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COVID-19 cases are reportedly on the rise in Philadelphia, so that can only mean one thing. It’s time for more fear-mongering and masks.
Despite the fact there’s no hard evidence that masks keep viruses at bay — or for that matter, that COVID cases are actually on the rise — Philadelphia is re-imposing its indoor mandate, starting April 18.
City officials made the announcement on Monday, indicating that Philadelphia had reached the “Level 2: Mask Precautions stage” of a four-tiered COVID response system.
“We hope by having folks whenever they’re in public, indoor spaces we can get ahead of the wave and keep it from reaching a peak like we saw in January with the omicron variant,” Philadelphia heath commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said. “If we can do that, we can literally save the lives of vulnerable Philadelphians. At this level of transmission, we do not believe that there is any reason to panic or enjoy any activities that we enjoy and are important to use. Our city remains open.”
Bettigole added that the city will offer businesses a week-long “educational period” on masks before the mandate takes effect.
Mask mandates across the world have proven ineffective at slowing reports of virus cases, as repeatedly relayed by Ian Miller, author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates.
Most recently, Miller used New York City as an example to illustrate his larger point.
New York City’s health commissioner says he’s recommending masking in public indoor settings because masking is one of the “best tools we have to take on this virus”
Mask usage in NYC has proven completely irrelevant and failed to prevent the recent huge surge of infections https://t.co/YC2dNyJtD6 pic.twitter.com/2Lrxje3Kow
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) April 5, 2022
Miller went on to say that this type of misinformation “is quite literally dangerous.”
Philadelphia, which lifted the indoor mask mandate a little more than a month ago, becomes the first major U.S. city to reinstitute it.
This comes after Bettigole revealed that those hospitalized with COVID symptoms in Philadelphia remains extremely low, just 46 people.
“Recently, we’ve been watching COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise in several European countries and in some places, in the U.S, and now we’re starting to see cases here in Philadelphia rise,” Bettigole said. “This looks like we may be at the start of a new COVID wave like Europe just saw.”
Our city remains open; we can still go about our daily lives and visit the people and places we love while masking in indoor public spaces.
— Jim #VaxUpPhilly Kenney (@PhillyMayor) April 11, 2022
Just fucking ignore these tyrannical control freaks and vote em out just continues to prove its always been about control never about health I mean we have vacs and oral meds now doesn’t seem to matter smfh
Our office is in Philly and we will NOT put a fucking mask on while on train or in office. Fuck these uneducated sheep!!!
These science hating freaks would be just as accurate in saying “smoking a pack of cigarettes a day will cure cancer.”
Hey, it didn’t work the first time, so let’s do it again. Plus there’s no science to back any of these measures.
Fucking retards. Liberals deserve what they get.
Kenney, the mayor, at the beginning of the pandemic, when it was required to wear a mask everywhere, was caught eating at a restaurant in Maryland without a mask. He’s a left wing pussy of the highest order.