It’s been useless to wear masks anyway. Simple cloth or paper masks do nothing to block 0.1 micron virus particles. “It’s like putting up a chain link fence around your yard to keep out the mosquitoes”. My wife and I both followed all the stupid mask wearing rules at Walmart, from the front door to the table in restaurants, in a Casino, etc. We both got it!! How did the mask help us? Even wearing a good N95 mask is worthless if as little as 3% is unsealed against your face. It’s just the government trying to control everyone. I used to design hospitals, pharmaceutical filling lines, and NASA clean rooms. I believe I do know good and bad filtration.

Yes, steroid treatments are given to hospitalized Covid patients, the rest of what you claim derives from made up non-scientific anti-vaccination entities that deny Covid even exists… Dr. Derek Knauss is a fictional person according to the Associated Press, these exact same claims about 1,500 positive Covid tests were made previously under an actual scientist’s name, but he strongly disavowed them. Also of note is your use of the word “mandate”, there is no mandate to be vaccinated against Covid, nobody in any kind of power has ever even suggested a mandate. And there is no such thing as “experimental approval” of vaccines, the Covid vaccines are currently under Emergency Approval, Pfizer has applied for full approval under the FDA, the CDC does not grant any sort of approval for any drug or therapy. I wish you well DJ, I hope you end up safe, happy, and virus free. By all means if anything I wrote in response to your claims is false, let me know. Covid unfortunately exists, look at India currently, it is not a routine flu strain, its a dangerous virus to many unfortunate souls…

Bravo to truth and due diligence DJ!

Fair enough. I’d tread carefully if I were you too.

From what I understand, the covid injection does not meet the legal definition of a vaccine so it is NOT a vaccine. It doesn’t inject a live or dead pathogen, it does not prevent infection of a pathogen nor does it prevent transmission of a pathogen, this is according to the CDC and the CEO’s of Big Pharma who created these injections. It is a genetic technology treatment. Dr. Derek Knauss has filed a lawsuit against the CDC for fraud based on the fact he tested 1500 positive Covid 19 test which contained influenza A and B, not covid19. He claims that you can’t mandate a vaccine if there are other proven treatments like Hydroxychloquine, Ivermectin, Budesonine to name a few. Lastly, you can not experiment on the public without their informed consent, it’s in violation of the Nuremberg Code Section 1,3,5 & 6. This shot is experimental approval not until January 27,2023 stated on CDC website. The choice is yours..

The plan was never to mandate vaccinations. That’s more a Dem thing, but even now it won’t happen.

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are vaccines, they use mRNA, something that has been studied for years and now has been applied in a human vaccine against Covid. The Johnson and Johnson vaccine does not use this technology. They are not 100% effective against infection, but against death and hospitalization they may be close to 100%. Many vaccinated people will choose to continue to wear masks in public, there are other airborne maladies, and some are at a greater risk than others… Several New York Yankee players tested positive after getting vaccinated with the J&J vaccine, their symptoms are so far mild, these are young athletic people, but many of us are not in the condition they are. I hope this works out well, and that people are kind to each other and show respect…

That is mostly correct, but many vaccinated people like myself with dangerous pre existing conditions may certainly want to wait until there is more data on vaccinated people getting infected, so far the reported cases are mild, but that could change. Plus I just had a major surgery that may take weeks for me to get back to normal, its not a good time for me to risk getting infected with a virus we know very little about long term. Like Scott has said, we all need to give each other some leeway on this…

First of all, I truly hope your cousin is and will be ok. Children are the least affected by this and always have been. The argument ‘if we can save just one person’ is continually a last resort fallback. My point remains the same, however. If folks are uncomfortable going somewhere, wear a mask and mask their children. Or don’t go there at all.
If a business decision causes financial struggles, the policy will change.