Joining Dennis Daugaard in playing sensible elder statesman is Joe Biden, who said yesterday we all should mask up to save lives during the coroanvirus pandemic:
…every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum…. Every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months. 40,000 lives if people act responsibly.
And it’s not about your rights, it’s about your responsibilities as an American. The fact is that as Americans are lining up to give blood, Americans volunteer all their time for food banks and local charities, supporting their neighbors that are in need. Well, this is no different. Wearing a mask is less about you contracting the virus, although it does help depending on the mask, but it’s about preventing other people from getting sick. Wearing a mask will give the life of a clerk or your local store or your letter carrier, your child’s teacher, it will increase their prospects of not contracting the virus. Even though it’s uncomfortable, we’re not used to it, wearing a mask is going to get our kids back to school sooner and safer. Wearing a mask, every American wearing a mask outdoors, is going to get our businesses back and the full strength long-term, and we’re going to get our country back on track.
But again, when I get occasionally confronted with a person in the public about wearing a mask, I say, “Look, this is America. Be a patriot. Protect your fellow citizens. Protect your fellow citizens. Step up. Do the right thing. Do the right thing.” There’s overwhelming evidence that the mask and depending on the type of mask you wear increases exponentially the prospect that you, if you are a carrier and you don’t even know it, that you will not infect anyone when you cough, sneeze, sing, shout [Joe Biden, speech in Wilmington, Delaware, transcribed by Rev.com, 2020.08.13].
Patriotism isn’t about posing as a Freedom™ fighter to boost tourism and your media profile. Patriotism is about taking care of your fellow Americans. Joe Biden is all about taking care of his fellow Americans… which will make for a welcome change in White House mindset.
Many people are content with reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and waving a one dollar flag made in China as fulfilling their patriotic duty. Much of this is ethnocentrism and the rest is lack of empathy. Everyone else be dammed till it affects them personally.
Jack Billion and Frank Kloucek Encourage Use of Face Masks in Public
Letter to Editor
April 25, 2020
Retired Doctor of Orthopedic Medicine Dr Jack Billion of Sioux Falls, and retired 22 year legislator Frank Kloucek of Scotland, ask people to stay home, but when you must go out wear face masks in all public spaces like grocery stores.
The recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology study has proven that Covid droplets from humans can travel up to 27 feet in laboratory conditions. The implementation of dust mask or face mask policies should have been mandated long ago!
We need to look at the world around us and see what is working in the fight against the Covid 19 virus. Face masks are working to reduce the infection rate. Please use them when you go out into the public.
The Czech Republic has mandated face masks for office workers and in all public situations. If the Czech Republic can do this why can not we at least voluntarily do so. One can be a carrier of this disease and not know it. To protect yourself and others – please wear a face mask. It falls to us to protect our communities.
Frank Kloucek
29966 423rd ave, Scotland SD 57059
phone 605 583 4468
Jack Billion
400 East 21st Street
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57105
Republicans like Steve insist they are NOT like Trump. But they insist too that we are all libtards. This came from Ann Coulter’s noxious, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, neurotic screeds to insult entire groups of people, in that case, the intellectually challenged, or the “retarded,” which is her preferred usage.
A waste of time.
Masks are the latest Republican insult. If maskless was’t so fatal Dusty would not have been the only “retard” on Mt Rushmore’s stage. Apologies, to make the point. But Republicans again create a waste of vital time.
Scientific data is what we rely upon for our lives. Not Republicans. Look at the “death lists” Trump exclaimed!
“President Donald Trump has issued an order for hospitals throughout the United States to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when relaying information about patients with COVID-19. Instead, as of Wednesday, the White House wants that information sent directly to a central database controlled by one of Trump’s cabinet members.
The Department of Health and Human Services will receive all daily reports about the patients being treated by each hospital, the number of available ventilators and beds and other vital data, according to The New York Times. The database will not be available to the public, a factor that could impact public health officials’ and researchers ability to make informed policy decisions about the pandemic.” Salon 7.15.20
It IS making it more difficult. It is killing us.
Yesterday commenting this concern on a related thread, I wonder why “retards” come here to skew the data? Steve spent a whole thread doing it. Stop blaming Trump, he says.
Because if its a “Trump” pandemic, he loses. If he can’t control and hides data, he loses. And if he loses, do all those preppers’ AR-15s come out?
Well, they have been coming out. Rich people on their lawns, assault rifles menacing protesters. Trump has an illegitimate Homeland Security para- military force itching to bust heads of protestors. Right wing extremists are embedded in LEO.
But I apologize for identifying Steve to make the point, as one of those brain washed Republicans wasting our precious time.
https://www.salon.com/2020/07/15/the-trump-administration-is-trying-to-control-how-coronavirus-case-numbers-are-reported/
“Thanks to their quick and decisive action to contain the spread of the pandemic within their country, New Zealand is now home to several major film productions that are restarting. Just seven foreign productions in the country are injecting NZ$400 million (US$262 million) into the country’s film industry, which has long been a home to international co-productions, as well as a robust domestic industry. Today the Avatar sequels in particular have been productive, with 400 locals working on that production alone.”
Numlock News by Walt Hickey
Just think, that could be the USA, but for Liar-in-Chief in the WH.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html
“The Trump Pandemic”
Trump has always been malignant and incompetent. As president, he has coasted on economic growth, narrowly averted crises of his own making, and corrupted the government in ways that many Americans could ignore. But in the pandemic, his vices—venality, dishonesty, self-absorption, dereliction, heedlessness—turned deadly. They produced lies, misjudgments, and destructive interventions that multiplied the carnage. The coronavirus debacle isn’t, as Trump protests, an “artificial problem” that spoiled his presidency. It’s the fulfillment of everything he is.***First] in early January, Trump was warned about a deadly new virus in China. He was also told that the Chinese government was understating the outbreak. (See this timeline for a detailed chronology of what Trump knew and when he knew it.) This was inconvenient, because Trump was about to sign a lucrative trade deal with Beijing. “We have a great relationship with China right now, so I don’t want to speak badly of anyone,” Trump told Laura Ingraham in a Fox News interview on Jan. 10.
Three days later, Alex Azar, Trump’s secretary of health and human services, phoned him with an update on the spread of the novel coronavirus. On Jan. 21, the CDC announced the first infection in the United States. Two of the government’s top health officials—Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases—said the virus was beginning to circulate around the world. onths cultivating a relationship with Xi and securing the trade deal. He was counting on China to buy American goods and boost the U.S. economy, thereby helping him win reelection. He had said this to Xi explicitly, in a conversation witnessed by then–National Security Adviser John Bolton. Trump also worried that a travel ban would scare the stock market. But by the end of the month, airlines were halting flights to China anyway. On Jan. 31, Trump gave in. ***Not until March 11, six weeks after blocking travel from China, did Trump take similar action against Europe.***Second] when Azar requested $4 billion to stock up, the White House refused. Trump dismissed the outcry for masks and ridiculed Democrats for “forcing money” on him to buy supplies. “They say, ‘Oh, he should do more,’ ” the president scoffed in an interview on Feb. 28. “There’s nothing more you can do.”***
South Korea had expanded its testing program, and by Feb. 27 it was checking samples from more than 10,000 people a day. The U.S. program, hampered by malfunctions and bureaucratic conflict, was nowhere near that. By mid-February, it was testing only about 100 samples a day. As a result, few infections were being detected.
Fauci saw this as a grave vulnerability.***Trump didn’t just ignore warnings. He suppressed them. ***
Steve: “The president now casts himself as a victim of Chinese deception. In reality, he collaborated with Xi to deceive both the Chinese public and the American public.”
The American president, against the judgment of his public health officials, was feeding American citizens a false assurance passed to him by the Chinese president. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html
Sorry:
[Third, Testing] South Korea had….
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
5,478,009
Deaths:
171,568
Near as I can figure there were 1400 more bodies added to drumpf body count. Wear those masks.