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On the recordOctober 22, 2021
I did read results of one study that indicated that if you wear a mask, you are two-tenths of one percent less likely to get COVID. So there is that. There is at least two-tenths of one percent that it is apparently helpful but we don't know the results of long- term wearing a mask, the additional CO<INF>2</INF> that may be taken in, or germs that are kept in a mask that would have not been breathed in repeatedly. We don't know the results of all that. That is fine, but that is still very different from forcing someone to have an injection, which we know can have very adverse effects. And that is why it ought to be an individual decision to make. {time} 1330 But then again, it also contributes to a crisis in enough people doing jobs that allow us to have a supply chain that is intact and getting people the things that they need. Little did I know--you may have anticipated it--but there were people making jokes after the Vice President had said several weeks ago--it may have been in August--that people needed to get their orders in now so they would get things by Christmas. Wow. Apparently, they saw this coming. But the point that has been made by my friend about the various opinions from the same people, when it comes to Dr. Fauci, when it comes to the President, it is hard to find an issue that they haven't been on more than one side of. Fauci would say, no, don't use a mask. Yes, you should use a mask. And then he says, use a mask.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas

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