HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
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>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ep0813/return_of_the_mask_multiple_counties_in_blue/
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>> Return of the mask! Multiple counties in blue state urge N-95s in
>> grocery stores and restaurants for Covid
>> READ MORE: Facemasks haven't stopped people getting Covid since 2022
>> By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com
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>> Published: 11:14 EDT, 8 August 2024 | Updated: 12:19 EDT, 8 August 2024
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>> Multiple counties in California have started recommending masks indoors,
>> amid a four-fold spike in some areas.
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>> Health officials in three Bay Area counties are urging residents to wear
>> well-fitting masks, such as N-95s or K-95s, in public indoor spaces like
>> restaurants and grocery stores.
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>> The health department in Contra Costa county, just outside of San
>> Francisco, said the recommendation comes as cases quadrupled from May 9
>> to July 9.
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>> However, rates have plateaued since then, according to wastewater data,
>> and hospitalizations and deaths have remained at historic lows.
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>> The amount of positive Covid tests in California have increased by one
>> percent in the past week. In some areas, cases quadrupled earlier in the
>> summer
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>> The amount of positive Covid tests in California have increased by one
>> percent in the past week. In some areas, cases quadrupled earlier in the
>> summer
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>> Contra Costa, Marin, and San Francisco counties all recommended wearing
>> masks in public places like grocery stores and restaurants. However,
>> this is just a recommendation and not a mandate
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>> Contra Costa, Marin, and San Francisco counties all recommended wearing
>> masks in public places like grocery stores and restaurants. However,
>> this is just a recommendation and not a mandate
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>> The guidance comes weeks after Violet Affleck, the 18-year-old daughter
>> of actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, urged officials in Los
>> Angeles county to reinstate mask mandates and end all 'mask bans.'
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>> And it follows Dr Anthony Fauci's recent admission that strict measures
>> early in the pandemic like closing schools and businesses may have been
>> too harsh and carried 'potential collateral negative effects.'
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>> EXCLUSIVE
>> Thirty-one states are STILL recommending face masks to protect against
>> Covid and CDC refuses to rule out making TODDLERS wear them again
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>> Nearby San Francisco and Marin counties have also recommended masking in
>> public areas amid a steady rise in cases.
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>> Dr Ori Tzvieli, Contra Costa County health officer, said: 'Face masks
>> are an effective tool to reduce the spread of the virus, particularly
>> for those who are at risk for serious illness when there is evidence of
>> elevated COVID-19 activity in the community.'
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>> 'This is one of those times. Our health system is not seriously impacted
>> by COVID currently, and our goal is to keep it that way.'
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>> Most health agencies in the Bay Area lifted their mask mandates by
>> February 2022.
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>> The new recommendation is not required and is up to personal preference.
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>> Evidence about whether masks actually prevented infections during the
>> Covid pandemic are mixed.
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>> A gold standard analysis of 78 studies and 1million people back in 2023
>> found face coverings made 'little to no difference' to Covid infection
>> or death rates.
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>> Deaths and hospitalizations in California continue declining, according
>> to wastewater data
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>> Deaths and hospitalizations in California continue declining, according
>> to wastewater data
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>> Meanwhile, in the US overall, Covid have continued to decline since
>> November 2023
>> Meanwhile, in the US overall, Covid have continued to decline since
>> November 2023
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>> Contra Costa county only requires health care workers to mask
>> seasonally, from November 1 to April 30, to reduce the spread of Covid,
>> influenza, and RSV.
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>> Will you mask up again?
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>> Yes
>> No
>> Only in crowds
>> As of July 29, the latest data available, 13 percent of nearly 9,000
>> tests in the area came back positive, a one percent increase from the
>> week before.
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>> Dr Sofe' Mekuria, Contra Costa County deputy health officer, told local
>> news station KRON4 that the area is mainly seeing cases of the 'FLiRT'
>> strains, a variation of Omicron responsible for most infections across
>> the US.
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>> Meanwhile, deaths in California have neared historic lows, with just
>> four deaths reported the week of July 29, half that from this time last
>> year.
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>> Nationwide, 304 deaths from Covid were reported to the CDC during the
>> same week, a 46 percent drop from this time last year. In early 2021,
>> during peak pandemic, over 26,000 deaths were reported to the CDC.
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>> Dr Mekuria noted that while hospitalizations and deaths have remained
>> steady, vaccination rates in the area are declining.
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>> 'We do anticipate a new COVID vax that will have newer strains of COVID
>> that should be coming out this summer or early fall. Potentially as soon
>> as this September,' she said.
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>> The recommendations come after recent research has suggested that masks
>> may no longer be as effective as they were earlier in the pandemic.
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>> Researchers at the University of East Anglia, for example, found in a
>> May study that masks' protective effect seemed to disappear in February
>> 2022, around the same time that California lifted its mandates.
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>> The team believed this was due to the Omicron variant, which later
>> mutated into FLiRT, being too infectious for masks to prevent it.
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>> Contra Costa residents told KRON4 that despite the recommendations, few
>> people were actually wearing masks.
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>> 'I do sometimes see people wearing masks. It's few and far between.
>> Usually older people,' resident Connie Koplan said.
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> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
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> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the US & elsewhere is by
> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
> longer effective.
>
> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>
> So how are you ?
>
I am wonderfully hungry!

Michael