The Latest: White House expert urges using masks in public

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — A member of the White House coronavirus task force said Sunday that despite a surge in cases across the country, the situation “is not out of control.”

Brett Giroir said it’s going to take “a lot of effort and everybody’s going to have to do their part” to combat the pandemic.

And the assistant secretary at the Health and Human Services Department said that “we have to have people wearing a mask in public. It’s absolutely essential.”

Giroir told ABC’s “This Week” that officials would like to see something like 90 percent of people wearing a mask in public in areas that are hot spots.



An Indian man wearing a face mask feeds chilly to a baby parrot during fresh lockdown imposed in Gauhati, Assam state, India, Sunday, July 12, 2020. India is the world’s third worst-affected country by the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)


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[soothsayer]

1. Ok but is this "official"? Or just someone's conscience breaking ranks

Aside: in the caption. Chilly?

[Botany]

2. The White House (Brett Giroir) said Sunday that ... "is not out of control."

Link to tweet

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. As drumph told us 1/100 of a time

It’s the testing that’s the problem. What a maroon...

[durablend]

7. We're fucked then...

"The virus is accelerating. Even someone with 1/100th of a brain should see that."

Leaves those in charge out, clearly...

[patphil]

3. Not out of control?

Florida is reporting 15,300 cases today as of Worldometers, and it isn't even noon.

[forgotmylogin]

4. Why would they only like 90%?

Why not dream big and like 100% of people wearing masks?

[marybourg]

5. NPR's news segments this morning used the phrase "spiraling out of control "

[WVreaper]

8. Wear a mask!

It only took 130,000 deaths for someone in this administration to finally say that.

[lark]

9. This isn't what Destructo Orange has told the governors.

The repug governors are totally satisfied to have working class people dying all over their states, so will only suggest masks and won't put in any teeth to the orders so that drumpfhumpers know that it's not serious and won't comply. They are trying to kill us off for the sake of the economy and are so stupid they don't realize they're losing both and their own folks will turn against them.

[RiF]

10. Truly a novel idea.

I feel stupid, having not thought of it before.