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WriterMomof4's avatar

This is somewhat ancillary to the point of your article, but one of the earliest, and best, sources against masking was put out years before SARS-CoV-2 was discovered, by a dental organization. Frustratingly, early in the pandemic (around May 2020), they took the article down because (gasp!) people were pointing to it to show that masking for a virus was pointless. (The url now goes to a statement that says: “ The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate.”) 🙄

Thankfully, the WayBack Machine still has it (https://web.archive.org/web/20200618031535/https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/ ), and it is absolutely still just as relevant.

Sadly, so many dental practices went along with not just their state directives, but the entire CDC agenda. Our dentist (in neighboring IN) is very levelheaded and tried to stay maskless, but could NOT find or keep hygienists unless he “required” masking in the office. He very nearly had to close when he refused to force his staff to be vaccinated because so many of his hygienists quit.

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Freedom girl's avatar

Some State employees still have to mask but not administration of course. I have been suspended a total of 50 days unpaid by DHS for not masking. I will likely be fired in Nov. Look at the schools that have to👇. Pure evil! Why hasn't anyone filed a discrimination lawsuit yet??

24/7 State operated congregate care facilities (including visitors, contractors, and others entering the facilities)

The Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD) and Illinois School for the Visually Impaired (ISVI) in Jacksonville; The Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education – Roosevelt (ICRE-R) and The Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education ICRE-Wood (including teachers, staff, students, and visitors)

FCRCs and DRS local offices: only if meeting in-person with members of the public (for employees only; customers are encouraged, but not required, to wear masks when visiting IDHS offices)

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Arne's avatar

A quiet pun there with "somewhat toothless." Of course, this new recommendation on covid vaccines for kids is putting Pritzker on the spot again.

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Jessica Hockett's avatar

Thank you for appreciating my pun. :)

Need a reporter to ask Pritzker about the kid vax. Mary Ann Ahern or Amy Jacobsen

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KittyCatKaia's avatar

Slippery slope when asking JB to follow CDC guidance especially at the heels of CDCs decision to include Covid shots on the childhood vaccination schedule. We could end up with vax mandates for school. Vote JB out is the only way.

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bigfatpop's avatar

I can't believe that anyone would vote for that pig-f**ker.

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Mary K's avatar

Seriously, they finally found their balls.

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daven's avatar

Though extremely late, I'm glad the ISDS finally got the 𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 to message Pritzker.

He's such a self-serving politician. Some may say a corrupt, lying, power hungry, compromised tyrant that intentionally and illegally thwarts personal freedoms, his oath of office, and the US Constitution. Some may say ....

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Gaye's avatar

Anyone listening to the “Centers for Dissimulation, Craftiness and Prevarication“ (as Meryl Nass calls them) needs to sit down and shut up. We’ve had quite enough of them, and they should be hounded l into oblivion.

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