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Sorry for you Professor anon, these people are very deeply entrenched into their believe systems, because they are "smarter than the rest of us" we are ignorant in their eyes, no matter how many times the truth can be proven. Have personal connections to such individuals have had those experiences, even sadder is no matter how right you are they will never admit it.

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Indeed, kek

Sen. Lamar Alexander says 'it would help' if Trump wore a mask to rid political stigma

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander said Sunday that he believes that “it would help” if President Trump occasionally wore a mask to rid the political stigma surrounding the suggested precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mr. Trump has resisted wearing a mask, noting people who are around him have been tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. “If wearing masks is important and all the health experts tell us that it is in containing the disease in 2020, it would help if from time to time the president would wear one to help us get rid of this political debate that says if you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask, if you’re against Trump, you do,” Mr. Alexander, Tennessee Republican and chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, told CNN.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Sunday defended the president’s choice to refrain from wearing a mask and said Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are in unique positions, given that they are both tested daily for COVID-19, as are the people around them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends “that people wear cloth face coverings in public settings when around people outside of their household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.” The agency has claimed a face covering is an “extra layer” and “may slow the spread of the virus,” but it stressed that people should still practice social distancing. “My suggestion to the president all along and for the other political leaders is let the experts do the talking about medicine,” Mr. Alexander continued. “People trust them.”

The U.S. has recorded more than 2.5 million cases of COVID-19, 125,928 deaths and over 685,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. States and cities are increasingly implementing mask mandates as the post-lockdown reopening results in an increase of COVID-19 cases. A dozen U.S. states, including California, Michigan, Nevada and New York, have issued requirements on wearing masks in public when social distancing isn’t possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi backed a mask requirement on Sunday and said the country is “long overdue” for a national mask-wearing mandate to combat the novel coronavirus.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/29/lamar-alexander-says-it-would-help-if-donald-trump/

Mayflower Hotel meeting drove liberal media overkill, empty Russia scandal

Attorney General William Barr may have one particular storyline in mind when he says liberal media were doing “all they could to sensationalize and drive” the empty Russia scandal: the Mayflower Hotel. The press wrote scores of stories in 2017 about candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech at the downtown D.C. landmark. The articles promoted scandalous Russia ties and supposed out-and-out lying. They centered on three men who were in the same room that April 27, 2016: Mr. Trump, Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican. In the end, perhaps no other anti-Trump story involving Russia promised so much only to produce investigative findings of virtually nothing.

Mr. Barr has been on a two-pronged mission. He has publicly excoriated the FBI for what he characterizes as “sabotaging” the Trump presidency. He has vowed to find out what happened through special investigator John Durham, who is examining how the bureau started the probe. Mr. Barr has long contended that the FBI lacked evidence to open such a momentous criminal project targeting the president’s campaign, transition and presidency. Democrats and the liberal press have questioned the need for Mr. Durham. Mr. Barr now has added a third prong: He is zeroing in on what he considers liberal media overkill in light of the fact that special counsel Robert Mueller found no Trump-Russia election conspiracy.

“I agree with you that it’s been stunning that all we have gotten from the mainstream media is sort of bovine silence in the face of the complete collapse of the so-called Russiagate scandal, which they did all they could to sensationalize and drive,” Mr. Barr told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “And it’s, like, not even a ‘whoops.’ They’re just onto the next false scandal. So, that has been surprising to me: that people aren’t concerned about civil liberties and the integrity of our governmental process.” On NPR on Thursday, he called news media part of the “mob.” “And these days, the media is very prominent among the mob, who either want someone hung or they want him sprung,” he said. “And part of what the Department of Justice is about and the attorney general is about is ignoring the mob and the calls and the false narratives, and doing in each case what they think is right.”

Mr. Trump’s foreign policy campaign speech at the Mayflower Hotel was sponsored by The National Interest, a publication of the Center for the National Interest, and its director, Dimitri Simes. The center works to build better relations between Washington and Moscow. A year later, in the spring of 2017, the Mayflower became one of the hottest media topics on ties between Mr. Trump and Russia. Reporters began churning out scores of accusatory stories. That March, then-FBI Director James B. Comey announced that the entire Trump apparatus was under scrutiny for any links to Russia. Trump aides say that from that day forward, they felt like they had a target on their back for any time they ever talked to a Russian.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/29/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-sergey-kislyak-mayflowe/

Face mask virtue signaling and COVID-19 lies have to stop

One of the Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has a policy requiring customers to wear face masks in order to receive in-facility service — but at the same time exempts its own employees working in the food preparation area from having to cover their faces. Why? That’s a great question — and the answer from management was this: Because they work around heat and the coronavirus isn’t so easily spread in the warmth. Hmm. Interesting.

So why the shuttering of beaches around the nation? Why masks at all since America is heading into heatwave season? This is the stuff of tortured logic, and it’s a primary reason why Americans are suspicious of government’s COVID-19 guidance, and frustrated with private business response to the guidance. First off: The signs on business doors — like on CVS — that warn, “Wear a face mask; it’s the law” are lies. There is no national law in America requiring citizens to wear face masks. There are no state laws in American requiring citizens to wear face masks.

Some local governing bodies, like in Montpelier, Vermont, have actually passed a law requiring all citizens to wear masks while entering buildings. But there are exemptions for those who cannot wear masks due to medical reasons. And who’s a business owner, who’s a city council member to demand a citizen provide a doctor’s note or share personal and private medical information? The exemption makes the law moot; at the very least, the exemption sets the stage for legal challenge.

But by and large, face mask mandates are actually not. There are executive orders — which are far from laws. There are government recommendations — which are not laws. There are health and safety guidelines — again, which are not the same as laws. So to post signs on store windows saying face masks must be worn because it’s the law is an outright lie.

And to the many in America who aren’t sheep, it’s just another lie in a long list of COVID-19-related deceptions that have fueled national angst and sparked backlash against government and now, private business, overreach. There were the closings of hospitals around the nations save for coronavirus cases that left health care workers dependent on stimulus dollars to keep operations in the black — setting the stage for conflicts of interests with the reporting of coronavirus patient numbers. There were the reports of hospitals coding all fatalities who tested positive for the coronavirus as having died from COVID-19, accompanying health problems be danged, pre-existing heart condition, or liver problem, or long-time serious medical issue be danged. There were the conflicting government orders: Wear a face mask, don’t wear a face mask, wash hands and social distance — whoops, nope, stay home, stay far away from all others. There were the dark currents of money to be made in vaccines by the very folks who were given global platforms to press the need for worldwide COVID-19 vaccines, i.e. Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and their partnership on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Decade of Vaccines campaign — and the almost complete blackout of press coverage of these obvious conflicts of interests.

There were the World Health Organization’s issues of complicity with China. There were the Democrats’ support for mass protesters in the streets and complete takeovers of sections of city blocks — but dire warnings about church openings and the COVID-19 fallout that could come. There were threats by New York City’s Democrat mayor, Bill de Blasio, to permanently shut down churches that didn’t obey. There were the massive death projections, only to be lowered, then lowered again, then lowered again, and the ridiculous computer models that put a nation on lockdown, in stay-at-home mode. And no apology from the wildly wrong prognosticators, either. That’s just a drop in the bucket of curiosities, conflicts, political grandstanding, deceptions, skewed truths and outright lies that have plagued Americans more than the actual coronavirus.

And it’s time to stop the lying. Americans, by and large, aren’t a blindly obeying bunch — but they are the most compassionate, concerned and care-taking people in the world and will act selflessly at the drop of a hat, when expedient, when necessary, when the facts point to that need. But nobody likes to be deceived and manipulated and forced into illogical acts. And in America, the rights fall to the people first, not government, certainly not business. If government wants Americans to take seriously the threat of the coronavirus, government needs to stop the lying. And so does private business.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/29/face-mask-virtue-signaling-and-covid-19-lies-have-/

Senate passes absentee ballot bill, Dartmouth plans for fall

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Summer has barely started, but fall was the focus Monday for lawmakers, college administrators and others responding to the coronavirus in New Hampshire.

ELECTION 2020, A bill to streamline the absentee voting process amid concerns about the coronavirus has cleared the state Senate. The bill, which makes temporary changes to election law, is necessary to implement the recommendations of a committee that advised Secretary of State Bill Gardner on spending the $3.1 million in emergency money the state got from the federal coronavirus relief package. “We have to all rally around the Secretary of State’s office and give them all the support they need to implement all these recommendations and perhaps more so that every eligible voter who wants to vote can do so safely,” said Sen. Tom Sherman, D-Rye. “That means to fully support the absentee process.” While the attorney general’s office already has said voters concerned about the virus can cast absentee ballots by indicating they have a “disability,” the bill would create a new box to check that specifies the virus as the reason for not voting in person. It also would allow voters to use one application to receive absentee ballots for both the Sept. 8 state primary and Nov. 3 general election. And it would allow town officials to begin processing ballots several days before the election, though they could not view them or tally the votes until Election Day. The bill passed the Senate unanimously Monday. It now goes to the House.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/29/dartmouth-to-detail-plan-to-mix-remote-in-person-l/