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Bringing back mask mandates sure influences people to get vaccinated, right? Remember when we were told we’d get our lives back?

CDC yet to release COVID data behind mask reversal

More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask mandates – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the data behind its decision.

The lack of clarity on what exactly the agency is basing its decision on comes as states and cities across the country are working to vaccinate more of their citizens. And it’s making some local officials reluctant to follow the CDC’s advice on nearly universal masking.

“While the CDC issued their guidance yesterday at about 3 p.m., they have not yet released their scientific reports on the data that underlies their recommendation,” New York City Health and Hospitals President and CEO Mitchell Katz said at a Wednesday press conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“I think we owe it to New Yorkers to very carefully, as you say, review that information and understand its implications,” Katz added. “Our focus has to be on getting people vaccinated.”

If even hyper-lefty and Big Controlling Government fan de Blasio is showing reluctance and skepticism, well, things are not going well with masking.

Biden will announce vaccination requirement across federal government on Thursday

President Joe Biden will announce on Thursday a requirement that all federal employees and contractors be vaccinated against Covid-19, or be required to submit to regular testing and mitigation requirements, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

The announcement will come in remarks where Biden is also expected to lay out a series of new steps, including incentives, in an attempt to spur new vaccinations as the Delta variant spreads rapidly throughout the country. It will also follow the decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs to require its frontline health care workers to be vaccinated over the course of the next two months.

So, if a company does business with Los Federales, they will have to comply, as well. But, he won’t require it for the military. Which is already coming out with it’s own mandates.

Furthering the case for vaccine mandates, the administration is taking steps to spell out the legal grounds upon which American entities can require employees to get shots.

Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines, even if the vaccines have only been authorized for emergency use, according to an opinion posted online Monday.

Remember this from early December?

Joe Biden: Covid vaccination in US will not be mandatory

And this from June 10th?

Biden Administration Won’t Require Shots for Federal Workers Returning to Offices

Huh. The Postal Workers union is not happy with the upcoming mandate. Republican Gov Chris Sununu signed of New Hampshire signed into law a bill that blocks vaccine mandates in the Live Free Or Die state. Google and Facebook will require the vaccine for all it’s in-office workers. NY Gov Cuomo, who likes sending old people off to die in nursing homes, will require state employees to get vaccinated or take weekly tests, as will California. Just wondering: aren’t most of the workers in those places Democrats? Why are they hesitant?

We also have Nancy Pelosi playing “hygiene theater” with masks. And

Pres. Biden in Allentown, Pennsylvania, after remarks on manufacturing … pic.twitter.com/94yv6a2vt7

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) July 28, 2021

No masks.