Apple Retail Stores will drop the COVID-19 mask requirement for customers at many of its U.S.locations starting Friday.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The change will take place beginning at more than 100 of the company’s about 270 stores across the U.S. before gradually expanding to additional stores in the coming days. The mandate will be removed at some stores in states including California, Florida, Arizona, New York, Louisiana, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The new mask policy was announced in an internal memo to Apple retail employees Thursday that was obtained by Bloomberg News…
The new policy will apply to customers regardless of vaccination status. The mask mandate will continue for Apple retail employees.
MacDailyNews Note: In locations where local governments still require masks, such as Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, the mask mandate for customers will continue in Apple Retail Stores.
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I don’t patronize places that mandate masks.
Exactly!
Not only that, the Leftist leaders in Blue States and Cities are afraid of everything including their own shadow. The red states are superior in common sense laws and statistics bear it out. And no, not going to do the homework and post links for LAZY Leftists.
While N-95 masks are at the top of the prevention chain, common masks the overwhelming majority used by everyday citizens are only effective, depending upon the study, in the 50% range.
Reason: The virus is 0.2-0.5 microns in size and most masks allow 50.0 microns to pass through almost 50x more. Never forget a TV interview early on in the pandemic when a PHD doctor from John Hopkins Research University mentioned a great analogy, trying to stop Covid with a mask is like trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain link fence.
Masks are a Linus blanket most of the time and red states and careful businesses already proved not necessary. The virus is on a serious down fall and almost 80% of Americans are vaccinated at least once and some twice.
What the controlling Democrats never talk about is IMMUNITY. Millions have survived the virus because around 2% that contracted Covid died most over age 65, now have natural immunity. From what I read immunity is much more effective than the vaccine. Fake Fauci talking about immunity, hell no, goes against the Democratic CONTROL narrative he is a major part of and the president won’t have that.
The experts broadcasting a booster less than a year after getting your first jab, is telling to the effectiveness of an experimental drug. Even more telling is vaccinated people can contract the disease and a prime example is Colin Powell was vaccinated TWICE and scheduled a third right before he passed.
High time to stop the MASK MADNESS and free the people!!!…
Colds and Flu were waaaaay down. Guess why? Masks. Distancing. Washing.
Flu was down because it tested as Covid.
Colds were down because people didn’t socialize.
Geese….learn some science.
That’s all.
Facts are a bitch.
In addition to masks being ineffective filtering viruses, we are using over 100 billion of the bloody things per month worldwide. They are not recyclable and do not biodegrade.
I see masks in parking lots, along sides of roads everywhere I go. They are disgusting.
And President Drift ponders (a major stressor for the dude) mask mandates for companies over 100 employees.
The washing machine’s agitation cycle continues.
What changed?
(I’m kidding, nothing changed except someone’s mind…)
About damn time! Hopefully others will wake up to the scam!
Why is Congress and their staffs exempted from the illegal mandate clot shot?
Probably the same thinking they were exempted from Obamacare…when the penalty for NOT using it was in place.
It’s a privilege they’ve bestowed on themselves AND illegal aliens. It sure give one of their favorite words–fairness–a hollow ring.
Don’t change anything I say … keep all as is, until November next year. Even better, help progressives and democrats publicize the $450,000 proposal to give any illegal coming over the border! Don’t let a single day go by without putting that message in front of the voters. We are going to have 50 Virginias next November.
Apple’s mask requirement has kept me out of their stores for the most part. I have been in our local store 2x in the past 20 months for brief visits, whereas before this hogwash, I would have visited at least 10x.
It’s time everyone breathe free and act like free people again.
I don’t think your Democrat friends are going to allow that.
Or maybe they have a different meaning of “free”…(they have been known to redefine words)
This is science, not politics.
Yes, manipulated and science by OMISSION controlled by Democrats and Fake Fauci. Talk of immunity … crickets.
750,000 dead after a hoax of a POS President* called it a hoax and did NOT do the proper thing to lockdown, promote wearing masks, etc. All while knowing it was a real problem.
Meanwhile vaccine mandates are quite Republican. No one is required to employ you. Their shop, their rules.
Same for cancel culture. Boils down to people voting with their money.
Misspoke and what he called it is totally irrelevant. Project Warp Speed delivered three vaccines in record time under the watchful guidance of President Trump and I, and everyone, should thank him for good work.
“750,000 dead ” No, total 400,000 died on Trump’s last day in office. You are off by 350,000:
https://khn.org/news/nation-records-400000-covid-deaths-on-last-day-of-donald-trump-presidency/
During the Trump administration we had TEDIOUS DAILY TALLIES IN ALL MEDIA of how many were infected and how many died. Not under Biden’s watch, hmmm, wonder why…
“More people have died from COVID-19 under President Joe Biden than under former President Donald Trump.” In a much shorter time frame that is the reality.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/more-people-will-have-died-from-covid-under-president-biden-than-president-trump
“Meanwhile vaccine mandates are quite Republican.” Clear as mud and meaningless. So let me help you out. NO, vaccine mandates under Biden are tyrannical and a dictatorship flaunting the Constitution to a heightened level we have never seen before. Hundreds of companies are suing the administration and it did not happen under Trump, only Democrat Dictators.
Health workers, police, fireman, border guards, et al — worked for roughly 20 months with no mask mandates, risking their lives and some contracting Covid and some dying. It was not until Dictator Biden about a month ago and the rest of the lockdown Dictators in Blue States and Cities. threw emergency workers and many others under the bus.
f you don’t listen to us and do what we say you lose your career and livelihood. Some GRATITUDE as they risked their lives for 20 months without vaccines. No shame from the arrogant know it all DICTATOR PARTY that does not care about people, only control…
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Misspoke over 32K times! Spoke at total of 33K!
Again, this is about the virus and preventative measures. The politics enters in the mishandling by the jackass. No, I am not grateful to him for signing checks with other people’s money. Are you grateful to both Bushes, Clinton and Obama for funding the 30+ years of mRNA research?
Regarding vaccine mandates…
No one was jailed for not getting vaccinated. It has become a job requirement however. I you could be fired “at will” for who you vote for (you indeed can be), then you are at least given a choice of vaccine or out or frequent testing where offered.
@ Agent Orange
No one is talking about jail time for unvaccinated, but now that you mention it, since Biden described unvaccinated have no right to kill people, sorry to say wouldn’t put it past the intolerant Left.
Job requirements is up to the free market, NOT Democrat DICTATORS like Biden and the rest of blue states and blue mayors. A federal mandate INTERFERES with private business causing undo harm to companies particularly when the death rate is less than 2%.
“The law would require workers at private companies with more than 100 employees to get fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or be tested weekly.
But the court found “grave statutory and constitutional” issues with the rule, set to be introduced in January.” Now blocked:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59194421
So did the science change? No?
Then it’s Political Science (Fiction).
Please describe how this is science.
The only reason I ever visit this website is it pops up on MacHash. I just have to say it is nothing more than a right-wing echo chamber; similar to OAN or NewsMax. As you’re God King would say; SAD!
Well said.
Nothing there is well said, Leftist suckup…
What I’m NOT OVER is the most incompetent and clueless president in history is ripping the country and economy apart.
In less than 10 months Biden is now as of today at a 38% approval rating and his DUMB AWOL veep is at 28%. Congress both houses controlled by Democrats is at 12% approval. Historic disapproval in RECORD TIME.
It took Dubya 7 years to drop in the 30 percent range of approval after daily media drumbeat of negative coverage. So far, the media has covered for and ignored Biden or his approval rating would be the lowest in history.
That’s not a right wing echo chamber brainless, that’s REALITY!…
Reading many of these comments, the thing that makes me the happiest is knowing that the vast majority of those passing away today from COVID are the anti-vaxxers. This being the case, we are witnessing Darwin’s theory of evolution right in front of us. Survival of the fittest. Those smart enough to utilize cautionary measures (vaccines, masks, etc) are surviving, while those not doing so are at this point the overwhelming majority of those being culled from the herd. For those of us remaining, it will be a better world, as it is the smarter among us who remain, while the less intelligent are removed Squid Game style. In this way, the human race adapts and continues on without those smart enough to see the path forward.
Is this what MSNBC is reporting these days?
Odd that Florida’s rate is lower than California’s.
Care to (punt)ificate???