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Once Northam got a taste of one-man rule though it was hard to let it go. Yesterday he pretended that a new law that was intended to get schools open five days a week gave him no choice by the issue a sweeping mask mandate for all school children in grades K-12.
How dare anyone criticize the unknown number of guests who found their way onto the Obamas’ $12 million Martha’s Vineyard estate on Saturday! These were “sophisticated people”. The sort that are too smart and urbane to catch or spread viruses.
Ownership of private property is one of the foundations of our constitutional republic . When the government decides it can essentially negate leases and allow squatters to live rent-free in dwellings owned by others we’ve crossed into dangerous territory.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 15 to 25% of those crossing the border illegally are infected with Covid-19. That means on any day in June about 1,500 people came into the U.S., bringing the Covid virus with them.
Before states rush to comply with the CDC guidelines on masks in schools, remember that the health organization doesn’t make RULES it offers RECOMMENDATIONS. Governors are not obliged to obey.
If the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike can sit in restaurants without wearing masks why are we forcing kids into masks when they sit at their desks?
The latest numbers from the state and hospital-association COVID-19 dashboards suggest that the coronavirus in Virginia still is retreating. The seven-day moving average of test-positive cases for COVID-19 tests continues to fall, hitting a new low of 5.8%.
Yep, in a reversal of its earlier hair-on-fire warnings, the CDC admitted this week that it appears the Covid-19 virus is not easily transmissible on surfaces.
Hospitals weren’t overrun in most places but food pantries and soup kitchens were.
No one wants to see the leader of the Free World huddled behind his desk wearing a surgical mask any more than we wanted to see Jimmy Carter shivering in a cardigan because he’d lowered the White House thermostat to save energy.
“Telling yourself you can't touch your face will make you touch your face more.”
Governor Northam has yet to issue a public statement on the subject.
There are three suspected cases of the Wuhan virus in Virginia and hundreds of cases of the ordinary flu.
Yet I went to mass yesterday and watched in disbelief as parishioners young and old shared the communion chalice, with just a swipe with a cloth napkin and a rotation of the cup between germy lips.
