Trump White House blocked effort to mail every US household face masks

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  1. LoneStarGal

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    I wear a properly legal one. :)
     
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    Tried at The Hague for not sending out masks.....god what idiotic hyperbole.
     
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    ~ Some people are just angry at life in general. They must blame someone... [​IMG]
     
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    But not a properly effective one
     
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    Hardly.

    Repeating something silly Trump said doesn't exactly help your credibility...

    There is a discussion to be had here. But if the purpose is to excuse Trump, it's a non-starter. What progress we've made is largely despite Trump, and our upcoming nightmare is largely because of Trump.
     
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    The toppic is stuppid cloth masks
     
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    But the people feel safe, and thats what really counts, feelz
     
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    It effectively prevents me from receiving a $2000 fine, so that is proper enough for me. :)
     
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  10. Lesh

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    Talking about cloth masks?

     
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    Yep, thanks. A bandana folded into a triangle is two layers of cloth. CDC also recommends making a mask of 2 layers of cotton fabric. Seems both effective and proper. :)
     
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    Sometime lesh is more. :xd:
     
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    As noted... while, while cloth masks are better than none. They are one of the lesser effective coverings. So of course that is what you use
     
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    Which one has been shown to reduce the incidence of disease from respiratory viruses in prospective controlled studies?
    Thanks in advance
     
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    Why can't we just buy masks from overseas?

    Manufacturing is the **** work of the future. Trump wants to condemn us all to doing the future's ditch-digging while Europe and Asia gobble up all the good jobs which we will never see again.
     
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    CDC recommends 2 layers of cotton. I'm following the advice of our medical experts. They know everything. :)
     
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    I don't know about Europe, but you do realize that Asia has manufacturing right? So much so that our own companies go there?

    In any case, without manufacturing you don't get things like the computer that you're typing on, the dishes that you use to eat off of, or silverware for that matter, your beds, couches, desks, cellphones....the list is endless. None of it can be gotten without manufacturing. It is essential to our society. Unless you live in the back woods or some deserted island and don't use any tools beyond a club (large branch) and a sharp rock.
     
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    There's no point in manufacturing for the sake of it, and making things that anyone can make, anywhere, and for less. The US needs to be an innovator again, and make things that are cutting edge - that the rest of world wants, and that America does best: groundbreaking. Nowadays, that's going to be clean/new technologies - new types of vehicles, energy generators, manufacturing equipment, etc. etc. for domestic and well as industrial use - which the rest of the is embracing, and wants. Unfortunately, the US is seen as stuck in the mud, instead of the world leader it could be. Even if no one really cares about or believes in "fighting global warming" or whatever, they should care about it in terms of the opportunities it presents to create not just jobs, but the very best jobs, for the long term.

    Sorry. Off topic. Rant over.
     
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    That's a very elitist attitude. Why do you think the middle-class dropped out of America starting 30 years ago (hint - when we started sending those "boring" non-technical manufacturing jobs overseas)?

    We don't have enough Americans going into STEM courses to take those wonderful, high-tech, high-brainpower jobs, so we import the best students from around the world today. Do you expect that 10-15% of the citizens who are high-dollar innovators to be taxed at 95% of their income to take care of the masses because we have no medium-skilled (hint- manufacturing) jobs for them?
     
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    If I'm elitist, you're jumping to conclusions.

    Where did I say that the jobs would all be highly-skilled, top tax bracket etc.? Nowhere, that's where.

    "Best jobs" means work in sustainable, ever-developing industries that provide long-term job security and opportunity for a wide range of skill sets, in a broad range of environments; that allow communities to thrive. Sure, new innovative world-leading products need a certain "elite" workforce to design and develop them, but they also need assembling, delivering, installing, repair, maintenance - all sorts of things which provide employment for ordinary Joes too, and everyone between. Plus, if they choose, opportunities for the next generation.
     
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    Nothing enrages Democrats more than people making their own decisions.
     
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    great slogan for t-shirts and bumper stickers
     
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    I did, but first they were unavailable because they got hit first. If it started here we could have bought up all their masks and lied to WHO.

    I don't care if we have to build a socialist plant to make our stockpiles of emergency stuff, but each State should have one stockpile too. Just having enough for first line...doesn't protect us.

    I got some elastic straps at Walmart and attached them to my three replaceable filter CHINESE masks; nice and tight. And some elderly enough black lady at the store the other day had her mask hanging down so I could see her upper lip; so like, dang, mask can't do squat if people don't wear them right.
     
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    Judging by the behavior of much of the public, these are idiotic times we live in.
     
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    Sure could have done a difference, but hey, it's September.
     

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