{"id":65149,"date":"2021-05-14T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65149"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:59:41","slug":"biden-rule-get-vaccinated-or-wear-a-mask-until-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=65149","title":{"rendered":"BIDEN RULE! &#8216;Get Vaccinated Or Wear A Mask Until You Do&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Biden Says &#8216;Rule Is Simple&#8221;: Get Vaccinated Or Wear A Mask Until You Do<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update (1640ET):\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Building on the White House and CDC announcement, President Biden tweeted on Thursday that &#8220;The new\u00a0<strong><em><u>rule<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is simple: get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The choice is yours<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet 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(1430ET):\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Shortly after\u00a0<em>AP\u00a0<\/em>reported that fully vaccinated people can shed their masks indoors with a ton of exceptions, the White House announced that &#8220;If you\u2019re fully vaccinated, you do not need to wear a mask \u2013 indoors or outdoors, in most settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" 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&#8216;most settings.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1392910378473082887&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Fcdc-flip-flops-again-agency-ease-guidance-indoor-mask-wearing-fully-vaccinated&amp;sessionId=2535d325092c15d4eef781569846626d5174ca94&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" 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scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1392909738984280073\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/states-offer-beer-cash-incentives-vaccine-demand-softens\">businesses<\/a>\u00a0and states resort to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/states-offer-beer-cash-incentives-vaccine-demand-softens\"><strong>bribing people<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to take the COVID-19 vaccine, the benevolent Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in their ever-scientific wisdom is dangling yet another &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/cnn-medical-expert-cdc-suggest-americans-freedoms-be-restricted-until-they-are-vaccinated\">freedom<\/a>&#8216; carrot above our heads;\u00a0<strong>those who are fully vaccinated will be able to combat pro-mask Karens by officially easing indoor mask-wearing guidance &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>just two weeks after they said the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/wallensky.jpg?itok=X9aec0u1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"352907cb-e0ed-4105-baf0-679be2fd30e9\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-masks-cdc-guidelines-9d10c8b5f80a4ac720fa1df2a4fb93e5\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a>, &#8220;<strong>The new guidance will still call for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings<\/strong>\u00a0like buses, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters,\u00a0<strong>but could ease restrictions for reopening workplaces and schools.<\/strong>\u00a0It will also\u00a0<strong>no longer recommend that fully vaccinated people wear masks outdoors in crowds<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>So you can lose the mask if you&#8217;re going to work or school, but\u00a0<strong>will still need to wear one if you&#8217;re around other people<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>indoors<\/strong>, which apparently doesn&#8217;t apply to workplaces or schools. Make sense?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><em>The announcement comes as the CDC and the Biden administration have faced pressure to ease restrictions on fully vaccinated people \u2014 people who are two weeks past their last required COVID-19 vaccine dose \u2014 in part to highlight the benefits of getting the shot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><strong><em><u>The eased guidance comes two weeks after the CDC recommended that fully vaccinated people continue to wear masks indoors<\/u>\u00a0in all settings and outdoors in large crowds.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><em>Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, was set to announce the new guidance on Thursday afternoon at a White House briefing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-57 Component-p-0-2-48\"><em>During a virtual meeting Tuesday on vaccinations with a bipartisan group of governors, President Joe Biden appeared to acknowledge that his administration had to do more to model the benefits of vaccination. -AP<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to say that we have fully vaccinated people; we should start acting like it,&#8221; said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) in a statement to Biden. &#8220;And that\u2019s a big motivation get the unvaccinated to want to to get vaccinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/biden%20mask%201b_0.jpg?itok=ns4dEtAe\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/biden%20mask%201b_0.jpg?itok=ns4dEtAe\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/biden%20mask%201b_0.jpg?itok=ns4dEtAe\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4ffec6e1-708f-4ba6-88c0-e80054bf14b5\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good point,&#8221; a fully Biden responded. &#8220;we\u2019re going to be moving on that in the next little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/cdc-flip-flops-again-agency-ease-guidance-indoor-mask-wearing-fully-vaccinated\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/covid-19\/cdc-flip-flops-again-agency-ease-guidance-indoor-mask-wearing-fully-vaccinated<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Says &#8216;Rule Is Simple&#8221;: Get Vaccinated Or Wear A Mask Until You Do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}