Note to MAGA: Masks are good now (but it's too late for some*)

"I'm all for masks. I think masks are good," Trump told Fox Business in an interview on Wednesday.

  alJazeera

He keeps their heads spinning.

"If I were in a tight situation with people, I would absolutely [wear a mask]," Trump said in the interview, adding that people have seen him wearing a mask before.

Too bad those 6,200 people in Tulsa didn't know that when he held his rally a couple weeks ago.

In early April, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended people wear cloth face coverings in public settings where other physical distancing measures were difficult to maintain.

Trump immediately undercut the CDC guidance by flatly stating that he would not be following it, suggesting it would be unseemly for the commander-in-chief to wear a mask as he meets with heads of state.

But on Wednesday, he sounded a different tone, saying he liked the way he looked wearing it.

"It looked like the Lone Ranger," he said, a reference to the fictional law-and-order character who wore a black eye mask. "I have no problem with that, and if people feel good about it, they should do it."

The Lone Ranger wore a mask covering the top of his face, not his nose and mouth.

Of course, masks are worn to reduce the spread of the virus, not for fashion. It's not about how he looks in a mask, the fucking vain idiot. He looks ridiculous without one. He should wear a paper bag over his head.

"When there's nobody around, I don't see any reason to be wearing it," Trump said in a separate interview on Wednesday on "America This Week".

No shit. What a brilliant observation.

*And, speaking of the Tulsa fiasco...

Former presidential candidate Herman Cain announced on Thursday that he has been hospitalized with Covid-19, almost two weeks after attending President Donald Trump’s Tulsa, Okla., rally.

  Politico

Well, well, well.

Cain was diagnosed with coronavirus on June 29, nine days after the president's Tulsa rally, and his symptoms worsened and required hospitalization on July 1, according to a statement from his Twitter account.

“He spent the past night in a hospital and as of today, Thursday July 2, he is resting comfortably in an Atlanta-area hospital,” the statement read, adding that Cain did not need a respirator. “There is no way of knowing for sure how or where Mr. Cain contracted the coronavirus.”

LOL.

Cain, briefly a frontrunner in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, tweeted a picture on June 20 of himself and others at Trump’s indoor rally.

“Here’s just a few of the #BlackVoicesForTrump at tonight’s rally! Having a fantastic time!” the caption read. No one in the picture was wearing a mask.

I bet those other people are getting tested and not having such a fantastic time right now.

Cain has frequently downplayed the risk of Covid-19 on social media. As he was in the hospital yesterday, Cain’s account tweeted approvingly of the lack of social distancing restrictions at Trump’s upcoming Mount Rushmore event.

“Masks will not be mandatory for the event, which will be attended by President Trump,” Cain wrote on Twitter. “PEOPLE ARE FED UP!”

On June 29, the day he tested positive, Cain downplayed the threat of coronavirus in Florida amid record hospitalizations and cases in the state.

“The news is better than what you're being told,” Cain wrote on Twitter. And on June 8, Cain wondered on Twitter if the virus was weakening.

And the man is a doctor, ffs.

In Tulsa, the 7-day average of cases was 104.4 on July 1, an increase from 17.4 on June 1, according to figures from the Tulsa Health Department.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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