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Israel's coronavirus czar warns of steady increase in COVID infection rates, says Health Ministry may restore mask requirement Israeli Health Ministry officials are considering reimposing a mask mandate, following a rise in COVID infection rates. Coronavirus czar Dr. Salman Zarka spoke at the Knesset's Health Committee Wednesday morning to discuss the spread of the BA.5 strain of the virus in Israel...

In case you were wondering why all views contrary to the Official Narrative have been canceled, it's because of the Asch Conformity Experiment. We have just gone through a nationwide, and actually a worldwide, Asch Conformity Experiment. As implied, the goal of the experiment was not to get to the truth. It was to get conformity. Only conformity is allowed. Asch showed that people will actually believe things that they know to be false if they think everybody else believes those things. That is the point of the COVID nightmare experiment we just lived though. You must believe: -COVID is...

Alghabra says government decision is based on science and data Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is giving no indication his government plans to drop its masking requirement for air and train passengers in Canada in the near future. "We constantly consult our experts and whenever the advice we receive changes because the circumstances change, we will change our regulation," he said Tuesday. But for now, it is what it is" His comments came after a federal judge in Florida stuck down a Biden administration requirement that passengers wear face coverings on airliners and mass transit...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week stated 90% of Americans no longer need to wear face masks indoors, including in K-12 schools. Yet through mandates or local guidance, young children — who face the lowest risk of COVID complications — are still being forced to mask for hours a day across the country, including in New York, California and DC and its suburbs, in some cases even outdoors. In America’s great unmasking, 2- to 5-year-olds are excluded even as the harms from masking them continue to come to light. ... Many places in Europe, including the United...

Airline corporations have explicitly demanded passengers wear masks between bites of food and sips of drinks. Despite a Harvard study reported by the Washington Post in 2020 that indicates “flying can be safer than eating at a restaurant during the pandemic” due to “onboard systems that constantly circulate and refresh air,” airlines have begun conducting in-flight announcements to cudgel people into donning masks while eating and drinking.

Gathering in front of Skyview High School came three days after Clark County Superior Court Judge Suzan Clark granted a Vancouver School District request for an injunction against protests near its schools About 30 protesters showed up at Skyview High School Friday afternoon in defiance of a Clark County Superior Court judge's decision earlier this week to grant the Vancouver School District's request for an injunction near area schools. In addition to the protesters, a handful of counter protesters showed up to express support for the school district and its injunction. On Tuesday Judge Suzan Clark granted an injunction prohibiting...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR)-An Oklahoma County District Court judge ruled Wednesday to put the brakes on a controversial new state law that bans mask mandates in schools. Attorneys say today's ruling allows school districts to basically go back to eight months ago and institute mask mandates as they see fit...

Governor Tom Wolf to announce later Tuesday that masks will be required in all public and private schools starting Sept. 7 HARRISBURG- Masks will be required in all Pennsylvania K-12 schools, Gov. Tom Wolf is set to announce later Tuesday, reversing course amid a statewide COVID-19 resurgence that is filling hospital beds just as students return to class. The state Department of Health order will take effect Tuesday Sept. 7--the day after Labor Day--and will require students, teachers and staff to wear masks when inside, according to two people briefed on the plan....

The North Allegheny school board adjourned its meeting Wednesday after residents refused to comply with a federal restraining order requiring masks in district buildings. U.S. District Judge Marilyn Horan issued the order Monday, making it effective that day. But some in the audience refused to put on the masks that were provided in the back of the senior high school auditorium Wednesday. The meeting had been moved there after 80 people packed into the board room last week to debate masking. "We are mandated under federal court order to wear a mask in North Allegheny until further notice," said board...

An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on mask mandates, AP reports. Driving the news: Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox issued a preliminary injunction against the law signed in April by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson that banned governmental entities from implementing mask mandates..

Masks at outdoor gatherings, 50% of public sector employees to work from home: here is the full list of Israel's latest COVID-19 restrictions. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Coronavirus Cabinet on Tuesday decided to enact a list of restrictions aimed at reducing the coronavirus infection rate across Israel. At the meeting, the Cabinet approved a list of guidelines, which will become mandatory beginning on Sunday August 8. 1. The Green Pass program will be expanded to include locations where less than 100 people gather, an it will apply to every age, including to children too young to receive...

The order requires face coverings for everyone age 5-or-older or enrolled in kindergarten New Orleans-Louisiana is reenacting a statewide mask mandate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents across all indoor locations, including schools and colleges. Governor John Bel Edwards anouncement Monday...

St. Louis County, Mo-The St. Louis County Council voted 5-2 in favor of terminating the face-covering order Tuesday night. Council members who voted in favor of were Rita Heard Days, Tim Fitch, Ernie Trakas, Mark Harder and Shalonda Webb. Council members who voted not in favor of terminating the face-covering order were Lisa Clancy and Kelli Dunaway.

It was just last night that Matt reported Los Angeles County is reinstating a mask mandate indoors, regardless of vaccination status. A day later and Clark County--which includes Las Vegas--is now advising everyone to wear a mask indoors, even if you're vaccinated. The reason is all of this fear-mongering over the new Delta variant, the dominant variant in the United States. And while it is spreading, it's spreading against the unvaccinated. If you're vaccinated then you are protected, and, as of right now, you don't need a booster shot. Thus, youdon't need to wear a mask. This is not rocket...

The latest political development in Sweden that makes a new election more likely, the Kremlin comments on yesterday's confrontation between a British destroyer and Russia's military and why the Dutch Prime Minister wants to bring Hungary "to its knees" but first... Half of the 891 COVID-19 cases in Israel in the last month involve: "fully vaccinated people"... Effective Sunday Israel reinstating its indoor mask order. The recent uptick in COVID-19 cases many of them identified as "Delta Variant" cited... French Premier Jean Castex visiting the Department of Landes in southwestern France where COVID-19 cases are said to be surging with...

Canadian pastor Tim Stephens arrested again by police in Calgary, Alberta. He's staying in jail rather than comply with bail conditions that demand he not hold church services.... Peoples Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was arrested in the province of Manitoba for participating in a protest opposing coronavirus controls... Eight of the "fully vaccinated" at dead in Maine after contracting COVID-19. Some 457 "breakthough" cases of COVID-19 involving the "fully vaccinated" reported in the state... The talking point of the major media tonight 600-thousand deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the US. "Mask Dispute" leads to fatal shooting in Georgia......

"Why is State Senator Jake Corman of Pennsylvania fighting so hard that there not be a Forensic Audit of the 2020 Presidential Scam? Corman is fighting as though he were a Radical Left Democrat, saying that a Forensic Audit of Pennsylvania will not take place. Why is Senator David Argall playing the same game?..." That's part of President Trump's message on social media today via Gab. He's asking why President Pro Tempore of the State Senate here in Pennsylvania, Republican Jake Corman of Centre County, is opposing a forensic audit of last year's election. The same question being asked about...

Some 150 people protesting mask orders and other coronavirus restrictions in Winnipeg, Canada this evening... the case against Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta dropped... A "mask off" student walkout at Prairie High School in Vancouver, Washington today over the school order to wear masks... Tonight vaccination in the US reaching new milestones with "partial vaccination" reaching just over 50 percent of the nation's population and the "full vaccinated" moving over the 40 percent... The biggest vaccination lottery yet announced in California... "When the Democrat Party is applauding your actions, especially in a state like Idaho,...

Michigan's governor apologizing after a photo shows her violating social distancing rules but first... "Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I'm not getting vaccinated because I've already had the disease and I have natural immunity." Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky interviewed on WABC Radio... More than 227,000 Americans have experienced adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines through May 14th... America's Frontline Doctors filing a federal court motion seeking a restraining order to suspend...

Welcome to the weekend, your host is here again as fingers of politicians remain firmly in the wind Joe Biden saying he loves Israel for the cameras and something else off them. Biden also trying to pretend he speaks for all Democrats on Israel.... Today's numbers in Israel 18 new positive tests with partial vaccination at 58.50 percent not moving upwards at all by the way and full vaccination at 54.98 percent... This week Russia'a Tass published a story with officiaks there seeing 'herd immunity' when vaccination reaches about 60 percent... "YoU-F-O" It was a Johnny Carson "Tonight Show" joke...