Nearly all of the Bay Area’s 11 counties lifted their indoor mask mandates today.
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Sonoma and Solano counties and the city of Berkeley all dropped their requirements to wear a mask indoors.
Masks will still be required in health care facilities, homeless shelters and on public transit.
Masks are also required in K-12 schools.
Still Discriminating against “unvaccinated”.
The irony…the vitriol and vilification of the unvaccinated will be felt by those vaccinated who feel safer wearing the mask as they will be pegged unvaccinated!
Don’t be silly, Pancho. NO one would mistake a masked person as unvaccinated… unvaccinated people aren’t that considerate. It’s the unmasked people in stores who you need to watch out for.
Mandates have always been worthless, except for virtue signalling! Masked and vaccinated people can still catch covid and pass it on the other people, whether or not they were vaccinated or masked.
The first Jay is a fake!
I don’t see how I am a fake when I commented first. Two people in the world can be named jay. I’ll add my initial so no one confuses me with you… because it does seem we are quite different.
“You can call me…..”…https://youtu.be/ZCqh5ROtQRg
The vaccine is BS. I don’t give two hoots about your vaccine or the masks. Let people live and turn off CNN. You people make me sick, this is all to see how much BS the NWO/elites can get away with. Wake up!
Not only are they gone, they should NEVER COME BACK.
NOW MAKE MASKS OPTIONAL FOR KIDS!
^^^^^ THIS
The science didnt change but the political science is definitely changing. VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT.
I agree 100%. All of them need to go! VOTE THESE PEOPLE OUT!!
Next step: get rid of ALL that continued to enforce these traumatic and devastating lockdowns, masks, and overreaching mandates.
San Francisco just got rid of 3 board members. 70% voted to recall. A bloodbath.
It’s time we do the same in contra costa. Clean house on the BOS, the school boards, superintendents, mayors, department of health, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE that followed orders or was complicit. Following orders is not an excuse. That goes for the sheriff and any law enforcement that upheld orders from tyrants instead of the constitution.
They will not slip quietly away for a few months just to impose restrictions again in September when the next “variant” shows up, or perhaps they will move on to fear mongering with the bird flu.
Time for retribution.
What have you not been able to do since May of 2020?
Based on your third paragraph, I can break any law I want and when the law enforcement puts me in cuffs I just keep screaming tyrant and the constitution doesn’t talk about this?
Are you an eye for an eye guy? Because Jesus wasn’t
Agreed Bruh
1000%
@concordresident
Pretty sure Jesus could read……not too sure about you. Better try that third paragraph again, slowly, because Bruh NEVER said you can break any law you want.
@concordresident
The question isn’t what have I not been able to do, the question is what gives you the authority to decide which citizens get to work and who doesn’t? Who gets to go to school and who doesn’t? could list more but I’ll stop.
You can ask me how they were illegal and wrong, but the burden of proof is on you and everyone else that enforced and supported these lockdowns and mandates that wrecked the economy and peoples and their children’s physical and mental health.
So please explain?
If you didn’t want that burden well, perhaps you should have left everyone the hell alone. I’m sure the people that supported and enforced these lockdowns will have to try and prove the legality in court one day.
And your little attempts at “gotcha” questions such as being arrested and screaming about the constitution, as you should be aware no one can ever predict every situation that will ever happen, we have courts to interpret the constitution which I’m sure will be very busy with all the lawsuits that will be filed and investigations against those that created the lockdowns. So I’ll pull a Jen Psaki and refer you to the courts for that.
And I’m not Jesus. I’m a sinner just like everyone else, and I will ask for forgiveness but right now you and anyone else that supported this BS deserve none.
@CYN
“Following orders is not an excuse. That goes for the sheriff and any law enforcement that upheld orders from tyrants instead of the constitution.”
Key phrase missing here is “for the fully vaccinated”. Those who are anti-vax will continue to get infected and spread the virus, perpetuating the pandemic.
Anybody, including those who are vaccinated and boosted, can become infected with COVID and spread COVID.
@ Phil~
Don’t think your statement holds water and could be incorrect.
Vaxxed or unvaxxed have caught Covid and spread it to each other.
If one is vaxxed, they shouldn’t get it or spread it….right?
It’s like the Flu…..it’s not ever going to be gone as far as I can see, but I would like it to be gone forever.
Too bad the vaccinated also get infected and spread the virus.
You should try reading sometime.
Ever heard of a thing called herd immunity? It has been around since the inception of the human race, you should try it…Please tell all how a small percentage of people are keeping this pandemic going? The science & the laws of statistics do not back that statement up. The vaccinated are getting sick at a higher rate than that of the unvaccinated, how is that an unvaccinated person’s fault? Your precious vaccine is all about the money, just follow the money and the answer is staring you right in the face…
@Phil you’re a little behind the facts. You can have 3 shots and you will still catch and spread the virus. You’re either ignorant or know you are spreading disinformation.
Whether or not you have the shots doesn’t affect your ability to transmit the virus.
Try to keep up Phil, wouldn’t want to have uninformed voters canceling out informed voters. You have a responsibility to be informed I’d suggest you live up to it or leave the votes to those of us that are. Tired of uninformed people such as yourself messing everything up.
Don’t worry, Phil. As soon as you get your 397th booster shot, you’ll be safe from all those science deniers, lol.
Yeah Phil,
RIP to the 36 year old Alameda County Sheriff who died on the job from the miracle vaxxx.
But, your “science” would say that ‘at least she had a less painful death’.
Phil, you can continue to believe your heros over at MSNBC, but it’s largely over. If you want to continue sleeping with your mask on or feel safer driving around in your Prius alone with 2 masks on, please enjoy yourself. The rest of us can’t wait to see all the smiling faces.
Phil how exactly do you explain breakthrough cases like Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren?
So you really believe that breakthrough cases, that is people who are vaccinated but become infected anyway, cannot transmit Covid to other people both vaccinated and un-vaccinated? If that is true why was it necessary for Booker and Warren or anyone else for that matter to quarantine themselves?
This will simply blow your mind Phil:
A study from South Carolina dated February 11, 2022:
Number of KNOWN breakthrough cases: 52,078
Total breakthrough hospitalizations: 3,146
Total breakthrough deaths: 782
Population of South Carolina 2021: 5,190,705
I suggest you look past Claycord land and realize that there are 7.98 billion people on earth and only about 4.88 billion are vaccinated according to the NY Times… Hopefully you’ll be able to sleep tonight Phil with the impending Covid event horizon.
I don’t know if Phil is trolling or not. But even if so, there are so many people out there that believe his statement and that astounds me. Despite all the evidence at their fingertips that the vaxxed are spreading at the same or nearly same rates as unvaxed. Despite probably half of their vaxed friends having caught omicron in the last two months. Despite the countries with higher Vax rates, and places like Gobraltar with 100% rates all having suffered major omicron spikes on par with ours.
The ONLY thing the Vax does for certain is decrease the risk of severe covid and death for the people that take it. MAYBE a slight decrease in transmission rate. Everything else is nonsense. But it’s state approve, corporate media propagated nonsense, so it’s not considered “misinformation.”
There is no hope for us as a society. We all live in different realities.
Phil: ” don’t drive angry…don’t drive angry!”
Ridiculous! I am fully vax’d and just got over the FLU. I tested positive for Covid, and every system I had was of the Flu! I’ve been a heck of a lot sicker in my 60 years. Hog wash!!!!!!!
I’M FREE- I’m free,
And freedom tastes of reality!
Sorry Phil, your wrong the vaxed are the ones spreading the bug also the majority that are in the hospital. Oh by the way if you got the 3rd shot be sure to ask your doctor for the hiv/aids test because your vaccine has a transferable part in it!
Your welcome
Ps feel free to fact check that!!
This is how our government shows us they are in control of our lives, not us. They give and take the power to control how we are in public.
So if your vaccinated you can’t catch the virus and transmit it?
The mask mandate ended for me a long time ago!
Lol Nope!
Me too!!!!
Lol, me too. I’ve been over this nonsense for months.
I’m guessing the politicians in Berkeley don’t realize that they’re in Alameda County, duh!
Berkeley is its own entity – it’s not in alameda county – they have their own.
I didn’t realize that either until my spouse worked for the city of Berkeley for ten years ….
LSD can cause problems.
Good to know that Beserkely runs its own Public Health Agency. That explains a lot about the rampant lunacy there.
The masks that most people have been wearing probably do little good in the face of the current form of the virus so dropping the mandate makes sense. But the positivity rate is still quite high and so avoiding crowds and not hanging out for long times with others is still wise.
@Bad Nombre~
+1….My main concern is not vaxxed or unvaxxed, it’s people who maybe out and about who are sick and know they shouldn’t be out.
For now, will still avoid crowds and may hang the useless mask around my neck, if needed…. silly me LOL!
I thought it was yesterday that they lifted it. When I walked into the store without a mask yesterday, the employees were fine, but all the Karens and Neil’s who were shopping threw some shade my way. Too bad, so sad. Har har har
I too thought that the mask enforcement was up yesterday. There was only one place where I was asked to wear one and if people were mad, well then, as you say: “too bad, so sad”. Weird how for some not seeing others not wearing a mask has become an eyebrow raiser yet crime continues to get out of hand and it’s even being normalized.
I’ve been out to several establishments today and I would say about 90% of people are still masked.
Same. It seems many don’t know about Lord Newscum giving his consent for us to no longer be under a mask enforcement. As always, Lord Newscum knows best.
It’s like weaning a toddler from their binky…it will take time as the security blanket, or mask, will be tossed soon enough.
The real question is For How Long?
I can’t help but admire how our all-knowing political leaders know the exact timeline (date and time) when we are safe from Covid, yet, they still have to inform us how this virus developed and how it got out of control. I don’t remember hearing anything regarding the specifics of it.
The Covid health screening questions asked by medical providers before deciding whether to accept a patient are so broad that they serve no real purpose, except for making some feel as they are doing something important or being cautious.
Wish politicians would work on protecting us from the rise in crime and cost of living.
Covid isn’t the only thing that could kill us and many people have had their health problems worsen due to all these hoop jumping mandates.
Good timing by the politicians – which, btw, ties in with the midterm elections.
Now they’ll claim they “solved” it.
Never let a good crisis go to waste ….
Btw – there are no political “leaders” – only opportunists.
“Pretending that danger does not exist is the best way to ensure our demise.”
Brian Germain
Too little too late I am afraid … these crimes will not go unpunished and all the local, state and federal public servants who went along with it are gonna pay a price … I am talking jail time in many cases.
Better pack you toothbrush ladies and gentlemen … The cows are coming home to roost!