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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.CDC mask guidance met with hostility by leading Republicans
By JILL COLVIN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST SALT LAKE CITY©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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plasticmonkey
The GOP is the party of "me first". These dumb people are dragging the pandemic on and on.
People have to wear masks because lots of Americans don't get vaccinated. And then those same anti-maskers complain that wearing a mask proves the vaccines don't work.
Bonkers!
Kaerimashita
Masks have been proven to work all over the world
wtfjapan
“Why do Democrats distrust the science?”
The nation is averaging nearly 62,000 new COVID-19 cases a day, and the vast majority of those hospitalized and dying haven’t been vaccinated. As of Sunday, 69% of American adults had received one vaccine dose, and 60% had been fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
yet its red states with the highest infections rates and over 99% of people dying armt vaccinated.
Dems have much higher vaccination rates compare to republican's
Dems are continually saying get vaccinated and wear a mask.
Its republican's putting the politics over the science, and its their base that are doing the dying
theFu
400,000 dead under Trump. Why does anyone listen to him? Seems like a death cult leader and the hard-core GOP governors are the cardinals in that death cult.
Had everyone gotten vaccinated at the same rate all of 2021, then we wouldn't have 610,000 US deaths. As they say, you can't fix stu-pid.
Not all republican's are in this death cult, but unfortunately, too many are because being "right" is more important than saving lives. The unfortunate part is those people are taking health care services away from others are aren't in their anti-vax belief group.
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/07/23/hillsong-church-stephen-harmon-dies-covid-19-unvaccinated/
SuperLib
Pretty much sums up everything.
2020hindsights
Wolfpack
Yes. That was the data said at the time.
Yes. The difference between droplet and aerosol transmission is the salient factor here.
No. He doesn't. Fauci never had a mask mandate. States did, and in many red states, they had been relaxed already. The CDC guidance was that vaccinated didn't need to wear masks. This was before delta was the prevalent strain.
Biden promised that America could get back to normal by Independence Day.
Biden was assuming people would do the sensible thing and get vaccinated. Unfortunately, people aren't rational.
Yes. 1. because non-vaccinated people weren't wearing masks and 2. the delta variant is a lot more transmissible and rising numbers of infections among the mostly unvaccinated.
plasticmonkey
DeSantis is not stupid. He knows the vaccines and masks save lives. But he says otherwise for his own political gain.
It takes a special kind of warped mind to let people die in order to get ahead.
stormcrow
As Fauci said, had social media existed in the 50s and 60s, the measles and polio would probably have never been eradicated.
jeancolmar
Will the ensuing pandemic come to be known as The Republican Disease?
longtimenosee
Republicans using masks as a political weapon.. they should be charged with manslaughter on a genocidal scale in an international court.
Wakarimasen
This is not a R vs D issue except on cable news. The response of governments and bureaucracies around the world to the virus has been poor and measures taken have been largely hamfisted and hysterical.
Blaming the man in the street is a pitiful way of deflecting attention from that
bass4funk
As are the Democrats. Individual rights be damned.
Coming from the so-called smart people that said we should wear a mask and coming from the smartest man of the free world who said, "let me repeat, if you have been vaccinated, you don't need to wear a mask." And let's not forget the smartest Democrats that ran from their inevitable responsibilities on casting a vote in Texas were all caught NOT wearing masks as the House speaker was caught so often not wearing a mask. Interesting how these so-called smart people won't wear a mask when they think the cameras are not rolling that we dumb people can't see through their sheer political smart brilliance. ROFL
A lot of people are getting sick that had been vaccinated, the smartest virologist on the face of this planet said that they are ineffective, so now they are and then he said again, once vaccinated we don't need it? What the heck is going on with these smart elite people?
Not sure, we are for some reason NOT allowed to ask these so-called smart leaders any questions, we just need to shut up and get jabbed....uh-huh....
ClippetyClop
So you don't want to wear a mask, get vaccinated or seemingly do anything to help the situation. You never have. You just want to wish it all away.
So really, what do you want?
Honestly, you don't need to be 'smart elite people' to have basic common sense. Unless it's politically expedient not to have basic common sense, of course.
Addfwyn
How has this become a political issue and why are masks such a horrible thing for some people? At the absolute worst they are mildly uncomfortable when it's hot and humid out, but so is everything else. Unless I am in my apartment (which I always am unless at work or going to/from work), I have worn a mask constantly for the last year and a half, and it hasn't been a big deal.
It just seems to be making a massive issue out of a tiny ask and I really do not understand the wild opposition to it.
ulysses
The GOP is caught in the donald trap, if he doesn't like the mask they all have to agree to not liking the mask.
The sorry bunch that lead this party today have sold their souls just to stay in power, there is no depth that is low enough for them.
Meanwhile Americans continue to die and the GOP couldn't care less!!!
plasticmonkey
I think it's pretty simple. Trump cultists are driven by a hatred of liberals. Had liberals shunned masks, these people would be wearing them 24/7.
Jimizo
Apparently it’s on the same level of Stalin’s Russia or Mao’s China according to the more febrile types.
Throw in a conspiracy theory or two, a few selected podcasters, and Tucker Carlson and you’ve got a recipe for demented hysterics.
The right are primarily driven by fear.
bass4funk
Not because they’re liberals, but because they’re thick-headed and think that everyone needs to March in lockstep when they start demanding something and feel that their way is the only way.
I doubt that.
The left is ignorant to even make that assumption.