Trump World Turns on the True COVID Villain: Surgical Masks

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Trump World Turns on the True COVID Villain: Surgical Masks


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-world-turns-on-the-true-covid-villain-surgical-masks?ref=


They once saw masks as a simple remedy to the virus’ spread. Now it’s an instrument of government suppression.

Updated May. 01, 2020 11:15PM ET / Published May. 01, 2020 7:19PM ET


Back in March, with Americans just a week into quarantine, Fox News host Laura Ingraham envisioned a way that the economy could reopen. Her plan relied on lots of masks.

“Going back to most jobs after 15 days will require new protocols until this virus burns out—everyone within 6 feet of others MUST wear masks,” Ingraham tweeted.


As part of her pro-mask campaign, Ingraham tweeted instructions for Do It Yourself (DIY) masks, even urging her followers to make homemade masks out of their sheets.

“Literally you can make these with cotton sheets,” Ingraham wrote. “Again, we can be resourceful when necessary!”

A month later, Ingraham has done a 180, becoming one of the right-wing media’s most outspoken mask-haters. She’s tweeted that widespread mask wearing would make everyone “like Antifa,” the left-wing antifascist activists reviled on Fox. On Wednesday, she suggested on her show that widespread mask usage is some sort of plot to scare people.

“The masks, they’re kind of a constant reminder,” Ingraham said. “You see the mask and you think you’re not safe, you are not back to normal — not even close.”

Such a conversion may seem peculiar on the surface. Who, after all, has an actual problem with face masks, especially in the midst of a pandemic. But Ingraham’s conversion reflects something deeper about the nature of our current politics, in which social safety measures themselves can become emblems of partisan leanings. Once the potential tools of liberation from stay-at-home orders, Trump supporters now see masks as a hated carryover from those same orders.

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, the recent recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump, was an early mask paranoiac. On April 20, he promoted the idea, later picked up by Ingraham, that masks are totems of control.

“It is clear that the mask is a symbol of fear, and when you see various people suggesting that we may now have masks as part of our public lives for the rest of our lives?” Limbaugh said. “Uh, why?”.............................................





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MASK-LASH

[Doodley]

1. In most nations, these idiots would be fired from spouting their poisonous crap.One reason America

will be hardest hit.

[NCDem47]

2. I'm not playing Russian Roulette with this virus!

The folks spewing this crap need to get over it. Go back to carrying your rifles around everywhere.