Kim Iversen: Masks RETURN! Local Governments, Private Businesses Institute Mandates

Kim Iversen criticizes the return of mask mandates in Alameda County.

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[edwardmitchell]

Imagine thinking there was some science involved in making people wear masks into a restaurant and then allowing them to be removed for the entirety of the meal sitting 3 feet from other peoples faces. Its pure theater and a mild form of psychological torture, nothing more, nothing less.

[chriper]

I'm Australian. I lost my job in health care 8 months ago due to this lunacy. We all need to not comply

[AmericanPTstuttgart]

I love how we all the sudden care about people dying…. Of COVID, but not drug, alcohol, obesity, or anything else we can easily control

[skepticallycritical]

I found Bri's take on this to be utterly depressing and somewhat selfish. It's awful that there are children who have only seen masked faces out in public their entire lives. Mask wearing is detrimental to the social development of children, even more so if the children have special needs. Imagine what it's like for deaf people in a world of masks? I'm pleased that she's figured out the basics of washing your hands before you eat, but covering faces is regressive and terrible for society. When I go to a museum or a gallery, I want to see the expressions on the faces around me. Life is a world of faces, and it's a world of risks and benefits.

[antonluru]

My wife IS a pulmonologist and she has no problems with her ability to treat her patients. She is just shaking her head at this stupidity. She says cloth masks do not provide any protection from anything in all reality....It has caused more problems.

[rowlandnnorom]

I agree with Robbie, I stopped going to businesses that require masks too.

[hb]

Does Bri understand that teachers and students have to wear it for many hours and the mask inhibits their ability to communicate? Thank you, Kim, for pushing back on Bri.

[franco]

I wore a mask everywhere, got COVID. Sorry why are we wearing masks?

[FFTS]

Apparently a professor from Brazil, Beny Spira, did a study on masks and their affect on infection rates and deaths and concluded that not only did masks not help, but in areas where there was higher mask compliance, there were more infections and deaths. So either mask wearing suppresses our immune systems or it is partly psychological and fear makes us more vulnerable. There could be other factors as well, doctors who have been performing surgeries have been finding bits of microplastics in people's lungs from the surgical type masks. Masks are not good on many levels, just say no.

[anthonyel-ashaad]

I live in St.Louis and work in a hospital, and even in the hospital they're really not pushing masks. And the city of St.Louis isn't really pushing masks again.

[jz]

Robby is spot on. I wouldn’t be a patron of those businesses either.

[raedmundson]

Masks do not protect against covid. Bri makes this show unwatchable even with Kim and her amazingness

[TS-lwnv]

Bri often criticizes Robby for bringing up his personal experiences, yet her entire pro mask stance is based on her personal “lived experience”. Her bad faith takes on this show are so ridiculous.

[cestlavegan]

I work in a medical laboratory in south Florida hospital. We still have to wear masks. Even here. I’m pretty sure this is standard at all large health network facilities. It feels like political theater that will never end.

[IysisAwoke]

I am not committed to wearing a mask for the rest of my life. My immune system works fine, and I like breathing fresh air. Avoiding a cold is not worth losing "that good ol prana." And it's wrong for others to try and force the rest of us to do so because of their personal fears.

[seantyler]

Maybe we should not have fired half the employees for refusing the vaccine

[justinf]

People literally need to just say no! The madness cannot be allowed to return.

[wildemthefem]

No to the mask mandates, especially for kids at school.

[jasongreene]

I live here in Alameda and people are over it. They are simply ignoring the mandate in mass. I go to the gym, laundry mat, shops and only about 25 - 50% of the people are doing it and I have seen no one get refused service for it. Also, what Kim missed is Alameda exempted schools from the masks.

[Kupacolypse]

I'm all for boycotting businesses that require masks, however we need to take it a step further. It's past time we stop appeasing that absolute absurdity that is mandates. We need to start holding these lunatics in government accountable. They have adversely effected too many people with dire consequences to tolerate this any longer.