WTF? The White House BLOCKED an order from the CDC mandating masks for all modes of mass

[Maraya1969]

transportation! He really thinks he can ignore this thing and it will go away?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/health/coronavirus-covid-masks-cdc.html?referringSource=articleShare

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted a sweeping order last month requiring all passengers and employees to wear masks on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the United States, but it was blocked by the White House, according to two federal health officials.

The order would have been the toughest federal mandate to date aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, which continues to infect more than 40,000 Americans a day. The officials said that it was drafted under the agency’s “quarantine powers” and that it had the support of the secretary of health and human services, Alex M. Azar II, but the White House Coronavirus Task Force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, declined to even discuss it.

The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment, said the order would have required face coverings on airplanes, trains, buses and subways, and in transit hubs such as airports, train stations and bus depots.


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/health/coronavirus-covid-masks-cdc.html?referringSource=articleShare

[BigmanPigman]

1. tRump hates blue states and cities

enough to kill the residents.

[elleng]

2. Imagine THAT!

PERFECT headline, 'thinks he can ignore this thing and it will go away?!'

[Afromania]

3. They are actively trying to do everything possible to keep this thing going.

How is this not ground for a "you just wait a good god damn minute" from any republican? I used to wonder if they were really as stupid as they appear to be. Well, they ARE really this stupid. It's a fucking death cult that has decided that reality doesn't matter and it baffles the hell out of me.

[Blue Owl]

4. Donald Trump's a mass murderer

Plain and simple

[former9thward]

5. States and cities can order masks for buses and trains and subways.

They don't need the federal government to do that. It was a disastrous decision to keep the subways operating in NYC. It spread the disease all over the city. The subways have no ventilation and are packed. There is no practical way to enforce no masks on busses and subways.

[ffr]

6. Sacrificing the public to keep the economy going.

And causing people to get sick when they didn't have to, just like Joe Biden said.