Masks

[shoothoops]

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:

https://twitter.com/bgchrisowens/status/1295053211120873474

[Pakuni]

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:

https://twitter.com/bgchrisowens/status/1295053211120873474

Alabama's AD has thoughts:


Greg Byrne
@Greg_Byrne
Who wants college sports this fall?? 🏈⚽️🏐🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏿
Obviously not these people!! 🤦🏼‍♂️

We've got to do better than this for each other and our campus community.  Please wear your masks!😷

[MU82]

Here's all kinds of mask fun!

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article244999605.html?ac_cid=DM260952&ac_bid=1792226956

A security guard in St. Louis was beaten early Saturday after he told three men they had to put on face masks to enter a Shell gas station, Missouri police say.

Three men tried to enter a Shell gas station around 2:30 a.m. without wearing masks, according to police documents.

When the security guard told the men they weren't allowed inside without face coverings, they refused to put on masks and left the store, police said.

Not long after, they opened the exit door and started "taunting" the security guard, police said. The security guard told the men to leave, but they surrounded him and started punching him in the head and face, according to police.

One of the men grabbed the security guard's baton from his hip and used it to hit him several times, police said.

Meanwhile, in Kansas ...

Mask orders appear to be slowing the spread of infections in Kansas, according to an analysis by The Kansas City Star and The Wichita Eagle.

Cases in 16 counties with a mask order trended down since last month, while cases in 89 counties without an order trended up, the analysis found.

Kansas' Democratic governor mandated masks across the largely conservative state but signed a law in June that gave county commissions the power to opt out — and most did.

The resulting patchwork of local rules kicked off an experiment to learn whether ordering the use of masks is effective policy.

[shoothoops]

Former member of Seal Team 6 during Bin Laden raid, faces Delta Air Lines ban, for refusal to wear a mask:


https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/robert-oneill-bin-laden-coronavirus-mask-delta/

[Jockey]

Former member of Seal Team 6 during Bin Laden raid, faces Delta Air Lines ban, for refusal to wear a mask:


https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/robert-oneill-bin-laden-coronavirus-mask-delta/

That's the kind of thing that d-bags do.

[jesmu84]

Former member of Seal Team 6 during Bin Laden raid, faces Delta Air Lines ban, for refusal to wear a mask:


https://theintercept.com/2020/08/19/robert-oneill-bin-laden-coronavirus-mask-delta/

I assume this guy will be hailed as a hero by some. Much like the seal who committed war crimes.

[jficke13]

I assume this guy will be hailed as a hero by some. Much like the seal who committed war crimes.

Pretty sure that's why he did it. He's a media-personality for hire now, this just raises his profile with the set of people he sells to.

[Hards Alumni]

Pretty sure that's why he did it. He's a media-personality for hire now, this just raises his profile with the set of people he sells to.

It is why anyone does things like this.  They can cash in on other people's outrage.  He will be some network's "military expert" in a week, and then there will be a book deal, and then a run for office.

All of this behavior is so predictable.

[tower912]

Karen.

[jficke13]

It is why anyone does things like this.  They can cash in on other people's outrage.  He will be some network's "military expert" in a week, and then there will be a book deal, and then a run for office.

All of this behavior is so predictable.

A.B.G. baby. Always. Be. Grifting.

I'm not positive, but I think that dude was flying home after campaigning for a GOP candidate in Wisconsin, and tweeted "I shook thousands of hands and gave thousands of hugs this week. I flew on some planes. I'll be alive next week." He's welly and truly plugged into the outrage grift complex.

[JWags85]

Pretty sure that's why he did it. He's a media-personality for hire now, this just raises his profile with the set of people he sells to.

He's also been outed as a dishonest POS for quite awhile now

[Macallan 18]

Thought this was a well done video encouraging the Marquette community to mask up.

https://youtu.be/XmcuAxDyWog

[shoothoops]

Economic value of wearing a mask:

https://twitter.com/StratGleeson/status/1297613468674035713?s=19

[MU82]

Predictably, despite promising repeatedly that they would adhere to the mask-wearing and social-distancing rules if we would let them stage some of the RNC here in Charlotte, they instead did whatever they wanted.

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article245196385.html?

Face masks were supposed to be worn at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte. In addition to North Carolina's COVID-19 statewide mask mandate, RNC staff agreed to enforce the rule inside the convention center.

But on the floor of the RNC, strict coronavirus protocols quickly fell by the wayside Monday.

Social distancing was expected too — in addition to COVID-19 symptom screening and testing — to prevent a virus flareup as more than 300 delegates gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center Monday, in a dramatically scaled-down RNC to renominate President Donald Trump.

But many inside were seen not wearing masks and some attendees shook hands and huddled in tight-knit circles as the RNC recessed awaiting the arrival of Vice President Mike Pence. Among delegates and convention staff, some people did wear masks. Still others did not or were seen wearing face coverings ineffectively, such as having the mask slung below their chins.

I have gotten to the point where I don't care what happens to the mouth-breathers themselves in the name of "freedom." They want to court sickness and death, that's on them. Hundreds got sick after Tulsa, and several died, including Herman Cain. All preventable, all needless, but it was their choice.

But then they go out into the community and infect others. Just totally selfish, stupid and dangerous.

[Warriors4ever]

Well bars and restaurants get shut down for not complying.....
300 people? Does NC not have capacity restrictions?

[MU82]

Well bars and restaurants get shut down for not complying.....
300 people? Does NC not have capacity restrictions?

Yeah, the article goes into that later, but it's not that easy to enforce and they don't want to cause a riot or anything.

NC gave the RNC permission to have more than current coronavirus meeting laws allow because we wanted to be open-minded hosts and they promised to social distance and wear masks. I guess that falls in line with promises like, "Mexico will pay for it."

The big part of the meeting is over, they've conducted their business, and the president told about an hour worth of lies, so it shouldn't be an issue from here on out.

[shoothoops]

Usain Bolt, is COVID-19 positive after "Mask Free" birthday party. (several other athletes in attendance)

https://www.ibtimes.com/usain-bolt-tests-positive-covid-19-self-isolation-after-mask-free-birthday-party-3034158?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

[MU82]

Few who attended Vice Hypocrite Pence's speech last night wore masks.

[MU82]

"Addressing a maskless crowd of supporters seated close together on the South Lawn of the White House, President Trump on Thursday night accepted his party's presidential nomination ... "

Sigh.

And then, when a dozen or more of them get infected (though hopefully none of them meet the fate of Herman Cain after the Tulsa travesty), President Pandemic's sycophants can again say he did a "solid" job and that nobody could have prevented those infections.

[MU82]

And so it begins (or, should I say, continues) ...

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article245322115.html?

Two attendees and two support staff at the Republican National Convention tested positive for COVID-19, Mecklenburg County officials announced Friday morning.

Those people were instructed to isolate immediately, and close contacts were also told to quarantine, officials said in a statement.

The disclosures come after county health officials raised concerned about a lack of social distancing and mask wearing during the business meeting of the RNC in Charlotte on Monday — despite strict coronavirus protocols that were supposed to be followed.

But the public may need to wait weeks for an "after-action" report detailing the true scope of infections linked to the RNC. For now, Mecklenburg Public Health Director Gibbie Harris has said the convention posed no infection risk to the greater Charlotte area.

I wish they had taken their entire Infection Fest 2020 completely onto the interwebs.

[Skatastrophy]

I wish they had taken their entire Infection Fest 2020 completely onto the interwebs.

The "we ain't afeared of science" crowd wouldn't have liked that.

[shoothoops]

Alaska:

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1299874056318210050?s=19

[Uncle Rico]

Alaska:

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1299874056318210050?s=19

The Longhorns are back!

[reinko]

Alaska:

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1299874056318210050?s=19

The UT hat, gloves, and sweatpants is a helluva combo.

🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Alaska:

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1299874056318210050?s=19

Angry older white dude, spitting on people as he threatens them? Check.

I will not shed a tear if his behavior causes him to blow a gasket.