Going on Eight Days of Deadly Science Denialism in Anchorage
'On Tuesday, the Anchorage Assembly passed a resolution requesting that Mayor Bronson require masks in city buildings — and the mayor immediately refused' … only highlighting his failed leadership.
With a huge assist from Mayor Dave Bronson, the now week long display of ‘public testimony’ on science denialism has become sadly farcical and more deadly. COVID is real and the Delta variant is real as infection rates and Death continue to climb in Alaska and around the nation.
COVID will not become better controlled until the denialists rejoin the rest of us; use masks when needed and Get Vaccinated. Viral mutations increase and become more deadly when the virus is better able to find available unvaccinated host bodies to infect. Denialists can't demand a return to more 'normality' without doing or contributing anything themselves in support of the process. Science denialism is killing Americans. It's our killing children..
What is also needed – but unfortunately will not happen in Anchorage - is for the Mayor to show real and honest leadership rather than continuing to promote the #GOP's politicization of Death. Recall Bronson
There is extensive data that shows the use of masks reduces transmission and rates of infection. Vaccinations do so far, far more efficiently and effectively. There is strong data that schools WITH mask mandates have clearly lower rates of infection and the need to quarantine among students and staff than schools WITHOUT mask mandates. THIS is how we control viral mutations and spread.
But Anchorage will be going into an eight day trying to convince people that basic science is real, that their politics are not relevant in a pandemic and that they need to help themselves, their own and others. The continued self absorbed ignorance is no longer representative of what America is and has been.
We're are, thankfully, not mobilizing to fight a war elsewhere but to support one another based on the science in a pandemic. We will no longer consider You Tube or Facebook videos relevant; hear the absurdist conspiracy theories and deep disinformation repeated over and over.
There is no need for the melodramatic public testimony in a failed attempt to refute science. Scientific fact doesn’t change for politics, opinion or personal agendas There is no longer need for that which does not contribute, is not valid and only increases misery.
Mask use by children does not risk brain damage and the vaccine will not make your toes fall off or cause you to become sterile. COVID vaccines haves now been safely given billions of times. It’s Enough. Wear a Mask when needed; Get Vaccinated and stop all the deadly nonsense and hysterics.
THAT is how we will best COVID. In Anchorage, another way to beat the pandemic is to Recall Bronson.
Anchorage Assembly to continue public testimony on mask ordinance Wednesday
Anchorage Assembly asks mayor to require masks in city buildings; Bronson says he will not