Fakt-chekas at the AP are debunking, which can mean one thing only

Claims are true.

Brief post: I had a sneaking suspicion about the leak to Alex Jones — about TSA reimposing mask mandates and locking us down again— might have been a head-fake, designed to make us fine with ‘just the mask, but no lockdown.’

ON THE OTHER HAND: Look at the denial language, regarding the mask: “No such announcement was made to TSA managers, an agency spokesperson told The Associated Press.” Jones’ source was an anon insider.

Further, lockdowns are already here (be it to achieve Covid or Climate Communism)...and they’re going to get worse, as the economy craters. I don’t need to spell it out.

Conspiracy theorist spreads false information about the return of COVID-19 mandates

BY MELISSA GOLDIN

Published 3:04 PM PDT, August 24, 2023

CLAIM: Transportation Security Administration managers were told on Aug. 15 that by mid-September they, along with airport employees, will again be required to wear face masks and by mid-October the policy will apply to travelers as well. Further, the managers were told that COVID-19 lockdowns will return by December.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. No such announcement was made to TSA managers, an agency spokesperson told The Associated Press. A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which issued a now-expired travel mask mandate in 2021, confirmed that such rumors are “utterly false.”

THE FACTS: With COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily inching up in the U.S. since early July, some on social media are falsely claiming that federal employees were told that mask requirements and other pandemic-era restrictions will start returning this fall.

The claim originated on the Aug. 18 episode of “The Alex Jones Show,” where its namesake host said an anonymous “high-level manager in the TSA” and an unnamed “Border Patrol-connected” source told him about the alleged announcement. Jones is known for spreading conspiracy theories.

Which always wind up being realities...

“BREAKING: Alex Jones says a TSA whistleblower has told him TSA employees were instructed on Tue that masks are coming back by October for travelers & full Covid restrictions/lockdowns by December due to a new ‘dangerous variant’ out of Canada,” read a tweet with the video, which had more than 38,000 likes and 20,000 shares on Thursday.

But TSA Press Secretary Robert Langston told The Associated Press that managers at the agency did not receive any such instructions last week. Benjamin Haynes, a spokesperson for the CDC, confirmed that reports of upcoming lockdowns are “utterly false.”

In addition, the suggestion there could be a timeline in advance of such restrictions is “exceptionally implausible,” said Sherry Glied, dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

As if Covid 1.0 and the accompanying clot shots were not story-boarded in advance!

Glied, who specializes in health policy reform, said it wouldn’t make sense for any agency to “forecast some future mask requirement when we have no idea whether the virus would be spreading at all at that point or how dangerous it would be.”

Neither Jones, nor a representative of his show, had responded to a request for comment before publication.

The article continues, with more government garbage. And it ends in this laughable way:

This is part of AP’s effort to address widely shared misinformation, including work with outside companies and organizations to add factual context to misleading content that is circulating online. Learn more about fact-checking at AP.

Whatever the case, they are INSANE and hell-bent on destroying us.