The police in New England will drive out to hassle kids playing soccer outdoors and arrest the unmasked for disorderly conduct (example).
What about their counterparts in the Florida Free State? I went to the Jupiter (Florida) Police Department (brand new palatial building; let’s be grateful to the folks who pay property tax on $10 million houses!) to get fingerprints that I could send to the FBI for a background check that is required for the Portuguese golden visa/passport program (seemingly a better investment every day given the proposals we’re hearing from our rulers in D.C.!). Visitors are told to “Wear a mask at your discretion”. I went into a small room with a guy about my age (i.e., prime target for Delta variant!). He was not wearing a mask.
Related:
- “Massachusetts man pulls gun on maskless man in Walgreens parking lot amid coronavirus mask order: Police” (Boston Herald, July 2020): The man who had not been wearing a mask, a 30-year-old Abington man, was not injured, police said. … Under Gov. Charlie Baker’s coronavirus emergency order, people entering stores in Massachusetts are required to wear masks.
Yep, but after a year in Texas and Florida it becomes opposite: the shock is visiting CA or NY and seeing all the masked zombies.
In other news: COVID vaccines do NOT reduce spread of virus or rate of infections. Why are they being mandated, again?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481107/
averros: Thanks for that paper. That vaccines don’t reduce infections, I think, only underscores the vital importance of making sure that everyone, from infants to 115-year-old pensioners, is fully vaccinated and then triple-boosted.
Let’s not forget another benefit of mass vaccination:
Excess deaths are up across all older age groups in Scotland
Too many people are dying and it’s starting to worry the demographers
all-cause deaths are also now running well above normal in Germany
But wait! It gets better… and by “better” I really mean worse.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/original-antigenic-sin
@Philg: And the definition of “fully vaccinated” is now subject to change as the boosters roll out.
From this we can surmise that two shots of anything will no longer qualify anyone as “fully vaccinated.”
https://www.axios.com/cdc-fully-covid-vaccinated-definition-update-5c2312d9-64f4-4bb7-a289-04c00889a573.html
That link to the Boston Herald story from last July is one of the reasons I hang an N95 from my rear view mirror and keep two others in the center console. I always make sure I wear them at Walmart. Now that we’ve got the vaccines though, and the pandemic is ending just as President Biden promised during his campaign, I think the big question is going to be: “Are you fully vaccinated?” as the gunman questions you in the parking lot.
Frankly I don’t see any good way out of this without RFID chips in people’s necks, as you have proposed on many occasions. That way everyone can walk through a scanner and prove their “fully vaccinated” status whenever needed.
RFID is an unneeded hack. Just have “the Google” do the facial recognition.