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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."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; coronavirus; facemasks; fakenews; jeromeadams; masks; surgeongeneral; who
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Surgeon General begs Fox News viewers to wear a face mask and insists ‘we are not trying to take away your freedoms’

I see he also provided credible data to support his claims. I have not seen DATA anywhere to support any claim that wearing a mask will do anything to combat Chiflu.

New City had a complete lock down early on and their numbers rose to the highest of levels. Even without the nursing home results.


181 posted on 07/21/2020 7:32:05 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Do you want to be a subject or a citizen.)
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To: moehoward
The chain link/mosquito analogy. But the thing is that mosquito is traveling by a vehicle large enough to not pass through.

The material an N95 is made of will stop about 95 percent of the 120 nm (0.12 microns) virus alone, without being suspended in an aerosol. The worst case size is 0.3 microns, give or take. Stating this counter-intuitive fact gets many folks all riled up at me.

Suspending the virus in an aerosol (like a sneeze) makes it all the easier to remove. But people lump together surgical masks (protect the patient) with N95 and other respirators (protect the wearer).

182 posted on 07/21/2020 8:39:33 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Berlin_Freeper

BS.


183 posted on 07/21/2020 8:41:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: cba123

For real...they don’t.


184 posted on 07/21/2020 8:42:20 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: cba123

Straight up...I’m telling you they don’t “work”. I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree.


185 posted on 07/21/2020 8:44:06 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: cba123

Masks don’t work.

They don’t work.


186 posted on 07/21/2020 8:44:53 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: cba123

I have never worn a mask. Most people here don’t wear a mask. There is no coronavirus here.


187 posted on 07/21/2020 8:46:50 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Sooth2222

It reminds me of the tiny clown car that had 20-30 clowns running out of it when it stopped.


188 posted on 07/21/2020 8:54:30 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Lurker

Here are the two clowns in question...


       

189 posted on 07/21/2020 9:11:03 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: who knows what evil?
"I hope that incident weighs heavy on that clerk’s heart until the day she dies."

Amen to that.

190 posted on 07/21/2020 9:21:28 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: hal ogen
Masks don’t work.

They work if you need one to get into a store.

191 posted on 07/21/2020 9:23:31 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: cba123

Nobody in my over 55 community has worn a mask unless compelled to by a store. Number of Coronavirus infections in the community? Zero.

If you are scared, wear a mask. Maybe there will be a placebo effect. However, only those who are latent totalitarians (or who worship totalitarians) advocate forcing everyone to wear a mask.


192 posted on 07/21/2020 9:25:08 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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To: fastkelly

If mask advocates had them, they would have already cited them. Instead, we get “emerging evidence”, “common sense suggests” and “you are being selfish” as the pro mask arguments.


193 posted on 07/21/2020 9:27:49 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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To: EnquiringMind

“you’ll probably not get COVID since everyone else around you will be wearing a mask for your safety.”

My safety is NOT why “everyone else” around me will be wearing a mask. They don’t give a rat’s ass about me or else they’d respect my freedom.


194 posted on 07/21/2020 9:33:12 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (If 100% of us contracted this Covid Virus only 99.997% would be left to tell our story.)
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To: mass55th
WTH! - check out this quote from the article:

“I want to congratulate my staff for how they handled the situation. It was very challenging today. They are the heroes. I don’t want to get emotional. They deserve the credit. That’s all I want to say,” Easton said.

Heroes? For getting someone killed over a bull shit mask rule!

195 posted on 07/21/2020 9:33:49 AM PDT by suijuris (Once a man learns to see he finds himself alone in the world with nothing but folly.)
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To: GOYAKLA
Thanks for the link to the other article.

That story has a lot of unanswered questions. First, I'd like to know the description of how the 73 year old was "pounding" on the store employee. The clerk claimed he tried to run an employee down with his car, and hit the building when he left, but the police found no damage to the building. The clerk also said he hit a truck and turned it sideways, but the police have no info if there was an accident. So the cops pursue him for something they have no idea he even committed, follow him to his home, and after an "interaction" with him, both cops shoot him, and they have no idea which officer's bullets actually hit him. The article I posted said they found two weapons on his property, but the cops haven't stated if he fired on them first, before they shot him. And no info if the officer's were suspended pending investigation.

The Police Department said they tried to stop the man while in pursuit, but decided to refrain “in the interest of public safety.” But “in the interest of public safety” they shoot him outside his home in a public neighborhood.

196 posted on 07/21/2020 9:39:41 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yes you are!


197 posted on 07/21/2020 9:42:25 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: cba123

You wear one, I won’t. That is freedom


198 posted on 07/21/2020 9:43:11 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: cba123

Good, you wear it, I will take my chances without one.


199 posted on 07/21/2020 9:44:15 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: NELSON111

Pence doesn’t know what he is talking about when it comes to this virus. All of the lockdowns were unconstitutional and an infringement on our rights. If mandated masks had been part of the original lockdowns, they would have been rejected immedately.


200 posted on 07/21/2020 9:46:02 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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