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Ha! Satan doesn’t even have DNA!
…but I don’t expect those folks to know that.
(“Satan’s DNA” sounds like a really strong strain of cannabis…or maybe some weird mixed drink.)
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Obligs:
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Got an appointment set up for my second Moderna booster today after work.
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I just heard that the family across the road from my old Beauty Point house (the father would drop by with a beer almost every day, and once drunkenly crashed his ute into my shed) are now in Covid isolation.
Covid in Beauty Point means Covid in Beaconsfield, which in turn means Covid on Clarence Point. The GP in Beaconsfield is the only medical service north of Exeter, 20km to the south. A couple of part-time doctors cover all of the northern half of the West Tamar Valley.
They’re gonna be busy.
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The PHSA’s context, she wrote, “indicates that ‘sanitation’ and ‘other measures’ refer to measures that clean something, not ones that keep something clean. Wearing a mask cleans nothing,” she argued. “At most, it traps virus droplets. But it neither ‘sanitizes’ the person wearing the mask nor ‘sanitizes’ the conveyance.”
Despite the obvious counter-argument that a mask cleans exhaled air by trapping and thus removing virus droplets injurious to health, she concludes that the mask mandate “falls outside” the scope of the PHSA.
“The Court accepts the CDC’s policy determination that requiring masks will limit COVID-19 transmission and will thus decrease the serious illnesses and death that COVID-19 occasions,” she wrote. “But the finding by itself is not sufficient to establish good cause.” Elsewhere she lamented that “the CDC failed to articulate that reasoning” and “identify specific reasons.”
“In sum, irrespective of whether the CDC made a good or accurate decision, it needed to explain why it acted as it did,” she wrote.
I have often said that doing something good for the wrong reasons is still doing something good, and doing something bad for the right reasons is still doing something bad. This judge seems to take the opposite view.
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I think the judge is entirely on the side of doing something bad for the wrong reasons. Apparently they think that being prevented from flying without wearing a mask is equivalent to being detained.
One could wonder why the same logic doesn’t apply to, say, being prevented from flying without having all your posessions scanned. Or being prevented from flying while carrying a gun. Or…
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This confuses me. Keeping things clean means keeping them free of viruses as well as visible dirt.
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From the article:
The CDC has straightforwardly interpreted “sanitation” and “other measures” to include masking because masks promote “sanitation” as it’s currently defined: “the promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by maintenance of sanitary conditions.” However, Mizelle sought a definition of “sanitation” from around 1944, when the PHSA was drafted. She referenced the 1946 edition of Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary , which defined sanitation as “the removal or neutralization of elements injurious to health.” She dubiously argued that the PHSA’s use of “sanitation” was intended to mean " active cleaning."
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But a mask partially neutralizes…omg she is a T. appointee through and through.
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Gawd, that’s one of my pet peeves!
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7:45 pm ET update : The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to appeal a Florida judge’s ruling Monday that abruptly vacated the federal travel mask mandate. The Department of Justice said Tuesday that it would appeal the ruling if the CDC determined that the mask mandate was still necessary.
In a media statement late Wednesday afternoon, the CDC said it determined that masks are necessary and told the DOJ to proceed with the appeal. “It is CDC’s continuing assessment that at this time an order requiring masking in the indoor transportation corridor remains necessary for the public health,” the statement said. “CDC will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine whether such an order remains necessary. CDC believes this is a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health,” the agency added.
DOJ spokesperson Anthony Coley announced in a tweet Wednesday evening that in light of the CDC’s decision, the DOJ filed a notice of appeal in the case.
For now, the federal mask mandate for transit remains lifted. However, the CDC continued to urge travelers to wear a mask on planes, trains, buses, subways, taxis, rideshares, and transit hubs. “As we have said before, wearing masks is most beneficial in crowded or poorly ventilated locations, such as the transportation corridor,” the agency said. “When people wear a well-fitting mask or respirator over their nose and mouth in indoor travel or public transportation settings, they protect themselves, and those around them, including those who are immunocompromised or not yet vaccine-eligible, and help keep travel and public transportation safer for everyone.”
And now we get to see whether higher courts are willing to twist themselves into pretzels to get rid of the mandate…
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