COVID-19
Philly reinstates indoor mask mandate: ‘black and brown communities’ need ‘to be more careful’
Breaking Monday, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health announced it is reinstating the city’s indoor mask mandate. The mandate was lifted not more than just one month ago. Businesses are allowed a one-week education period to get the mandate into action, after which, masks will be required in all indoor public spaces, including schools, businesses, restaurants, government buildings and child care settings beginning April 18.
Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said at a news conference “this is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic.” Philadelphia is the first major city to reinstate its mask mandate, and goes against guidance issued by the CDC which currently lists Philadelphia with a “low” Covid-19 community level.
The CDC guidelines now use hospital admissions and other benchmarks to determine risk level, instead of just positive case numbers. National Review reports “the average number of daily new cases is low – just 142 but is on the rise. By contrast, the city began this year with a seven-day average of nearly 4,000 cases as the highly-contagious Omicron variant spread like wildfire.”
Bettigole said “local conditions do matter” and used race as a defense to reimplement the mandate. “We’ve all seen here in Philadelphia, how much our history of redlining, history of disparities has impacted, particularly our Black and brown communities in the city” she said.
“And so it does make sense to be more careful in Philadelphia, then, you know, perhaps in an affluent suburb” Bettigole added.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic sent a letter to CIA director William Burns discussing the CIA and a COVID-19 cover-up. The letter asserts that it has knowledge from a whistleblower from the CIA’s “Covid Discovery Team” that was tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus. “New testimony from a highly credibly whistleblower” alleges that the CIA “rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis
Apart from a “lone officer” in the group who believed the virus “originated through zoonosis,” the remaining officials agreed that, on balance of probabilities, the coronavirus was likely the result of a lab-leak.
“According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that Covid-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China,” the letter reads. “To come to the eventual public determination of uncertainty, the other six members were given a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”
In June, the agency declassified its report that the available evidence on the origins of the coronavirus suggested it “was not genetically engineered.”
🚨BREAKING🚨
New testimony from a highly credible whistleblower alleges @CIA rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis. pic.twitter.com/KIemfi2Wgl
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) September 12, 2023
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Mamawsbiscuits25
April 12, 2022 at 12:18 am
The majority of folks I’ve seen in masks are either seniors or black. Life in a small Tennessee town.
Mamawsbiscuits25
April 12, 2022 at 12:22 am
Why??? Cause only whitey can be affluent??!? I’m offended!
Stephane
April 12, 2022 at 5:43 pm
BE A GOOD SLAVE!
WEAR YOUR MASK!
GET ALL THE SHOTS!
NEVER DOUBT YOUR MASTERS!
REMEMBER, YOUR MASTERS ONLY WANT YOUR WORST!
Joe
April 20, 2022 at 12:38 am
Her statements are bizarre. Is she for real. Her words have nothing to do with health risks from a virus.