We’ll show them!
So basically they’re working hard to…raise their own body count?
In perhaps his most overt effort to shun the wearing of masks, Trump retweeted a tweet from Fox News analyst Brit Hume ridiculing Joe Biden for appearing with a face mask during a Memorial Day ceremony in Delaware.
Trump hates the masks, Trump refuses to wear the mask, Trump keeps telling everyone the masks are voluntary. Last week he even made a point of saying he didn’t wear a mask in public view on his visit to the Ford plant because he didn’t want to give reporters the satisfaction.
The implication was pretty clear: When it comes to wearing a mask, public health isn’t the only consideration. So, too, are pride and Trump’s appetite for provocation. That message, perhaps better than anything, summarizes his attitude toward masks. Whatever can be gained by a president setting an example for the American people, there are other considerations.
Or, to put it in more trumpian terms: fuck setting an example, he just wants to do what he wants to do.
It’s not difficult to see the public consequences to this more laissez-faire approach to masks. In the days before Trump’s Monday retweet, anecdotal images showed Memorial Day weekend revelers in places such as the Lake of the Ozarks flouting not just mask-wearing guidelines but also social-distancing guidelines.
Polls have indicated members of Trump’s party are much more likely to flout the mask guideline. A Quinnipiac University poll last week showed 90 percent of Democrats thought Trump should wear a mask in public, but just 38 percent of Republicans said the same.
So…in other words they’re thinning their own numbers. On purpose. I’m not sure they’ve really thought this through.
Oh, didn’t you know? They won’t get COVID, and if they do, they won’t die, or even feel sick, because they aren’t losers.
On the other hand, that just gives me one more reason to avoid Republicans.
No, you’ve got it all wrong. It’s the guns that keep the m safe from the virus.
So I’m using wrong techniques in my lab? Bad scene. Need to rewrite my lab safety procedures. After all, these guys are white…male…they must know more than the rest of us, like me, a mere female with only a Biology degree to go by. I should have read the Second Amendment closer. Thanks, not Bruce, I needed the heads up. ;-)
They deliberately used this shot, either narrow-angle or clipped from a larger picture, which deceptively makes Biden look like a standout. The wider shots show everyone else wearing black masks. Trump was the odd one out.
@iknklast #1 Indeed. If you get the virus, get horribly sick, and die then you’re an inferior person and probably a Democrat. Probably don’t have a job, lazing around on the dole and enjoying the lovely free healthcare (aka lie in a ditch and die).
#3 – For sure. Everyone knows the answer to any problem is more guns. Although, packing heat in a lab setting sounds unbelievably dangerous if it goes off accidentally and hits a bottle of ether or formaldehyde. Also, everyone would laugh at you. Unfortunately, there is a battle going on in the State government to make concealed carry legal on campuses. They already allow open carry. JFC.
Yeah, we have that battle going on, too. The union is opposed to it. Most teachers are opposed to it. I have decided if it passes, I will probably discover it is time to retire.
We do not allow open or concealed carry on our campuses; guns and other weapons are strictly forbidden. This is not enforced. I have heard many a young man brag about the arsenal in his truck, and how the campus police would not be able to do anything to him because he is better armed than they are. He’s probably right.