Earlier this week, we reported that the major Hollywood studio Lionsgate had announced that it is bringing mask mandates back to its office. Now, various other places across the country are starting to follow suit.
Morris Brown College which started classes last week will be reinstating a mask mandate for everyone on campus. pic.twitter.com/S2gtTNQMn7
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Mask Mandates Return
In Santa Rosa, California, the health care giant Kaiser Permanente announced this week that mask mandates would be put back in place for staffers, patients, and visitors.
“To ensure that we are helping protect the health and safety of our patients, our workforce and our community, we have reintroduced a mask mandate for physicians, staff, patients, members, and visitors in the hospital and medical offices in the Santa Rosa Service Area,” the company said in a statement obtained by The Press Democrat.
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The statement went on to encourage “individuals to get the anticipated COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available in the fall so we can protect against severe illness.”
Meanwhile, in Syracuse, New York, Upstate Medical’s two hospitals, University and Community General, reimposed mask mandates as of last Thursday morning.
“Effective immediately, mandatory masking is required by all staff, visitors, and patients in clinical areas of Upstate University Hospital, Upstate Community Hospital, and ambulatory clinical spaces,” Upstate Medical said in a memo, according to Syracuse Local. “Clinical areas are defined as any location patients gather, wait, transport through, or receive care. Masking is strongly recommended in all non-clinical areas.”
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Related: Hollywood Studio Lionsgate Announces Mask Mandates Will Be Put Back In Place
Colleges Bring Bask Mask Mandates
The Hill reported that colleges like Rutgers University in New Jersey and Morris Brown College in Georgia have followed suit in imposing mask mandates once again.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) fired back on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Americans have had enough COVID hysteria,” she wrote. “WE WILL NOT COMPLY!”
Americans have had enough COVID hysteria. WE WILL NOT COMPLY! https://t.co/2lgmJQJthC
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 22, 2023
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Related: Universities Reinstate Mask Mandates Around The Country
This came after the major Hollywood studio Lionsgate reinstated mask mandates at its Santa Barbara offices.
“Employees must wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask, KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace,” Sommer McElroy, response manager for Lionsgate/Starz, said in a memo obtained by Deadline.
🚨MASK UP🚨
‼️Hollywood studio Lionsgate has brought back mask mandates to nearly half its employees, according to memo obtained by Deadline
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Expert Warns Against Mask Mandates
Some experts have warned against reinstating mask mandates, however. Dr. Nicole Saphier explained to Fox News that “the reason you have an uptick in cases right now is not because you did something wrong, it’s because for the last several years, we’ve seen an uptick in cases in the winter, and we also see one in the end of summer. This is just a normal cycle of this respiratory virus.”
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Dr. Saphier vehemently disagrees with reimposing mask mandates.
“Anyone who is immunocompromised, or if you work with people who are immunocompromised, those are the people in appropriate settings [that] should consider wearing a high quality mask, like an N-95, not a single layer of cloth or surgical mask,” she continued. “Those don’t actually work as we’ve seen by many, many studies. But to actually say, you know, to wear masks again in the house and just being in public spaces, we have to move on.”
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No way, no how. Never again.
Never again. Masks don’t work just like socialism doesn’t work. Wake up America!
Sometimes I think they are trying to goad maga into non-compliance, so that when a real deadly virus is released, it will wipe us out.
The truth is, a real deadly virus will wipe out the mask-wearers as well, the masks being no more than a speed-bump. Since the vaccines don’t work for this type of contagion, the only people who are likely to survive a truly deadly virus will be living away from crowds and contamination. Most of the woke can’t meet that requirement.
This is just a way to control what everyone must do. Unless you are compromised there should actually be no reason for a mask. I have absolutely no problem with those that wish to wear them but please do not mandate that I do. It is a choice not a law!
The shutdown so facilitated the Dem’s 2020 vote steal that they insist on repeating the scam in 2024.
Nope. Not me. Didn’t wear a mask during Covid, and was just fine. Not this time.
Does anyone really want to take a chance with another dose of the failed vaccine after it made most sick? Forget the mask and get Poverty Joe Biden and Dr Death Jill out of the Whitehouse. MAGA2024
I do not have to take any medications are wear a mask. I am not going to comply. They can arrest me and throw me into a camp. Masks do not work, says so on the mask package. I am not taking the poison shot. HIPPA laws makes it so I don’t have to show ANYONE my medical records to get service, buy food, or vote. The govt is really jonesing for a FAFO moment. If you see ppl w/o a mask. Smile. Tell them congrats, you are not stupid like everyone believing the same lies again. Say it loudy and laugh and wish them well.
this is so they can cheat at voting 2024
Getting ready for the upcoming election. Early start.
Some just never learn. The mask mandates are futile and don’t work. Also, the vaccines do t work either. This is just another gotcha for the pharm companies to make big bucks through scare tactics. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Pay attention!!!
These are legal beagles involved in the (RE) masking of America. Note:
“…so we can protect against severe illness…” It used to be to prevent you from getting the virus, then to prevent you from transmitting the virus. – THEY REALLY DONT KNOW!
Does anyone remember how this vax was going to prevent you from becoming ill, any else remeber how it would prevent you from transmitting the disease.
Yes its all qualified to earn an Oscar…Just a bunch of imagined positives.
Our gov’t. cannot look any of us in the eye and say exactly what the vax does or does not do! But they’ll insist that you go get the vax. Before you dogpile on the downvote PLEASE go out and read REAL SCIENCE from MIT etc. not some BS from our govt.
The ruling elites can shove their masks up their *bleeps*…I will NOT comply and go back to govt controlling every aspect of my life.
In the words of Ronald Regan, “Here we go again”! There are people who should exercise more caution but for the rest of us the masks would just be a false sense of security. My spouse had 4 of the jabs and I had none. We both got covid and I had the easier time. The plan is to keep us too paranoid to leave our homes but especially to go out and vote in person. The left is going to try it again, folks.
They’re teeing us up for another massive ballot harvesting festival. Trying to make us afraid to come outside. Or mandate that we stay inside. We’re not going to fall for that again. Not masking up this time.
Even the doctor offices and hospitals can’t force you to wear a mask. I’ll put one on to enter but quickly drop it to my neck. I’ve never been questioned by staff
Screw Biden and his mandate. I was vaccinated twice and boosted twice, I WILL NOT COMPLY 😡😡
I would expect a high degree of immorality to found at each of these places and institutions. It is so much easier to pass the strain any disease in a culture void of morals.
The mask cannot seal properly around the edges. Next, the virus is so small that it can travel through the pores of the mask anyway. Finally, the last covid exposure proved overwhelmingly that masks do not work. Over 1 million Americans died, despite masks.
However, petty officials got a taste of power over the people, which may prove more fatal than the virus. After all, Communism killed over 100 million and counting.
Sounds like it’s a BLUE states thing. Anyone surprised?
Mask mandates are BS. My observations in the past were that over 1/2 of the mask wearers weren’t even wearing them properly. At work, we even had to have annual “fit” tests for our resperators to show they didn’t leak and formed an appropriate seal. I’m done with this and boosters.
I hope that we have a majority of folks that WILL NOT COMPLY!!!
It is election season. It is time to see who falls in with the other lemmings.How many are going over the cliff this time.I will not comply
Until the majority say no this sht will never end. We have 1 left in high school and we already said if it comes here and to the schools he will be removed. Enough is enough
There are plenty of natural (no rx needed) ways to prevent and/or treat COVID. I’ve been immunocompromised for23.5 years now, but don’t spend my life sick, masked OR isolated from other people. I take vitamin D3, zinc, and Quercitin daily, along with vitamin B complex and a multivitamin. When I got COVID in September of 2020, I wasn’t taking zinc or Quercitin, and I suffered for it. I had to turn to a telemed doctor to get someone to prescribe HCQ and Zithromax so I could get well. I was better 2 days after I started what is known as the Zelenko protocol. 😁
Stupid ER docs wouldn’t even give me antibiotics, even though my lungs were filling up with gunk as shown on x-ray. Could’ve killed me, but I’m too stubborn to take a political medical opinion 😋
Wish more people understood this.
They can take their mask mandate and shove it were the sun doesn’t shine ! I will not abide by a mask mandate !
Well, You will not be able to see your doctor!
Is anybody surprised? Electoral proceedings on the horizon. It’s a muzzle, not a mask. The crooks behind it are of the NAZI tribe, they are imposing their requirements of us yet again. The good guys always win , evil will fall. The harsh and Justi irony bestowed upon the self important, arrogant, greedy and loathsome.
NO MASKS EVER AGAIN!!!
Mask mandates, just as government shutdowns, “common sense” gun laws, and digital curency, are all about control. They have nothing to do with health, safety, or convenience. Their only purpose is to subjugate the law-abiding American public.
I personally think it is stupid. I am 78 years old and I declined to wear one. I have been around numerous people that have had COVID, didn’t even get a sniffle, so no not me.
MASKS SUCK! IT’S THE FLU! COVID IS REAL YES BUT POLITICALLY – COVID IS BRAINWASHING EVERYBODY!
This is another elite boondoggle. It is aimed at the stupid ignorant people who are controlled by the Nazi news media. Let the fearmongering begin!