At long last our betters official “medical experts” are saying what many virologists and other doctors have been saying for months and what studies around the world and across the U.S. have shown.  Vaccinated people have about a 0.005% of catching COVID and thus have no need to be wearing masks.  

Yet, the CDC just couldn’t quite get themselves to say at first that vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks, period.  No, they hemmed and hawed about.  You don’t need to wear masks outdoors or indoors if you are fully vaccinated either in small or large groups, unless the group is made up of more than one family or has someone in it who is particularly vulnerable to COVID.  But that, of course, makes no sense, because almost everyone who is particularly vulnerable to COVID has already been vaccinated and thus has a 0.005% of catching the disease and an even lower chance of being hospitalized with it.  

In addition, I can’t enter a hospital without a mask on, yet, last week when I was in Union Hospital in Terre Haute, I spent perhaps 5 seconds in an elevator with one visitor who may or may not have been vaccinated, and then passed the occasional nurse or doctor in the hall who had obviously been vaccinated as I have.  To whom was I a danger?  From whom was I in danger?

We held a retired teachers’ meeting last month with 28 individuals present.  We did not require masks if they were vaccinated.  Thus, no one wore a mask.  No one has reported having contracted COVID as a result of that hour long luncheon meeting where we ate and talked with one another.

And finally, after the CDC had already announced last week that vaccinated Americans no longer had to wear masks indoors or outdoors in most places, Dr. Fauci admitted early this week that if you have been vaccinated it is a “dead end” for the virus.  Those 0.005% of the vaccinated who still get it are, not all, but most, asymptomatic, and at any rate, have such a low “viral load,” that they cannot infect others. Of course, the Israeli national health department had said the same thing a couple of months ago, saying that those who were vaccinated were “virtually bullet proof” from the virus. But, hey, our guys listen to no one but themselves, right?

 So now, if you are vaccinated, masks are gone except in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and “woke” businesses and Democrat states that still see wearing the useless pieces of fabric as your “patriotic duty” as President Asterisk stupidly said.  All for a disease that we know kills only the elderly and those with underlying health problems.  99% of those who get it, survive it.  Sadly, many did not survive the shutdowns that were supposed to protect them from dying!

Study after study has shown that masks don’t protect against viruses because the viral particles are so small that they pass through the masks.  Even N95 masks still allow up to 5% of viral particles to pass through them.  Other masks, even surgical masks, only protect against spit and the larger particles that carry bacterial germs.  Studies have compared states and counties with mask mandates with those who do not.  The infection rate is either virtually identical or even slightly lower in areas where masks are not mandated. The bottom line is this: If you can breathe with a mask on, you can be breathing in COVID.

Other studies comparing locked down states to states that are no longer locked down found exactly the same dynamics.  Locked down states often had more COVID cases than those states that had opened up.  Florida, which is open, and which has long since dropped its mask mandate, has about the same number of cases as California which has been tightly locked down with a mask mandate.  And although it has considerably more senior citizens, those who are the most vulnerable to the disease, Florida’s number of cases is considerably lower than New York State’s, a place that, despite the CDC’s recent “vaccinated means no mask” proclamation, still requires mask-wearing.

Democrats have made fools of themselves over their predictions of new spikes in deaths and their masks and lockdowns.  For example, Beto O’Roarke said Gov. Abbott of Texas would be signing “a death warrant for Texans” when he dropped the mask mandate and opened up the state nearly two months ago.   But yesterday not one single person died of Covid in Texas.  There are now the fewest cases in 13 months and the lowest rate of hospitalizations in 11 months.  Michigan, on the other hand, with its dictatorial governor Whitmer, in mid-April was planning to make the following COVID mandates permanent for businesses:  mask wearing whenever employees are within six feet of someone else, daily health screenings, a “COVID-19 safety coordinator” on site, and employees required to become the mask police for their customers, vaccinated or not.  This remained in effect following the CDC’s announcement until pressure caused Gov. Whitmer to lift the mask mandate for those who are vaccinated on May 16.  Yet in New Hampshire, a Sunday school teacher was arrested on Monday and removed by police for showing up to a school board meeting unmasked!  Is this America?

Yes, in all, bureaucrats and the Democrats have screwed this pandemic situation up royally.  First, we were led to believe that everyone who contracted the Coronavirus was likely to die.  We were all terrified.  But even then they knew that all of the early deaths were in a nursing home and that it was the elderly and the already sick who died, not the young and healthy.  The disease has a 99% survival rate, yet they convinced us to shut down our economy for months, destroy the livelihood of millions of Americans, and literally erase a year of our children’s education when children rarely even catch it. 

Then we were told, correctly, that we did not need to wear masks.  At least one of the studies proving that masks don’t protect against viruses appeared in the CDC’s own publication and one assumes that their “medical experts” read the other current studies.  But, then, they decided that making everyone wear a mask would make us feel safer, so masks became mandated except in South Dakota, where sanity reigned.  

Next, we were told to sanitize all surfaces because we could catch the virus from touching contaminated objects.  People were emptying grocery bags wearing disposable gloves and washing every item they purchased in the store lest they catch COVID from touching them.  Then we were told, “Oops, no.  The virus doesn’t live on surfaces after all!”

We needed a vaccine and that would defeat the virus!  But because President Trump paid companies to try to create a vaccine and bought millions of doses from each company 

before they had even created the vaccine, as millions of Americans began getting the vaccines at the end of Trump’s term in office, we were told that vaccine or not, we still had to wear masks. As every person who died of any cause after having gotten a shot was splashed across our television screens, many concluded, why take a “dangerous” vaccine if I still have to live afterwards exactly as I am living now?

It has become obvious, even to the FDA, that every drug has potential side effects and that some small percentage of those who take that drug will suffer those side effects.  One anti-depressant that is often advertised on television warns that it could cause increased depression and thoughts of suicide.  Really?  It can cause a worse case of the very thing it is supposed to correct and yet the FDA okayed it and countless numbers of people take it.  All in all, the percentage of people who have had serious reactions to the vaccines is tiny.  Four women out of nearly 5 million in the U.S. suffered a rare type of stroke after taking the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.  Did the vaccine cause the stroke?  We cannot really know.  But we do know the vaccines, all of them, are saving lives by the billions around the world.  The vaccines work, and they work phenomenally, even against the variants!

Alas, as the COVID pandemic draws to a close, Democrat leaders in cities and states, as well as Dr. Fauci and the CDC will no longer be in the spotlight.  They will no longer be making royal decrees which 330 million Americans will dutifully follow because they are terrified not to.  Little by little we are learning not to be afraid.  Back in the day when the Washington Post was still a newspaper and not a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, the Post’s slogan was “Democracy dies in darkness.”  Indeed, over the last 14 or so months, democracy in America has indeed died in the darkness of the lies spewed by those who wanted to defeat President Trump in the 2020 election and who wanted as well to keep their absolute power over the people.  But truth is beginning to slip through the cracks like sunlight between the curtains, dispelling the darkness at last. 

But remember this one thing as you take off your mask and breathe freely once again.  Democrats in Washington still wish to control your life and take away your freedoms to choose your own leaders, to own guns, to speak the truth as you see it even if it does not agree with what they choose to call “truth.”  If you cannot trust them to be truthful about COVID and the vaccines, how can you trust them in anything else?