Posted on 05/22/2020 12:01:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
No, the president of the United States should not be wearing a mask. Period. Not ever. If it brings you comfort to wear one, I have no beef with you. To each their own. Some feel safer with masks, while others feel safer with a legally concealed firearm. God bless America. You do your thing, and I’ll do mine. Nevertheless, the leader of the free world is an important symbol bigger than our individual comfort zones.
The media knows this, and it’s why they’re so desperate to get President Trump behind a mask.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins knows it’s a game. She’s been one of the loudest voices during White House briefings chirping over why some officials wear masks and some don’t. President Trump has repeatedly explained that everyone in the White House is tested daily and given the option of wearing a mask if they wish. As for him, he chooses to not.
That’s an acceptable answer for developmentally mature adults. But this is the White House press we’re talking about. Their disdain and antagonism for this president are historic. This virus, they imagine is the thing that finally takes him down politically. The mask is the visual they need to send the message Donald Trump is in retreat.
CNN’s Collins was caught on live camera just last week in the White House briefing room ripping off her mask the second the officials left the podium and CNN’s coverage ended. Her colleagues kept their masks on. She meandered about the room smiling her unmasked smile.
What does that tell you? Sincerely ask yourself, “Does a serious person hector the president for not wearing a mask while on camera only to rip off their own in a crowded room when think they’re off-camera?”
Each day in my studio I monitor CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. While CNN is insufferable, when it comes to masks the leader is MSNBC. Their correspondents have clearly been given a mask mandate for the ultimate in showbiz hype. A reporter on the beach in California, or leaning on a fence at a hog farm in Georgia, an empty sidewalk in France, and boardwalk in Atlantic City – I’ve seen all these scenes and more. Each one outside, not a soul nearby, and proudly reporting through their own custom-sewn mask. The reporter in France was even wearing rubber gloves!
They’re not doing it for their safety. They’re doing it to feed viewer fear and continue to build the hysterical notion that lurking around every corner is a hovering-in-mid-air virus just waiting to be inhaled into your lungs like car exhaust fumes or second-hand smoke. The mask will save you! So, I guess we should never take them off again?
Many know we’re on to them and how silly this is. So they’ve turned the rules of mask-wearing around on those who question by making you sound like an irresponsible citizen if you don’t comply. “You must wear a mask so I don’t get sick! What if you’re carrying something? I don’t want to catch it! Be considerate!”
Just like that, if you weren’t scared into wearing a mask you’ll be shamed into wearing one. But it can’t be both. Which is it? We’re all potentially sick, or we’re all protecting ourselves from getting sick? See the game? Heads they win, tales you lose.
Masks are the new way to communicate, “I’m compliant; my head is right; I obey; I’m a good person; I care.” If you’re not wearing one, you’re deserving of nothing less than sneers and gasps of disgust. Masks have become what wearing a ribbon for an illness or a rubber bracelet for your faith used to be. It’s a display created to fit in with the crowd - a psychological gimmick, like dual temperature control in the same car or smoking and non-smoking sections.
But for critics of President Trump, it’s about surrender. Nothing would bring global media more pleasure than to see the guy who displayed military hardware on the Fourth of July and massive crowds at MAGA rallies now sheepishly cowering alone behind a mask. They don’t care about his safety or health. Nor do they care about those around him.
That’s their trophy. The larger-than-life, hard-charging, America first brawler reduced to wearing a mask because a foreign virus outmatched him. It would run in campaign ads through November. Old footage of a confident Trump optimistically telling the country we’ll defeat the virus slapped together with current footage of him behind a mask, conceding its unsafe for even him to be outside.
It’s a twofer, taking out a guy they loathe and at the same time bringing that America-first jingoism to a grinding halt. Finally, they’ll prove America isn’t special and neither is her leader. Trump’s wearing a mask in public during this pandemic just like any other country’s leader. The virus truly makes us one global community now. We’re not exceptional. We’re all on our knees, compliant and scared.
Thankfully, we have a president who knows the business of show better than the partisan hacks that cover him. He knows optics. He knows why they want him in a mask, and he’s never going to give it to them. It makes them insane with rage.
Ironically, a rage they’ve never been capable of masking.
I don’t know.
I am now in the fourth of wearing masks, everywhere.
Except home.
I don’t know.
I am now in the fourth month of wearing masks, everywhere.
Except home.
(Excuse the edit)
I wear a mask in stores. I don’t want to see the leader of the free world in a mask. It’s time to stare these little dictators down.
But you're not tested every day.
The people you come in contact with are not tested beforehand by the Secret Service.
The buildings you go into haven't been inspected beforehand by the FBI.
-PJ
OMG what is it with him wearing a mask...The MSM is trying to manipulate President Trump into creating a "Dukakis in a tank" moment.
I had said that there was probably a decision by President Trump that he would not be photographed wearing a mask, just so that bloggers can't photoshop them to mock him.
-PJ
It’s incredibly stupid to be wearing masks in public, you mark yourself as a paranoid hypochondriac. They do not protect you and there is no risk serious enough to be taking any special precautions for.
Nobody should be wearing a mask. They are totally ineffective for civilians, for this purpose, unless you have a full blown gas mask eye coverings, high end filters and all.
Different views...
You are right, of course.
The President is different.
Not because I'm afraid of the virus, but because my family asks me to.
Personally, I'd rather get it and take the regimen to get over it and be done with it. But it makes my family feel better knowing that I'm wearing the garb.
-PJ
Masks are for the Sheeple.
I REFUSE TO WEAR ONE ANYWHERE
Liberals just Trump to wear a mask so they can Memes of him like the ones of Kerry in the bunny suit and Docockus in the tank.
Trump is too smart for that.
Your rights end where my rights begin. It has always been that way in America. Everyone has equal rights but should you infringe on another person’s rights, you lose your rights.
Masks are a catch 22. The ordinary Joe Schmo who dons a mask, does not don a mask to prevent other people from infecting him. No the mask is worn to prevent the infection of other people from him. Masks don’t work. Study after study has come out and said they do not work except the N95 mask. And bandana train robber masks are even worse. A paper towel is better than some masks out there that I have seen and I have seen many homemade masks and bandana masks.
So this brings us to the catch-22 if me not wearing a mask does not infringe upon your right to wear a mask does that mean I am infringing on your rights? The mask’s sole purpose is to prevent you from infecting other people not the other way around. So if I can prove I do not have the virus do I have to wear a mask? If I choose not to wear a mask, what infringement of rights am I committing against another’s rights? The catch-22 is that the purpose of the mask is reversed but people think it is for the opposite, to keep from catching the virus. So if I wear no mask and I do not have the virus, I therefore cannot spread the virus and therefore I am not harming anyone so I am not infringing on anyone else’s rights and thus cannot be seen to be breaking the law.
On the other hand if I do not wear the mask and catch the virus, whose fault is that? The person wearing the mask that spread the virus or me who did not wear the mask, knowing the mask commonly bought by a layperson does not work according to scientific study. Should a restaurant be sued because the mask didn’t work properly? Unequivocally the answer is no. Because the restaurant. assuming took all preventions, could not be responsible for airborne guests in which they cannot see at all times. If there was rats making the soup like Rat-a-touille then just maybe but that was a cartoon and some to near all of this is reminiscent of a cartoon.
Can we just call Acme yet? Because the Princess Bride logic just confuses everyone.
I wear a mask in stores to gain entry but the second I am out of the store I take off the mask and say out loud “This is Bullshit,” every time.
I haven’t worn one yet but I typically have an N95 mask with me somewhere… in the bottom of my hardhat, in a backpack, on the seat of the car. I took one with me when I last flew (mid-March) just in case I had to sit close to someone whose health looked sketchy. I figure that even if I chose not to wear one, I should at least have one available if I figure the situation warrants it. Typically though, if I get asked about not wearing one I respond with a “Sheeesh, I’ve been told repeatedly that the WuFlu is sooo contagious and we’re all going to eventually get it…. so I’m actually been trying real hard to catch i9t so I can get it out of the way before summer arrives and then that way my immune system will be all set when that second and third wave hits us.” That usually ends the discussion right there.
I’m sick of the mask charade. I only wear one if forced and mine is a Trump 2020 mask.
My job is relatively high profile for the large corporation I work for and thus, I was forced to participate in one of those stupid “We’re all in this together” video’s wearing a stupid mask. (I was a good boy and wore a regular one)
Someone was doing some spray painting the other day. Just for effect, he wore a dust mask, not a N95. When he got done, his nose and nostrils were all white with paint. The micron size of paint is three times the size of the COVID virus molecules. His conclusion was the unless you’re wearing a specific type of mask, they are 100% worthless.
Yesterday I went to a greek diner and tried to order dinner. I’m generally pretty good with accents but Greek is one I’m very poor at. Add in soft spoken Greek and the muffling caused by a mask and it was nearly impossible to communicate.
Masks are nothing more than fear theatre.
Even the surgeon general has said they do no good - unless in a hospital!
I am NOT SCARED and CHOOSE not to wear a mask. That said, we are making a Costco run this am during senior time - will probably be the last time for awhile - they need to get over the mask requirement!
The media needs to emerge from their basements and get some fresh air and away from their silly gas.
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