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Bucky

(53,947 posts) Mon May 11, 2020, 03:37 PM May 2020

WH Memo Directs Everyone To Wear Masks When Entering West Wing

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Source: Talking Points Memo

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House memo directs everyone to wear masks when entering West Wing, following virus scares close to president.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/wh-memo-directs-everyone-to-wear-masks-when-entering-west-wing

These people are idiots. 4 months into the pandemic and they still don't understand that if you wear a mask it doesn't protect you. Masks are there to protect other people. If you take the mask off the second you step inside, you're still a danger everyone in the office.

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WH Memo Directs Everyone To Wear Masks When Entering West Wing (Original Post) Bucky May 2020 OP

"Don't tell me what to do," America. Zoonart May 2020 #1

I've been using "you're not the boss of me!" Americans. "My way or the highway" authoritarians brewens May 2020 #4

An N95 mask + googles / face shield protects you. denem May 2020 #2

Yeah, that's not what people wear in the White House Bucky May 2020 #5

Here's what they need. denem May 2020 #7

Denem!! I love your picture of Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter!!! My two favorites!!! BComplex May 2020 #9

Thank you! denem May 2020 #12

Awesome!! I'm going to borrow it, too! BComplex May 2020 #15

yw denem May 2020 #16

Thanks again! BComplex May 2020 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author denem May 2020 #6

I assume they have to leave it on for the duration of time spent in the WW. thesquanderer May 2020 #3

The article said offices were excluded. ananda May 2020 #8

Funny, when I clicked the link, the entire article was only one sentence. thesquanderer May 2020 #10

I thought it was just libruhs and DemoCRATS who are afraid. So why is Trump insisting all progree May 2020 #11

Odd response to a "hoax" ? Pantagruel May 2020 #13

But but but but...Freedoms! Baclava May 2020 #14

So, is Trump going to wear one? Marie Marie May 2020 #17

Totally under control, ya know? keithbvadu2 May 2020 #18

Oh, that's rich! Bayard May 2020 #19

Did they pull out their AK-47 and scream in the face of everyone in the west wing?!? onecaliberal May 2020 #20

Seems to be duplicate of post two below in LBN column Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #22

Too little, too late... paleotn May 2020 #23

about 3 Months too late. riversedge May 2020 #24

After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve May 2020 #25

Zoonart

(11,834 posts)

1. "Don't tell me what to do," America.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:40 PM

May 2020

Americans are showing their. True colors.

brewens

(13,546 posts)

4. I've been using "you're not the boss of me!" Americans. "My way or the highway" authoritarians

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #1)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:42 PM

May 2020

when they are in charge of anything, snot nosed kids if someone tells them what to do.

denem

(11,045 posts)

2. An N95 mask + googles / face shield protects you.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:41 PM

May 2020

Bucky

(53,947 posts)

5. Yeah, that's not what people wear in the White House

Reply to denem (Reply #2)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:43 PM

May 2020

For 99% of us, including the people who office out of the White House, we're talking about your basic face mask; that will not keep a virus out.

denem

(11,045 posts)

7. Here's what they need.

Reply to Bucky (Reply #5)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:46 PM

May 2020

BComplex

(8,019 posts)

9. Denem!! I love your picture of Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter!!! My two favorites!!!

Reply to denem (Reply #7)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:53 PM

May 2020

Where did you find that?

denem

(11,045 posts)

12. Thank you!

Reply to BComplex (Reply #9)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:02 PM

May 2020

I was doing a google image search search for a photo of Elizabeth to use as a sig. Went down pages and pages looking for exactly the right one then ... there was this fabulous picture with Katie Porter and ... love at first sight!

BComplex

(8,019 posts)

15. Awesome!! I'm going to borrow it, too!

Reply to denem (Reply #12)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:21 PM

May 2020

denem

(11,045 posts)

16. yw

Reply to BComplex (Reply #15)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:23 PM

May 2020

BComplex

(8,019 posts)

21. Thanks again!

Reply to denem (Reply #16)

Mon May 11, 2020, 05:02 PM

May 2020

Response to denem (Reply #2)

denem This message was self-deleted by its author.

thesquanderer

(11,972 posts)

3. I assume they have to leave it on for the duration of time spent in the WW.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:41 PM

May 2020

It's all about protecting Trump.

ananda

(28,837 posts)

8. The article said offices were excluded.

Reply to thesquanderer (Reply #3)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:47 PM

May 2020

This is so crazy.

thesquanderer

(11,972 posts)

10. Funny, when I clicked the link, the entire article was only one sentence.

Reply to ananda (Reply #8)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:55 PM

May 2020

Nothing about offices. But I guess once you enter an office that Trump never goes into, they don't care. They are worried about the common areas where Trump might sometimes enter, or any place he might ever be.

progree

(10,893 posts)

11. I thought it was just libruhs and DemoCRATS who are afraid. So why is Trump insisting all

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 03:56 PM

May 2020

visitors to the West Wing wear masks? Anyway something to ask some fuckhead who you encounter in the parking lot or wherever who sees you wearing a mask and asks "are you a Democrat?" "What are you so afraid of, this is 'merica, home of the brave?".

Of course another answer is that it doesn't protect me very much, but rather protects others like my frail elderly father with COPD (or whatever, in my family's case its my sister worried about her 75 yo husband's severe COPD ).

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)

13. Odd response to a "hoax" ?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:10 PM

May 2020

Baclava

(12,047 posts)

14. But but but but...Freedoms!

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:16 PM

May 2020

Marie Marie

(9,999 posts)

17. So, is Trump going to wear one?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:30 PM

May 2020

keithbvadu2

(36,671 posts)

18. Totally under control, ya know?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:30 PM

May 2020

Totally under control, ya know?

Bayard

(22,011 posts)

19. Oh, that's rich!

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:59 PM

May 2020

Mr. Germophobe speaks: Do as I say, not what I do.

tRump and Pence are probably the ones infecting everybody else.

onecaliberal

(32,786 posts)

20. Did they pull out their AK-47 and scream in the face of everyone in the west wing?!?

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 04:59 PM

May 2020

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,966 posts)

22. Seems to be duplicate of post two below in LBN column

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 05:31 PM

May 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142491407

paleotn

(17,884 posts)

23. Too little, too late...

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 06:20 PM

May 2020

Seems half the white house staff are positive. Call it the Trump super cluster. Cluster of virus transmission, not cluster fuck.

riversedge

(70,092 posts)

24. about 3 Months too late.

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 06:55 PM

May 2020

Omaha Steve

(99,505 posts)

25. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2020, 11:29 PM

May 2020

Dupe material. See the earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142491407

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