In a highly controversial move, Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston announced at a 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 4 press conference that he was implementing a new mask mandate for unincorporated parts of Guilford County as well as for the towns in Guilford County that have agreed to go along with it.
The mandate, which begins on Wednesday, Jan. 5, will be similar to a previous mandate that required everyone in the county to mask when indoors at public places like stores, bars, clubs, restaurants and music venues.
The ban will not be in effect for some cities and towns – such as Greensboro and High Point – which haven’t signed on to the resolution. The towns that have agreed to enforce the mandate are Gibsonville, Sedalia, Pleasant Garden and Jamestown.
“We’re hoping others will join us,” Alston stated at the press conference.
The ban will be in effect until a Jan.13 meeting of the Board of Commissioners at which future actions will be decided.
Alston said that, whether male or female, Republican or Democrat, or regardless of any other distinguishing characteristics, “We all must continue to work together.”
The press conference began with Guilford County Health Director Dr. Iulia Vann speaking on the dire nature of the situation.
She said that the positivity rate for those taking COVID-19 tests in the county over the last two weeks had averaged over 18 precent.
Alston said immediate action was required.
“We must act now,” he said, adding, “These are more than just numbers – these numbers represent real people.”
The chairman also stated that local hospitals are currently “stretched beyond their limits.”
In addition, he asked that businesses within cities and towns that are not going along with the mask mandate implement their own mask wearing requirements for their workers and customers.
Masks and respirators do NOT work. Read the science! Follow the facts! Skip Alston needs to find someone else to bully around.
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-review-of-science-relevant-to-covide-19-social-policy
Even MSN says they don’t work! CNN medical analyst Leana Wen said on Monday that cloth masks are useless in preventing the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/don-t-wear-a-cloth-mask-cnn-medical-analyst-says-non-surgical-masks-are-useless/ar-AAS1JJK
Read more:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/08/02/cnn-guest-actually-cloth-masks-dont-really-work-against-wuhan-coronavirus-n2593473
https://www.waheagle.com/story/2021/12/30/opinion/masks-dont-provide-protection-for-us/20230.html
Your references are just about cloth masks. Every study agrees that they are not effective. That was also part of Dr Fauci’s initial recommendation to forgo masks to avoid run on mask that DO work. N95 masks are most effective and surgical masks if worn properly are also effective.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html
What is also interesting is the portion of the study on incentives for mask wearing. Mandates were shown as potential demotivator in some studies. You know. Nutters gotta be nutty.
It is so funny to watch Leftists like Chris change their positions when reality and truth become undeniable. A couple of months ago I pointed out in these columns that the Danish and Bangladeshi studies proved that cloth masks are ineffective. Chris refused to accept that reality – at that time.
Now he states, voluntarily and in his own words, “Every study agrees that they are not effective” (cloth masks).
I’m glad you’ve finally admitted that cloth masks are worthless.
I look forward to your apology.
Danish study didn’t even discuss cloth masks. Are you sure you can read?
Masks work. Some better than others. That has always and still is my position. Glad you agree with me apparently. No apology necessary on your part as I know you are not man enough.
WRONG! In the Danish study, 1.8% of those who wore face masks contracted Covid, and 2.1% of those who did not at any time wear face masks did. “Statistically insignificant”.
Sorry Chrissy, MASKS DON”T WORK, as you just admitted. In fact anyone can see i- n this comment column alone – that you have said that “Masks work” (above), and “Every study agrees that they are not effective (higher above). You are hilarious!
So which is it, Chrissy?
Man up and admit you’re an idiot.
1. Did the county commissioners vote? Or did Skip act on his own?
2. Why only the unincorporated areas? Seems discrimination is at play here. Skip, I guess the city of Greensboro has a lower positive rate right? Let’s see the numbers
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for a common sense approach to the Covid-19 mess. This lacks that approach. Why single out one segment of the guilford county population.,
We are now being treated like serfs and second class citizens by those who profess to be our servants – our “public servants”. But they behave as if they are our masters. Even the feudal Lords of Europe did not dare to order their subjects to don face coverings. But Sir Skippy does – “Submit, Comply, Obey!”
If you’re an American of the 21st Century I suggest you resist, demur, and disobey. Because…. FREEDOM.
BE UNGOVERNABLE!!!
The only people who comply are the diehard mainstream media followers. Whatever data is out there should be used by people to make up their own mind. If you want to wear a face diaper by all means go ahead. If however you choose not to, then it isn’t up to government or science to dictate our actions. If you wear your mask and I don’t wear one, does that mean yours isn’t effective? Or are you just so programmed that you don’t know how to say no? I agree with Austin hold your ground and stand by your principles. The left has been trying to control the right for about 30-40 years and now the people who think for themselves have had enough. Let adults be adults and make their own choices. Last I checked this was still a constitutional republic!
“When people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders.” — Samuel Adams
Good Job Skip! I didn’t think I would say that but I have several friends that have gotten the new variant in the last two weeks and they were vaccinated. They did not wear masks. I still mask up everywhere. I don’t like it but I think it’s worth doing for my safety and that of others.
“…and they were vaccinated.”
Those four words say it all. These mRNA vaccines are useless and dangerous, but so many people refuse to understand that, even though they’ll admit “they were vaccinated” and still caught Covid.
One more think – you are not responsible for my health and well being, nor is anyone else. Likewise, I am not responsible for your, or anyone else’s, health and well being – only my own.
Well said, Tom.
The “vaccines” are neither safe nor effective.
They’re not even vaccines.
How ridiculous is this? Absolutely useless. People from every community within Guilford County work in the Greensboro area. This mandate has no basis in any science whatsoever. Seems to be a waning struggle to enforce any power available.
So we have a shortage of police, high crime, high suicide rates, and on and on and this is what gets a special meeting ?! This is what they are worried about ? Our county is the armpit of North Carolina.
Isn’t it amazing how the dreaded virus stops at certain city limits. This whole con is a sham.
At least Skip is helping expose Mandate Mayor Vaughan as a special type of extreme hypocrite. Elections make folks like her act even more spineless and flip floppy. Science? Safety? Not in a contested election …..
Masks are nothing more than a sign of submission and obedience. The same people pushing these things are the same people who profess to care so much about our ecology and environment, yet masks do nothing but litter our planet. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that masks have surpasses plastic bottles as the number one trash item in our public waterways and beaches.
The O-ma-gosh variant is the weakest strain out yet. Yes, it’s more contagious, but amounts to nothing more than the common cold. I’ve read that this strain will result in the much needed herd immunity.
But, our “leaders” don’t really want herd immunity. They’ll have no more power over us once the general population has nothing to fear. As long as the masses of sheep continue to put up with this nonsense, they’ll continue on with the power grab.
This has NEVER been about health and public safety. If the majority of hospitals, doctors, and healthcare professionals cared about our health, they would stop over-prescribing opioids for kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies, and they would honestly explore alternate treatments for Covid such as HCQ and Ivermectin, instead of insisting on multiple doses of vaccines that have been proven over the past year to not work. If our government were concerned about our health, the manufacture and selling of tobacco products would have come to a stop a long time ago. They would do more to promote healthy lifestyles, including proper diets and exercise, which would go a lot further in protecting us from illness and injuries than masks and experimental, gene altering vaccines.
Skip needs to go away (along with Fauci, Gates, and all the other “elites” trying to scare us all into submission), and everyone else needs to learn to think for themselves, and turn off the mass-propaganda boob tube that is brainwashing them on a daily basis.
“There’s no truth in the news, and no news in the truth”
Tom, that is very well said !
Amen Tom! You took the words right out of my mouth! It is time to wake up!
Shop-eat-play in High Point and Greensboro. See how the other places like the suck.
Skippy …I have a box of these mask you can stick em where the ” SUN DONT SHINE “.
Think it’s time to boycott that hot dog stand you’re probably getting a government check for .
It is ridiculous that Dictator Alston is such a control freak that he just can’t stand the thought of individuals being able to decide for themselves whether or not to wear a mask. And by the way, does he know or care that everyone streaming over the border in droves don’t wear masks nor or they being tested for Covid??!! I am so over anything he says!!
I’ve yet to see a picture of poor ol’ Melvin actually wearing a mask without his nose and/or his mouth uncovered. Of course, as pretty as he thinks he is, he doesn’t want to deprive the rest of us from enjoying his great beauty. Masks other than N95 are useless, and even those are rendered useless without clinical level donning and doffing and single use. Without proper clinical technique, which cannot be practiced in a non-clinical setting, NO masks are useful. And surgical masks are the most useless of all for personal protection. They are only meant to help prevent the wearer from sneezing, breathing, or coughing into the atmosphere in the surgical theater. Without the positive pressure atmosphere in the OR, they do very little on their own. Hey, “Skip”, skip this.
So Skippy finally admits that he has no control over cities that have their own government. Thanks High Point and Greensboro for standing up to this power monger. Masks do not work on the omicron variant. Cloth masks have never worked but most people use them including Fauci, Uncle Joe and the rest. Their excuse is that the ones that work should be saved for the medical people and first responders. What? Then why did the government not get the industry to make more of the N95? In a few years, people will look back on this pandemic and wonder where were the people with brains?
Skip was not wearing a mask in any of the TV coverage I saw last night. Obviously, it is for him, but not for us???
I am looking so forward to the next election, so we can send Skip home & remove his power!!
No one crying about having to have Smallpox, measles, rubella, polio, etc. in order to attend public schools or other vaccines required of travelers to other countries. Why aren’t these being politicized by parents who are squealing about Covid vaccines.? What hypocrisy! Some folks ideas of “freedom” are totally screwball.
A lot of parents do object to many of these vaccines. The rest of us accept them, as they are well established, time tested and proven traditional vaccines.
These new mRNA vaccines are experimental and have never been approved once since they were developed because they cold never pass clinical testing. Moderna had never had any drug or vaccine approved into they were granted the EUA for their COVID vaccine. These current new vaccines are not approved, they’re all still under emergency use authorization. Nobody knows the long term effects, or if they do, they’re not sharing. Those of us who pay attention know many of the short term effects, with clots and myocarditis being the most prevalent. Too many children are having to be rushed to emergency rooms for heart problems, as well as many otherwise healthy adults, and too many have died. Many loving parents are not willing to accept those risks for something that now amounts to nothing worse than the common cold.
There are too many red flags around this whole pandemic scare and all the government secrecy and overreach, along with all the authoritarian mandates are just too much to put up with, not to mention big tech, the media, and the medical industry censoring and banning anyone who speaks up about alternative treatments, individual liberties, or tries to expose the fraud and corruption of all this nonsense.
This is what happens when you elect democrats. Skip the dictator. Nanny state, they think they know better than the populous. Guilford County didn’t do much better than other counties with the last mask mandate.
King Skippy rises above the mountaintop to proclaim all the sheep are to follow!
And, now the commissioner’s meeting scheduled for tomorrow night, where public comments can be voiced, is VIRTUAL. He knows there is a lot of opposition. Plus, he told my friend on the phone that the public doesn’t need transparency regarding his decisions.
When the original Masking recommendations were proposed I was immediately skeptical that they would be at all effective. I literally pulled out my Biochemistry and Virology texts books to confirm this suspicion. I also consulted the TRUE MASK SUBJECT MATTER experts: The Industrial Hygienists, Environmental toxicologists, and experts in small Particle management and my suspicions were confirmed. Masks are NOT effective in preventing Viral infection. Only Disbursement and Destruction is effective against aerosolized virus. Even the highly touted K95 is only minimally effective over short periods of time, and only if tightly fitted. I have yet to see even ONE patient wearing a K95 properly. In fact all Face coverings are loosely worn and very leaky. Incidentally, all masks are intended to be single use items because they are easily contaminated and entrap biologics. They are not being used properly by the public.
I am quite concerned about the Physical and Psychological Health burdens placed on individuals wearing face coverings Chronically. It would be a simple matter to break out one of my old Culture kits and get a positive bacterial culture from any of the masks people are wearing. This risk of wearing face coverings is particularly important in anyone trying to avoid pneumonia. Reduced Oxygen levels is very burdensome on those with cardiovascular disease. The psychological harm to children and students is also particularly burdensome.
Face coverings are ineffective and unhealthy. If people want to wear them, that is their choice. Just don’t Mandate them.
It’s interesting to me when the mask requirement impacts all of the public buildings we still Alston in the public council chambers making the announcement without wearing a mask. Has he been fined for this?
I realize this is Guilford County and we have a long history of a dysfunctional Board Of Commissioners….geez…..can things get any more screwed up ??