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CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public
Washington Post ^ | 03/20/2020 | Joel Achenbach

Posted on 03/31/2020 11:28:16 AM PDT by Slainte

CDC guidance on masks remains under development, the federal official said. The official said the new guidance would make clear that the general public should not use medical masks — including surgical and N95 masks — that are in desperately short supply and needed by health-care workers.

Instead, the recommendation under consideration calls for using do-it-yourself cloth coverings, according to a second official who shared that thinking on a personal Facebook account. It would be a way to help “flatten the curve,” the official noted.

Such DIY cloth masks would potentially lower the risk that the wearer, if infected, would transmit the virus to other people. Current CDC guidance is that healthy people don’t need masks or face coverings.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; china; chinaflu; chinavirus; corona; coronavirus; covid; covid19; deepstate; facemasks; fud; kungflu; mask; moogoogaipandemic; n95; pandemic; redchina; wuhanvirus
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To: Slainte

Good idea, it will protect OTHERS from you coughing on them.


21 posted on 03/31/2020 11:35:04 AM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: Travis McGee

This video goes with the screen cap at 13. The still image does not do it justice.

Watch this video starting at 14:40 to see how 2 people simply talking face to face exchange germs and virus. The screen capture above does not do it justice.

This is why it’s important to wear masks in public around people during the pandemic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w9M6K9vSUM


22 posted on 03/31/2020 11:35:32 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: EagleUSA

“These people are all over the map....up, down, sideways...”

Not really.


23 posted on 03/31/2020 11:35:46 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Vendome
Oh make up yer effin minds....

Guess they finally stopped worrying about Climate Change and started to look at this Pandemic.

24 posted on 03/31/2020 11:36:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Slainte

He's all over the place! ....What an a$$hole.

25 posted on 03/31/2020 11:36:37 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Slainte

I am getting the funny feeling that the CDC never considered what to do if a world wide pandemic should occur.

I get the impression they are making it up as they go along.


26 posted on 03/31/2020 11:36:50 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

If some one infected coughs near you, the air borne droplets will get in through the unprotected eyes.


27 posted on 03/31/2020 11:37:11 AM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: Travis McGee
I'll be going to the bank later...wish me luck...


28 posted on 03/31/2020 11:38:25 AM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Slainte

29 posted on 03/31/2020 11:38:28 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: cableguymn
I had a tiny order for masks cancelled by a large medical supplies supplier over a month ago on orders from somebody(s) to halt all sales of masks.

I had my order in before the order came down, and they allowed my order to go through, but my order was one of the last for masks to be filled, and this occurred well over four weeks ago.

30 posted on 03/31/2020 11:38:30 AM PDT by amorphous
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To: Slainte

This face is too pretty to cover up.


31 posted on 03/31/2020 11:38:37 AM PDT by poinq
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Too busy with this....

https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm


32 posted on 03/31/2020 11:38:43 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

They were too busy selling vaccines, gun control and probably trans something or other than to do their jobs. Like another freeper said, at some point they dropped the “P” from their acronym.

Under Obama, no doubt. So many of our fed agencies became a joke while he was President.


33 posted on 03/31/2020 11:39:18 AM PDT by LilFarmer (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cableguymn

they were lying to us to stock up on masks for medical and first responders.

prove me wrong.


If The President would have gotten on the dais and said that the general public needs to wear cloth masks and to save the manufactured N-95 and surgical masks for public health, then I belive the nation would have been quite fine with that. \

Yes, there was a shortage, we all knew that. But saying masks help me and not you was the silliest thing uttered in all of this. If they were to come clean today, then I think still...all will be forgiven.


34 posted on 03/31/2020 11:39:27 AM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: brownsfan
CDC considering telling everyone they have no clue what to do.

Oh, they know what to do.

But they are so embarrassed about the shortage of N95 masks for the general public, that they lie to us rather than admit that they are useless when it comes to planning for pandemics.

35 posted on 03/31/2020 11:39:45 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: amorphous

Where does one order these masks from?


36 posted on 03/31/2020 11:40:31 AM PDT by Fishtalk
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To: Slainte

WEAPONIZED agencies ALERT! In the republic? YES.


37 posted on 03/31/2020 11:41:56 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Have they considered the fact that a considerable portion of our society won’t keep these things clean and will accumulate huge concentrations of virus in their masks?


38 posted on 03/31/2020 11:42:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Slainte

I was talking to a guy from Wuhan a couple of weeks ago. He said they wore masks not to catch the virus but to not transfer it.


39 posted on 03/31/2020 11:42:57 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: Slainte
There's a shortage of face masks. Better get creative!


40 posted on 03/31/2020 11:43:26 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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