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If you thought the pandemic was over, we're sorry to say that you're wrong.
As the 2024 election looms closer and the presidential candidates are increasingly at each others' throats, so it seems COVID is at ours. And Lauren Chen is well aware.
“It does seem like COVID part two is back. That’s right, the pandemic strikes back,” Chen says. “A lot of people, if you ask me, have been a little too quick to move on and forget that hey, you actually had neighbors who are calling the police on you if you tried to have guests over.”
“There were actually people who were dying that were prevented from seeing their loved ones,” she adds.
We need to remember, because if we don’t, then it could easily all happen over again. And in some ways, it already is.
Lionsgate, a production company based in California, has re-implemented a mask mandate for some employees after a few employees tested positive for COVID.
The employees were told in an email to “wear a medical grade face covering (surgical mask KN95 or N95) when indoors except when alone in an office with the door closed, actively eating, actively drinking at their desk or workstation, or if they are the only individual present in a large open workspace.”
“If you are still afraid of COVID in this day and age, you haven’t been paying attention and you should probably go see some sort of mental health professional, rather than place all of your concern in something like COVID,” Chen says.
It’s not only the Hollywood studio that’s making a big deal out of re-implementing mask mandates. Morris Brown College has also reintroduced a mask mandate for both students and staff.
The college made this decision because there have been reports of students testing positive for COVID.
“Yes, the fatality rates for COVID are very similar to that of the flu. Do we institute mask mandates for the flu now? Absolutely not. It’s just something we live with and we understand that we live in a society. People get sick. So, the fact that some people out there still have this irrational fear when it comes to COVID,” Chen says. “It’s not based in science. It’s not based in medicine. This is an ideological thing.”
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Less than a week before the British government withdrew plans to relax restrictions for Christmas 2020, Matt Hancock, who at the time served as the British health secretary, asked an aide when they should "deploy the new variant."
On Dec. 13, 2020, Hancock and aide Damon Poole were discussing the possibility of London Mayor Sadiq Khan opposing a lockdown for London and how to encourage compliance with restrictions.
"Rather than doing too much forward signalling, we can roll pitch with the new strain," Poole told Hancock.
Hancock responded, "We frighten the pants of (sic) everyone with the new strain."
"Yep, that's what will get proper behaviour change," Poole agreed.
Shockingly, the health minister then asked, "When do we deploy the new variant."
Poole responded that he had "been thinking about this" and advised Hancock that they needed to be "more cautious," suggesting they keep "schools off paperwork/agenda," perhaps referring to not applying new restrictions to schools.
The day after those messages were exchanged, Hancock announced new lockdown measures justified by — you guessed it — a new alleged variant of COVID-19.
"This rise in transmission — as well as the new variant of COVID — should be a warning to us all that — even after such a difficult year — we must stay vigilant," Hancock said on Dec. 14, 2020.
The alarming messages were revealed in more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages obtained and published by The Telegraph.
How did Hancock respond?
Hancock, who remains a member of Parliament, denounced the leak of his messages.
"There is absolutely no public interest case for this huge breach," he said in response. "All the materials for the book have already been made available to the Inquiry, which is the right, and only, place for everything to be considered properly and the right lessons to be learned."
"As we have seen, releasing them in this way gives a partial, biased account to suit an anti-lockdown agenda," he complained.
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