1 in 6 Americans under 23 say they’re LGBTQ, as more people in the US than ever identify as non-heterosexual

More Americans than ever identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) according to a survey of sexuality, with one in six people under 23 saying they are something other than heterosexual.

The Gallup Poll released Wednesday, found that 5.6 percent of Americans classify themselves as LGBTQ – up from 4.5 percent in 2017. That was the last time Gallup carried out polling on the issue.

Gallup surveyed 15,000 Americans above 18 years of age and found that of those who identified themselves as LGBTQ, 54.6 percent said they were bisexual, 24.5 percent said they were gay, and 11.7 percent said they were lesbians. Another 11.3 percent identified themselves as transgender while 3.3 percent said they preferred to use another term such as ‘queer’ or ‘same-gender loving’ to describe their sexual identity.

Respondents were able to choose more than one survey category for their answers.

Of the 15,000 surveyed, 86.7 percent said they are heterosexual or straight, and 7.6 percent did not answer questions about sexual orientation.

The poll also asked respondents about political ideology and party identification, and 13 percent of political liberals, 4.4 percent of moderates, and 2.3 percent of conservatives said they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. It said differences are “somewhat less pronounced by party identification than by ideology,” with 8.8 percent of Democrats, 6.5 percent of independents, and 1.7 percent of Republicans identifying as LGBTQ.

Women are more likely than men to identify as LGBT (6.4 percent to 4.9), and there was no meaningful educational difference – 5.6 percent of college graduates and 5.7 percent of non-graduates – when it comes to LGBTQ identification.

https://www.rt.com/usa/516451-gallup-poll-sexual-identity/

New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office Wants to Take Custody of Windham Voting Machines – Take Them Away for Audit

As we previously reported at The Gateway Pundit —

A recent hand recount in the Rockingham District 7 NH House Race in Windham, New Hampshire, found that the Dominion-owned voting machines shorted EVERY REPUBLICAN by roughly 300 votes.

The Dominion machine counted results were wrong for all 4 Republicans in Windham by almost exactly 300 votes.

Dominion Voting Systems owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote machines used in New Hampshire.

earlier this month we spoke with Dr. David Strang M.D., the Belknap County Republican Committee State Committee Member, for the New Hampshire GOP.

David told The Gateway Pundit that the Republican candidates in Windham had 6% of their total votes removed by the Dominion-owned voting machines.

According to Dr. Strang, these same Dominion-owned machines are used in 85% of the towns in New Hampshire.

What makes the New Hampshire 2020 results even more suspect:

** Republicans flipped the New Hampshire Senate from 14-10 Democrat to 14-10 Republican in 2020.

** Republicans flipped the New Hampshire House from 230-156 majority Democrat to 213-187 Republican majority in 2020!

** Yet, Joe Biden who was 4th in Dem primary and Kamala Harris, who did not make it to the Dem primary, won the state 52.7 to 45.4 to Trump.

These results are IMPOSSIBLE.

What Democrats did was skim 6% off each GOP candidate in each race where there was a recount.

Then last week the New Hampshire Senate voted 24-0 to force the state to perform an audit of the Windham, New Hampshire state representative races on November 3, 2020.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/update-new-hampshire-attorney-generals-office-wants-take-custody-windham-voting-machines-take-away-audit/

The Israeli medical authorities have been leaking some of the data on Covid vaccination based upon figures kept in tabular form:

The figures have been released as a propaganda exercise to justify vaxing children, but were subject to a re-analysis by the French newspaper FranceSoir:

A front-page article appeared in the FranceSoir newspaper about findings on the Nakim website regarding what some experts are calling “the high mortality caused by the vaccine.”

The gist of the re-analysis is that since starting mass vaccinations in December, the death rate in Israel for over-60s has gone up by 40 times and for younger people 260 times.

Essentially, of the 5,351 total deaths from Covid in Israel, 2337 happened during the two months following the first vaccinations.

The data first appeared in a YNET article in Hebrew where, using relative risk analysis as discussed in my latest article, it painted a glowing picture of progress.

In effect, the FranceSoir article picks up real figures which show that the Pfizer mRNA ‘vaccine’ is more deadly than the virus itself.

From the table we can work out how many of these deaths were due to the vaccine — 51.9%. For the math, see the article itself (URL below).

We conclude that the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed, and about 260 times more people than the disease among the younger age class. We stress that this is in order to produce a green passport valid for at most 6 months, and promote Pfizer sales.

These estimated numbers of deaths from the vaccine are probably much lower than actual numbers as it accounts only for those defined as COVID-19 deaths for that short time period and does not include AVC and cardiac (and other) events resulting from the inflammatory reactions in tens of reports documented on the NAKIM site, which themselves are only the iceberg’s tip, see here.

The article goes on to discuss figures from the USA beginning to appear on VAERS:

Inspection of these data across various years finds consistent patterns in percentages of postvaccination deaths according to age classes. For each year, there are tens of thousands of individual cases reported.

In January 2021 there were 2947 reported cases, an amount similar to monthly amounts reported in previous years. Among these, 1980 were post-COVID-19 Pfizer and 954 Moderna vaccination reactions.

In January 2021, 456 postvaccination deaths were reported, which is unusually high. In January 2020, VAERS reports only 14 postvaccination deaths, and 166 deaths for the whole year 2020.

https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/02/dirty-secrets/

Opponents attack wife of Clarence Thomas over his dissent bashing decision to not hear critical election case

'He and his wife are clearly radicalized'

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a searing dissenting opinion after the Supreme Court refused to hear a pivotal case involving a controversial Pennsylvania electoral directive that allowed the counting of ballots received up to three days after Election Day.

Now, Thomas' opponents are using his opinion to attack his wife.

What did Thomas say?

Thomas believes the court's refusal to hear the case opens the door for more election controversies in the future.

The central concern, according to Thomas, is whether state executives have the power to usurp their state legislatures in determining election laws, despite the U.S. Constitution explicitly assigning that power to legislators.

"[Pennsylvania's] decision to rewrite the rules seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election. But that may not be the case in the future," Thomas wrote. "These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set election rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable."

Thomas later added:

One wonders what this Court waits for. We failed to settle this dispute before the election, and thus provide clear rules. Now we again fail to provide clear rules for future elections. The decision to leave election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt is baffling. By doing nothing, we invite further confusion and erosion of voter confidence. Our fellow citizens deserve better and expect more of us. I respectfully dissent.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito joined Thomas in dissent.

Why did opponents attack his wife?

Thomas' wife, Ginni Thomas, has been outspoken about her political beliefs and support for Donald Trump.

Despite the fact that Thomas raised serious constitutional concerns with the Pennsylvania case, Democrats implied his wife's politics drove his dissent — and even demanded that she be investigated to determine what role, if any, she played in the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Christine Pelosi, daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "I'm concerned that #SCOTUS Justice Thomas dissented—we will have to learn more about the role his wife Gini Thomas played in raising money for Trump's deadly #Jan6 'Insurrection Day.'"

https://www.theblaze.com/news/opponents-attack-wife-of-clarence-thomas-over-election-case-dissent

Global airline industry body to launch Covid ‘travel pass’ by March

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that it will launch a Covid-19 travel pass by March, which it says will give travelers a way to display test results and confirmation they’ve received a vaccine.

The measure, dubbed the IATA Travel Pass, is aimed at providing government, airlines and travelers with a streamlined process to ensure there is “accurate information, secure identification and verified data” available to meet all relevant Covid-19 restrictions.

The IATA has outlined a timeline for the full rollout of its travel pass, with initial efforts underway at Singapore Airlines while a further 20 airlines are testing the app. More companies are set to start using it in the next few months, the organization said, and it aims to have the full pass ready to go live at the end of March.

At the same meeting, the IATA expressed concerns that the ongoing global restrictions around Covid are still hitting airlines, with its chief economist warning it will likely take longer than planned for companies to be able to stop burning cash and begin rebounding financially.

Some companies have expressed concern that the summer booking period, a popular time for the airline industry, still “remains weak,” with reservations currently only at seven percent of pre-pandemic levels. The IATA, which represents some 290 members, has urged governments to provide further financial support to prevent the crisis in the travel industry from getting worse.

The statement from the IATA comes after Europol issued a warning about criminals selling falsified Covid-19 test results to travelers, allowing them to get around the restrictions in place because of the pandemic. In January, the UK’s Immigration Service Union told Britain’s Sky News that there is no way for border officers to validate Covid-19 tests to ensure they are legitimate.

https://www.rt.com/news/516475-global-airline-industry-covid-travel/

Biden Exec Order Hints at Removal of Oath of Allegiance for New Migrants.

President Biden’s February executive order on immigration hints at a potential removal of the oath of allegiance for new migrants seeking U.S. citizenship.

The Executive Order on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans outlines the White House effort to “promote naturalization” in section five.

The order outlines how various people – including the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security – would conduct a review of existing components of the immigration process.

Among the barriers to citizenship potentially on the chopping block is the oath of allegiance – which requires citizens to “renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity” with any other country and promise to “support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies”:

Eliminate barriers in and otherwise improve the existing naturalization process, including by conducting a comprehensive review of that process with particular emphasis on the N-400 application, fingerprinting, background and security checks, interviews, civics and English language tests, and the oath of allegiance.

And Following this order, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) has already reverted the naturalization test to its pre-Trump predecessor, noting the action was “consistent with the framework of the Executive Order on Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems, which directs a comprehensive review of the naturalization process to eliminate barriers and make the process more accessible to all eligible individuals.”

In contrast, Trump’s version of the test was cast as “longer and more difficult.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/biden-eo-oath-of-allegiance/

Hagerty Warns Against Biden Cutting ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy — ‘Tremendous Increase’ in Drug Trafficking, Human Trafficking

Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends First,” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) warned of the danger posed by President Joe Biden cutting back former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.

According to Hagerty, that move endangers communities across the country. He argued there would be a “tremendous increase” in drug trafficking and human trafficking.

“[Y]ou think about it — my home state of Tennessee — we have got 30,000 migrants at the border right now. That’s more than that the population of Bristol, Tennessee. It’s going to be easier now to get across the border from Mexico into the United States than it is to get a beer at a honky-tonk in downtown Nashville,” Hagerty lamented. “They’re inviting these immigrants to come in. We are going to see a tremendous increase in drug trafficking, we are going to see an increase in human trafficking, and we are going to see these people caught and released into our communities here in the United States. How are they going to ensure that these people get to their hearings? How are they going to test them? Are they going to innoculate them? Are they going to give them work permits? There are so many unanswered questions.”

“[Biden] has got an open border policy here’s that going to be a gross invitation to come into our country at a time when we’re trying to fight a pandemic,” he added.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/02/24/hagerty-warns-against-biden-cutting-remain-in-mexico-policy-tremendous-increase-in-drug-trafficking-human-trafficking/

‘Flat Lie’: Federal Prosecutors In New York Admitted To Lying About Evidence In Sanctions Case

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan acknowledged in private messages that they lied to the defense team for an Iranian businessman who was convicted on charges that he violated U.S. sanctions, according to documents unsealed on Monday.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), which handles some of the government’s most significant criminal cases, tried to block the release of the damning messages, but they were unsealed in response to a request from the Associated Press.

According to the AP, the newly disclosed records showed prosecutors discussing turning over records to the defense team for Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, who was charged in 2018 with money laundering, bank fraud, and violating U.S. sanctions imposed on Iran by funneling $115 million through Venezuelan front companies.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/23/flat-lie-federal-prosecutors-new-york-admitted-to-lying-about-evidence-sanctions-case/

Biden’s CIA Nominee Has Close Ties to Communist China

President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, has a history of cooperation organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

An in-depth study of Biden’s “weakness” on China from the Republican Study Committee (RSC) contains background information on Burns’ affiliations with prominent CCP members. According to the report, while Burns was president of the board of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he welcomed Zhang Yichen to the board. Zhang is a Chinese businessman linked to two major CCP organizations, the Chinese People’s Political Consultive Conference and the Center for China Globalization.

Zhang’s firm, along with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, an organization connected to the CCP and responsible for “United Front” work in the U.S., gave Carnegie millions of dollars to help build the think tank’s Beijing-based Carnegie-Tsinghua center.

If confirmed by the Senate, Burns would be the first CIA leader whose experience is largely from the State Department, where he served under both Republican and Democrat presidents. He rose through the diplomatic corps ranks to become deputy secretary of state before retiring in 2014 to run the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

While at the State Department, Burns helped negotiate former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which failed to stop the regime’s desire to weaponize its program. Instead, the deal paved the way for them to do so legally in the future. Former President Donald Trump canceled the deal.

After Trump took office in 2017, Burns held his tongue until 2020, when he began writing highly critical pieces of the Trump administration’s policies in Foreign Affairs and other publications. Burns has been a staunch advocate of “rebuilding and restructuring the foreign service,” positions he shares with Biden.

“Ambassador Burns will bring the knowledge, judgment and perspective we need to prevent and confront threats before they can reach our shores,” Biden said. “The American people will sleep soundly with him as our next CIA director.”

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/02/24/bidens-cia-nominee-has-close-ties-communist-china/

White House reporter covering Kamala Harris tests positive for COVID-19

A reporter covering Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, forcing a thorough cleaning of the White House briefing room before this afternoon’s press conference.

The White House pool released a statement, noting the reporter tested positive during routine screening.

“As soon as we were notified, we disbanded the Vice President’s pool and sent them home. They will be tested again tomorrow. Out of an abundance of caution, we made arrangements for the briefing room to be cleaned. We have also begun the process of contact tracing​,” it said.

“​This individual did not have any contact with the Vice President or White House staff​,” the statement added.

​​A reporter for McClatchy ​News assigned to White House press pool duties tweeted a photo of a worker in full protective gear cleaning the briefing room.​

The infected reporter wasn’t identified. ​​

https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/white-house-reporter-covering-kamala-harris-contracts-covid-19/

Facebook Gives Ben Shapiro ‘Shadow-Boost’ To Make More Users See His Content – Report

Controlled opposition?

A report seems to confirm that Ben Shapiro was “shadow-boosted” by Facebook’s algorithm, meaning his content enters the feeds of people otherwise unlikely to interact with the personality.

The report from Buzzfeed, which mostly erroneously focuses on claims that Facebook is somehow a safe-haven for supporters of Alex Jones and Infowars, revealed that Ben Shapiro had been pushed into the feeds of Facebook users who had not interacted with his content.

The report details changes made to a Facebook feature called In Feed Recommendations, which would insert posts into the Facebook feeds of people that they didn’t follow, but were similar to content they liked already. Buzzfeed gives the example of someone who followed the page for a specific football team, who may then see content from the NFL put into their feed.

However, the IFR was not meant to recommend political content, yet users began complaining that they were seeing posts from Ben Shapiro in their news feeds, “even though they had never engaged with that type of content”:

When the issue was flagged internally, Facebook’s content policy team warned that removing such suggestions for political content could reduce those pages’ engagement and traffic, and possibly inspire complaints from publishers. A News Feed product manager and a policy team member reiterated this argument in an August post to Facebook’s internal message board.

https://nationalfile.com/facebook-gives-ben-shapiro-shadow-boost-to-make-more-users-see-his-content-report/

Big Business Endorses Biden Rescue Plan In Letter To Congress

A coalition of more than 150 corporate executives signed a letter endorsing President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, CNN reported.

The executives who signed the letter represent a range of top corporations in several industries from Goldman Sachs to Google to Comcast to American Airlines, according to CNN. The letter was addressed to several Republican and Democratic congressional leaders on Capitol Hill and is expected to be sent Wednesday.

“Previous federal relief measures have been essential, but more must be done to put the country on a trajectory for a strong, durable recovery,” the executives wrote, CNN reported. “Congress should act swiftly and on a bipartisan basis to authorize a stimulus and relief package along the lines of the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed American Rescue Plan.”

CEOs named on the letter include Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwartzman, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Lyft’s John Zimmer, Comcast’s Brian Roberts and AT&T’s John Stankey, according to CNN. Executives from top real estate and insurance firms also signed the letter.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/24/corporate-executives-joe-biden-american-rescue-plan/

China Assails Five Eyes Intelligence Network ‘Axis of White Supremacy’

China Assails Five Eyes Intelligence Network ‘Axis of White Supremacy’

The Times published the editorial in reaction to Canada’s decision this week to declare China’s treatment of its ethnic minority Uyghur population in Xinjiang an act of genocide and to petition the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing.

In President Donald Trump’s final days in office, the U.S. became the first to declare China’s actions in Xinjiang as genocide.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/24/china-assails-five-eyes-intelligence-network-axis-of-white-supremacy/

Current Mexican Border State Governor Faces Organized Crime Probe

Federal prosecutors in Mexico are targeting a border state governor in an organized crime investigation and are asking that nation’s legislature to strip his criminal immunity protections. Prosecutors also say they are reviewing money laundering and tax fraud allegations.

Federal prosecutors in a money-laundering task force from Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) filed a request with congressional leaders for hearings to remove criminal immunity and target Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier Cabeza de Vaca in connection with an investigation into organized criminal activity, money laundering, and tax fraud. The matter became public after Moises Ignacio Mier Velazco, a congressional leader with the MORENA Party, tweeted the document. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, February 25.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2021/02/24/current-mexican-border-state-governor-faces-organized-crime-probe/

Americans Need to Find Their Spine and Fortitude to Stand Up and Fight. It’s Time We Cut This Evil Out From Our Society.

You know why this government isn’t even hiding their intentions or anything anymore? Because it’s been a year since “two weeks to flatten the curve” and we didn’t drag them out of their cozy little government offices and string them up from the lamp post for the whole world to see. We have allowed this pandemic, that is not a pandemic, to be used against us and we have done nothing. So why wouldn’t this evil government continue to rape us on a daily basis. Hell they stole an election in broad daylight and still we did nothing.

We are all guilty. I have never wore a mask, but I will never forgive myself for limiting mine and my family’s activities and contact with people for those two weeks. It was a huge mistake and I regret giving the government the benefit of the doubt for those two weeks. When we trusted the government on this “emergence of a deadly virus” we basically gave them permission to do as they please from there on out. They found their trigger, their method of control, and they are going to continue using it until we stand up to them, with force if necessary.

This evil government is not playing by the rules and why would they? We are allowing them to strip us of our freedoms day after day, willingly. This Deep State will lie, cheat and steal to maintain their power and yet we do nothing.

Things are as bad I’m willing to let it get. However I am but one man. I have a family to protect and I do not wish to be a martyr. Do I take my family and move off grid and withdraw from society? Is that fair to my children? Is it fair to my children to leave the burden of freedom to them and have them fight for it? Are we to just wait until they come knocking down our doors to fight back? That will be too late to start shooting the tyrants. The time is now, while they think they are untouchable, guarded by fences and razor wire and out of shape guards who seem to just be collecting a paycheck.

Everyone needs to face up to something. We are at War! If you think being nice and playing by the rules with this evil government is going to bring peace and unity, you are sorely mistaken. They will continue to walk all over you until their boots are covered with your blood. It’s not pleasant to think about. Dark days are here and yet we do nothing.

https://ncrenegade.com/editorial/americans-need-to-find-their-spine-and-fortitude-to-stand-up-and-fight-its-time-we-cut-this-evil-out-from-our-society/

What if the “Conspiracy” is Real?

A disturbing glance at the powers-that-be.

In a matter of just five days, two separate incidents demonstrated the collusion used by the powers-that-be to control thought.

On Feb. 5, Mike Lindell, who founded MyPillow, released a two-hour documentary, "Absolute Proof," providing detailed evidence of fraud during the Presidential election. On Feb. 10, the House of Representatives' impeachment managers showed a video of the bedlam at the Capitol on Jan. 6, bedlam they accused President Donald Trump of inciting.

Once Lindell released his documentary, Google and Wikipedia attempted to manipulate his search results and biography, respectively. Two days after the impeachment managers released their video, David Schoen, one of Trump's defense attorneys demonstrated how the video deliberately misrepresented his client. Trump's trial ended the next day in acquittal.

Both cases show the determination of Big Government, Big Tech and Big Media at the very least to promote narratives that advance their unified interests and agendas. In the process, those three entities along with Big Business, Big Academia, Big Whatever will try to destroy anyone who opposes those narratives.

As FrontPage Magazine reported in "People of the Lie," organizations ranging from businesses to foreign governments to federal agencies to charitable foundations use "astroturf" to influence opinion. "Astroturf" provides the illusion of a grassroots campaign while hiding its artificial nature. The strategy involves creating various kinds of written and video content including blogs, social media accounts, video channels, online comments, letters to the editor often through third parties.

"Special interests have unlimited time and money to figure out new ways to spin us while cloaking their role," said Sharyl Attkisson, who won five Emmy Awards for CBS News. "Surreptitious astroturf methods are now more important to those interests than traditional lobbying of Congress. There's an entire industry built around it in Washington.

"The whole point of astroturf is to try to give the impression there's widespread support for or against an agenda when there's not. Astroturf seeks to manipulate you into changing your opinion by making you feel as if you're an outlier when you're not."

One way special interests manipulate opinion is through "fact checkers." As the Columbia Journalism Review's Tim Schwab reported, PolitiFact and USA Today used their "fact checkers" to defend Bill Gates "from 'false conspiracy theories' and 'misinformation,' like the idea that the foundation has financial investments in companies developing Covid vaccines and therapies," he wrote.

But Gates' own tax records reveal such investments. Moreover, PolitiFact's and USA Today's parent organizations the Poynter Institute and Gannett, respectively receive money from Gates' foundation.

Schwab's reporting reveals a second technique: derision and defamation.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/what-if-conspiracy-real-joseph-hippolito/

Wear Two Masks Until June, De Blasio Tells New Yorkers

On Tuesday, speaking at a press briefing, New York mayor Bill de Blasio stated that citizens should “not just wear a mask, wear two” until June.

De Blasio was asked by Amanda Eisenberg from Politico, “I want to know what the city strategy is for implementing these public health measures as more people get vaccinated. Are there specific things that you’re looking to do to, you know, educate people around their risk of transmission as we vaccinate more people?”“We’ve been projecting this one for weeks and weeks too,” De Blasio answered. “We want everyone to stay – first of all, June’s when we want to hit five million New Yorkers fully vaccinated, and June is the earliest we would even consider changing guidance around masks. It may be that we continue that guidance for quite a while, depending on what’s going on. We’re very concerned about the variants, for example, that’s a big x-factor. But I think a good way for New Yorkers to think about now is for the first half of this year, from now through June, keep doing exactly what you’re doing, not just wear a mask, wear two, social distancing, you know, all the precautions – get tested monthly.”

“If you do have a case in your home, have the person safely separate,” he continued. “We want to keep all those precautions in place to guard against the variants, to help us consolidate our progress, to give time for this vaccination effort to catch up with the larger reality and really create a new dynamic of the city.”

“When we get closer to June, we’ll update the guidance depending on what we’re seeing, but I think it’s really important for people not to let their guard down, and Dr. Chokshi (Commissioner Dave Chokshi, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene) will tell you that even when you’re vaccinated, you know, you have to have concern for everyone around you,” de Blasio warned. “So, I would say anyone vaccinated, keep wearing that mask as part – and it’s also just the culture. We want everyone to remember that the mask wearing culture has been part of what turned the corner for us, and we got to keep it that way until this is finally defeated.”Chokshi added that wearing two masks should “become more common among New Yorkers,” asserting:

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/02/wear-two-masks-until-june-de-blasio.html