Surgeon General Jerome Adams: ...once upon a time we prescribed cigarettes for asthmatics...

[demmiblue]

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Ugh.

[backscatter712]

1. If he had simply said "We had a PPE shortage and need to save it for medical people"

Well, they were still lying to us earlier, so that doesn't absolve him, but it won't make him look nearly as bad as the shitty excuse he used today.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. +1

If the reason was to preserve PPE, I would have accepted that!
In fact, since Illinois officials said exactly that, so I used a scarf wrapped around my face until my wife's friend sewed us a couple masks each.
But, saying it didn't help, when that was not the real reason is a clear lie.

[tulipsandroses]

3. He makes himself less credible. And we still use leeches.

Not sure why he even brought that up. Saw it personally on amputees on a wound care floor as a nursing student. I knew then that wound care nursing was not my calling. lol

[czarjak]

4. Such sad lameness.