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Apple Stores to Drop Mask Requirement for Vaccinated Customers This Week
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Lol this is so crazy it’s hard to decide where to begin. Dr. Fauci said face masks don’t prevent the wearer from getting sick, but new evidence emerged that showed he was wrong and he changed his mind. That’s how science works.
And that last bit about the “lab leak” is just pure crazed conspiracy babble. There is precisely zero evidence that Covid was engineered in any way at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and little to no evidence that it leaked from a lab or that NIAID provided any funding for “gain of function” research on coronaviruses. You and Q shrieking about it over and over again doesn’t make it true.
Please stop perpetrating anti-science propaganda. This is not X-Men, this is real life. There is no scientific basis for anything you stated. Get with the science or get out. GO APPLE.
According to many on this thread they are perfectly ok with throwing HIPPA laws out the window for the sake of giving them warm and fuzzies even though there’s zero evidence of one vaccinated person making another vaccinated person sick. On top of a sick person having a 5 percent chance of getting a vaccinated person sick…..that’s the science folks. Simple math. 95 effective rate means if I’m coughing covid all over you there’s a 5 percent chance you’ll get symptoms even if infected!
Please point out where I did this. Delta variant is concerning, SCIENTISTS SAY THIS!! Hence the label variant of concern and not variant of no one gives a crap
There are variants of everything. Just live your life smart. Like everyone should be doing regardless of COVID. Stop going to work sick even if you have a cold. That’s why we will never eradicate ANY flu.
The law is HIPAA, not HIPPA. And none of this violates or even implicates HIPAA in any way.
I always try and avoid people as much as possible but will not live in total fear like some
Ok let’s be realistic here. They said LOTS of stuff was concerning …..like “Texas having Neanderthal thinking“ for opening up in March. Yet their cases kept going down even after that.
No. HIPAA only bars medical professionals from disclosing your information without your permission.
Apple is not a covered entity, nor are most individuals, and HIPAA only bars sharing other people’s medical information, not requesting it nor volunteering your own.
1. It’s HIPAA, not “HIPPA”
2. HIPAA doesn’t apply
3. For someone crowing about “Simple math”…you might want to double-check yours.
(HINT: it’s possible to reduce risk beyond 5%, and many people are rightfully interested in that)
Lots of words that sound to me like, “all animals are equal, some are just more equal”. No seriously.. you’re right. But it’s misledia’s fault and they fuel the fire between the two political/ideological fractions. If Biden crowds were okay Trump’s should’ve been too. In misledia’s behaviour there are novexceptions, it’s on purpose. But as you said some people are hypocrites and/or heavily biased.
Welcome to April 2021.
Like all viruses that have ever been natural immunity >> vaccination. This is always true, but since people when insane and forgot all of virology and epidemiology for CV19, it actually had to be established in a study which it was and was as predictable as the sunrise. So, glad Apple is opening up.
Like all viruses that have ever been natural immunity >> vaccination. This is always true, but since people when insane and forgot all of virology and epidemiology for CV19, it actually had to be established in a study which it was and was as predictable as the sunrise. So, glad Apple is opening up.
Well the store employees will be safe, hope everyone else uses common sense.
Where's the proof? weather its 20 or 600 it only takes 1 person to spread.
Sucks that science is politicized (not a good omen for the republic). Sucks that this forum was posted with a "Due to the political nature of this discussion..." disclaimer. And sucks that the moderators apparently had good reason to do that, given that too many people appear to be taking biology lessons from Sean Hannity.
If a business asked me for a card I’ll walk out and so will millions of Americans which is why business won’t even tread on that water.
Or we can have segregation all over again……
Everyone was going down then, what your missing is the death rate in Texas was magnitudes greater than states with reason based policies all along....
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Thank goodness the Trump Administration got us vaccines in record time.
I’m definitely not anti masks at all. I just refuse them wearing outside under the sky in nature, especially when nobody is around like my government forced me to do so. Not only it’s stupid but it doesn’t help anyone.
Death rates lag behind case rates, nothing new. Yes it’s very common in general that deaths might go up when cases go down due to people die over days or weeks if they are going to.
Actually not true. "After the second dose of the vaccine, antibody titers were up to 10 times higher than those of patients who had recovered from natural COVID-19 infection, suggesting that even those with prior exposure could benefit from vaccination."
The level of absolute paranoia on this thread is amazing.
This is not a deadly disease unless you are old or overweight. Even then it is still relatively safe.
People running around afraid with the current level of disease activity are math illiterate.
Masks mitigate risk a little bit. They are not magic. Wearing or not wearing them has small impacts on outcomes. Population wide useful but not a ward against disease.
Who cares if people lie about vaccination? Natural immunity is better than vaccinated and they have no need for vaccination so they might figure they dont need a mask since they have been vaccinated naturally instead of synthetically. Other people not wearing masks and not being vaccinated dont pose a risk to you if you are vaccinated. They would have to be asymptomatic carrier and you would have to be among the 5% who didn't get immunity (a practical risk of about 2%) and have an exposure- usually contact of a few minutes. Thats a risk too small to sweat about.
This is not a deadly disease unless you are old or overweight. Even then it is still relatively safe.
People running around afraid with the current level of disease activity are math illiterate.
Masks mitigate risk a little bit. They are not magic. Wearing or not wearing them has small impacts on outcomes. Population wide useful but not a ward against disease.
Who cares if people lie about vaccination? Natural immunity is better than vaccinated and they have no need for vaccination so they might figure they dont need a mask since they have been vaccinated naturally instead of synthetically. Other people not wearing masks and not being vaccinated dont pose a risk to you if you are vaccinated. They would have to be asymptomatic carrier and you would have to be among the 5% who didn't get immunity (a practical risk of about 2%) and have an exposure- usually contact of a few minutes. Thats a risk too small to sweat about.
Define “recent”.
mRNA has been worked on since the 1990’s.
There are new automobile gas engines in 2021 with recent innovative features, but to refer to them as, say, “recently invented experimental machines” would be extremely disingenuous, as their designs are derived from the internal combustion engines that have been with us for decades.
Same principal with the vaccines.