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'Hall Monitor Energy': Washington Post Editor Ruth Marcus Trolled for Saying She Lectured Random Stranger on Masks

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Washington Post deputy editorial page editor Ruth Marcus sparked ire on Twitter when she claimed she lectured a random stranger about wearing a mask.

In a tweet on Sunday, Marcus said she scolded an unmasked man with whom she shared an elevator ride in Madison, Wisconsin, labeling it an example of just how far the country has fallen.

“In Madison, Wis. By now I should know better but: I get in elevator. It stops on lower floor. Man steps in, unmasked,” she tweeted. “Sign in elevator says masks required. Me, getting out: ‘you know, it would be really nice if you wore a mask.’ Man: ‘I don’t care what you think.’ America 2021.”

“It’s a rule, a county rule,” she added. “‘Face coverings are required among people ages two and older when in any enclosed space open to the public where other people, except for members of the person’s own household or living unit, are present.’”

Conservatives from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw to author Michael Malice did not take kindly to Marcus’s mask lamentations in light of being fully vaccinated.

Ruth Marcus has pushed a bevy of left-wing talking points about the coronavirus pandemic, such as when she argued that doctors should be allowed to refuse unvaccinated patients if “resources are scarce”:

I’m going to come right out and say it: In situations where hospitals are overwhelmed and resources such as intensive care beds or ventilators are scarce, vaccinated patients should be given priority over those who have refused vaccination without a legitimate medical or religious reason.

This conflicts radically with accepted medical ethics, I recognize. And under ordinary circumstances, I agree with those rules. The lung cancer patient who’s been smoking two packs a day for decades is entitled to the same treatment as the one who never took a puff. The drunk driver who kills a family gets a team doing its utmost to save him — although, not perhaps, a liver transplant if he needs one. Doctors are healers, not judges.

In another article for the Washington Post, Marcus also argued people should be forced to take the vaccine “as a condition of going to work or enrolling in school.”

“Do whatever it takes — and, recent weeks have shown, it is going to take steps like these — to get the pandemic under control,” she wrote.

San Francisco Loosens Mask Mandate for Gyms, Houses of Worship — Still Required in Stores, Restaurants

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San Francisco and Marin counties are slightly loosening mask requirements Friday, more than two months after reinstating the rules. However, heavy restrictions still remain in place.

Beginning Friday, October 15, masks will no longer be required in places of gathering such as gyms and religious services. However, there is a catch: masks are only not required if the group is fewer than 100 people and everyone is vaccinated.

According to San Francisco’s government website, settings include “offices, gyms, and fitness centers, employee commuter vehicles, religious gatherings, and indoor college classes or other organized gatherings of individuals who meet regularly.” Marin County has similar rules.

“People in these settings may remove their masks if the employer or host of the gathering can control access to the setting and verify 100% full vaccination of everyone in the setting,” San Francisco’s website states.

Additionally, the employer is expected to “ensure proper ventilation, no recent COVID-19 outbreaks, and children under 12 and guests are not present, among other safety measures.”

Individuals are still required to wear masks in retail stores and restaurants.

A server at The Original Ninfa's wears gloves and a mask while bringing takeout orders to the kitchen amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on May 1, 2020 in Houston, Texas. - Texas on Friday became the largest US state to begin easing coronavirus lockdown measures despite reporting a single-day high in deaths. Stores, restaurants, movie theaters, malls, museums and libraries were allowed to reopen in the Lone Star State but with limited occupancy -- just 25 percent of their capacity. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) said in a statement last week:

This is an important step forward for San Francisco, particularly for our downtown, because when I talk to office workers and business leaders one of the things I continue to hear is that they’re anxious to get back to a more normal routine at work where they can interact with their colleagues.

“Our economy is bouncing back, the City feels like it is coming alive again, and this is yet another milestone in our recovery,” she added.

Last month, the mayor was caught partying at the city’s Black Cat nightclub without a mask, effectively violating her own city’s mandates, which required  “almost everyone” to wear a face covering in indoor public areas.

She later responded to the criticism, asserting people “don’t need the fun police” to “micromanage” them.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed smiles at the crowd before her inauguration outside City Hall, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in San Francisco. Breed, the first African-American female mayor of San Francisco, made history as she took the oath of office, vowing to help drug users and the homeless in a city that has come to embody extreme wealth and poverty. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool)

San Francisco Mayor London Breed smiles at the crowd before her inauguration outside City Hall, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in San Francisco (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool).

“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,” she said.

“No. I’m not going to sip and put my mask on, sip and put my mask up, eat and put my mask on,” she added. “While I’m eating and drinking, I’m gonna keep my mask off.”

Terry McAuliffe Snaps on Questioner: 'Are You Vaccinated Yet?' 'You're Dangerous'

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Virginia Democrat gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe this week snapped after being confronted on his position on education issues, as more parents are rising up and confronting school board leaders, and bizarrely switched the subject by asking the questioner if he had been vaccinated.

“Who do you think should be in control of education if not Virginia parents?” the conservative group Virginia Rising asked McAuliffe on Tuesday as the Democrat left an education roundtable discussion.

McAuliffe initially ignored the question, asking instead, “Are you vaccinated yet? That’s the question I want to know.”

“You should have a mask on. … You’re dangerous here,” McAuliffe continued.

As he got into the vehicle, McAuliffe boasted that he will “build education” in the state if he gets another chance as the state’s leader.

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However, pictures and videos from the roundtable discussion show almost everyone wearing a mask except for McAuliffe.

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That would not be the first time McAuliffe has failed to practice what he preaches. Over the summer, a passenger aboard Amtrak caught McAuliffe traveling maskless, violating Amtrak’s policy, which states:

Federal law requires all customers and employees to wear a mask at all times while onboard trains and in stations, regardless of vaccination status or state or local laws. Refusing to wear a mask is a violation of federal law; passengers may be subject to penalties under federal law, denied boarding, removed from the train and banned from future travel in the event of noncompliance.

The Democrat failed to sufficiently address his state of hypocrisy, claiming to be “very good” about wearing his mask but making it about everyone else. He said people in general — not himself, specifically — can “always do better.”

McAuliffe made waves after last month’s gubernatorial debate between himself and Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin, stating, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

“I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decisions,” he said.

Youngkin has since seized on his opponent’s attack on outspoken parents involved in their children’s education:

Recent surveys show McAuliffe losing ground as Election Day draws closer, particularly among independent voters. 

Election Day is November 2.

Pro-vaccine couple creates Halloween tombstones marking demise of anti-vaccine beliefs — and display is vandalized

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A suburban Chicago couple took it upon themselves to make fun of anti-vaccine beliefs by creating Halloween tombstones dedicated to the deaths of six of them, WLS-TV reported.

What are the details?

Juanita and Ted Sigg of Park Ridge placed six wooden tombstones on their front lawn emblazoned with the following statements, the station said:

  • “I did my own research.”
  • “I’d rather die than comply.”
  • “Proudly anti-vax.”
  • “Ivermectin believer.”
  • “Yes honey I am wearing my mask.”
  • “COVID — no problem.”


Image source: WLS-TV video screenshot

The idea came from the internet, WLS said, and turned into a family fun project.

“One thing led to another,” Ted Sigg told the station. “The family kept throwing things out, and I ended up making six of them.”

Juanita Sigg added to WLS that she doesn’t “know if we were really trying to make a statement; it sounded funny so we did it. Most people have stopped and talked and liked it.”


Image source: WLS-TV video screenshot

But she also told the station that one person she encountered “didn’t like it at all.”

Vandalized

WLS said the Siggs’ display was up for less than six hours before each tombstone was spray-painted with a blue X through each saying.


Image source: WLS-TV video screenshot

“Right up the street there are signs that say, ‘Unmask the children, keep my school unmasked,'” Ted Sigg told the station. “We all have a right to express our opinion. It doesn’t mean we have the right to destroy someone else’s opinion.”

What happened next?

The Siggs filed a police report and placed a new set of security cameras pointed right at the tombstones, WLS reported, adding that the couple hopes the added surveillance will discourage any future vandals.

The couple also repainted their signs and put them back up on the lawn, the station said.


Image source: WLS-TV video screenshot

And while the Siggs told WLS they intended the display to be more fun than serious, they told the station they do hope it encourages people to get vaccinated.

“If there [is] vandalism again, we thought about putting ‘free speech’ on one and setting it in there,” Juanita Sigg noted the station.

VIDEO: Leftist preschool teacher indoctrinates children with a MASK-THEMED  nursery rhyme

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A Tok Tok video of what appears to be a preschool teacher teaching her class a nursery rhyme about masks went viral over the weekend.

In this clip, Steven Crowder and the crew watched the video of a teacher, who sounded a lot like Fran Drescher, teaching her class a COVID-19 version of The Farmer in the Dell nursery rhyme.

I wear a mask to school ,
I wear a mask to school,
Hi-ho, the derry-o,
I wear a mask to school.

It keeps my friends safe,
it keeps my friends safe,
Hi-ho, the derry-o,
It keeps my friends safe.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released three studies that found school districts without mask requirements were more likely to have coronavirus outbreaks. As a result, the CDC recommends that masks should be mandatory for all students age 2 or older, as well as staff, teachers, and visitors in K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status.

The CDC made additional recommendations for universal indoor masking that requires schools to “maintain at least 3 feet of physical distance between students within classrooms to reduce transmission risk.”

In the viral video, the children wore masks but were not social distancing. But that is not the only cause for concern. Crowder noted that “it is illegal to film children in the United States without their parent’s consent.”

Watch the clip to hear more from Crowder. Can’t watch? Download the podcast here.