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Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most settings. The choice is yours: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. - The White House, Ma

by themgt 5y ago

Fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask in most settings. The choice is yours: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. - The White House, May 14, 2021 https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/its-vaxxed-or-masked/1593871610823997/ https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/videos/its-vaxxed-or-mas...

davidw 5y ago
'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?' It looked like things were improving, and the more contagious Delta variant (or, as the airline likes to write, B.1.617.2) turned up. Where I live in Oregon, our hospital was overflowing with people towards the end of summer, to the point where people have died because they couldn't get 'elective' surgery. In that kind of situation, you use a 'defense in depth' strategy, which includes both vaccines and masks. It's really not that big of a problem to wear one.
- busymom0 5y ago
  > 'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?' That's not the problem. The problem is that those who were saying the "now correct" thing prior to the "experts" changing their minds were first called misinformation. The "experts" make definitive statements without any nuance and when they get proven wrong, they don't apologize. For example the Press Secretary said "this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated" a week ago and then couple days later, she tested positive. Here's another example: > “We don't talk enough to you about this, I don't think. One last thing that's really important is, we're not in the position where we think that any virus, including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of unvaccinated people, the -- the various shots that people are getting now cover that. You're OK. You're not going to -- you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” - Biden said on Jul 22. I posted in July on HN that Israel's data shows this statement is literally not true. But I was called misinformation.

by themgt 5y ago

davidw 5y ago

'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?' It looked like things were improving, and the more contagious Delta variant (or, as the airline likes to write, B.1.617.2) turned up. Where I live in Oregon, our hospital was overflowing with people towards the end of summer, to the point where people have died because they couldn't get 'elective' surgery. In that kind of situation, you use a 'defense in depth' strategy, which includes both vaccines and masks. It's really not that big of a problem to wear one.

busymom0 5y ago
> 'When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?' That's not the problem. The problem is that those who were saying the "now correct" thing prior to the "experts" changing their minds were first called misinformation. The "experts" make definitive statements without any nuance and when they get proven wrong, they don't apologize. For example the Press Secretary said "this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated" a week ago and then couple days later, she tested positive. Here's another example: > “We don't talk enough to you about this, I don't think. One last thing that's really important is, we're not in the position where we think that any virus, including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of unvaccinated people, the -- the various shots that people are getting now cover that. You're OK. You're not going to -- you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” - Biden said on Jul 22. I posted in July on HN that Israel's data shows this statement is literally not true. But I was called misinformation.