People are being misled about studies examining the effectiveness of face masks against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID,</a> according to Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a>.
Jonathan Karl, a co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYq5aF3SVk">pressed Fauci</a> on the efficacy of masking near the end of an interview on Sunday. &#8220;There’s a new study out that suggests that masks were actually not effective, at least in a global sense, in containing the pandemic,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;What is your sense, looking back at all this? Did masks prove to be less effective than you anticipated?&#8221;
Fauci responded by insisting that &#8220;some of the studies are confusing&#8221; and then singled out an <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">analysis</a> released in January by The Cochrane Institute, which raised the prospect that masks hardly made a difference in stopping the spread of respiratory viruses such as COVID.
The study prompted headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic, but Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">responded with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
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Fauci JUST NOW: “There are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work.” <a href="https://t.co/hJeT6EZXyw">pic.twitter.com/hJeT6EZXyw</a>
&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1700890098898792928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The study that recently has been now quoted a lot and causing a lot of confusion is this Cochrane study, which even the people who run the Cochrane study say that that study can be misleading because people have commented on that study saying, &#8216;Absolutely masks don’t work,&#8217; which is absolutely not the case because there are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work,&#8221; Fauci said.
&#8220;And there’s a lot of confusion where you take a broad series of studies, and you look at them in a meta-analysis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only a couple of those studies were specifically looking at COVID. So, I think we’d better be careful that that study that people keep talking about can be very, very misleading. There’s a lot of good data that masks work.&#8221;
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Fauci, now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-joins-georgetown-as-distinguished-university-professor">part of the faculty</a> at Georgetown University, was a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Toward the end of his tenure in government, Fauci faced blowback for how he jumped from advising people not to wear face masks early in the COVID pandemic to advocating for masking against the virus, a change he attributed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8735-4022-a1f5-1580bc732c45">to the emergence of new data</a>.
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Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis.  More subterfuge. <a href="https://t.co/UcjOa8flkr">pic.twitter.com/UcjOa8flkr</a>
&mdash; Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1698372490639327556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In an interview that aired on CNN last week, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks">insisted</a> that &#8220;many studies&#8221; show masking protects people on an &#8220;individual basis&#8221; rather than on a &#8220;broad population&#8221; level.
One of Fauci&#8217;s most vocal critics, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), shot back in a post to X. &#8220;Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large, but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge,&#8221; Paul said.

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According to an <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> from the “<a href="https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1620265905522630656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1620265905522630656%7Ctwgr%5E3d4791af0100c56c4af9003efc54dbb767dfd849%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fjustthenews.com%2Fnation%2Fscience%2Flittle-no-difference-massive-mask-meta-study-undermines-remaining-covid-mandates">gold standard</a>” of evidence-based reviews, wearing medical/surgical masks or N95/P2 respirators to stave off the transmission of respiratory viruses may be largely ineffective.
The Cochrane Institute updated its review from 2020, examining 78 global studies comprised of more than a million people. They found that wearing a mask in a community <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">reduced the risk</a> of getting flu or COVID-like illness by a paltry 5%, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
“Irrespective of the limitations of the study, its results indicate that the true impact of medical/surgical masks and N95/P2 respirators on the transmission of respiratory viruses is at best small,” Professor Francois Balloux, professor of computational biology at University College London, <a href="https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1620265908022423552">reacted</a>.
But Eberhard Bodenschatz, professor of Physics and director at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, countered, “The Cochrane study is not very meaningful. &#8230; Our studies have clearly shown that masks are physically wonderful protection.”
Bodenschatz slammed the authors of the study, saying, “In one sentence they write that masks don&#8217;t work, and a paragraph later they admit that they can&#8217;t really say it.”
The researchers conducted six trials during the COVID pandemic; two from Mexico, and one each from Denmark, Bangladesh, England, and Norway.
“We included 12 trials (10 cluster‐RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community),” the researchers wrote. “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks.”
“The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions,” the researchers admitted, adding, “We are uncertain whether wearing masks or N95/P2 respirators helps to slow the spread of respiratory viruses based on the studies we assessed.”
The researchers posited that the possible lack of effect of masks could be attributed to many reasons, including, &#8220;poor study design; insufficiently powered studies arising from low viral circulation in some studies; lower adherence with mask wearing, especially amongst children; quality of the masks used; self‐contamination of the mask by hands; lack of protection from eye exposure from respiratory droplets (allowing a route of entry of respiratory viruses into the nose via the lacrimal duct); saturation of masks with saliva from extended use (promoting virus survival in proteinaceous material); and possible risk compensation behavior leading to an exaggerated sense of security.&#8221;

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A report comprised of three studies showed that people who thought they were less attractive were more likely to wear masks.
The <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1084941/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> was derived from three studies conducted by the Department of Psychology and Center for Happiness Studies at Seoul National University in South Korea. The first two studies found that people who thought they were good-looking were less willing to wear a mask; they were less likely to believe that mask-wearing made them look better. The third study found that their belief was stronger in situations where they needed to deliver a favorable impression.
“Research shows that individuals who perceive themselves as more (vs. less) attractive possess more socially desirable attributes &#8230; have higher self-esteem &#8230; and enjoy better mental and physical health,” the study stated.
The study claims that “as essential cues that signal (un) attractiveness (e.g., facial symmetry) &#8230; can be censored with a mask, mask-wearing might critically influence how one’s attractiveness is perceived. &#8230; relatively unattractive individuals are deemed more attractive with masks &#8230; previous findings suggest that mask-wearing enhances perceived attractiveness among unattractive individuals, while the opposite is true for attractive individuals.”
The study points out that in South Korea, the term “ma-gi-kkun,” was coined to refer to people who intentionally wore a mask to give a more favorable impression; the study cites the American term “mask-fisher” to mean the same thing.
“We expect that individuals who perceive themselves as attractive (unattractive) will be less (more) likely to endorse the belief that wearing a mask enhances their perceived attractiveness,” the study states, concluding, “Our results consistently demonstrated that self-perceived unattractive individuals were more willing to wear a mask, as they believed it would benefit their attractiveness.”
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702641/Unattractive-people-likely-continue-wearing-Covid-face-masks-study-suggests.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the people examined in the study were Americans recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk and the average age of those in the study was 33 years old.
According to an Ipsos <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-index" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from early December, roughly half of the Americans they surveyed reported wearing masks “at all times or sometimes when on an airplane.” 39% of respondents said they wore masks at all times or sometimes when on public transportation or in a rideshare; 33% said they wore masks at all times or sometimes in grocery stores. 85% of respondents said that the COVID-19 virus would not go away during their lifetimes.

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A Mississippi daycare has been harshly criticized after a horrifying video surfaced  that showed an alleged worker wearing a terrifying Halloween mask while screaming into toddlers’ faces and chasing them because they were “bad.”
A daycare worker at Lil’ Blessings Childcare and Learning Center in Hamilton, Mississippi reportedly <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11288091/Daycare-worker-scares-toddlers-puts-Halloween-mask-SCREAMS-children-bad.html">filmed the incidents</a> last month showing the frightened children crying out “mama” or hiding behind shelving units in response to the terror inflicted on them.
“A couple of weeks ago some girls at the daycare bought Halloween masks to scare the kids, they did it and I never got it on video,” Jennifer Kayla Newman, a worker at the daycare, wrote on Facebook.
“The kids were terrified but I knew if I told the owner, it would be a slap on the wrist for them as I&#8217;ve complained about other things in the past and nothing ever got done. So, when I heard she was going to do it again, I recorded to get the proof and then the video was sent to parents to show them how their child was being treated,” she continued.
The videos show an alleged worker instructing the woman in the mask not to target toddlers who had &#8220;been good.”
The alleged worker in the mask rants in one child’s face, “Are you being bad? Do I need to take you outside?” and screams as the co-worker laughs. prompting the child to hide his face before crying out, “No.” But the masked woman still screams into his face, threatening, “You better be good.”
Then the masked woman warns another group of children, “Y&#8217;all better be ready.” Three children hide behind a shelving unit as the woman enters as the children cry out. The woman then chases one little boy attempting to run away, screaming at him, “Run!”
Another video shows the masked woman screaming at children eating their lunches, zeroing in one little girl and screaming in her face as the children scream in terror.
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Monroe County Sheriff Kevin Crook wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/monroecosheriff/">Facebook</a>, “As a dad and as someone who has great compassion for those who can&#8217;t defend themselves, I admit it was very hard to watch these videos today; and my initial reaction was the same as most anyone else I would think&#8230; ‘They deserve to be charged.’ It made me sick at my stomach to think of the terror those kids were enduring. It still does. My heart and prayers go out to the parents who are dealing with these same emotions right now. We have a 17yo, a 13yo, and a 2yo in our home right now, so I get it, trust me.”

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A store in Beverly Hills is banning masks due to increased <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crime</a> and theft. 
On Sunday, Kitson, a fashion and lifestyle boutique with multiple shops in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> area, announced it would no longer allow mask-wearing patrons at its Beverly Hills location on Robertson Boulevard. The decision comes after a recent increase in masked thefts in the region.
Fraser Ross, the owner of Kitson, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/kitson-beverly-grove-store-announces-mask-ban-due-to-rise-in-robbery-crime/?taid=630368bbb596c200013261b8">told</a> CBSLA that it posted signs about the new mask rule last Wednesday. 
In a statement, Ross said, “At Kitson we prioritize the safety of our staff and customers. We noticed a disturbing trend of individuals wearing masks to avoid identification in various situations including, but not limited to, shoplifting, verbal harassment, and physical assault.”
“The mask mandate may have begun as a health precaution, but we believe it is now being used by some people for nefarious purposes. To that end, we enacted our own mandate of sorts,” the statement continued. “We do not allow wearing of masks in the Robertson store during regular business hours. Those people who wish to wear masks are free to set up an appointment for a person shopping experience or visit our website. We also offer curbside pickup.”
Crime in Los Angeles has spiked this year, leading the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to advise the public on how to <a href="https://abc7.com/smash-and-grab-robbery-los-angeles-chanel/12064067/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protect</a> themselves from being robbed. In July, the LAPD released information informing citizens how to avoid “follow-home robberies.”
“Suspects have been locating victims in Los Angeles, following them, and then committing the robberies as the victim arrives home or at their business,” the LAPD <a href="https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1548458190680887297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1548458190680887297%7Ctwgr%5Eb3425efbbb3a2ca0d3791f5131ba2b1682e2c8ac%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https://abc7.com/smash-and-grab-robbery-los-angeles-chanel/12064067/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. 
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We are sharing this community alert in an effort to increase awareness of a series of robberies occurring in the City of Los Angeles. <a href="https://t.co/qRyyB9ZT9n">pic.twitter.com/qRyyB9ZT9n</a>
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The increase in robberies <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/armed-robbery-up-44-percent-in-los-angeles-compared-to-same-period-last-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involving</a> a weapon is also concerning. 
In March, the department <a href="https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/lapd-chief-moore-addresses-spike-in-citywide-robberies-nr22081mc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that it “has experienced an increase in robberies taking place in various communities in the City of Los Angeles” over the year, adding that “most concerning is that there has been an increase in the levels of violence used during these robberies and the frequency in which a firearm was used.”
As of March, citywide robberies were up 18% compared to 2021, while robberies with a firearm were up 44%, according to the <a href="https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/lapd-chief-moore-addresses-spike-in-citywide-robberies-nr22081mc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAPD</a>.
This week, the LAPD is <a href="https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/los-angeles-police-department-to-discuss-car-break-ins-targeting-tourists-and-visitors-at-griffith-park-na22068ti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set</a> to hold a press conference discussing “vehicle break-ins&#8221; targeting tourists and visitors in Griffith Park. 
Burglaries aren’t the only concern. During the first half of the year, the LAPD recorded the highest number of homicides in more than ten years. 
&#8220;181 murder victims. We&#8217;re on pace for a 15 year high. This is very, very scary for our city and it&#8217;s scary for the residents that we are supposed to protect,&#8221; Sgt. Jerretta Sandoz with the Los Angeles Police Protective League <a href="https://abc7.com/los-angeles-homicides-crime-report/12046605/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC 7.
During the first six <a href="https://data.lacity.org/Public-Safety/Crime-Data-from-2020-to-Present/2nrs-mtv8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">months</a> of 2021, there were 180 homicides, compared to 181 in the first six months of this year. However, the numbers are a 29% jump from 2020 and a 34% spike from the average over the same time span between 2015 and 2019. 
A recent effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-gascon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Gascón</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-gascon-recall-effort-fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a>. &#8220;As soon as he was sworn into office, District Attorney George Gascon began issuing directives to his prosecutors, instructing them to go soft on crime, coddle criminals, and trample upon the dignity and rights of crime victims,&#8221; the recall campaign <a href="https://www.recalldageorgegascon.com/why-recall-da-george-gascon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a>.

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Democrat President Joe Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice asked a federal judge this week to overturn a court order earlier this spring that declared the administration&#8217;s mask mandate on public transportation to be unlawful.
NBC News reported that the appeal came shortly before a court filing deadline was about to pass. The report noted that &#8220;the rate of unruly air passenger incidents fell to its lowest level since late 2020 soon after the judge’s mask mandate ruling.&#8221;
&#8220;The findings in the CDC order likewise provide ample support for the agency’s determination that there was good cause to make the order effective without delay,&#8221; the DOJ <a href="https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1531777712473399300">said</a> in its appeal. “None of the district court’s quarrels with the CDC order comes close to showing that the CDC has acted outside the ‘zone of reasonableness.’”
U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-federal-judge-in-florida-voids-bidens-national-mask-mandate-at-airports-planes-public-transit">terminated</a> the administration&#8217;s mandate in mid-April, ruling that the mandate “exceeded the CDC’s statutory authority, improperly invoked the good cause exception to notice and comment rulemaking, and failed to adequately explain its decisions.”
The ruling said that Court declared the mandate to be unlawful because “our system does not permit agencies to act unlawfully even in pursuit of desirable ends.”
“The Court DECLARES UNLAWFUL and VACATES the Mask Mandate, remanding it to the CDC for further proceedings consistent with this order,” Mizelle ordered. “The Court directs the Clerk to TERMINATE President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., as a Defendant to this action, to ENTER final judgment in favor of Plaintiffs as prescribed in this order, and to CLOSE this case.”
The move by the Biden administration comes as Biden has failed to stop the COVID-19 pandemic like he promised he would while campaigning to be president.
More Americans have died under Biden&#8217;s leadership than died under the previous administration despite the fact that Biden had multiple highly effective vaccines at the start of his presidency to fight the pandemic.
The administration&#8217;s push to have mask mandates again on airplanes comes after The New York Times called into question the efficacy of mask mandates in a report published this week.
&#8220;In U.S. cities where mask use has been more common, Covid has spread at a similar rate as in mask-resistant cities,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/briefing/masks-mandates-us-covid.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Mask mandates in schools also seem to have done little to reduce the spread. Hong Kong, despite almost universal mask-wearing, recently endured one of the world’s worst Covid outbreaks.&#8221;

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A Hispanic conservative group in Florida came up with a brilliant idea targeting school board candidates who had voted to mask schoolchildren: placing signs emblazoned “Voted to mask your kid” with an arrow right next to the candidate’s campaign sign.
The Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Florida tweeted, “Just a heads up for those running for School Board in the State of Florida. If you voted to mask our kids we are putting these signs right next to your political signs so that parents can make their informed decisions!”
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Just a heads up for those running for School Board in the State of Florida. If you voted to mask our kids we are putting these signs right next to your political signs so that parents can make their informed decisions!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNHAFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNHAFL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNHAFLInAction?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNHAFLInAction</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZRMbmjWucZ">pic.twitter.com/ZRMbmjWucZ</a>
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Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis cheered, “Love this idea.”
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Love this idea.
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The Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Florida (RNHAFL), which states that its mission is “to increase Conservative Hispanic-Americans participation in electoral politics at all levels,” tweeted a link to where their signs could be purchased:
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Order your signs here:<a href="https://t.co/3i7YjGAP0C">https://t.co/3i7YjGAP0C</a>
&mdash; Republican National Hispanic Assembly of FL (@RNHAFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNHAFL/status/1520909692452679686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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At a recent downhill, Santiago Avila, the National Vice Chair and Florida Chairman of RNHAFL, asked DeSantis a question eliciting an answer from DeSantis that brought the house down: “So my question to you is: every day more and more Hispanics, Latinos are leaving the Democratic Party in droves. What are you doing to bring them into the Republican Party?”
“Well, I think we’ve already done a lot; if you look at what we’ve done in the last couple years, we were lifting people up while others were locking people down,” DeSantis replied. “We protected jobs, we made sure people had the right to earn a living.”
“Now that was good for everybody, but it was particularly good for our blue-collar workers, many of whom are Hispanic,” DeSantis noted. “If you look at us making sure kids could be in schools five days a week, we have a lot of working parents; they needed to have the kids in school. We were standing up for them. And now, more recently, we are taking a stand against indoctrinating our kids in our schools. You have a right to send your kid to kindergarten without having transgender ideology injected in the curriculum.”
The audience exploded.
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Santiago Avila: What are Republicans doing to help bring Hispanics into the GOP? &#8212; WATCH NOW LIVE: <a href="https://t.co/CTOIJhT9xK">https://t.co/CTOIJhT9xK</a> <a href="https://t.co/VMGxYrUk7O">pic.twitter.com/VMGxYrUk7O</a>
&mdash; Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1519864860485562368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Republican National Assembly of Florida creates signs reading “Voted To Mask Your Kid” To Place Next To School Board Candidates' Signs

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This week, a federal judge in Florida finally struck down a federal mask mandate from the Centers for Disease Control. An extensive number of executive branch agencies have acted in authoritarian manner throughout the covid era – OSHA infamously attempted to cram down a vaccine mandate on every private employer in America, a policy struck down by the Supreme Court; the CDC blocked evictions for over a year based on the premise that millions would be thrown from their homes if they didn’t take action. But the CDC’s travel mask mandate has been particularly annoying for Americans, given the fact that all over the country, Americans have either been vaccinated or acquired natural immunity, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that cloth or surgical masks do anything against the omicron variant of covid.
Nonetheless, the CDC pressed forward this month with a new extension to its mask mandate, despite the fact that the CDC simultaneously argued that beginning in late May, it would relieve Title 42, a regulation designed to allow Border Patrol to turn away likely illegal immigrants at the border. That regulation was rooted in the premise that a covid emergency negated the legal requirement to process asylum seekers. The White House provided zero justification for the CDC’s extension; instead, White House press secretary Jen Psaki struggled to explain why toddlers on planes should remain masked, but attendees at the White House press room didn’t have to. “I’m not a doctor,” she spat. 
Of course, Psaki’s lack of medical background hasn’t prevented her from announcing that the best standard of medical care requires minors who are gender confused to receive puberty blockers on the path toward genital-mutilating surgery. But Americans shouldn’t expect consistency from their moral betters in the White House.
Upon the announcement of the judge’s ruling striking down the CDC mask mandate on the grounds that the CDC hadn’t actually bothered to follow its own regulatory procedures, the Left went into spasms of apoplexy. Public figures began posting pictures of themselves donning masks on planes: former Obama chief of staff Valerie Jarrett tweeted, “Wearing my mask no matter what non-scientists tell me I can do”; Roland Martin tweeted, “I don’t give a damn what some grossly unqualified Donald Trump judge said. I’m double masked and wearing goggles on this Nashville to DC flight. I had COVID in December. Y’all can KISS MY ASS about me not wanting it again. And any fool saying they don’t matter is a damn liar.”
Now, it should be said that nobody has actively banned anyone from wearing a mask. It is your choice to don one, as epidemiologically useless as such a gesture may be. But those on the Left seem to be under the wild misimpression that anything not prohibited is now mandatory – an act of pure intellectual projection springing from the Left’s insistence on collective rule-making. For those on the Left, individual freedom represents a threat to everyone; to allow individuals the ability to choose therefore undermines the entire scheme. Those on the Left simply project this mindset onto everyone else. Thus, they believe that anyone who opposes mask mandates wants to force everyone to unmask. 
This is untenable but predictable: for those on the Left, the collective is the irreducible unit of politics. There are no individuals. And anyone who disagrees is, in the words of Robin Givhan of The Washington Post, “childish and selfish.”
Or perhaps – just perhaps – the most childish and selfish among us are those who beg government agencies to exceed their statutory authority in order to ensure that we all mirror their favored priorities. Perhaps those who have spent two years declaring their authority over every aspect of Americans’ lives ought to consider the possibility that we’re happy to let them ruin their own, but that we would prefer they leave us alone. And most of all, perhaps the covid paranoics ought to spend just a moment considering whether there is a space between mandatory and prohibited where others might be granted a smidgen of liberty.  
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The COVID Authoritarians Panic Over The End Of The Mask Mandates

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Five members of a Pennsylvania school district’s board were removed from their posts on Tuesday after a petition was filed by parents angry that the board required masking children at the beginning of the school year <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10670595/Judge-FIRES-five-Democrat-members-PA-school-board-voted-make-face-masks-mandatory.html">after</a> the Pennsylvania state of emergency ended in June and then kept the policy in place two months after the state&#8217;s Supreme Court declared the mask mandate unconstitutional in December.
On Tuesday, Judge William Mahon issued an order removing Sue Tiernan, Joyce Chester, Kate Shaw, Karen Herrmann, and Daryl Durnell because they had failed to respond to the February petition by March 22. Beth Ann Rosica, a West Chester parent who also serves as executive director of Back to School PA, filed the petition. She stated, “I did not believe they had the legal authority to mask our children. I want to ensure they will never be forcibly masked again,” referencing the district’s health and safety plan that allows the reinstatement of the mask requirement if COVID-19 transmission rates increase, <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/west-chester-school-board-members-removed-masking-petition-20220330.html#loaded">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a> reported.
“Once the Supreme Court declared that was unconstitutional we implored our school board, we asked and asked and begged and pleaded and made comments to lift the mask mandate, and they refused. When they refused, that is when we made the decision to file the petition,” Rosica told <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/chester-county-judge-tosses-5-members-of-west-chester-school-board-over-masks/">WHYY</a> News.
The petition was written by parent Shannon Grady. She stated, “I started the research on this back in August, when I realized the schools were going to continue to mask children,” adding that she found a “loophole for removal of the school board” in the Pennsylvania’s Public School Code, which permits removal of board members “for failure to organize or neglect of duty.”
“Under the law, ‘any ten resident taxpayers can file a petition with the Court of Common Pleas, and the court ‘shall grant a rule upon the school directors, returnable in not less than ten or more than twenty days &#8230; to show cause why they should not be removed from office,” The Philadelphia Inquirer noted, adding, “It also says board members ‘shall have at least five days’ notice of the granting of the rule.”
The petition was served to board members Feb. 22; on March 15 Mahon ordered that a “respondent shall file a verified answer to the petition within twenty days of service upon the respondent.” By last week, the board members had not responded, prompting Rosica to notify the judge that the deadline 20 business days after February 22 was March 22.
On Tuesday night, responding to the board members’ removal, attorneys representing them filed a motion to reconsider, arguing the 20 days should have been dated back to March 15, from Mahon’s order, and thus the deadline should be April 5. On Wednesday, Mahon issued an order scheduling a hearing on Friday.
On Tuesday night, Superintendent Bob Sokolowski issued a statement saying that “special counsel to the district is in the process of preparing a substantive response on behalf of those school board members named in the petition. &#8230; While we do not have all of the answers at this time, please be assured that the West Chester Area School District and I remain deeply committed to the mission of educating and inspiring the best in our students.”

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‘We Asked And Asked And Begged And Pleaded’: Parents’ Petition Triggers Judge To Remove 5 Dems From School Board Who Insisted On Masking Schoolchildren

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On Wednesday, 10 CEOs representing America’s largest airlines joined to send a letter to President Biden urging him to “sunset federal transportation travel restrictions – including the international predeparture testing requirement and the federal mask mandate.”
The letter was signed by the CEOs of Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Airlines, FedEx Express, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines Holdings, and UPS Airlines.
The CEOs noted, “The persistent and steady decline of hospitalization and death rates are the most compelling indicators that our country is well protected against severe disease from COVID-19. Given that we have entered a different phase of dealing with this virus, we strongly support your view that ‘COVID-19 need no longer control our lives.’”
“The predeparture test requirement, imposed to slow the introduction of variants into the U.S., has outlived its utility and stymies the return of international travel,” the CEOs wrote. “ The United Kingdom (UK), the European Union and Canada have recognized this reality and lifted travel restrictions. The U.S. inconsistency with these practices creates a competitive disadvantage for U.S. travel and tourism by placing an additional cost and burden on travel to the U.S.”
Vis-à-vis the mask mandate, they declared, “The science clearly supports lifting the mask mandate, as demonstrated by the recently released CDC framework indicating that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer need to wear masks indoors.”
They concluded, “The high level of immunity in the U.S., availability of high-quality masks for those who wish to use them, hospital-grade cabin air, widespread vaccine availability and newly available therapeutics provide a strong foundation for the Administration to lift the mask mandate and predeparture testing requirements. We urge you to do so now.”
Full <a href="https://www.airlines.org/news/a4a-urges-white-house-to-lift-predeparture-testing-requirements-mask-mandate/">text of letter</a> below:
<blockquote>Dear Mr. President:
We appreciate your leadership throughout the COVID-19 crisis and now as the country recovers from the impacts of the pandemic. During the global health crisis, U.S. airlines have supported and cooperated with the federal government’s measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. We are encouraged by the current data and the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions from coast to coast, which indicate it is past time to eliminate COVID-era transportation policies.
Our industry has leaned into science at every turn. At the outset, we voluntarily implemented policies and procedures &#8212; mandating face coverings; requiring passenger health acknowledgements and contact tracing information; and enhancing cleaning protocols – to form a multi-layered approach to mitigate risk and prioritize the wellbeing of passengers and employees. We supported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as they made some of these policies federal mandates and imposed additional measures, like predeparture testing and vaccination requirements for international travelers, in an to attempt to slow the introduction of variants into the United States.
However, much has changed since these measures were imposed and they no longer make sense in the current public health context. The persistent and steady decline of hospitalization and death rates are the most compelling indicators that our country is well protected against severe disease from COVID-19. Given that we have entered a different phase of dealing with this virus, we strongly support your view that “COVID-19 need no longer control our lives.” Now is the time for the Administration to sunset federal transportation travel restrictions – including the international predeparture testing requirement and the federal mask mandate – that are no longer aligned with the realities of the current epidemiological environment.
Predeparture Test Requirement
The predeparture test requirement, imposed to slow the introduction of variants into the U.S., has outlived its utility and stymies the return of international travel. The United Kingdom (UK), the European Union and Canada have recognized this reality and lifted travel restrictions. The U.S. inconsistency with these practices creates a competitive disadvantage for U.S. travel and tourism by placing an additional cost and burden on travel to the U.S. Further, many outbound travelers are not willing to risk being stranded overseas. In the Tenth Meeting of the Emergency Committee on January 19, 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted that “the failure of travel restrictions introduced after the detection and reporting of Omicron variant to limit international spread of Omicron demonstrates the ineffectiveness of such measures over time.” The WHO recommended that countries consider a risk-based approach to the facilitation of international travel by lifting measures, like testing and/or quarantine requirements, for individual travelers who are fully vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines listed by the WHO. Finally, a recent study by Oxera and Edge Health that examined the effectiveness of travel restrictions in Europe concluded that such measures have failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Mask Mandate
The science clearly supports lifting the mask mandate, as demonstrated by the recently released CDC framework indicating that 99 percent of the U.S. population no longer need to wear masks indoors. Several studies completed before we had the added layer of widespread availability of vaccines, including one from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and another from the U.S. Department of Defense, have concluded that an airplane cabin is one of the safest indoor environments due to the combination of highly filtered air and constant air flow coupled with the downward direction of the air. Lifting the mask mandate in airports and onboard aircraft can be done safely as England has done. Importantly, the effectiveness and availability of high-quality masks for those who wish to wear them gives passengers the ability to further protect themselves if they choose to do so. It makes no sense that people are still required to wear masks on airplanes, yet are allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks, despite none of these venues having the protective air filtration system that aircraft do.
It is critical to recognize that the burden of enforcing both the mask and predeparture testing requirements has fallen on our employees for two years now. This is not a function they are trained to perform and subjects them to daily challenges by frustrated customers. This in turn takes a toll on their own well-being.
The high level of immunity in the U.S., availability of high-quality masks for those who wish to use them, hospital-grade cabin air, widespread vaccine availability and newly available therapeutics provide a strong foundation for the Administration to lift the mask mandate and predeparture testing requirements. We urge you to do so now.
We are requesting this action not only for the benefit the of the traveling public, but also for the thousands of airline employees charged with enforcing a patchwork of now-outdated regulations implemented in response to COVID-19.</blockquote>

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10 CEOs Of Biggest U.S. Airlines Urge Biden To Eliminate Masks On Planes

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The day before President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union Address, the White House relaxed a requirement for people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 to wear face masks on the premises.
Just days before, the House also relaxed its requirements. So, Democrats who have been scolding Americans about masks for months, or even years, showed up mask-free to the House on Tuesday. And social media noticed.
&#8220;Our politicians at the State of the union aren’t wearing masks and I’m still trying to find a preschool in the DMV area that won’t require a 2 year olds to be masked,&#8221; Meghan McCain wrote.
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Our politicians at the State of the union aren’t wearing masks and I’m still trying to find a preschool in the DMV area that won’t require a 2 year olds to be masked.
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1498841437538066432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;All that hysteria over masks &#8212; the &#8216;death cults,&#8217; etc &#8212; just went poof,&#8221; commented David Harsanyi. &#8220;It&#8217;s a State of the Union miracle!&#8221;
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All that hysteria over masks &#8212; the &quot;death cults,&quot; etc &#8212; just went poof. It&#39;s a State of the Union miracle!
&mdash; David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1498842021976547331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Until yesterday everyone had to wear masks in Congress now Joe Biden is maskless walking down the aisle and shaking hands with everyone,&#8221; wrote Clay Travis. &#8220;This is all such bulls***.&#8221;
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Until yesterday everyone had to wear masks in Congress now Joe Biden is maskless walking down the aisle and shaking hands with everyone. This is all such bullshit.
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1498842528149299203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Liz Harrington wrote, &#8220;The fact they can all decide to take their masks off today shows what a farce it was.&#8221;
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The fact they can all decide to take their masks off today shows what a farce it was
&mdash; Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1498842399015063554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Watching all of these elected officials who made such a visible point of wearing masks talking 1-inch from each other’s face and whispering in each other’s ears is maddening, Justin Hart reacted.
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Watching all of these elected officials who made such a visible point of wearing masks talking 1-inch from each other’s face and whispering in each other’s ears is maddening. <a href="https://t.co/pSGIuNiFOi">pic.twitter.com/pSGIuNiFOi</a>
&mdash; Justin Hart (@justin_hart) <a href="https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1498836764231823361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Democrats have taken off their masks: They’re all frauds. #SOTU,&#8221; wrote Kyle Becker.
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The Democrats have taken off their masks: They’re all frauds. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a>
&mdash; Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) <a href="https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1498842186334580737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Democrats across the country fought to keep masks on kids in school for two years… but the day Joe Biden needs to give a State of the Union with his poll numbers plummeting, the masks come off,&#8221; Mark Meadows posted hours before the address. &#8220;It was never about science.&#8221;
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Democrats across the country fought to keep masks on kids in school for two years… but the day Joe Biden needs to give a State of the Union with his poll numbers plummeting, the masks come off.
It was never about science.
&mdash; Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkMeadows/status/1498761948560826368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The #SOTU is political theater and makes crystal clear that COVID tyranny was always political… now with magic lifting of masks &amp; other restrictions the same day as the SOTU,&#8221; said Republican Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). &#8220;None of it helping Americans being targeted by the President’s mandates…&#8221;
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a> is political theater and makes crystal clear that COVID tyranny was always political… now with magic lifting of masks &amp; other restrictions the same day as the SOTU. None of it helping Americans being targeted by the President’s mandates… <a href="https://t.co/L6KCXdR8CO">pic.twitter.com/L6KCXdR8CO</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1498831723353751553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pelosi just dropped the mask mandate in Congress just before the State of the Union address,&#8221; Caleb Hull criticized. &#8220;Literally yesterday you&#8217;d see staffers have mental breakdowns on the Hill over people not wearing masks. None of this was ever based on science.&#8221;
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Pelosi just dropped the mask mandate in Congress just before the State of the Union address. Literally yesterday you&#39;d see staffers have mental breakdowns on the Hill over people not wearing masks.
None of this was ever based on science.
&mdash; Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1498835616141918213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Congress no longer has to wear masks&#8230; but people on commercial flights and public transportation do&#8230; because, as you know, unsophisticated commoners are where disease comes from,&#8221; Tim Young wrote.
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Congress no longer has to wear masks&#8230; but people on commercial flights and public transportation do&#8230; because, as you know, unsophisticated commoners are where disease comes from.
&mdash; Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1498822798503989248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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President Biden Delivers State Of The Union Address

‘This Is All Such Bulls***’: Democrats Hammered For Showing Up At SOTU Without Masks

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On hearing the news that hours before President Biden delivers his State of the Union Address on Tuesday the White House will stop requiring people who are vaccinated for COVID-19 to wear face masks on the premises, Senator Ted Cruz mocked Biden, tweeting, “It’s a State of the Union miracle!”
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It’s a State of the Union miracle!<a href="https://t.co/OxW7ue6vIH">https://t.co/OxW7ue6vIH</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1498430773862481921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“The White House&#8217;s decision follows a similar one from Congress’ Office of the Attending Physician, who said that masks will be optional on the House floor for the president&#8217;s speech, likely avoiding the optics of masked lawmakers gathered for the event, two years into the coronavirus pandemic,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-dropping-mask-mandate-biden-state-of-the-union">Fox News</a> noted, adding, “The nation’s capital is now in an area considered low risk under the <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.foxnews.com/health">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>’s new metrics, which place less of a focus on positive test results and more on what’s happening in community hospitals. “
In mid-January, Cruz <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-slams-reporter-asking-about-not-wearing-mask-just-once-id-like-you-to-ask-biden-psaki-that-question/">argued that it was hypocritical</a> for reporters to ask him and other Republicans why they weren’t wearing masks at a press conference when reporters wouldn’t ask President Biden or White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about eschewing masks when speaking to the press.
“And by the way, on the question of hypocrisy, you just asked, you people at the podium are speaking without masks. Just once, I&#8217;d like to see a reporter say to Joe Biden when he stands at the damn podium in the White House without a mask, ‘Mr. President, why aren&#8217;t you wearing a mask?’” Cruz said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ted-cruz-slams-podium-mask-question-biden">according to Fox News</a>. “Just once, I’d like to see you say to Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, when she stands at the podium with no mask, ‘Ms. Psaki, why don’t you have a mask?’ The questions are only directed at one side, and I got to say that the American people see the hypocrisy.”
Cruz also stated, “I think there’s been wild hypocrisy from the Biden administration when it comes to COVID policies [on] mask mandates where Joe Biden rightly said we shouldn’t have mandates, [on] vaccine mandates where Joe Biden said we shouldn’t have vaccine mandates. As far as I know, everyone here has been vaccinated, double vaccinated, been boosted at some point.”
In April 2021, Cruz said he would <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ted-cruz-is-ditching-face-masks-ive-been-vaccinated/">no longer wear a mask</a> on Capitol Hill because he had been vaccinated against COVID-19 already. Cruz told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/ted-cruz-no-mask/index.html">CNN</a>, “At this point I’ve been vaccinated. Everybody working in the Senate has been vaccinated.”
In February 2021, Cruz mockingly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/15/politics/ted-cruz-no-mask/index.html">told</a> the Conservative Political Action Conference that Americans would have to wear masks for “the next 300 years.” He added, “Not just one mask, two three, four. You can’t have too many masks. How much virtue do you want to signal? This is just dumb.”
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‘It’s A State Of The Union Miracle!’: Cruz Mocks White House Dropping Mask Requirement Hours Before Biden’s SOTU

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