Mask Up San Francisco… and Just Shut Up

Whoa. There are 33 people hospitalized with Covid in San Francisco. I count 9 hospitals in San Francisco, and double that in the region – East Bay, South Bay, Oakland and Berkeley, likely able to handle this covid “outbreak.”

The San Francisco Department of Public Health never wanted to give up its control during Covid – they were one of the most stringent, controlling public health agencies in the state.

With on 33 people hospitalized with/for the Covid flu, they might want to shift focus on the real public health crises in the City by the Bay – 806 total drug overdoses occurred in 2023, or the 60% of all homeless people who were offered shelter and refused help.

Wearing masks is unhealthy, bad public policy and frankly, government controlled performance art.

As the Globe reported, in 2023, San Francisco has, on an average night, 3,400 homeless in shelter beds, with another 4,400 on the street.

That’s a human crisis; 33 people sick with a flu in the hospital can be effectively treated – but overdose cases and drug addicted humans living on filthy streets is a crisis, and something the San Francisco Department of Public Health should be prioritizing.

Lastly, there have been hundreds of scientific studies debunking masking as means to prevent the spread of Covid and other flu-like viruses.

The most thoroughly extensive, comprehensive study is the Cochrane study was done in February 2023:

We identified 78 relevant studies. They took place in low‐, middle‐, and high‐income countries worldwide: in hospitals, schools, homes, offices, childcare centres, and communities during non‐epidemic influenza periods, the global H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, epidemic influenza seasons up to 2016, and during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We identified five ongoing, unpublished studies; two of them evaluate masks in COVID‐19. Five trials were funded by government and pharmaceutical companies, and nine trials were funded by pharmaceutical companies.

…wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu‐like illness/COVID‐like illness (9 studies; 276,917 people); and probably makes little or no difference in how many people have flu/COVID confirmed by a laboratory test (6 studies; 13,919 people).

As the Globe reported March 1, 2023 Gov. Gavin Newsom finally ended California’s COVID-19 State of Emergency.

“Or did he?” we asked.

There are several reasons why we asked, and two in particular stand out: Masking and his new Orwellian “SMARTER Plan.”

“The SMARTER Plan is not just for COVID-19. We can use these strategies and systems for future emergencies,” which still requires shots and masks.

As the Globe reported, The California Department of Public Health still had masking orders in place until April 2, 2023, claiming, “California has used science to guide our health protection strategies throughout the pandemic.”

“A universal indoor masking requirement was reinstated on December 15, 2021, to add a layer of mitigation as the Omicron variant,” the CDPH says.

Science.

Currently the CDPH website states: “This guidance is no longer in e​​ffect and is for historical purposes only.”

But the masking guidelines are still there – I’ll spare you the photos of mask-caused perioral dermatitis rash and mouth sores.