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Native

(5,942 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:35 PM Mar 2020

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WTF new guidelines to allow people who have it and are asymptomatic to return to work wearing a mask

Pence said something about this - that the CDC would be announcing it tomorrow. Did I get that right?

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WTF new guidelines to allow people who have it and are asymptomatic to return to work wearing a mask (Original Post) Native Mar 2020 OP

that can't be. we don't even have masks for hospitals let alone people to wear to work. Takket Mar 2020 #1

Oops, turns out FEMA had them stockpiled Ponietz Mar 2020 #4

So much for the "Whole Government approach" underpants Mar 2020 #16

Pence said it. So people in NYC should gldstwmn Mar 2020 #6

I heard it too. WTF? gldstwmn Mar 2020 #2

Glad u heard it too. I couldn't fucking believe it. Native Mar 2020 #3

Trying to prop up the economy. MissB Mar 2020 #5

WTF? I hope to fuck that NYS won't allow this. Crunchy Frog Mar 2020 #7

It shouldn't be allowed anywhere until the gldstwmn Mar 2020 #8

Read some reports coming out of countries in Asia that say it remains in the respiratory tract Native Mar 2020 #9

Doesn't that mean asymptomatic people need to know they have the virus VMA131Marine Mar 2020 #10

+1 Native Mar 2020 #12

According to Daily Beast Prosper Mar 2020 #11

Per my point above VMA131Marine Mar 2020 #17

What good is that? The whole person, everything he procon Mar 2020 #13

Is the CDC being held hostage or something? Blaukraut Mar 2020 #14

We'll find out tomorrow, and then we'll have your answer, right? Native Mar 2020 #15

They're going to come out and gldstwmn Mar 2020 #18

Takket

(21,577 posts)

1. that can't be. we don't even have masks for hospitals let alone people to wear to work.

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:36 PM

Mar 2020

Ponietz

(2,980 posts)

4. Oops, turns out FEMA had them stockpiled

Reply to Takket (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:40 PM

Mar 2020

This is astonishing:

[link:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fema-administrator-masks-shipped-national-stockpile/story?id=69731546&cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_twopack_hed&fbclid=IwAR3aKZPPxyRKC6GX6yKINGSaUYbhhdn21N21FMsW65TnQiEUxbEwHxiCHh8|

underpants

(182,829 posts)

16. So much for the "Whole Government approach"

Reply to Ponietz (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:01 PM

Mar 2020

Don't look back? Bullshit.

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)

6. Pence said it. So people in NYC should

Reply to Takket (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:43 PM

Mar 2020

just head back to work? Thank goodness for the governors.

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)

2. I heard it too. WTF?

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:37 PM

Mar 2020

Go back to work slaves!

Native

(5,942 posts)

3. Glad u heard it too. I couldn't fucking believe it.

Reply to gldstwmn (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:39 PM

Mar 2020

MissB

(15,810 posts)

5. Trying to prop up the economy.

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:42 PM

Mar 2020

While putting healthy people in harms way.

Crunchy Frog

(26,587 posts)

7. WTF? I hope to fuck that NYS won't allow this.

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:44 PM

Mar 2020

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)

8. It shouldn't be allowed anywhere until the

Reply to Crunchy Frog (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:46 PM

Mar 2020

curve is flattened. We dont even know how long people are shedding the virus.

Native

(5,942 posts)

9. Read some reports coming out of countries in Asia that say it remains in the respiratory tract

Reply to gldstwmn (Reply #8)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:49 PM

Mar 2020

for up to 5 weeks

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)

10. Doesn't that mean asymptomatic people need to know they have the virus

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:50 PM

Mar 2020

How can they know when they can’t get tested? In any case, no way I want to be working next to someone with active virus, PPE or not. Not when medical professionals who know how to use the equipment are getting sick anyway. This is extraordinarily irresponsible.

Native

(5,942 posts)

12. +1

Reply to VMA131Marine (Reply #10)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:52 PM

Mar 2020

Prosper

(761 posts)

11. According to Daily Beast

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:52 PM

Mar 2020

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Pence: Feds May Let Those Exposed to Virus Return to Work With Masks
NEW GUIDELINES?
Published Mar. 22, 2020 6:43PM ET

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Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday that the coronavirus task force, in coordination with the Center for Disease Control, would issue guidance this week about how people exposed to the virus could return to work by wearing a mask.

His

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)

17. Per my point above

Reply to Prosper (Reply #11)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:04 PM

Mar 2020

How does one know that they’ve been exposed to the virus 🦠
I suppose we could make people walk around wearing a scarlet letter V, or perhaps T would be more appropriate, but that still assumes we’re identifying carriers soon after infection.

procon

(15,805 posts)

13. What good is that? The whole person, everything he

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:53 PM

Mar 2020

wears, touches or walks on, is contaminated, because the corona virus lives for a long time on various surfaces. Maybe the odds are larger than with direct contact, but who is willing to be the lab rat who gets to test out that theory?

Blaukraut

(5,693 posts)

14. Is the CDC being held hostage or something?

Reply to Native (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:54 PM

Mar 2020

No way would they agree to guidelines like that!

Native

(5,942 posts)

15. We'll find out tomorrow, and then we'll have your answer, right?

Reply to Blaukraut (Reply #14)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:59 PM

Mar 2020

gldstwmn

(4,575 posts)

18. They're going to come out and

Reply to Native (Reply #15)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:06 PM

Mar 2020

say some bullshit like the Democrats won't approve the stimulus package we want so we're just going to send you back to your workplace with a mask.
When will this nightmare end?

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