Just about everyone knows the folk wisdom definition of insanity, “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
That quote is usually and wrongly attributed to Albert Einstein – a very smart guy – and, in keeping with that definition, many county citizens don’t see the new mask mandate as a smart move at all.
This week, after the Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted to restore a mask mandate for people in stores, offices, restaurants or other public establishments, former Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Jeff Phillips unloaded on the move that he said was “incompetent” – and that he, frankly, implied was insane.
“I guess all the lockdowns, restrictions, mask mandates, and massive global vaccination push hasn’t worked yet, huh?” Phillips stated in a text message to the Rhino Times. “A Covid-19 spike following the most significant vaccination campaign in modern history? In the middle of the summer, no less? Head scratching, to say the least. Just more of the same ineffective rinse and repeat rhetoric and restrictive policies that didn’t work the first time around and, unfortunately, won’t eradicate the virus this time either.”
Phillips, who has severed as chairman of the Board of Commissioners, served on the board for eight year between 2012 and 2020 before deciding not to run again. Throughout the pandemic he has been publicly critical of the actions taken by the Board of Commissioners.
“You know what repeating the same misguided responses over and over hoping for a different result is called, right?” Phillips continued. “Exactly. Great leadership, guys! Just what the doctor ordered. Not. When are Guilford County citizens going to wake up and start calling our elected decision-makers out for what they really are? Incompetent.”
Philips, a Republican, has plenty of company in his disdain for the new mask mandate.
There were two county commissioners who voted no to the new mask mandate: Commissioners Justin Conrad and Alan Perdue, the board’s two Republicans.
Glad he is a ‘former’. The past mask and vaccine strategies haven’t worked because nutters refuse to get onboard the one true path for ending this pandemic…..the vaccine path. It works, it is safe, and is still critical.
Deny these facts all you nutters want. But stop complaining about yet another surge in cases requiring mandates because YOU don’t want to support the only known solution.
I suppose that’s why the head health honcho in Michigan admitted that 77% of their folks who were testing positive were already vaccinated with the toxic sludge. Check it out. It was on the Communist News Network.
Studies are showing Pfizer vaccine as only 46% effective against Delta but with far less dramatic symptoms. 95% of hospitalizations are nutters that refuse vaccine even though 160 million Americans have recovered the shots with almost zero serious effects.
So masks make sense. But you be you.
Well thank you so much for allowing us “nutters” as you call us to exist. Let me guess my fine friend you are already filling your application out for your new job to put us all in a camp right? Glad you got all that off your chest. That being said STAY IN YOUR LANE.
Interesting you self identify as a nutter. Good on your for honesty and humility. We need more of it in this world.
Your life is about freedom. It’s a choice and it should always be. We live in America! Mandates are just another form of political control.
Just to be clear, by “nutters” do you mean people successfully shutting down any talk of cost effective public i.p. ivermectin treatments which may lead to the extinction of the virus?
It is my understanding, these breakthrough cases *may be* showing up because the vaccine had such a narrow scope so the companies could make more vaccines as new variants showed up.
Why is no one actively exploring how to make the virus extinct? If it were the current vaccines, at least if that was the intention for the current vaccines, we would not have the delta variant. I’d rather they focus on solving the problem instead of applying band aids to it.
Your tinfoil hat has slipped a bit far to the right. I have read very little about covid treatments as I have the vaccine and even with the Delta variant if I get covid, the symptoms are rather mild. You all without the vaccine can sweat out the research on treatment for the nutter syndrome. Best wishes.
It’s obvious you aren’t well informed. No point bragging about it though.
Chris, I read about these thing because I believe information should drive decision making and being informed is part of my civic duty when comes to evaluating our elected officials and their uses of tax dollars.
Why this would cause you to label me a tinfoil hat wearer is bewildering to me.
Best wishes to you too, please don’t vote uniformed, but it is a free country and you can do as you like.
Also, best of luck to you in life & I am glad that it sounds like you are doing well with your vaccine.
That would be a Great thing ❗
We are actively exploring it. Recent studies show the virus is non-existent in the afterlife. Just don’t get vaxxed and die, then you’ll be safe.
Ok, I think I get it.
It was the ivermectin bit wasn’t it? I do think that not exploring existing options to be “nutty.”
I also think that the vaccine alone will not be enough. There should be a treatment option/protocol as well.
Best regards.
In theory, that sounds great. But pharmaceuticals will never develop a cure for anything. They make so much more money by treating symptoms. They could literally find a cure for cancer, and it would be shelved or destroyed, because of money.
Well, they have. But you make an interesting point. People seldom do the right thing.
The vaccine should be a choice not a mandate.
And calling people names isn’t going to convince them to get vaccinated. There are legitimate reasons for not getting vaccinated. And they aren’t always safe for individuals with certain medical histories. I’m tired of people not using critical thinking and respecting personal choice. I’m tired of think like me or else…..
EXACTLY!!
I agree. The nice thing is that we don’t need to go around trying to justify our decisions to a bunch of people who in one breath say thing like “get vaccinated! it saves lives!”, and then turn right around and say “people who refuse to get vaccinated should be lined up and shot!”
I don’t answer to any of these people, and neither do you. I don’t need a reason to not get it other than I simply don’t want to. It’s nobody’s business whether someone else has been vaccinated or not – did they just get rid of HIPPA?
The more they try to coerce/bribe/intimidate/threaten me to get vaccinated, the harder I will resist. Just leave me alone and let me be. And it would not be a wise thing to show up on my door step with a syringe full of this toxic goodness. Joe Biden needs to rethink his door to door strategy.
How about Iceland. 85% vaccinated and having a surge of cases. All of the cases are vaccinated people and that scenario is repeating again and again.
Reinfections? What is the mortality rate?
And his idea would be what, exactly?
Thanks Jeff for speaking up for the citizens of Guilford County. Currently we do not have true leadership in our city or county. We have a bunch of politicians who think they have all the answers. Know of several cases of people in the hospital currently who have had the “shot” but supposedly now have the virus. Why isn’t Ivermectin being used as a solution?
our intelligent leaders, are power hungry and not following the science. Tyrants! Sic semper tyrannis! (Latin for them that don’t know)
Mask mandates do not work! This is just another case of the Democratic majority wanting to manage the little people. Thanks Dr. Skip for trying to make life as miserable as possible!
The science behind masks is very simple. A virus passes easily thru all the masks commonly worn. A mask is a worthless defense against a virus. Any virus.
This mandate by decree has several origins. One, to give the appearance of doing something. Another is amplifying the use and acceptance of dictatorial power. Another is to give our Socialist govt another raison d’etre. Another is to hamper the electorate to entrench themselves in power.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
We all take a chance when we leave home, every day, all day. Or stay at home, get fat(ter), waste away. Children didn’t stay at home during Polio epidemic. We don’t all hide in the boonies because we might get blown up.
Civil disobedience is our right against unjust rules by decree.
I visited a lab for blood work recently and I told them that I’d heard that the only people coming down with covid are the ones not vaccinated and the lab people said NOT TRUE! They said EVERYBODY jabbed and not jabbed are getting covid. The people who use manipulative guilt and shame tactics on people are just pissed off because they don’t want to wear the darn things either so they just want to make sure everybody else has to!
Yes, vaxxed and un-vaxxed all get the virus…the difference is that most of the ones who end up in the hospital are un-vaxxed. The vaccine lessens the effect of the virus.
Yeah, those damn stupid surgeons wearing masks for performing surgeries. How silly.
You are spreading misinformation. Mask are effective. Not perfect by themselves but a critical part of public safety that includes social distancing and frequently washing of your hands. The virus can pass through a mask sure. But the virus doesn’t jump from your mouth to the air by itself. It leaves your nose and mouth inside small particulates (think small water droplets if that word is too big for you.) Those particulates that carry the virus ARE stopped by the mask. So yes they do work. Look up the study released out of Duke University (you know…where scientists and real medical professionals work). Their Study shows very clearly that masks are effective defense against the virus.
Now if you choose to continue to get your info from Facebook memes….you go ahead. I strongly encourage people to speak with their personal physicians about masks and vaccines to best KNOW what is right for them personally.
But you be you.
The majority of people wearing masks are NOT wearing SURGICAL masks and are NOT wearing them PROPERLY. Also, surgeons do not touch their faces or masks once they begin surgery while civilians frequently touch their masks as they wear them and touch multiple surfaces, and they wear them multiple times without changing them or washing them. Therefore your assumption that masks on civilians are working well is moot
Your sarcasm doesn’t help make your argument.
Surgical masks are more effective than the masks we wear. Get yourself a surgical mask, a face shield, surgical gloves, and sterilize your enviornment; and you should be fine.
I have studies that shows the ineffectiveness of common masks, like the ones that some retailers give or sell you so that you can “safely” enter. You can find a study that may reinforce your position, and you can find all the reinforcement you want on social media.
Tip: Don’t go to the hospital, that’s where all the microbes are.
To Jeff Phillips – Are you “pro-life?” Do you call yourself “pro-life?”
Why are republicons so dumb?
As President Reagan said: “I used to be a Democrat”.
Just the beginning. As number go up, Skip & Co. will feel the need to do more even if only for the sake of appearance. That means restrictions on gatherings, limiting people in restaurants, and more lockdown measures. The number will naturally come down on their own, and all the restrictions will be cited as the reason why. Then the next variant will come along, and the cycle will repeat.
Welcome to your endless COVID hell.