Now, you certainly heard by now about the CDC saying that the fully vaccinated can ditch the mask indoors except in times of crowds, though they don’t really explain what they mean. Is that when you’re in the supermarket with normal capacity? Or only when it is 2am? Also, what does this mean for those who have the antibodies after having COVID? Are they covered? Anyhow, Donald Trump had a lot of Mean Tweets. I don’t remember any that were threatening, at least to American citizens he was elected to serve
(Fox News) President Biden received backlash on social media Thursday over a tweet that some users saw as a thinly veiled ultimatum when it comes to receiving a COVID-19 jab.
Biden, who addressed the media in the Rose Garden earlier Thursday, announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance for fully vaccinated Americans. The guidance allows those vaccinated to go mask-free in outdoor and most indoor settings. The president called it “a great day for America.”
Biden’s official Twitter account later posted, “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.”
Or option 3. GFY. https://t.co/OIW3oI10p4
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) May 13, 2021
There are plenty more replies at Twitchy. Now, had Trump sent this tweet, the Democrats would be threatening to impeach him yet again, as this is rather dictator-like. As Jazz notes later in the conversation after I noted that it is threatening, it is literal blackmail.
The tweet also raised questions about children who don’t have the approval to receive the vaccines. Dana Hull, a Bloomberg reporter, tweeted, “Really hard for parents who have kids under 12 to square this.”
Yeah, that would be rather difficult. And, how much do masks really work? I’d rather you keep your distance and not touch me. Though, I have no problem with a mask in big crowds, even as an attempt to keep people from giving me a cold or the flu. Joe was elected (maybe) president, not dictator.
And, while the GOP would never have the cajones to threaten impeachment (not that they could, either, not being the minority in the House), they did use an old Democrat and both sides blogging/pundit trick and Questioned The Timing
Republican lawmakers questioned the timing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s decision to ease indoor mask requirements on Thursday as the Biden administration contends with crises on several fronts.
Biden faced intense pressure this week from lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle who called for decisive action amid escalating military clashes between Israel and Hamas, a ransomware attack that crippled the largest fuel supplier on the Eastern Seaboard, and concerns about inflation that weighed on the stock market.
The CDC’s announcement led some Republicans, including Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., to question what prompted the sudden shift in guidance.
“While the new mask guidance is encouraging, the CDC and my Far Radical Left colleagues only chose to do this to distract from the consequences of catastrophic policy decisions that have been heard around the world,” said Biggs, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. “Inflation is rising, the Middle East is in shambles, the working class can’t fill up their gas tanks, our border is being overrun and the Biden Administration’s leadership is nowhere to be found.”
It’s nice to see that some Republicans are engaging in Politics 101. Right side bloggers/pundits did this a lot during the Obama admin, and Democrat politicians and bloggers/pundits did this a lot during the Bush years, and some during Trump years. But, here, it could be true. And, it could be an attempt to get things going again, because the China Joe admin sees that the economy is being held up by cracked glass.
The thing is, it’s all about being careful. The chances of you dying are low, but, if you get COVID you could get it and just feel like a regular cold, or you could get it really bad, and feel like someone ran you over, and feel like this for a long time, with lots of feeling like crap for months. That should have been the message, not do this, do that, “we’ll make you do this”, and not threatening tweets.
Perhaps the Honorable Mr Biden’s @POTUS tweet was by a mean ol’ staffer. Yeah, that’s it: that’ll get blamed!
The tweet was pretty stupid, one that can only galvanize opposition, but I’d guess that it reflects the authoritarian bent of many of the ‘progressives,’ the left who favor freedom of choice in exactly one thing.
But the President either made, or allowed to be made in his name, a declarative statement: “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.” How, I have to ask, does the President intend to enforce his dictate? The various mask mandates were all by state Governors in the first place, not by the President, in that the federal government doesn’t have this authority save over federal property and licensed mass transportation carriers.
The bigger problem is that state Governors have arrogated the authority to themselves, often times despite opposition by their state legislatures, and have gotten away with it. They need to be slapped down, hard, at the ballot box. Had this been tried 250 years ago, these clowns would have had an unfortunate encounter with tar and feathers, and I can see no reason why that shouldn’t be the case today as well. One of my greater regrets is that I was not at the protest in Frankfort in which our Distinguished Governor was hanged in effigy.
Click on the President’s tweet, and read some of the comments; never will you see a greater concentration of sheeple! If President Biden told them to load themselves into the boxcars, a whole lot of them would do it.
Dana: Had this been tried 250 years ago, these clowns would have had an unfortunate encounter with tar and feathers
In 1777, George Washington ordered the entire Continental army to be inoculated against smallpox. The inoculation used live virus, and there was a very real chance of severe disease and death, though much less so than natural cases of the disease.
Dana: The bigger problem is that state Governors have arrogated the authority to themselves, often times despite opposition by their state legislatures, and have gotten away with it.
Most states have emergency laws. And executive actions are subject to judicial review.
Of course, we don’t know for how long the vaccine remains effective. Dr Fauxi has suggested in the past that booster shots may be necessary down the road, but, at least right now, no one knows the effectiveness duration.
Will Chairman Joe order us all to mask up again next November, when flu season begins, or when the CDC decides that het, we all need a booster shot?
We have reached the point where it is more important to fight for liberty than it is to fight the disease. Actually, that point was reached fourteen months ago.
[…] William Teach noted President Biden’s declarative tweet that “The rule is now simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do. The choice is yours.” The President, of course, has no authority in any of this: the mask mandates which existed were issued not by the federal governments, save on federal property or in federally licensed transportation modes, but by state Governors. […]
Largely accurate. However, if infections continue to decline (currently about 40,000 per day from a high of 300,000), then masks may no longer be necessary. The sooner people get vaccinated, the sooner the problem will end.
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Thanks KiddieZ.
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Dana
Whining about the federal government wanting to control your personal health choices while demanding laws against abortion
Is as illogical as complaining about same sex marriages while you have a sick in your mouth
WTF next?
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The CDC eased ‘mask guidance’ but didn’t say you shouldn’t wear a mask, can’t wear one or are entitled to mouth off about other people wearing masks.
Other than that, they have nothing to say about anything.
F*ckin’ morons.
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