Posted on 04/30/2020 8:01:43 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Second lady Karen Pence said Thursday that Vice President Pence had been unaware of the Mayo Clinic's policy requiring all visitors to wear a face covering until after he left the facility on Tuesday.
"As our medical experts have told us, wearing a mask prevents you from spreading disease. And knowing he doesn’t have COVID-19, he didn’t wear one," she said on "Fox & Friends."
"It was actually after he left Mayo Clinic that he found out they had a policy of asking everyone to wear a mask," the second lady continued. "So someone who’s worked on this whole task force for over two months is not someone who would have done anything to offend anyone or hurt anyone or scare anyone."
The vice president's visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota was intended to highlight research being done on treatments for the coronavirus, specifically how the blood of recovering patients can be used. But the trip was largely overshadowed by his decision not to wear a face covering in defiance of the clinic's policy.
Pence was the only individual spotted without a mask during his visit as he participated in a tour and held a roundtable discussion with physicians, nurses and researchers. Everyone else seen on camera with Pence had masks on, including Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
On Tuesday, the clinic tweeted, then deleted, a message that it informed Pence of its masking policy prior to his arrival in Rochester.
"Mayo shared the masking policy with the VP’s office," the clinic said in an emailed statement after deleting the tweet.
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There have been studies about the efficacy of cloth masks. A double layer, tight woven, snug fitting one is much better than nothing. Add a pocket for a piece of non woven material, efficacy goes up. Pull a circle of nylon stocking over the mask, snug fit improves greatly, can be as good as surgical masks.
If everyone wears one, the effect multiplies. Conceivably, you could get a 95% drop in transmission with good homemade masks all around. 80% outgoing protection and 80% incoming protection = 20% outgoing failure × 20% incoming failure = 4 % transmission. I wouldn’t expect anything that good in practice, but 50% reduction could bring R0 under 1.
Thank you for your own courtesy.
Sad.
Ask yourself, who generally accuses others of acting like they do....then maybe look in the mirror and see what a Dem looks like.
And I was right.
Plus, Pence himself said this before his wife stepped in it:
"When the CDC issued guidelines about wearing a mask, it was their recognition that people that may have the coronavirus could prevent the possibility of conveying the virus to someone else by wearing a mask," he said.
"And since I don't have the coronavirus, I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to be here, to be able to speak to these researchers, these incredible healthcare personnel, and look them in the eye and say thank you."
So he clearly understood but made the decision that he didn’t think he needed to wear one.
But does wearing a mask makes it impossible to look people in the eye? Those people he was looking in the eye were all wearing masks. VP Pence and his wife also said he was “regularly tested” (at least once a week). But do they not understand that being tested does not give one immunity nor does being tested regularly guarantee that one hasn’t become infected after their last test?
It was an unnecessary mistake on the part of Pence and his team. No admittedly it will be gone in a day or two but I doubt it will be the last blunder the campaign makes.
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