masks
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Florida Sheriff Bans Masks As State’s Covid-19 Death Toll Breaks New Daily Record
Billy Woods, the sheriff of central Florida’s Marion County, banned masks for all deputies and visitors to the sheriff’s office starting Tuesday, according to a new report from the Ocala Star Banner — a strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic that’s still wildly out of control.
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Cops Enter Oregon Coffee Shop, Prove to Be Absolute Arseholes About Masks
It’s safe to say that white America’s general image of police officers has taken a bit of a nosedive. A role that some folks respected more than members of U.S. Congress just last year has, in the span of about a month or so, become one that they’re terrified of, if not actively fighting to…
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A Brief History of Medical Face Masks
If you happened to find yourself in 17th-century Naples, you were in for a rough time. The Plague of 1656 was in full swing and would claim an estimated 300,000 lives in Naples alone. If you were one of the unlucky souls to come down with the buboes and high fever symptomatic of the disease,…
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U.S. Government Proposed Manipulating CDC Guidelines To Avoid Mask Shortages
The U.S. government proposed manipulating information about whether N95 masks worked to fight the spread of coronavirus in the general public, according to Dr. Richard Bright, a whistleblower who testified publicly for the first time on Thursday. The deception was an effort to avoid shortages and keep masks available for U.S. health care workers, but…