Governors lift COVID-19 restrictions despite risks of new spike

[mystery-ak]

Governors lift COVID-19 restrictions despite risks of new spike
By Peter Sullivan - 02/28/21 11:00 AM EST

Governors across the country are lifting coronavirus restrictions, including mask mandates and capacity limits, despite warning signs ahead of a new spike from virus variants.

The moves in several states are risky, given that while cases and hospitalizations have declined dramatically in recent weeks, they are still at extremely high levels, and are showing signs of ticking back up again.

More infectious variants of the virus, particularly one first found in the United Kingdom, are adding to the threat of a new spike as they become more prevalent.


While vaccinations are starting to help get the pandemic under control, they are not yet widely available, leaving a crucial period of perhaps a couple of months until increases in vaccine supply can make a larger dent in the pandemic and help ease a return to normal.

The Biden administration on Friday raised new alarms about the need to keep restrictions in place. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said at a White House briefing that data indicates recent declines in cases “may be stalling” in a “very concerning shift in the trajectory.”

“Things are tenuous,” she said. “Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/540777-governors-lift-covid-19-restrictions-despite-risks-of-new-spike

[BassWrangler]

The media are prepping the battlefield. They want a Dem-friendly narrative when the next spike comes. And that narrative will be to blame it on Republican governors.

[240B]

Fauci has been acting as a dictator of America.
'You shall do this!'
'You shall do that!'
'You shall stand on one leg and juggle!'
Fauci was never elected to anything.
He is essentially a nobody bureaucrat, with sudden crazy power.
This is a sign that his 'hold' on all of America is beginning to crack.
Who is Fauci? What power does he have?
Fauci says 'jump' and everyone ... jumps?
It is up to the governors to end all this silly nonsense.

[BassWrangler]

Fauci has been acting as a dictator of America.
'You shall do this!'
'You shall do that!'
'You shall stand on one leg and juggle!'
Fauci was never elected to anything.
He is essentially a nobody bureaucrat, with sudden crazy power.
This is a sign that his 'hold' on all of America is beginning to crack.
Who is Fauci? What power does he have?
Fauci says 'jump' and everyone ... jumps?
It is up to the governors to end all this silly nonsense.

Yes, it's frustrating as heck. Hopefully with the vaccine being rolled out were near the end of this ChiCom-created nightmare.

[240B]

Fauci has no 'real power'.
He has no authority at all, when everything is settled down.
All this stuff is just his 'opinion', which changes from day to day.
Fauce has no way in the world to enforce his off the cuff 'laws'.
If the governors simply say, 'Thanks, for your opinion...' but 'No Thanks'.
There is absolutely nothing he can do about it.

[Wingnut]

Living ones life is one of making daily risk assessments.  It is up to the individual to decide for themselves how to act on those risks, not a Government in a free society.

[jmyrlefuller]

They have been given a full year. To continue unconstitutional restrictions beyond that is a crime.

[PeteS in CA]

New spike? What new spike? Show me the data!

More Panic Porn from The Shill.