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Rubio: 'Everyone Should Just Wear A Damn Mask'
The Hill ^ | 06/24/20

Posted on 06/24/2020 2:43:45 PM PDT by Enlightened1

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday that “everyone” should be wearing masks to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus, as states across the country report troubling surges in confirmed cases and hospitalizations.

"The area where I think we have to definitely really surge on is nursing homes, ALFs [assisted living facilities], congregate-living facilities that have a high number of people or obviously populations of people that are high-risk, those are the places where you're really going to cut down the death rate if you can prevent outbreaks ... and that's where I hope we focus both our testing and our prevention effort,” Rubio told reporters after a GOP lunch with Vice President Pence. “And then everyone should just wear a damn mask, like you guys are, like I am right now."

"I would just encourage everyone, that's what I said in there, to sort of become informed of the nuances of how your state is reporting. In Florida, the state tells us 20 percent of the COVID cases that register as hospitalizations are people that are in the hospital for something else, like a knee replacement, but they're tested so they tested positive,” he added.

Florida is one of several states seeing dramatic spikes in the virus. The state broke its own single-day record Wednesday, reporting 5,500 new cases after hitting a previous high of 4,049 cases just four days ago.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: everyone; facemasks; foamboy; littlemarco; marcorubio; masks; rubio; wear
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To: Enlightened1

Case Spike Update:

California Yesterday: 6,503, today, 2,960
Texas Yesterday: 5,370, today 4,646
Florida: Yesterday, 3,286, today, 5,511
Arizona Yesterday, 3,593, today, 1,795

Hmmm...


41 posted on 06/24/2020 3:06:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: Enlightened1

The repubes, demonrats and their ilk are posturing for MIB, THE October surprise!


42 posted on 06/24/2020 3:09:23 PM PDT by Brown Bag Special (Trust but VERIFY)
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To: conservativepoet

Rightly, it would be MUCH more effective to wear face shields, than face masks. The shields are much more easily kept disinfected, and effectively impede any spray from a cough either from the wearer, or from others in the crowd.


43 posted on 06/24/2020 3:11:01 PM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: Enlightened1

Little Marco, you’re such a dumb jackass. It’s hard to believe some conservatives used to be fooled by you. For the record, I always thought you were a fraud.


44 posted on 06/24/2020 3:11:17 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Enlightened1
Rubio: 'Everyone Should Just Wear A Damn Mask'

Rubio should have a mask shoved in his pie hole.

Look, wear a mask, wear a bio suit, wear a bunny suit I don't care.

JUST STOP TRYING TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!!!

I have reached the end of my rope with you guys.

45 posted on 06/24/2020 3:11:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: Enlightened1

The Boy Wonder pops up again.
And this fool wanted to be President?


46 posted on 06/24/2020 3:12:10 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Enlightened1

Globalist said what?


47 posted on 06/24/2020 3:13:01 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Just Wear a Damn Mask

Just Shut Your Damn Pie Hole.

48 posted on 06/24/2020 3:15:19 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: SaxxonWoods

If those statistics included only the I JUST GOT INFECTED cases, it would have meaning. Since that is impossible to determine without doing testing every hour or so, those figures don’t indicate any kind of conclusion.


49 posted on 06/24/2020 3:16:14 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Mr. Rabbit

50 posted on 06/24/2020 3:16:22 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nbenyo
Yes let’s all pick on Marco Rubio while the Democrats are ravaging the country.

THIS is why Biden, Pelosi and Schumer are poised for the trifecta. They don’t eat their own.

You're kidding right? That's the difference between us and the dumbocrats. We go after frauds no matter what party they're in regardless of politics. We actually have higher standards that come from the good Lord himself.

You should be ashamed to pitch that garbage here.

51 posted on 06/24/2020 3:17:44 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: SamAdams76
I wrote on my with broad-tipped Sharpie

F.U.
WUHAN

52 posted on 06/24/2020 3:19:26 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Enlightened1

The virus is smaller than the typical smoke particle. Does he think you could not blow smoke thru a mask?


53 posted on 06/24/2020 3:20:16 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Enlightened1

No.

You cant make me wear one.

You are not the boss of me.


54 posted on 06/24/2020 3:20:43 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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To: Fightin Whitey

I’m fine with anyone wearing a “I’m so good” mask, they are symbolic only. I only wear them for short essential events, like food pickup.

My body my choice.

And nobody shuts my pie hole, I’m an American!


55 posted on 06/24/2020 3:21:56 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Just sit in your house until the food stops coming and then starve. You'll be safe.)
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To: Bullish

I’m not ashamed in the least. This petty sniping on the right helps Democrats win.


56 posted on 06/24/2020 3:23:14 PM PDT by nbenyo
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To: Enlightened1

He is wrong. To be effective a homemade mask needs to be about the thickness of a 600 thread count cotton sheet. It must also be fitted so that there are no gaps. Can anyone imagine how that would feel in the hot humid Florida climate? People would be dropping form heat exhaustion. There is also the matter of O2 depletion.

Here is an example of a mask material that worked to keep out a majority of aerosol droplets (lab test not real life application) A layer of quilt batting between layers of 600 thread count cotton. Who could wear a quilt on their face for any amount of time?


57 posted on 06/24/2020 3:23:53 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Enlightened1

Thank you for your input, Senator Cuck.


58 posted on 06/24/2020 3:25:05 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Enlightened1

Face diapers. Must wear.


59 posted on 06/24/2020 3:27:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: nbenyo

No it doesn’t. If you want us to act like democrats who care nothing about what’s right and only care about their party winning, then I suggest you go join the democrat party. And I hope your chains will lay lightly on your back.


60 posted on 06/24/2020 3:31:59 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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