Stanford s Jay Bhattacharya Says There s No Reason for Fully Vaccinated Americans to Wear Masks
On 5/7/21 at 12:34 PM EDT I would recommend the CDC tell vaccinated people, Live your life free, Bhattacharya told
Newsweek on Friday. I mean there s no reason for vaccinated people either for themselves or for others to wear a mask, not really.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a new guidance on April 27 for face coverings, stating that those who have been vaccinated can shed their masks outdoors while walking, running, hiking or biking alone, and when in small gatherings.
But the health protection agency stopped short of telling fully inoculated Americans that they could ditch face masks outdoors altogether. Masks are still recommended for large gatherings, such as sporting events or live performance, and in settings where there is a decreased ability to maintain social distancing.
US stocks rise to new records despite weak jobs report
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Bad economic news was once again greeted with cheers on Wall Street as two top indexes closed out the week in record territory. Investors brushed off Friday’s surprisingly weak jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs were added last month than expected.
The Dow gained about 230 points Friday. It and the S&P 500 both rose nearly 1% on the day to all-time highs, and the Nasdaq also finished up about 1% as big tech stocks bounced after a recent stretch lagging the broader market.
For the week, the Nasdaq was still down 1.5%. The S&P 500 and Dow gained 1.2% and 2.7% respectively over the week.
US stocks rise despite weak jobs report
Bad economic news was once again greeted with cheers on Wall Street. Investors brushed off Friday’s surprisingly weak jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs were added last month than expected.
The Dow and the S&P 500 both rose to new all-time highs Friday, and the Nasdaq was up nearly 1% as big tech stocks bounced after a recent stretch lagging the broader market.
For the week, the Nasdaq is still down 1.6%. The S&P 500 and Dow have gained 1.2% and 2.6% respectively over the past five days.
The jobs report also showed that the unemployment rate ticked up and wages surged. The jump in worker paychecks may not seem like a bad thing, but it tends to set off alarm bells about inflation. And many economists are worried inflation is due to come roaring back because of all the stimulus from Washington.
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The satirist Ambrose Bierce once defined prophecy as the “art and practice of selling one’s credibility for future delivery.” Covid-19 has produced no shortage of doomsaying prophets whose prognostications completely failed at future delivery, and yet in the eyes of the scientific community their credibility remains peculiarly intact.
No greater example exists than the epidemiology modeling team at Imperial College-London (ICL), led by the physicist Neil Ferguson. As I’ve documented at length, the ICL modelers played a direct and primary role in selling the concept of lockdowns to the world. The governments of the United States and United Kingdom explicitly credited Ferguson’s forecasts on March 16, 2020 with the decision to embrace the once-unthinkable response of ordering their populations to shelter in place.
https://www.afinalwarning.com/515682.html (Natural News) Prashant Bhushan, an advocate-on-record for the Supreme Court of India, was punished by Twitter for tweeting about a peer-reviewed study showing that face masks are ineffective and harmful.
Twitter pulled the tweet citing a violation of its “community standards.” The linked study warns that wearing a face mask restricts breathing, lowers blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia), and increases blood carbon dioxide levels (hypercapnia). Wearing a face mask persistently can lead to long-term health effects, it further explains.
Joining in on the fun, YouTube also pulled a video featuring a scientific roundtable on the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19). In that “offensive” video, a professor from