Amid a ‘Tripledemic,’ It’s Time to Mask Up Again, Experts Say

Amid a ‘Tripledemic,’ It’s Time to Mask Up Again, Experts Say© John Taggart for The New York Times
Nationwide, Covid-19 case rates and hospitalizations have spiked by 56 percent and 24 percent, respectively, over the past two weeks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there have already been 13 million illnesses and 7,300 deaths from flu this season, and those numbers are expected to rise in the coming months. (Over the past decade,  have ranged from 12,000 to 52,000 people, with the peak in January and February.) And while R.S.V. finally appears to be on the decline, infection rates are still high across much of the country.

The C.D.C. officially advises wearing a mask on a county-by-county basis depending on community Covid-19 levels, which take into account virus-related hospital admissions, bed capacity and case rates. However, in an interview with NPR last week, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the C.D.C. director, said, “You don’t need to wait for C.D.C.’s recommendation, certainly, to wear a mask.”

Amid a ‘Tripledemic,’ It’s Time to Mask Up Again, Experts Say

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The “tripledemic” of flu, COVID-19, and RSV cases are on the rise this holiday season, leaving many wondering which virus they’ve caught. Here’s how to tell the difference:

Here  we  go  again!

Los Angeles County is set to reinstate indoor-mask mandates as local COVID-19 infections and related hospital admissions continue to surge.

(Wake up people.  They are causing the illness so that you will do what they say!!  It is already proven that people who get the VAX are the ones who get COVID AGAIN, they are also the ones who SPREAD COVID, they are also much more susceptible to EVERYTHING that comes along.  The VAX destroys your natural IMMUNE SYSTEM.  THERE NEVER WAS A PANDEMIC!  COVID 19 is the COMMON COLD.  The COMMON COLD IS ALWAYS HERE..> THAT IS WHY IT IS CALLED COMMON.  THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO CURE THE COMMON COLD.  THE COMMON COLD IS NOT A DEADLY VIRUS!!)

“There is this common line of thinking that the pandemic is over and COVID is no longer of concern, but these numbers clearly demonstrate that COVID is still with us,” County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said at a press conference Thursday 

(PEOPLE WHO GET TESTED ARE IDIOTS!  THE TEST IS NOT VALID THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN.  THE TESTING JUST GIVES THEM ACCESS TO YOU.  THEY CAN CLAIM YOU ARE ILL AND LOCK YOU UP!!)

The county now averages more than 2,700 new COVID infections per day, up 180% since Nov. 1. Virus-related hospital admissions are now at 192 per day, a 200% increase from the same date, she said.

Los Angeles County’s weekly rate of new cases also rose to 185 per 100,000 residents, which boosted the county from “low” virus activity to “medium,” as per CDC guidelines.

Masked customers at Los Angeles' Grand Central Market in July 2022.
Masked customers at Los Angeles’ Grand Central Market in July 2022.
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The “medium” risk level still only makes masking “strongly recommended.”

But Ferrer warned that the county is on track to move to the “high” viral level by next week, which would prompt an indoor-mask mandate.

To hit the “high” designation, the county’s weekly case rate would have to be at least 200 per 100,000 residents and its hospital admissions reach more than 10 per 100,000 residents. More than than 10% of staffed hospital beds also would have to occupied by COVID patients.

As of Thursday, the hospital admission rate already exceeded the CDC’s threshold, with 11.9 new admissions per 100,000 residents. Still, only 5.6% of inpatient beds in the county were occupied by COVID patients.

Los Angeles County reported over 4,000 new COVID cases on Thursday.
Los Angeles County reported over 4,000 new COVID cases on Thursday.
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“Given both the increases in hospitalizations and the lack of certainty in the winter trajectory for COVID-19, continuing some common-sense mitigation strategies that we know work to limit transmission and illness, including masking and being up to date on vaccines and boosters, remains a very sensible approach,” Ferrer said.

“However, [the current trend] does signal that case rates and hospitalizations are elevated, and we could be in the ‘high’ community level as soon as next week,” she said.

Ferrer’s announcement quickly generated a reaction on social media.

LA County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer announced a possible indoor mask mandate if the surge continues.
LA County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer announced a possible indoor-mask mandate if the surge continues.  Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag

“They push false data and fearporn through their daily news,” a Twitter user lamented.

Another person tweeted, “The only city that is chomping at the bit to bring masks back is Los Angeles.

They’ll have rolling mandates forever,” the writer said, adding that “it’s been very normal” in their hometown of Louisville, KY.

Other commenters were more open to the idea, with one person writing, “How do you prevent long Covid?

“Vaccines. Masks. Treatments like Paxlovid. The greatest crime is telling people that Covid is ‘just a cold.’”

Another Twitter user went so far as to say the mandate should already be in place.

“Why wait to implement a simple measure that could temper the surge, reduce deaths, long Covid, hospitalizations, & even more mutations?” the person argued.

Masks soon might be required everywhere in the county, not just healthcare facilities.
Masks soon might be required everywhere in the county, not just healthcare facilities.
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At the end of the day Thursday, the department reported 4,493 new COVID cases and 14 additional deaths, with current hospitalizations hovering at 1,164.

Department officials previously stated that about 40% of hospital admissions were brought in for COVID-related symptoms, while the rest tested positive after arriving for separate issues.

Don’t go near a doctor or hospital or anywhere else they are testing.  The TESTS have already been proved to be a SCAM and you could end up in quarantine or worse.   Once they have you, you are at their mercy.  A ventilator used on someone who does not need it will kill them.

Concerns about the LA County COVID surge are compounded by an uptick in flu and RSV cases.
Concerns about the LA County COVID surge are compounded by an uptick in flu and RSV cases.
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Although masks are currently optional throughout the county, they are still required in healthcare facilities and congregate care locations like nursing homes, per the department’s website.

Concerns about the LA County COVID surge are compounded by an uptick in flu and RSV cases in the winter months. Earlier this month, The Post reported on staggering pediatric RSV numbers in New York City hospitals.

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We’re caring for more kids than we have beds for,” Dr. James Schneider, head of the pediatric intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital, said at the time.
(Ya, and kids are completely at their mercy.  They are getting all the shots and boosters, wearing masks and keeping their distance.  YET THE VIRUS SPREADS…What do you know about that?)

As COVID infections continue to climb, Los Angeles authorities are urging residents to follow through with vaccination. While a vaccinated person can still catch and transmit COVID, vaccines offer protection from the most severe symptoms.

(Not true, far more people are suffering complications and even death from the Vaccines than the disease.  Those who have the vaccine are the ones who are spreading it. So, who are they protecting?? NO ONE! Meanwhile, anyone that I have known that got the “COVID” got over it in a matter of a few days.  Symptoms were no more severe than a cold or upper respiratory infection.  So what severe symptoms are they claiming you can avoid?  And it is worth all the damage to our society?  Look what they have done. We are on the verge of collapse.  Not from the disease, from their policies and mandates!!  Meanwhile, they are calling it a PANDEMIC, but I don’t know anyone who has died from it.  DO YOU?  Where are all the people collapsing in the street?  Where are all the funeral possessions? Have you seen any wheel barrels full of dead bodies? PLEASE!  Most of the people who supposedly died from COVID died in the hospital and we have already proven that they were calling them COVID Deaths no matter the true cause of their death.)

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IF you want to see what the future will look like if you give in to their demands now, take a look at what happened in CHINA.  It got so bad that those poor people finally called up enough courage to revolt!!  Though they have been conditioned for so long to accept the oppression of their communist dictatorship.  They had ENOUGH!!  God bless them
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Nov 18, 2022Two women tied up and shamed by China Covid security for not wearing masks to collect a takeaway Footage shows the distressed women with their hands behind their backs, while one claims…
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Meanwhile in China: As part of China’s zero-tolerance Covid policy, they now have these isolation boxes at airports. If you test positive they place you in one and take you away to a quarantine camp.
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The recent Lock downs in Shenzen may have ended, the people did not comply anymore!
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It’s very clear now… Time is so very short… ⌛ Even shorter if you have taken the serpents poison… 🐍 It’s time to Repent… Call on the name of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ… ✝ Ask Jesus into your hearts today… ❤ Pray & don’t be deceived… 🙏 Be filled & led by the Holy Spirit… 😇💪 Run towards Jesus now… 🏃 while you still can… ⌛ 🚨🚫💉🚨*Where there is RISK there should be CHOICE…*Freedom Not Force…
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QANON Australia [ 03:21 ] Prime Minister Scott Morrison Australian Police ZERO Tolerance for FREEDOM in AUSTRALIA Forgotten History China Virus Reality police violent COVID Lockdown Mask Mandates CCP Tank Man The day a man stopped tanks in TiananmenCNN Photojournalist Jonathan Schaer looks back on covering the Tiananmen Square protests and the iconic tank standoff.It was June 5, 1989, a day after Chinese troops began violently cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators who had been in the square for over a month. Widener had been in Beijing for a week to cover the protests, and he was hurt when the deadly crackdown began.

Military police riot squad Australian Regional Operations Group prepares to break up out of control parties.

Australia committed to a COVID-zero approach. We shut our borders. We imposed strict quarantine measures for returning residents, and we locked down our cities. And I think the reason that Australians tolerated these measures is they saw what was going on around the world with high death tolls and high rates of hospitalizations that Australia largely avoided because we kept COVID out of our communities. And now the delta variant is pushing Australia into a corner with that existing playbook.

CHANG: Right. And it seems thousands of Australians now have just had enough, right? I mean, they are protesting lockdown measures on the streets of Sydney and elsewhere – in violation of those very lockdown measures. Is the delta variant the factor that changed, or are there other factors that account for why so many Australians right now are done with these lockdown measures?

MCKAY: So on the one hand, there is probably some level of COVID fatigue, but the portion of the community is small but loud in reacting to these current lockdown measures being imposed across the country. And there’s been upwards of 10,000 tip-offs since the weekend of members of the community dobbing in those who attended the protest. A poll that came out early this week shows that only 7% supported the anti-lockdown protests.

CHANG: Interesting.

MCKAY: Yeah. So while around the world it might look like a lot of Australians are fed up, it is only a small minority.

CHANG: Can you just put into context the scale of these outbreaks, say, compared to other parts of the world that are seeing surges of coronavirus cases now because of the delta variant?

MCKAY: So globally speaking, the case numbers are quite low. It’s been in the hundreds for about seven days in a row. There are reports that this week cases may get somewhere over 200. So, yes, they sound low, but in Australian terms, they are concerning figures…

CHANG: Right.

MCKAY: …Considering the level of lockdown that’s currently happening across Sydney, the lockdown being one of the strictest since the beginning of the pandemic.

CHANG: So as the delta variant continues to spread in your country, what additional measures do you expect from the government in Australia to control that spread?

MCKAY: The only current options are vaccine, increasing that vaccine rate, getting jabs into arms and sticking to these strict lockdowns. The New South Wales state government has repeatedly said that until the vaccination rate is higher, Sydney can’t really open up. Otherwise, we risk overrunning hospitals that haven’t seen the level of hospitalizations and, sadly, deaths that the rest of the world has throughout the course of this pandemic.

CHANG: Georgina McKay has been covering the pandemic in Australia for Bloomberg News. Thank you very much, and stay safe.

MCKAY: Thank you, Ailsa.

Midnight Oil Forgotten Years 1990
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Health care workers aka communist military attack citizens that do not comply and now Chinese people are fighting back.
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Tyranny is not a beautiful sight it destroys humanities destroys lives destroys morales destroys everything in its path of destruction. Chinese communities are riddled with garbage because no one us allowed to leave their residence unless every 24 hour covid-19 PCR tests are performed by every citizen. And then movement is limited.
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CHINA, Huizhou City – After work , tens of thousands of workers running for daily routine PCR test , to prove they are COVID negative to keep their QR code green to keep their jobs.
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China’s zero-Covid policy 

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China has adopted a zero-tolerance policy on Covid outbreaks since the pandemic began in late 2019. Photograph: Yevgen Romanenko/Getty Images

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… and should not be confused with coronavirus disease 2019.
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COVID is nothing more than a plan. Certificate of Vaccination ID that’s their end game. 19=AI which will run everything once their plan has run. Printed 1989.
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