Here is the latest controversy in the US, but one we saw coming. The CDC has revised its previous position, and now even those who have been vaccinated must wear masks indoors in many circumstances. This shows that masks will be the new normal, despite their limits, and ill-health effects. Masks are symbols of obedience to the Covid New World Order. Citizens are made into children. That’s the way they like it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/27/mask-guidelines-cdc-changes-expected-latest-rules
“The nation’s top health agency revised its mask guidance on Tuesday and now recommends fully vaccinated Americans wear masks indoors in certain places.
In a shift from its earlier guidance issued on 13 May, which said vaccinated individuals did not need to wear masks in most indoor settings, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now advises Americans to wear a mask in “public indoor settings” with “substantial and high transmission”. This comes amid a surge in Covid cases as the highly contagious Delta variant has become more prevalent.
Tuesday’s updated guidelines come two months after the CDC revised its mask guidance for vaccinated people. The guidance, which still called for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings, like buses, planes, hospitals, prisoners and homeless shelters, had cleared the way for reopening workplaces and other venues.
The CDC now recommends that fully vaccinated people living with vulnerable household members such as those who are immunocompromised and children wear masks in indoor public spaces. In addition, the agency recommended everyone in K-12 schools wear masks, “including teachers, staff, students and visitors, regardless of vaccination status”, said the CDC director, Dr Rochelle Walensky, in a press briefing on Tuesday.
“In recent days I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that the Delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause Covid-19,” Walensky said, referring to scientists’ discovery of the Delta strain shedding as actively in breakthrough infections as it does in unvaccinated individuals, despite the rarity of breakthrough cases.
For months Covid cases, deaths and hospitalizations were falling steadily, but the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus has fueled steep rises in case numbers, particularly among unvaccinated Americans and amid struggles with disinformation and resistance, particularly on the political right.
“Nobody wants to go backward but you have to deal with the facts on the ground, and the facts on the ground are that it’s a pretty scary time and there are a lot of vulnerable people,” Robert Wachter, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told the Washington Post.
“I think the biggest thing we got wrong was not anticipating that 30% of the country would choose not to be vaccinated.”
In recent weeks, a growing number of cities and towns have restored indoor masking rules. St Louis, Savannah, Georgia, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, are among the places that reimposed mask mandates this month.
At a White House briefing last week, the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, said 97% of hospital admissions and 99.5% of Covid deaths were occurring among unvaccinated people.
More than 162.7 million Americans are vaccinated – or 49% of the population, according to the CDC.
California and New York City announced on Monday that they would require all government employees to get the coronavirus vaccine or face weekly Covid-19 testing, and the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first major federal agency to require healthcare workers to receive the shot.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that all municipal workers – including teachers and police officers – will be required to get vaccinated by mid-September or face weekly Covid-19 testing, making the city one of the largest employers in the US to take such action.
“Let’s be clear about why this is so important: this is about our recovery,” De Blasio said.
California said it will similarly require proof of vaccination or weekly testing for all state workers and healthcare employees starting next month.
“This new science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our recommendations,” Walensky said. “This new data weighs heavily on me,” she added.”
Iceland’s leading epidemiologist has commented that social restrictions could persist, even with mass vaccination for years, perhaps up to 15 years.
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2021/07/22/segir_takmarkanir_geta_varad_naestu_arin/
“Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason does not rule out the possibility that restrictions will persist to some extent in the coming years.
Asked if there is no clear way out of the epidemic, now that measures are being proposed despite vaccinations, and whether we could be on the verge of restrictions over the next five, ten or fifteen years, he says:
"It can be quite like that, no one can say with certainty what the future will be like. That's what we're always been saying, too, that there's no predictability in this. It is nothing new and many people complain that it is not possible to bring predictability in operations and such, but it is not possible when the virus is unpredictable and something new comes up that changes what you thought a few months ago. "
It was stated at a civil defense information meeting earlier today that Þórólfur intends to submit a memorandum to the Minister of Health on domestic measures to stop the spread of the virus.
There Þórólfur said that the coronavirus epidemic will not end in this country until it ends all over the world. He also said that the protection of vaccines against infection was lower, but it was thought that protection against serious illnesses was estimated at 90 percent.
Actions will take effect as soon as possible
Þórólfur believes that the measures he proposes should take effect as soon as possible. "I believe that if people decide on certain actions, then there is nothing left to wait for. Then I think people should make it take effect as soon as possible, "he says.
It was also stated at the information meeting that those who were vaccinated with Janssen will receive another vaccination as well as those who may not have responded well enough to the vaccination. Pfizer vaccine will probably be used and Þórólfur says that there is a sufficient amount of it in the country.
The activity of Janssen and Moderna is unclear
The results of a new study indicate that the Pfizer vaccine has almost 90 percent activity against the virus and the Astra Zeneca vaccine almost 70 percent.
Þórólfur says that similar information is not available about the Janssen and Moderna vaccines.
"There is less research behind the Janssen and Moderna vaccines. Maybe the reason is that they are just much less used. The research is structured differently, some are structured with placebo and then the vaccine and others are examining the effects of vaccination in society. These are different approaches and therefore the results often differ slightly from country to country.
I think it's safe to say that most of the results suggest that these vaccines are all so fundamentally similar, even though there is only a difference between studies, and the effectiveness against people getting infected is maybe around 60 percent. This means that 40 percent can still be infected.
"The activity against serious illness is maybe about 90 percent, but this only varies and there is also new information coming from Israel that the activity is probably somewhat less than this."
He says there is no detailed analysis of the results from Israel, such as how many people were vaccinated or at what age those who became seriously ill were.”
Expect this business to go on until the Great collapse mercifully ends it all.