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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: NELSON111

Surgical masks are not designed to keep out aerosol droplets. They are designed to keep your surgeon or nail girl or other wearers from spreading larger droplets and to keep the environment sterile or sanitized. They are also not worn all the time but only when their use is called for.

As for respirators. Those are designed to keep a person from breathing in small aerosol particles such as found in certain vapors. They also are not worn all the time. But there can certainly be adverse health effects if worn for an extended period of time.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232738614_Evaluation_of_N95_Respirator_Use_with_a_Surgical_Mask_Cover_Effects_on_Breathing_Resistance_and_Inhaled_Carbon_Dioxide


61 posted on 06/24/2020 3:34:43 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Agreed, but I thought it was nice to see all those drops in reported new cases instead of more spiking. In Colorado our heavy spike period lasted 6 days, and that includes 3 days of falling cases after the peak.

Except for Florida, they went up a lot.

I hope the peaks are as short in these states as they have been in most others. We’ll know in a week.


62 posted on 06/24/2020 3:34:56 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: Enlightened1

Micro Rubio still wants to give his friends across the aisle a permanent majority with amnesty for illegal aliens.


63 posted on 06/24/2020 3:35:04 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BenLurkin

“Face diapers. Must wear.”

If we are talking about liberals, that suddenly makes sense!


64 posted on 06/24/2020 3:35:49 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: dforest

Micro Rubio is not a natural born citizen.
He was born a Cuban national from his Cuban national parents.


65 posted on 06/24/2020 3:36:40 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Enlightened1

The reason we’re seeing the (expected) increase is because we keep shielding people with masks, (anti)-social “distancing” (which actions are ineffective for the most part anyway), and forced house arrest. By implementing and expanding these damnable commands we’re not “stopping the spread” of the Chinese flu, we’re just prolonging it (and slowing down the economic and social recovery, and maintaining an increasingly irrational level of fear, distrust and anger among American citizens as well) ... no doubt prolonging “the spread” and the ongoing “need” for the Democrat/Left governors’ diktats right up to the first Tuesday in November!


66 posted on 06/24/2020 3:38:59 PM PDT by glennaro (Prager: "Until it's safe" means "Never"!)
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To: Nateman

Have you heard about electrostatic forces?


67 posted on 06/24/2020 3:42:40 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: NELSON111

The very most real issue is tyranny and government control. They’re seeing just how gullible we really are.


68 posted on 06/24/2020 3:42:59 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: lightman

Oh, That is excellent! I’m saving that.


69 posted on 06/24/2020 3:43:54 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SaxxonWoods
Who was talking to you anyway?

Climb into one of these if that's what grabs ya.

70 posted on 06/24/2020 3:45:35 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Enlightened1

And, showing he's a man who "practices what he preaches", Rubio donned his own mask, as shown below, to set a good example for others.


      

71 posted on 06/24/2020 3:51:24 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: Enlightened1

Rubio can go to hell. Never will he ever receive support from me. Period. Just an asshat RINO.


72 posted on 06/24/2020 3:56:28 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Enlightened1

Marco shut and drink your water, you are a small small man.


73 posted on 06/24/2020 4:02:13 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Enlightened1

nursing homes, ALFs [assisted living facilities], congregate-living facilities 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...


Rubio can stop anytime with his pandering to the Leftists.

Rubio should spend more time listening to Gov Ron DeSantis press conferences where the governor says that every resident in these facilities have been tested and if the resident refuses then that is so noted.


74 posted on 06/24/2020 4:05:01 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Enlightened1; All

Well, if ya don’t spit, cough, and sneeze on people, ya don’t need em.


75 posted on 06/24/2020 4:08:02 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Enlightened1

Mandatory masking in the EU - enforced via fines in the hundreds of dollars per incident - has coincided with death counts and new cases coming down significantly. In the Orient (i.e. South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore & Taiwan), almost universal masking seems also to have coincided with low case and death counts, which were never high to begin with. Their per capita death numbers from the Wuhan Flu are literally less than 1/10 of US levels. And their approach so far has been almost no lockdowns, but mandatory masking.


76 posted on 06/24/2020 4:11:50 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: nbenyo

“””This petty sniping on the right helps Democrats win.”””


You are misled. RINO’s like Marco Rubio get into office because too many Republicans do not fully vet the candidate.


77 posted on 06/24/2020 4:12:15 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Enlightened1

78 posted on 06/24/2020 4:20:34 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Enlightened1

79 posted on 06/24/2020 4:22:00 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: nbenyo

Ok useless mask wearing lemming..
Follow the herd.
Be a part of the mass hysteria and FEEL GOOD! that you are contributing to our collective well being!


80 posted on 06/24/2020 4:27:08 PM PDT by mowowie
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