Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses - "We included 12 trials (10 cluster‐RCTs) comparing medical/surgical masks versus no masks to prevent the spread of viral respiratory illness (two trials with healthcare workers and 10 in the community). Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence). We pooled trials comparing N95/P2 respirators with medical/surgical masks (four in healthcare settings and one in a household setting). We are very uncertain on the effects of N95/P2 respirators compared with medical/surgical masks on the outcome of clinical respiratory illness (RR 0.70, 95% CI 0.45 to 1.10; 3 trials, 7779 participants; very low‐certainty evidence). N95/P2 respirators compared with medical/surgical masks may be effective for ILI (RR 0.82, 95% CI 0.66 to 1.03; 5 trials, 8407 participants; low‐certainty evidence). Evidence is limited by imprecision and heterogeneity for these subjective outcomes. The use of a N95/P2 respirators compared to medical/surgical masks probably makes little or no difference for the objective and more precise outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza infection (RR 1.10, 95% CI 0.90 to 1.34; 5 trials, 8407 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence). Restricting pooling to healthcare workers made no difference to the overall findings. Harms were poorly measured and reported, but discomfort wearing medical/surgical masks or N95/P2 respirators was mentioned in several studies (very low‐certainty evidence). One previously reported ongoing RCT has now been published and observed that medical/surgical masks were non‐inferior to N95 respirators in a large study of 1009 healthcare workers in four countries providing direct care to COVID‐19 patients."
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is the leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care which has a 2021 Journal Impact Factor of 11.874 (the University of Florida notes that the biology journal with the highest impact factor has one of 12.472), and they published this systematic review in January 2023. What will mask fetishists' new cope be, when we don't even have evidence that N95/P2 respirators help healthcare workers, much less surgical masks in the community?
Meme - George Thurston @ProfGThurston: "One aerosol scientist, heading toward his third COVID free year, surrounded by a trainload of lemmings headed to their next case." *wearing medical mask*
Eric @The_OtherET: "As an aerosol scientist you should know that a vast majority of RCTs have been unsupportive or inconclusive on the use of N95s for airborne pathogens You should also know that leakage is a serious problem with PPE which is why ventilation is vastly superior"
Being a covid hystericist at the end of 2022...
Meme - pouterpuff girl @peach_schnappsx: "crying in Walmart because some teenagers told me I should lose weight when I told them they should wear a mask"
Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions - "Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain respiratory diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although acceptance of such masks is increasing in the Western hemisphere, many people feel that social interaction is affected by wearing a mask. In the present experiment, we tested the impact of face masks on the readability of emotions. The participants (N = 41, calculated by an a priori power test; random sample; healthy persons of different ages, 18–87 years) assessed the emotional expressions displayed by 12 different faces. Each face was randomly presented with six different expressions (angry, disgusted, fearful, happy, neutral, and sad) while being fully visible or partly covered by a face mask. Lower accuracy and lower confidence in one’s own assessment of the displayed emotions indicate that emotional reading was strongly irritated by the presence of a mask. We further detected specific confusion patterns, mostly pronounced in the case of misinterpreting disgusted faces as being angry plus assessing many other emotions (e.g., happy, sad, and angry) as neutral. We discuss compensatory actions that can keep social interaction effective (e.g., body language, gesture, and verbal communication), even when relevant visual information is crucially reduced."
Eric Topol on Twitter - "For the "it's a cold" and "the pandemic is over" folks *rising covid deaths in Japan*"
Eric Topol on Twitter - ""During the pandemic, the practice [in Japan] became pervasive, though the gov't has never enforced a mask mandate... A recent survey showed that half of Japanese would like to keep wearing masks as much as possible, regardless of medical advice or rules."
🍻 Dave on Twitter - "If only they wore masks"
Dr. Christian Winter on Twitter - "For those who are easily confused when there is no reference point *current Japanese covid deaths much lower than in almost all of 2020-1Q 2022*"
Ewan MacKenna on Twitter - "And Japan still has strong restrictions. So having realised they don't work, and driving around half a billion into abject poverty, and the economies of the world into disaster that'll see huge health issues and cutbacks, what would you have people do from your ivory tower?"
🇦🇺 🇺🇦 Nirgal451 🇺🇦🇦🇺 on Twitter - "Fascinating. *Japanese and US covid deaths per capita, with Japan exceeding the US at times in 2022 as well as now*"
It's almost as if front-loading covid deaths by not cutting yourself off from the rest of the world doesn't mean that you've failed, and kicking the can down the road just prolongs covid misery
BBC Radio 4 - Best of Today, Covid: Are we ready to scrap mandatory mask wearing? - "For people who are hard of hearing, in fact, you know, and I find this myself, it's much harder to hear somebody if they're talking to you wearing a face mask. It muffles their voice, it means that you can't add what you're hearing, add some lip reading to that. So there are real downsides to wearing masks"
BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent Podcast, Madagascar: The Threat of Starvation - "The executive director of the center told me she's worried about speech delays, which could lead to delayed reading. She's concerned about learning difficulties perhaps going undetected, and has questions about the effect of masks on the social and emotional development of preschoolers. Picking up on social cues is difficult when you can't see faces. Affluent parents can devote time to working with their kids to mitigate the effects of masking, explained the center director. But for parents juggling two jobs, exhausted after work, spending extra time making especially sure toddlers and meeting their speech benchmarks is a big ask. Recent study by Brown University researchers found that children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal motor and overall cognitive performance compared to children born before it began. The researchers observed that masks worn in school or daycare settings may impact a range of early developing skills"
Clearly children born during covid are doing worse because of covid, not masks!
Public health measures for covid-19 - "Although the pandemic has seen remarkable trials for vaccines and drug treatments, much less has been done to evaluate the effects of public health and social measures (PHSMs)1; also known as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) or behavioural, environmental, social, and systems interventions (BESSIs). A linked systematic review of public health measures for covid-192 by Talic and colleagues... found just one randomised controlled trial—of mask wearing—among 35 eligible studies that could provide estimates on the effectiveness of individual interventions. The 34 observational studies comprised 14 natural experiments or quasi-experiments and nine cohort, two case-control, and nine cross sectional studies—from Asia (n=11), the United States (n=9), Europe (n=7), and elsewhere (n=8). Combined, these studies suggested relative reductions in incidence of 25% (relative risk 0.75, 95% confidence interval 0.59 to 0.95) for physical distancing, 53% (0.47, 0.29 to 0.75) for mask wearing, and 53% (0.47, 0.19 to 1.12) for handwashing. The handwashing finding is somewhat surprising, and at odds with evidence that the predominant route of transmission is through inhalation rather than fomites. What might explain the 53% reduction associated with handwashing? It is likely that handwashing is a marker for several protective behaviours such as avoiding crowds, distancing, and mask wearing. So, findings from the observational studies might be better interpreted as the impact of a bundle of correlated protective behaviours for which the individual behaviours are a marker. Similar with handwashing, the effects seen in observational studies of mask wearing will be confounded by other protective behaviours not accounted for during adjustment. Talic and colleagues’ review includes just one randomised controlled trial that evaluated mask wearing, and it was too small for a reliable estimate of effect (18% reduction in incidence for the wearer, 95% confidence interval −23% to 46%)... the quality of the current evidence would be graded—by GRADE criteria—as low or very low, as it consists of mainly observational studies with poor methods (biases in measurement of outcomes, classification of PHSM, and missing data), and high heterogeneity of effect size... Considering the central importance of PHSMs for pandemic control, the uncertainties and controversies around their effects, and the immense research effort being put into vaccine and drug development, this lack of investment in public health measures is puzzling—at just 4% of global research funding for covid-19."
Nicole Saphier, MD on Twitter - "My kids’ school sent a note saying they can wear Halloween costumes to school tomorrow as long as they don’t cover the face because it will “hinder the learning environment.” I was waiting for the punch line at the end but apparently they didn’t see the irony in their message 😷"
Media Meltdown Over Justice Sotomayor's Failure to Cope with the Risk of Living - "The usual sources of outrage are all atwitter over the fact that Justice Sotomayor isn’t a queen with the authority to demand that other justices wear face gags at her behest. Apparently, the overweight and diabetic Sotomayor wants everyone around her to take extra precautions to care for her after she didn’t care for herself, which puts her in a higher risk category for COVID complications. While her Type 1 diabetes was not avoidable, Sotomayor’s weight problem is surely manageable through diet and exercise. She isn’t hiring a personal trainer or going on a diet; oh no, that would require personal responsibility. Instead, she is demanding that everyone around her wear masks or she will stay in her office and zoom into hearings... Anyone at this point, when there are vaccines and therapeutics available to deal with COVID, who is still demanding that you do something to keep them safe should be given a hard “no.”... Let the hypochondriacs live a life confined inside, alone, separated from all society, and ordering from Grubhub. The rest of us have things to do. Life is risk, your highness. Every time you get behind the wheel of a car you have a good chance of dying in a fiery crash. Every time you shovel snow you risk a heart attack. Every time you drive through Dunkin Donuts and bite into that Boston creme you’re risking diabetes, and yet we drive and we shovel and we indulge. A Supreme Court justice has work to do that needs doing regardless of the risk. And since she can continue to do it from the “safety” of her office (where she thinks an airborne virus can’t travel), then leave her to it... Justice Ginsburg had a daily session with a personal trainer. That woman was a machine! What’s stopping Sotomayor from chasing after a healthy lifestyle instead of a second cheeseburger? Scott Morefield opined, “If triple-vaxxed Sotomayor is still frightened, she has the freedom to wear four masks and a HAZMAT suit. It’s time to stop catering to tyrannical hypochondriacs. Neil Gorsuch is a hero.”"
From January 2022. It's all about control
Nick Foy on Twitter - "My son woke up with a scratchy throat today and I'm really angry about it because not many people are wearing masks and nobody is wearing well-fitting N95s people are so selfish and it went away after breakfast and he's fine now but do you know what we've been through 🧵 (1/236)"
Wilfred Reilly on Twitter - "The debate about non-medical masks centers on whether they do or do not cause a statistically significant 3-5% reduction in the transmission of a virus with a 1/5,000 u-50 mortality rate. Hell, I think they do. But, they have not "saved tens of millions of lives.""
It’s time to rethink mask mandates - "Look at how similar omicron waves played out in places like South Korea and Hong Kong, places that have had very high mask use in social settings and public spaces. Both countries just had this tidal wave of cases. It gives me humility in terms of what we can do to really prevent transmission... My worldview is that these other non-pharmaceutical interventions — masks, canceling things, and closing things — they’re really great when we’re in an acute emergency and we’ve got to buy ourselves some time. They’re a pause button; they don’t eliminate the virus, they just reduce the probability of exposure to it. But if we’re going to hit the pause button, what are we buying time for?... Mask mandates and shutdowns are really broad things that don’t particularly target the populations that are most at risk."
Why Masks Work, but Mandates Haven’t - The New York Times - "From the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a paradox involving masks. As Dr. Shira Doron, an epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, puts it, “It is simultaneously true that masks work and mask mandates do not work.”... In U.S. cities where mask use has been more common, Covid has spread at a similar rate as in mask-resistant cities. Mask mandates in schools also seem to have done little to reduce the spread. Hong Kong, despite almost universal mask-wearing, recently endured one of the world’s worst Covid outbreaks... The main explanation seems to be that the exceptions often end up mattering more than the rule. The Covid virus is so contagious that it can spread during brief times when people take off their masks, even when a mandate is in place. Airplane passengers remove their masks to have a drink. Restaurant patrons go maskless as soon as they walk in the door. Schoolchildren let their masks slide down their faces. So do adults: Research by the University of Minnesota suggests that between 25 percent and 30 percent of Americans consistently wear their masks below their nose." “Even though masks work, getting millions of people to wear them, and wear them consistently and properly, is a far greater challenge,” Steven Salzberg, a biostatistician at Johns Hopkins University, has written. Part of the problem, Salzberg explains, is that the most effective masks also tend to be less comfortable. They cover a larger part of a person’s face, fit more snugly and restrict the flow of more air particles. During an acute crisis — such as the early months of Covid, when masks were one of the few available forms of protection — strict guidelines can nonetheless make sense. Public health officials can urge people to wear tightfitting, high-quality masks and almost never take them off in public. If the mandate has even a modest benefit, it can be worth it. But this approach is not sustainable for years on end. Masks hinder communication, fog glasses and can be uncomfortable. There is a reason that children and airline passengers have broken out in applause when told they can take off their masks. In the current stage of the pandemic, there are less divisive measures that are more effective than mask mandates. Booster shots are widely available. A drug that can further protect the immunocompromised, known as Evusheld, is increasingly available. So are post-infection treatments, like Paxlovid, that make Covid less severe. (For young children, who are not yet eligible for the vaccine, Covid is overwhelmingly mild, similar in severity to the flu.) Continuing to expand access to these treatments can do more to reduce Covid hospitalizations and deaths than any mask rule probably would... Dr. Aaron Carroll, the chief health officer of Indiana University, recently wrote for The Times’s Opinion section: “Instead of continuing to bicker about things that have become hopelessly politicized like mask mandates, those in public health could focus on efforts that might make much more of a difference.” The available data also suggests that more than half of Americans have had Covid in the past six months, making many of them unlikely to contract it again now. As Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Brown University, told Vox: “Many of the people who are not wearing masks have already had Covid, so they’re like, ‘I’ve been vaccinated, I already had it — how much longer do you want me to do this for?’ And it’s kind of hard to say, ‘No, you absolutely must wear it.’”... Because masks work and mandates often don’t, people can make their own decisions. Anybody who wants to wear a snug, high-quality mask can do so and will be less likely to contract Covid. If anything, that approach — one-way masking — is consistent with what hospitals have long done, as Doron, the Tufts epidemiologist, points out. Patients, including those sick with infectious diseases, typically have not worn masks, but doctors and nurses have"
When even people who think masks work in theory admit they don't in reality
This fails to understand that for covid hystericists, politicisation is a feature, not a bug
Early Word Segmentation Behind the Mask - "Infants have been shown to rely both on auditory and visual cues when processing speech. We investigated the impact of COVID-related changes, in particular of face masks, in early word segmentation abilities. Following up on our previous study demonstrating that, by 4 months, infants already segmented targets presented auditorily at utterance-edge position, and, using the same visual familiarization paradigm, 7-9-month-old infants performed an auditory and an audiovisual word segmentation experiment in two conditions: without and with an FFP2 face mask. Analysis of acoustic and visual cues showed changes in face-masked speech affecting the amount, weight, and location of cues. Utterance-edge position displayed more salient cues than utterance-medial position, but the cues were attenuated in face-masked speech. Results revealed no evidence for segmentation, not even at edge position, regardless of mask condition and auditory or visual speech presentation. However, in the audiovisual experiment, infants attended more to the screen during the test trials when familiarized with without mask speech. Also, the infants attended more to the mouth and less to the eyes in without mask than with mask. In addition, evidence for an advantage of the utterance-edge position in emerging segmentation abilities was found. Thus, audiovisual information provided some support to developing word segmentation. We compared 7-9-monthers segmentation ability observed in the Butler and Frota pre-COVID study with the current auditory without mask data. Mean looking time for edge was significantly higher than unfamiliar in the pre-COVID study only. Measures of cognitive and language development obtained with the CSBS scales showed that the infants of the current study scored significantly lower than the same-age infants from the CSBS (pre-COVID) normative data. Our results suggest an overall effect of the pandemic on early segmentation abilities and language development, calling for longitudinal studies to determine how development proceeds"
Time for the fact-checkers to blacklist Frontiers in Psychology until the retraction of this paper
Opinion | I’m a doctor. Here’s why my kids won’t wear masks this school year. - The Washington Post - "It became clear that the goal I’d hoped for — containment of covid-19 — was not reachable. This coronavirus is here to stay. With this new, indefinite time frame, the benefit-risk calculus of mitigation measures shifted dramatically. I was willing to limit my children’s activities for a year or two but not for their entire childhood. Given how careful we’d been, it wasn’t easy to change my mind-set to accept covid-19 as a recurring risk. But the high transmissibility of new variants meant that we would have to pay an increasingly high price if our goal was to keep avoiding the virus. I began trying to think of the coronavirus as I do other everyday risks, such as falls, car accidents or drowning. Of course I want to shield my children from injuries, and I take precautions, such as using car seats and teaching them how to swim. By the same logic, I vaccinated them against the coronavirus. But I won’t put their childhood on hold in an effort to eliminate all risk. It helped, too, that omicron is milder than previous variants... Masking has harmed our son’s language development, and limiting both kids’ extracurriculars and social interactions would negatively affect their childhood and hinder my and my husband’s ability to work."
MSNBC reporter trying to shame people for not wearing masks is caught out by bystander - "An MSNBC reporter was called out by a bystander for attempts to shame people not wearing masks when half of his own camera crew were not wearing them. Cal Perry was delivering a Memorial Day report from Lake Geneva as hundreds traveled to enjoy the holiday weekend in Wisconsin, where businesses have reopened post lockdown... The unidentified man was also filming the incident and the video was shared on social media showing how the crew were standing close together without masks on. It even showed Perry touching the arm of his cameraman to get him to turn around in breach of social distancing rules."
Corona Meets Fashion: Models Don Glittery ‘Surgical Face Masks’ On Ramp - "The coronavirus pandemic took centre stage during veteran designer Gavin Rajah’s show at Africa Fashion International’s Fashion Week in Cape Town last week. Rajah sent models down the runway with glittering rhinestones stuck around their mouths in the shape of surgical masks to highlight the division and potential racism that wearing such protective gear may spur. Models also donned plastic sheets covering their heads and faces to mimic the hazmat suits usually worn by medics working in infectious diseases hospitals. “The use of the mask was … symbolic because the mask isn’t really about necessarily protecting you, but what its going to do, is alienate you from the rest of the people around you,” said Rajah. “It’s going to set you apart. It’s a new form of racism”. “We’re trying to create a form of expression and turn something which is negative into … something which is beautiful”"
From March 2020. He was right about masks and division, just not about the type of division
Original headline: "SA designer highlights how surgical masks may spur a 'new form of racism'"
The Casual Hippie on Twitter - "I've died from my asymptomatic long Covid 5-12 times already. The last month included three times I got it from unmasked toddlers... I even got double Covid from someone who refused to double mask when I politely screamed at them that they were killing grandma."
SCDC on Twitter - "Whenever they make predictions like this, they never circle back to say, “oh my bad, guess I was wrong.” Just onto the next doomer prediction. Makes me feel like they’re actually disappointed if things turn out to be less dire."
Corie Whalen on Twitter - "Did any of the people who made apocalyptic predictions, especially about kids, ever circle back and correct themselves? Not that I expect much from the guy who claimed taking his daughter to the grocery store is akin to murdering her."
SCDC on Twitter - "Lol I just said the same thing, this really bothers me. Zero accountability. I mean I know it’s Twitter, but if you’ve built a large following based on your professional qualifications, seems problematic."
David Charles Plate on Twitter - "Saw that with Sweden. I have family there & so many people in the US were treating Swedes like, 'they'll get what they deserve', basically, wishing death upon those who didn't go with the program. Now they won't even talk about Sweden."
‘The hero we need’: masked-up baby goes viral after New Zealand flight - "A photograph of a baby wearing a full face mask on an Air New Zealand flight has gone viral over the weekend, sparking plenty of online debate. The picture was taken on a domestic flight from Auckland to Wellington on 1 July and shows the child wearing an adult-sized mask covering half their face with two little eye holes cut out."
This child abuse is going to last for a long time. And since airlines have to follow the rules in more than one jurisdiction, mask theatre on flights lasted way longer than it should've. And some airlines still require them (for Iberia, it's the government's fault)
Garcetti says he held his breath during maskless photos - Los Angeles Times - "Days after facing criticism for being photographed maskless at Sunday’s Rams-49ers playoff game, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has offered an explanation: He was holding his breath. “I think we should focus on what’s real,” Garcetti said at a SoFi Stadium news conference Wednesday. “I wore my mask the entire game. And when people ask for a photograph, I hold my breath.” “There’s a 0% chance of infection from that,” Garcetti added... Magic Johnson shared images of several politicians — including Garcetti, Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed — who were all photographed with him without masks... This isn’t the first time the mayor has been observed maskless at a Rams game. Garcetti posed with a group of dignitaries at Sofi in September 2021 in another photo posted by Johnson. Richard Carpiano, professor of public policy and a public health scientist at UC Riverside, said, “It’s not sustainable and advisable to hold your breath.” Carpiano declined to debate the risk of infection while holding one’s breath... The mask requirement for outdoor stadiums, under an order issued in L.A. County last August, was criticized as unnecessary this week by county Supervisor Kathryn Barger after photos emerged of many fans maskless."
The holiday destinations that are still addicted to masks - "The Australians, who have abandoned masks in most settings, still had muzzle strongholds in the obscure towns I passed through on the way into the South Australian Outback (in one petrol station, my father’s girlfriend was threatened with arrest for not donning one to ask the clerk, from far across the room, where the nearest supermarket was). In the Maldives, almost no-one was wearing them except, curiously, for the Middle Eastern women already shrouded in hijabs. The Germans on the other hand, bless them, seem uniformly to be having a tough old time letting the masks go. This despite the fact that they are only required in medical facilities and on public transport (I counted a 100 per cent compliance rate each time I used the U-Bahn). Indeed, unlike in the UK and almost everywhere else I’ve been, even though they are no longer compulsory on the streets, or in shops and restaurants, many German citizens are still actively choosing their FFPs over the fresh air, and many businesses still force them upon their staff. Nowhere was this more acute than at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper opera house, where I sat through a performance of Macbeth in which some of the non-singing performers wore masks on stage, as did the musicians in the Orchestra pit (bar the brass and woodwind sections). In Ireland, on the other hand, where I travelled this weekend from Galway to Dublin, it was as if the pandemic had never happened. But for a smattering of tourists (probably German), there wasn’t a mask to be seen... It shouldn’t bother me to see people wear them (each to their own; live and let live), but surely it is time to move on. I see masks as sanctimonious relics of a period where the world went temporarily insane, and the travel industry was dragged down with it; costing millions of jobs, separating countless families and wrecking economies in nations from rich to poor. So thank goodness so many of us have now binned them, and those stragglers who haven’t (the Germans, Italians and Thais, as we shall see below) will follow in time...
Thailand has long had some of the world’s strictest laws on masks, which are mandatory in public, even while jogging in a park or sunbathing on an empty beach. Thai people have strictly adhered, until this past week when it's been noticeable in Bangkok that more are going maskless, or pulling their masks down, if only while exercising. This is likely a reaction to the Thai Government’s recent announcement that, from mid-June, masks are likely not to be mandatory outdoors."
From June 2022
Glenn Greenwald on Twitter - "It's just clear, using basic faculties of rationality, that much of what the CDC is now doing and saying make no sense. Simultaneously insisting that vaccines work but that vaccinated still must wear masks was always confusing, as is this:"
"This is the hospitalization rate in Manhattan, an area CDC is urging universal masking in. CDC officials should really face questions from news orgs as to why they are treating areas like Manhattan the same way they’re treating hot spots in the south with hospitalization spikes."
Margaret Nichols on Twitter - "This mother's Doctor fired her because she didn't want to give birth in a mask. *IN 2022*"
Charlie Spiering on Twitter - "CDC Dr. Rochelle Walensky says that even if kids get vaccinated (per FDA approval) schools should still have mask mandates "As we head into these winter months, we cannot be complacent.""
Some liberals will be masking for the rest of their lives
Alex Thompson on Twitter - "Have a feeling this photo—which Abrams promoted on her own account—of her appearing maskless surrounded by kids in masks is gonna be in a lot of ads this fall.
Abrams deleted the tweet.
Brookins also deleted her tweet.
On deleting tweets… After @davelevinthal reported last week that a political action committee tied to Democrat Stacey Abrams spent nearly $1.4 million for private security last year, the security firms CEO scrubbed his Twitter photos w/ Abrams"
WATCH: Elderly, masked white women yell 'Black Lives Matter!' while assaulting black man for not wearing a mask - ""White libs have lost the plot. What a weaponized propaganda machine that they chant this phrase while actually abusing a black man. It's not a protective armor that negates personal responsibility to treat others with dignity," remarked writer Jessica Vaugn whose tweet garnered over 1,000 likes on Twitter."
