i say developing because we kno that there being released into the communities there, we all saw that public health notice that went out in la jolla, to the residence there that some o these migrants were seen at a whataburger, and they were openly coughing not wearing masks, when they were confronte by police, they were actually telling the police that they di test positive when they crossed over the border and there they were released into the public dining out at a restaurant with other patrons. pete sessions is coming up on this. he is outraged by this, the point is this isn t just happening in texas, we know they re going to the other area of the country. this isn t just a texas problem this is a. there s a contradiction between what the cdc and the president is asking people to d across the country but at the border there seems to be a different set of rules. we saw the increase in the number of people testing positive with covid in the last few weeks because of the spread of t
it is going to be a patchwork o different guidance and likely mandates as well as we see businesses, government organizations, and other organizations putting mask mandates back in place. first of all, i think parts of it are reasonable, i think it s totally fine and public health to evolve your position as things change and right now we do have a more infectious variants, but it s posing a ris not to the general public, it s posing a risk to the 10-20 percent of adults that she is not to get vaccinated, of which a very small subset have risk factors to get subs severely ill, we re talking about imposing restrictions on large groups of people for the sake of that small group. we ve never done that with influenza, which has a vaccine, and we don t mandate that vaccine outside of frontline healthcare workers, so what we re seeing here is totally unique. at the same time, while the cdc may have put out its general guidance that may sound reasonable in areas of high outbreak, they are st
infections that have died from covid in a hospital as a result of that out of 161 million people who have been vaccinated you re more likely to die of a lightning strike then you are o covid if your vaccinated. you re more likely to die of th flu. you have a .0005 chance of dyin of covid. you are more likely as dying from sunstroke, choking on food then you are dying from covid i your vaccinated in the same is true of being hospitalized with. most americans, if you been vaccinated, the vaccines are so miraculous they have turned covid from a deadly mortal threat to most americans into something that s a little more dangerous than the common cold. that s where we are right no we have to stop telling americans that s not true prett get the push is now to get people who did not take the vaccine, to get vaccinated and as were now seeing renewed mask mean did based on the cdc guidance, we are looking at the possibility of vaccine mandate
the community as well. for cdc and the american academ of pediatrics, our both recommending that kids in schoo wear masks even though children we know our blue risk there thi is because they are concerned o spreading, but if i think if we focus on those who are at highe risk, focusing on getting those people who are eligible to be vaccinated, that might be a better approach and getting those people to mask up versus putting the burden on our children. the world health organization actually does not recommend masks for children under the ag of five, and they say for children between the ages of si and 11, they can wear their mas if tolerable, but i think what we should be doing right now is focusing on the 100 million americans who are eligible to b vaccinated because that s one o our most important protective defenses against this delta variant that is spreading. mark, you are focusing on th people who did go and get the
the fact that there s very little information available to assess and understand what was happening purdon over trying to go back after researchers have been silenced, the wet markets have been obliterated. i think that underscores more clearly than any that this is a huge issue that we need to step up and address. we cannot allow these platforms to essentially be an extension of the federal government to do what s convenient for the federal government and silence america s free speech pretty ge the wuhan lab is a classic example of information involving . people were being censored last year to pointing to the lab forever potential source for covid and now we see jennifer s report about what the french have been saying about it now for six years. senator bill hagerty of tennessee come out looking forward to you filing that legislation. sandra. the cdc once again with a major reversal on mask wearing, now saying that some people in some parts of the country shoul wear masks, even if