Mask Mandates & The Whole Shebang In 2023 And 2024

Discussion in 'Politics & Government' started by Ken Anderson, Sep 7, 2023.

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Will you comply?

  1. I will wear masks if asked.

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    50.0%
  2. I will get whatever vaccinations they tell me to get.

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    10.0%
  3. I will distance myself if that is recommended.

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    10.0%
  4. I won't do any of that stuff.

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  1. Ken Anderson

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    We're coming up on another election year, so the mask mandates, new vaccinations, and all the other stuff that helped them steal the 2020 election will likely be back for 2024. Will you comply?
     
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    No and a lot of folks were real ticked off by the first fraud. Hospitals and other industries have had trouble getting good employees back.
    Take vitamin d3/k2-7, magnesiums, vitamin C and maybe wash your hands.:rolleyes:
    We had real trouble getting ivermectin last time, even for the critters. Might try to stock up now.
     
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    I would add zinc and quercetin to your list.
     
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  4. John Brunner

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    Yeh, I thought the benefit of Ivermectin was how it "supercharges" your body's ability to absorb zinc.
     
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    There are several states that have already said that they would not comply with mask mandates or vaccine mandates, and I think that a lot more people are objecting now than were last time.
    The problem is that the government can force businesses to comply, even if they can’t force people to, and if the business requires a mask to go into the store, then people are kind of forced to either wear the mask or not go anywhere.

    Last time, we had no problem with ordering grocery delivery, but going to the fitness center or doctor’s office required a mask, and we wanted to be able to go to the fitness center ; so we wore the mask when required, and would probably do so again.
    However, Alabama is one of the states that has refused to enforce masks; so I am hoping that another lockdown is not going to happen this time.
     
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    Nobody will know how you voted in this poll so don't feel like you have to defend your choices.
     
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    I'll wear a mask only if required. I have to shop & walk in stores.
    I've never had any Covid (or flu) vaccine & won't. I had Covid last year. It was basically a 3-day chest cold with 4 more days of coughing. Nothing I would ever get a vaccine for (especially an untested useless one like this one).
    I'm often amused that people aren't thinking: "Uh.....if Covid vaccines protect, why are we having increasing Covid cases?"
     
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    I've been reading comments of people who are saying (a) they disobeyed retail store mask requirements last time and were not challenged, or (b) stores have no right to enforce/impose such a "mandate" [it's not a law] on its customers, and they may have complied before but shall not any more.

    That second one is rather interesting, and has parallels with the No Guns Allowed signs. There's a conflict between the property rights of the stores and the Constitutional rights of the citizens. I just wonder what the government's response to people refusing to comply with "mandates" [not law] is gonna be...especially with getting injected.
     
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    I hear they're working on an aerosol vaccine so that they can vaccinate us all like they were spraying for mosquitos. I don't want this to become a prolonged discussion of the vaccines though, since that would belong in the virus area.

    If enough customers resisted the masks strongly enough so that stores were losing business, they would resist the mandates more strongly, as our supermarket did. They first required it when the state told them to, even stationing someone out front to distribute masks to anyone who wasn't wearing one. When enough customers began shopping at another store in the next town that wasn't requiring it, they decided that it wasn't the job of their employees to enforce the mandate, so they kept the signs up and had masks available, but didn't harass people who came in without them. Later, they started enforcing it again, though, probably pressured by other customers who were overwhelmed by the propaganda. Even then, any kind of mask was good enough. I have one that is intended to keep mosquitos off, and that worked. In Northern Maine, it was almost as if there were no mandates. Employees were masked, and stores had plexiglass at the counters, but only a minority of people were masked.

    The cutest thing I saw was when we were staying at a motel in South Portland, Maine, where people were required to mask up as soon as they left their motel room. Even outdoors, masks were required. A few doors down from us, one guy had cut a hole in his mask that he could fit a cigarette into.
     
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    It'll be tough to "not" comply with the masks here at my apartments building if they bring it on. Too many very elderly folks are still wearing them on occasion so we wouldn't get a unanimous vote on "we will not comply" :(

    If I could swing it, I'd head for the nearest State that is willing to stand up and fight like South Dakota and Florida!! Someday we are going to have to fight, if any of us aren't "killed" off some unnatural way they might have planned for us :(
     
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    That might be hydroxychloroquine @John Brunner. Hydroxy is an ionophore for zinc, allowing it to enter cells more easily. Zinc reportedly inhibits a virus's ability to replicate.
     
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    I don't think that "mandates" are enforceable as "law," but cannot recall how this issue unfolded last time and if it ever made its way to any court.
     
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    I agree. But if a vax mandate has teeth to it (lock up our bank accounts), I don't know how we resist. Complying with an enforced mask mandate is inconvenient, but it does not endanger our health...too much
     
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    Interesting that thee commentator referred to one group and "anti vaccination" , not anti mRNA shot, but then the mainstream wants to make everyone think that those who oppose messing with one's genetic makeup is the same as something that generates antibodies to an antigen.
     
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