discriminatory and illegal.

11 posted on 10/18/2021 12:53:08 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits
Any action taken against a person or business from that point forward is discriminatory and illegal.

You haven't met the judges in DC, have you? If they didn't have double standards they would have no standards at all.

12 posted on 10/18/2021 12:59:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: lightman

Surely that must be a rhetorical question...


13 posted on 10/18/2021 3:06:06 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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