CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public

Washington Post ^ | 03/20/2020 | Joel Achenbach

[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.

[Chode]

U.S. Surgeon General explains why CDC recommends public does not wear mask

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3830247/posts

[bella1]

Great,now you tell me
I just gave the 2 boxes I ordered back in February to the hospital. Suppose I can get them back?

[tm61]

Cant say its true but i heard that Actor plays
Mike in breaking bad and better call saul

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

I humbly disagree. You and I and any reasonably public-spirited individual with functioning brain cells would have been fine with that. The visigoths who looted all the toilet paper from stores would not have been.

Much of what we are seeing is a psy-op intended to keep the least civilized in our society in line IMHO.

[I want the USA back]

Do you have 120 x 340 million of them? 340 million residents, times 120 days. How will you get them to the folks?

[angcat]

My lipstick!

[Sequoyah101]

And the Sturgeon General? What do he say?

He say, Lordy, lordy, dem masks ain’t doin’ no good!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3830247/posts

[Sarah Barracuda]

My sister two weeks ago had to go to her GYN doc(She is now 5 months pregnant) she went in full body armor..N95 mask, gloves, goggles even, yep goggles..good thing someone in the lab(She needed her blown drawn) about 10 feet away from her started coughing she had no mask, refused to put one on

[DLfromthedesert]

Seriesly if the mask doesn’t fit exactly right, you’re more likely to touch your face a lot.

[Nifty]

Antifa already does this - and I believe it’s not legal in some places.

[DoodleBob]

[BikerJoe]

Gee, if I can’t find a mask, what if I show up at the supermarket wearing a nylon stocking over my head?

[Salamander]

Anything but fishnet is fine.

[C210N]

Face coverings... what’s next, head coverings?

New edict: Hijab must be worn. All 57 genders.

[Travis McGee]

I made this meme in 5 minutes from the search words "Spanish Flu masks." I could have used 1,000 pictures found there.

I think that ever since penacillin, we have become so used to high-tech magic bullets, we don't have time for simple, effective measures.

[Nifty]

[FreedomPoster]

From the prepper shelf in the basement?

You do have a prepper shelf or closet in the basement, right?

[amorphous]

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[abigkahuna]

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.

I humbly disagree. You and I and any reasonably public-spirited individual with functioning brain cells would have been fine with that. The visigoths who looted all the toilet paper from stores would not have been.

Much of what we are seeing is a psy-op intended to keep the least civilized in our society in line IMHO.

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Ha! I can’t argue with that...

[mo]

them guys are just trying to get the concession rights “straight” before going with the recs....