This will be a short-ish one, a followup to SARS-CoV2: The Smartest Virus Ever!
Uncle Mark said yesterday that we had a record-setting (reported) one day infection rate for COVID-19, 17% or something like that. Yes, that's quite high. The omicron variant is doing what viruses do, become better at spreading themselves. But as previously stated, although it spreads much more easily, thankfully its effects are markedly less severe. Along with this, in the same press conference, Uncle Mark said that the mask mandate is working, because hospitalizations are down.
Admittedly, credit for this thought goes to WBEN-AM host Brian Mazurowski, who presented this at the beginning of the 29-Dec-2021 "B-Maz and Beamer" show.
So wait...the purpose of the mask mandate was to reduce spreading of COVID-19. But you JUST said infection rates are record high. Again, holding to your control-the-public policy without any apparent logic behind it is eroding our confidence in you. Now...I don't think Mark Poloncarz has sinister intent, I really don't. But I don't understand his insistence on these mandates.
By the by, Uncle Mark also accused our County Comptroller of foul play by bringing up that the Erie County Health Commissioner got paid a LOT of money for handling the pandemic, particularly the overtime claimed. He went so far as to accuse Stefan Mychajliw of antisemitism, simply because the Health Commissioner is Jewish. It's just deflection, Uncle Mark didn't address the amount, which is apparently more than anyone else in a similar job in NYS, just chose to throw around accusations, to the point of uttering profanity.
English is a difficult enough language to interpret correctly when its rules are followed, let alone when the speaker or writer chooses not to follow those rules.
"Jeopardy!" replies and randomcaps really suck!