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 It’s like they are just testing everyone.

An Atlanta college has become the first since the government declared the pandemic over to mandate masks for students and staff just days after classes began.

Morris Brown College, a private liberal arts school, is requiring students and employees to wear face masks in hallways and lecture halls for two weeks due to ‘reports of positive cases among students.’

Second verse, same as the first… a little bit louder and a little bit worse…

 Meanwhile, in an editorial published by the American College of Physicians (ACP), Government doctors and public health experts in Seattle have called for face coverings to be made compulsory in all healthcare facilities once more.

They argue that hospital patients are at a higher risk of dying from or being seriously ill with Covid and would benefit from the ‘reduce[d] risk for Covid contracted in the hospital among patients and health care workers.’

In other words, hospitals are full of germs.  So we want to make sure people die alone and in pain again because of THIS germ. 

And here’s what they are basing it on.…

The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Six cases in four countries have been detected since late July. Scientists are keeping an eye on the new lineage, named BA.2.86, because it has 36 mutations that distinguish it from the currently-dominant XBB.1.5 variant.

So far there is no evidence that BA.2.86 spreads faster or causes more serious illness than previous versions. The CDC said its advice on protecting yourself from COVID remains the same.

Let me repeat the salient part:  SIX cases in FOUR COUNTRIES.  Six cases out of how many millions of people?  Long story short, there’s no proof that any of the new stuff is worse than the old stuff.  BUT everyone should panic, get new experimental shots, and replay all of the crap that didn’t work the first time. 

Moderna said preliminary trial data suggest its latest version of the vaccine shows promise against Eris and a related variant called Fornax, which has begun to circulate in the U.S.

Pfizer Inc. has said its updated COVID-19 shot showed neutralizing activity against the Eris subvariant in a study conducted on mice.

And again with the mice.  How many this time?  One or two?  

The mind boggles that they are trying this again.