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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: jz638
>> They should be smart honest enough to come up with a plan to get us through this reality, rather than pleading for everyone to wear a mask.
141 posted on 07/21/2020 5:25:02 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
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To: moehoward
... no one has said REAL (N95/respirator) masks do not offer protection.

Sure they do. They say the virus is too small to be removed by the mask. They say the N95 (and HEPA) are only good down to 0.3 microns. You try to explain. You provide links to documents. They call you a troll and not doing your homework.

142 posted on 07/21/2020 5:28:40 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: cba123

“All I know is, the FIRST DAY of the outbreak here, every last person in the entire country, was wearing a mask.”

Do you mean, “COUNTY” instead of “country”? Because nobody I know put on a stupid mask.


143 posted on 07/21/2020 5:29:09 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: Mom MD

LOL!!


144 posted on 07/21/2020 5:30:10 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: cba123
I have worn a mask outdoors, since February. Every day. Everyone here wore one, every single day. For two months.

You're damn lucky, the masks are ineffective.

Switch to SCUBA gear.

145 posted on 07/21/2020 5:30:17 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
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To: Jonty30

You said it. Translation: “You’ll be so much freer without the burden of your freedoms!”


146 posted on 07/21/2020 5:34:27 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Lurker

It’s so hard to tell the Joker-mask-wearing clowns from one another.


147 posted on 07/21/2020 5:36:21 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Surgeon General Jerome Adams begged Fox News' audience on Monday to wear face masks

Keep in mind this is the same twerp that told us back in April NOT to wear masks! Who's pulling his strings now?

148 posted on 07/21/2020 5:37:22 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Until I see them breaking rocks in the hot sun I'll be cleaning my guns!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Sorry, I am posting from Vietnam, where I am happily though (entirely) unofficially, representing the good people of America.

:)

So no, I meant country.


149 posted on 07/21/2020 5:38:50 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: jz638

Once they say the stadium is safe from the rona, they’ll say it’s unsafe due to the flu or whatever other bug they tell you to fear.


150 posted on 07/21/2020 5:39:22 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: LateBoomer

“For real what works is for you to stay 6 ft. away from me and me to stay 6 ft. away from you.”

I thought it was interesting when it was reported that a MIDDLE SCHOOL KID pulled that six-foot idea out of his ass. No scientist ever said that. So the whole country re-arranges their lives based on a child’s whim.

“At the start we were told three things: 1. Social distance. 2. Don’t touch your face. 3. Wash your hands.”

I think “don’t touch your face” (especially your mouth, nose, and eyes — ever), and “wash your hands” are the most important things with WuFlu, regular flu, common cold, etc.

A few years ago, after catching pneumonia at church, Hubby and I made a couple changes which sound weird, but we haven’t been sick since.

Hubby chewed his fingernails — fingers in his mouth. He stopped that.

For me, turning pages in the Bible involved licking my finger to quickly flip through the corners of the pages. I stopped that. (I’d never win a “Sword Drill” now, but that’s OK.)

We use hand sanitizer often, but not to an insane degree.

We haven’t been sick in years.


151 posted on 07/21/2020 5:42:35 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: Simon Foxx

No questions. Just letting you onow some dogs dig under chainlink fences to wriggle past them. Rats carrying fleas slip through the fences, too.


152 posted on 07/21/2020 5:44:10 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: JudgemAll

They work best while “protesting.” They perform “poorly” at Trump rallies. Big Media told me so!


153 posted on 07/21/2020 5:46:58 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CodeToad

“That AA hire is a useless tool.”

And he’s talking to useless tools on Fox, most of whom are on board with masks. Even Hannity — the dope — who’s thrilled to wear masks to baseball games, then remove the mask to eat hot dogs. He doesn’t “get” that removing the mask negates its (alleged) usefulness.


154 posted on 07/21/2020 5:47:10 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: RummyChick

“that is what experts are saying”

For every “expert” saying masks are effective, there’s another “expert” saying they’re useless and, most likely, even dangerous.

Spy versus spy. In the end, you just have to decide if it’s worth it to lose your liberty by conforming to those who want to control you and fit you for a burqa in five years. Simple.


155 posted on 07/21/2020 5:54:02 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: JParris

Guess the only thing that WILL help you to understand is when you folks are admitted to overcrowded ICUs, struggling to get oxygen into your lungs. Ask some of the Freepers who have survived COVID how much fun that was. Except you’ll probably not get COVID since everyone else around you will be wearing a mask for your safety.


156 posted on 07/21/2020 5:55:00 AM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Remember when they said "two weeks to flatten the curve?"

Now they're saying if everyone wore a mask, even a cloth mask for six to eight weeks we could "beat" the virus?

Yeah, right.

157 posted on 07/21/2020 5:56:45 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yes, this is the same Surgeon General who recorded a video in March saying masks were useless (which I’m sure has been scrubbed by the Silicon Valley Thought Police by now).

Trump needs to tell his medical team it’s put-up or shut-up time. Redfield says if we wear masks for 4-6 weeks “we can get this under control”. Not good enough. “Under control” are totally undefined weasel words, and just another invitation to move the goalposts again. Trump needs to hold them to clear statistical goals, or replace them.


158 posted on 07/21/2020 5:57:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Hannity also doesn’t get that his mask is contaminated and so is everything that masks touches as he puts it in his pocket.


159 posted on 07/21/2020 6:02:36 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

Hannity and his new girlfriend, Ainsley, probably have one complete brain between the two of ‘em.


160 posted on 07/21/2020 6:07:12 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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