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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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To: LateBoomer

Lets see:

The New England Journal of Medicine disagrees with you... they say that cloth face masks don’t prevent illness at all.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372

Ben Swann does a compelling report on the litany of studies that actually measured whether masks prevented the spread of illness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8upEg-bEJ8&feature=em-uploademail

But, I could make lists and list of references to actual science, but then people go and just say anything without thinking. This is like saying communism works if people would just do it right. The facts just don’t support the wishful thinking.


81 posted on 07/21/2020 2:33:52 AM PDT by dalight
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To: moehoward

There are actually controlled studies (i.e., real control groups under controlled conditions) which show there is not statistically significant improvement in infection rates with N95 masks for respiratory viruses. Government stooges and media simply choose to ignore them.


82 posted on 07/21/2020 2:46:40 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
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.

"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44...the words of Jesus Christ Himself.

83 posted on 07/21/2020 2:47:02 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How do you know a government official is lying?

His lips are moving.

JoMa


84 posted on 07/21/2020 2:47:51 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: cba123

Your home page states that you are NOT in America...how about some FULL disclosure?


85 posted on 07/21/2020 2:53:37 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: mass55th

I hope that incident weighs heavy on that clerk’s heart until the day she dies.


86 posted on 07/21/2020 2:55:04 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: dalight

Did you bother to really read the article from NEJM And read their update about people claiming you shouldnt wear masks

Yeah..didnt think so.

Scroll down and read what they said on July 9.
.

I wonder what this guys handle was on FR

You live and die by the choices you make. It is your responsibility. I dont always wear a seat belt around my chest because it chokes me due to placement on my neck despite trying different devices. I assume the risk and am responsible for the results.

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/richard-rose-covid-19-coronavirus/


87 posted on 07/21/2020 2:57:48 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: who knows what evil?

Vietnam.

I am American, but now here.


88 posted on 07/21/2020 2:58:47 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The double talk gets under my skin. The Surgeon General would be more credible if he lamented the need to diminsih freedom, instead of pretending that orders to do such and so don’t have an anti-freedom aspect.


89 posted on 07/21/2020 3:03:03 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Simon Foxx

Recent reports of a lone fisherman who went to sea for a month, had tested negative for the Rona just as he left for sea, but upon his return tested positive.

Maybe it’s in the air.


90 posted on 07/21/2020 3:09:35 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: cba123; MinuteGal

“I have worn a mask outdoors, since February.
Every day. Everyone here wore one, every single day. For two months.
Every single day.
Now, there is ZERO coronavirus, here.
Zero.”

Unless you are willing to wear a mask in perpetuity and/or practice social distancing forever, the minute restrictions are loosened, there will once again be an outbreak of the virus as you are merely prolonging the inevitable until herd immunity is reached and the virus plays itself out.

Risk is a part of life, you take what precautions you believe are necessary, and then from that point out life is a crap shoot. Get on with it, and stop capitulating to the control freaks out there who want you to walk around like a herd of lemmings heading towards the sea with your precious little masks on. Its your choice, not the all encompassing gov’t dictates. Figure that out. Fools all.


91 posted on 07/21/2020 3:21:40 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
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To: Cvengr

This is a good article on the issue of masks..mixed messaging..and the problems of science

https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to-must-have/

Do you you want to be Richard Rose defying the mask..or richard rose dead from the virus

You will live or die by your decision..and the burden is on you.

I will wear my mask and hat visor face shield in hopes of lessening the viral load ..so my body can fight off whatever the virus decides to do to me


92 posted on 07/21/2020 3:28:42 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

That AA hire is a useless tool.


93 posted on 07/21/2020 3:32:11 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: cba123

I haven’t worn a mask ever.

Every single day.

Now, there is ZERO coronavirus, here.

Zero.


94 posted on 07/21/2020 3:33:39 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: cba123

95 posted on 07/21/2020 3:34:29 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
A real feminist.


96 posted on 07/21/2020 3:36:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: CodeToad

Impressive get-together.

Where/What is that please?


97 posted on 07/21/2020 3:37:33 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: AC86UT89

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

yes, one and the same...


98 posted on 07/21/2020 3:38:49 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: moehoward

‘no one has said REAL (N95/respirator) masks do not offer protection.’

fwiw, I say it...


99 posted on 07/21/2020 3:40:00 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: cba123

If you’re so smart, you will easily find it.


100 posted on 07/21/2020 3:41:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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