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Surgeon General begs Fox News viewers to wear a face mask and insists 'we are not trying to take away your freedoms'
businessinsider.com ^ | July 20, 2020 | Eliza Relman

Posted on 07/20/2020 11:06:38 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Surgeon General Jerome Adams begged Fox News' audience on Monday to wear face masks to help contain the spread of the coronavirus and to avoid thinking of the health measure as a violation of their rights.

Adams stressed that President Donald Trump has recently said he supports mask-wearing, despite his refusal to implement a federal mask mandate.

"I'm pleading with your viewers, I'm begging you, please understand that we are not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face covering," Adams said during a "Fox and Friends" interview.

He went on, "We are not trying to take away your ability to go out when we say keep restaurant capacity under 50%. We are saying if we do these things, we can actually open and stay open. We can get back to school, to worship, to jobs. We can do this."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; coronavirus; facemasks; fakenews; jeromeadams; masks; surgeongeneral; who
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1 posted on 07/20/2020 11:06:38 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Uh huh.


2 posted on 07/20/2020 11:08:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Is this the same clown who said that masks don’t work a few months ago?


3 posted on 07/20/2020 11:08:55 PM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: AC86UT89

“Is this the same clown who said that masks don’t work a few months ago?”

That was a different clown.

L


4 posted on 07/20/2020 11:10:33 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The funny thing is that they will credit mask wearing with the arrival of the inevitable peak and subsequent decline in new “cases” that the approach of herd immunity will bring. They’ll never admit that it all would have arrived with or without the masks.


5 posted on 07/20/2020 11:19:07 PM PDT by House Atreides (It is not a HOAX but it IS CERTAINLY A PRETEXT)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

For corn sake... no one has said REAL (N95/respirator) masks do not offer protection.


6 posted on 07/20/2020 11:19:45 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Berlin_Freeper

7 posted on 07/20/2020 11:21:32 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: AC86UT89
FLASHBACK:


8 posted on 07/20/2020 11:22:09 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Lurker

There is more than one clown in this circus.


9 posted on 07/20/2020 11:23:13 PM PDT by map
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To: Lurker

Same clown. There is more than one clown.


10 posted on 07/20/2020 11:23:19 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This guy is affirmative action all the way.


11 posted on 07/20/2020 11:23:37 PM PDT by BillyCuccio (MAGA)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m not against masks per se, but I am very curious as to when (or if) the experts will commit to saying that there is a point where masks are no longer necessary for the general public. Tell me when the science says a football stadium filled with 60,000 fans can be “safe” in their eyes and how much mask action gets us there.

I’d bet that the difference between everyone wearing a mask, locking everyone down and waiting until a vaccine is fielded widely, and nobody wearing a mask and developing herd immunity is negligible, both in time and in total number of people who succumb to the Rona.

The horse has left the barn when it comes to everyone wearing a mask. Enough people won’t do it that everyone else doing it won’t make a difference in the propagation of the disease. There are “unclean” populations and “clean” populations, and the comingling of them will keep causing further infections in an unregulated manner until herd immunity is achieved or they stop comingling. The CDC should know this, they have the scientists with the big brains on epidemiology after all. They should know how human behavior accounts for disease spreading. They should be smart enough to come up with a plan to get us through this reality, rather than pleading for everyone to wear a mask.


12 posted on 07/20/2020 11:26:14 PM PDT by jz638
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Surgeon general: Data doesn’t back up wearing masks in public amid coronavirus pandemic
https://www.foxnews.com/media/surgeon-general-explains-masks-public-coronavirus
Lying sack-o-Shiite...


13 posted on 07/20/2020 11:30:31 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
...please understand that we are not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face covering," Adams said...

Fines and incarceration for NOT wearing a mask are ways of taking my freedom from me.
Sell your BS elsewhere, Bob.

14 posted on 07/20/2020 11:30:56 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“Please accept this harness and muzzle with good grace. We really don’t want to hear any complaints.”


15 posted on 07/20/2020 11:31:42 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wear masks for now.

For real. They work, if people actually use them.


16 posted on 07/20/2020 11:39:27 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Just wear the mask.

Just let us track you.

Just get the shot.

Just give up your guns.

Just get in the boxcar.

17 posted on 07/20/2020 11:39:52 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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The reason they all LIED was because they were genuinely afraid that a "run" on masks would leave the health care providers short.

Now as far as masks and viruses - this metaphor might be helpful:

If you think of a mask as a chain link fence, then the virus is like a FLEA. So how can a chain link fence stop a tiny flea?

Because viruses, like fleas, do not travel through the air on their own. They need a delivery "vector".

Viruses travel on droplets of water that you exhale, and each droplet may contain tens of thousands of viruses. And those droplets are many orders of magnitude larger than the virus.

So - the "chain link fence" (aka mask) is NOT there to stop the "Flea" (aka virus).

The "Chain link fence" is there to stop THE DOG that is CARRYING the Flea.

Any questions? ;>)

18 posted on 07/20/2020 11:39:53 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: Simon Foxx
this metaphor might be helpful

Doesn't help one tiny little bit.

19 posted on 07/20/2020 11:47:41 PM PDT by JParris
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To: cba123

No, they do not work! They do not stop the COVID-19 virus from getting through! Enough of this lie!


20 posted on 07/20/2020 11:49:02 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2020!)
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