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89% of Americans wear masks in public as the coronavirus pandemic persists: POLL
ABC News ^ | 6-25-2020 | Kendall Karson

Posted on 06/25/2020 8:30:51 PM PDT by AirForceVet1988

An overwhelming majority of Americans say they've worn a face mask in public in the last week, as the coronavirus pandemic persists and infections reach new highs in more than a dozen states, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.

Nearly nine in 10 Americans (89%) who left their home in the last week said they wore a face mask or a face covering, compared to only 11% who said they did not.

The latest poll, . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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To: HighSierra5

Sheeple
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Sheeple believe fake news...peek in the mirror!!!


141 posted on 06/26/2020 3:29:03 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: CrimsonTidegirl

I think the fit of your mask around your nose, needs to be adjusted, or maybe you need a new mask.

I wear a mask, and glasses. I believe you might just need a better connection, around your nose.

There are lots of masks which have a bendable semi-rigid support over the nose.

Use that first. Get that connection so that air cannot escape the mask out around your nose, then put your glasses on over that.

I think, anyway. :)


142 posted on 06/26/2020 3:33:40 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Texas Eagle

“Wear masks” and “have worn a mask” are two different things.

That is absolutely true.

I only done one when going to Costco to see if they have got TP.


143 posted on 06/26/2020 3:39:39 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

I went shopping yesterday, it was about 40% or maybe a little less masked. I wasn’t one of them.


144 posted on 06/26/2020 3:42:49 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Not wearing mask. Had the Kung flu in January. Get over it. I did.


145 posted on 06/26/2020 3:43:27 AM PDT by ammomajor (If 'helicopter Ben' says gold isn't money, I want more of it.)
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To: conservativepoet

ABC trying once again to lead behavior with headlines.

Because 89% of us are over this.


146 posted on 06/26/2020 3:49:19 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: poinq

Ditto.


147 posted on 06/26/2020 3:53:47 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: AirForceVet1988
I guess that makes me a minority - where's all my free stuff?

Don't oppress me, bro...

148 posted on 06/26/2020 3:56:54 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: FreedomVsControl
People need to know, the mask mandate is actually a way of conditioning the public for further mandates to come.

If they can make you wear a mask in order to enter business establishments, it will not seem as big a leap come November, when they require that you get a vaccination (plus a microscopic tattoo id for verification) in order to enter business establishments.


Worth repeating!

And to judge by this thread it isn't going to be that difficult, sadly.

149 posted on 06/26/2020 3:58:53 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: AirForceVet1988

In Leon county next door, they have announced that if you don’t wear a mask in public you will be fined. I have to go there today. I have a headband for old bald men that says “Home Depot” on it. I will wear that.

Many of the people I see wearing masks have their noses uncovered. In Wakulla county yesterday none of the white-haired employees at ACE were wearing masks.

Not related, but interesting. The “Gulf Coast” (lumber supply) in Woodville, Wakulla, not only were none of the employees masked but the man driving the forklift looked like he tipped the scales at eighty years+ and there was a guy shuffling around straightening the shelves for them who appeared to be in his nineties. (Just damn! The manager of that place had told me how hard it was to find employees. I am guessing these older guys were either owners or relations or people who had worked their years ago.)


150 posted on 06/26/2020 4:02:55 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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To: conservativepoet

I don’t either.....There were about 35 of us seniors gathered for softball yesterday and only two wore masks.......


151 posted on 06/26/2020 4:03:10 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: GOPJ

Decent people protect each other in a crisis...”

Yep they destroy people’s livelyhoods and businesses because they are afraid of a bug that affects a vanishingly small percentage of the population rather than take responsibility for themselves and stay the hell home.

I don’t think “decent” means what you think it means.


152 posted on 06/26/2020 4:05:11 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: boatbums
During the height of the “pandemic” masks weren’t required but now three months later they are.

As you may have guessed, this is because the masks have nothing to do with stopping the spread of communicable disease.

153 posted on 06/26/2020 4:05:31 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: AirForceVet1988

Fake news.

“Wear” <> “have worn”.

Covid is so April.


154 posted on 06/26/2020 4:12:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (https://www.barelytherebiden.com)
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To: AirForceVet1988

Expecting a mask to contain a virus is like expecting your underwear to contain a fart.


155 posted on 06/26/2020 4:21:11 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: jonrick46

Even if your percentages are true, what are the odds of two non-infected people catching covid-19 if neither are wearing the mask? And what percentage of the population has covid-19 without symptoms?

When you start to factor that information into the calculations, the effectiveness is much lower than stated.


156 posted on 06/26/2020 4:29:47 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kevao

157 posted on 06/26/2020 4:30:33 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: AirForceVet1988

The reason for the surge is BECAUSE people are wearing masks. Most deaths occur in nursing homes - they are all required to wear these stupid masks!!!! Masks are a hoax and an attempt to push us around.


158 posted on 06/26/2020 4:37:41 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: bigbob

Uninformed?? You do realize that face masks did not prevent any deaths in nursing homes, etc. and they faced the highest risks and represent the most deaths. They were all required to wear face masks! Perhaps you should stop trolling and drinking the liberal cool-aid.


159 posted on 06/26/2020 4:42:51 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: metmom
do a search on mask wearing and CO2 levels and recirculating virus in the air you breath that is trapped in the mask.

So which is it? The mask won't filter a 120nm virus but if you breathe it out, it circulates inside the mask? Then in the same breath, you mention CO2 levels going up, but Co2 is is at least 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the virus. Are you suggesting that your mask that "doesn't stop anything", can somehow catch CO2?

How about you realize that naked Virons, small enough to escape an N95 mask don't exist short of bits of RNA fragments. If a virus is not in a carrier of some sort, water droplets, mucus, etc., they dry up and break apart. The water droplets however are much larger and do get captured.

As for how to wear a mask properly, it's not hard. If you can't figure it out on your own, the gene pool might be better without you.

160 posted on 06/26/2020 4:48:57 AM PDT by Malsua
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