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FailureToCommunicate

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10. Unless you are a front line medical provider, experts have said any mask will...

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #8)

Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:33 PM

Mar 2020

serve the main purpose of keeping you safer: by reducing the chance of you touching your own face with your unwashed hands.

Now, it's true that any old mask won't keep you from infecting others, but you should NOT be out and about if you coughing and sneezing ANYWAY.

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The 300,000 masks the White House sent Illinois were the wrong ones. [View all] demmiblue Mar 2020 OP

Useless bdamomma Mar 2020 #1

POS lsewpershad Mar 2020 #30

They're "not shipping clerks". Better just "appreciate " what the emperor sent! BamaRefugee Mar 2020 #2

Too late. They ratted out Trump to the public. Now, they will get NOTHING. nt NCjack Mar 2020 #29

Why am I not surprised? MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #3

Trump replaced experience staff with ass kissers, procon Mar 2020 #4

This "error" was likely by design dlk Mar 2020 #5

That and general lack of GAF (give a f*ck) crickets Mar 2020 #13

They are monsters dlk Mar 2020 #23

Maybe the masks were the ones tRumps buddy the pillow guy is making? Canoe52 Mar 2020 #6

And why Trump deserves a second term!? djacq Mar 2020 #7

well he bdamomma Mar 2020 #38

Lot of confusion about masks. Aussie105 Mar 2020 #8

Unless you are a front line medical provider, experts have said any mask will... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2020 #10

While not 100% effective, central scrutinizer Mar 2020 #18

I agree about it being helpful to let others know you take things seriously. FailureToCommunicate Mar 2020 #19

There was the case of the church choir central scrutinizer Mar 2020 #22

I cough and sneeze all the time xmas74 Mar 2020 #24

Can this white house do even rudimentary things right? GeorgiaPeanut Mar 2020 #9

Welcome to DU GeorgiaPeanut. FailureToCommunicate Mar 2020 #20

You know, Trump was a fuck-up before he became president, PatrickforO Mar 2020 #11

I bet Trump gets a little chubby when he gets to own Pritzker and the libtards of Illinois. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #12

Exactly, who thinks DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #16

I agree mercuryblues Mar 2020 #25

A perfect comment, MW DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #34

He sent the right ones. n/t TheFourthMind Mar 2020 #14

Welcome to DU! B Stieg Mar 2020 #15

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one padah513 Mar 2020 #26

Yes! n/t TheFourthMind Mar 2020 #35

Bullshit FM DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #32

Just to clarify my post. I was suggesting he meant to send the wrong ones. TheFourthMind Mar 2020 #37

We got 170 broken ventilators from the Feds here in CA last week. Trump wants to kill Blue States TeamPooka Mar 2020 #17

He wants to spend all the states money DENVERPOPS Mar 2020 #33

Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence? ck4829 Mar 2020 #21

Killing the federal government superpatriotman Mar 2020 #27

What dimwitted fuckwit is in charge of organizing these deliveries? DetlefK Mar 2020 #28

every facet of this government is a reality show...phony bullshit. spanone Mar 2020 #31

... Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 #36