We didn't wear masks for AIDS - So there, suckers!
Mar 9, 2021 14:12:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2021 14:12:45 GMT
"A lawmaker persuaded the Arizona House to let businesses ignore mask mandates to stem COVID spread partly by arguing they weren’t needed decades ago to stop the spread of AIDS.
On a 31-28 party-line vote Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation that says business owners need not enforce any state, city, town or county requirement for people to wear a mask.
The measure now goes to the GOP-controlled Senate.
Rep. Randall Friese, a Tucson Democrat who is a physician, said masks are part of the "very basic, important tools," along with hand-washing and social distancing, to curb the spread.
Chaplik, however, argued that the mandates are an overreaction and that society has managed to survive other viral outbreaks without masks.
For example, he cited HIV "that was going to wipe our global destruction of human bodies with AIDS."
"We heard about that in the '80s," Chaplik said. "Yet no masks were required."
Medical consensus is that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is spread through exchange of bodily fluids, usually through sexual transmission or through the sharing of infected needles. It is not spread by air or water, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says....
Other Republicans who voted for the bill did not openly challenge the effectiveness of masks, properly worn, in preventing the spread of disease.
Instead, they said the legislation is a matter of individual rights."
Ah, the old FREEDUMB! canard shows its tired ugly face.
tucson.com/news/local/aids-argument-used-as-arizona-house-votes-to-let-businesses-ignore-mask-mandates/article_77272972-17bc-53db-ad50-4f6bf3a81721.html
How do these science-illiterate Republicans manage to get out the door in one piece in the morning, let alone be elected to a State house?!!?
I think China must be sitting back and watching and learning. Come 2050 they have a good shot at being the world leader in tech, business, culture, etc. Because Americans are going to stupid themselves out of that spot.
On a 31-28 party-line vote Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation that says business owners need not enforce any state, city, town or county requirement for people to wear a mask.
The measure now goes to the GOP-controlled Senate.
Rep. Randall Friese, a Tucson Democrat who is a physician, said masks are part of the "very basic, important tools," along with hand-washing and social distancing, to curb the spread.
Chaplik, however, argued that the mandates are an overreaction and that society has managed to survive other viral outbreaks without masks.
For example, he cited HIV "that was going to wipe our global destruction of human bodies with AIDS."
"We heard about that in the '80s," Chaplik said. "Yet no masks were required."
Medical consensus is that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is spread through exchange of bodily fluids, usually through sexual transmission or through the sharing of infected needles. It is not spread by air or water, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says....
Other Republicans who voted for the bill did not openly challenge the effectiveness of masks, properly worn, in preventing the spread of disease.
Instead, they said the legislation is a matter of individual rights."
Ah, the old FREEDUMB! canard shows its tired ugly face.
tucson.com/news/local/aids-argument-used-as-arizona-house-votes-to-let-businesses-ignore-mask-mandates/article_77272972-17bc-53db-ad50-4f6bf3a81721.html
How do these science-illiterate Republicans manage to get out the door in one piece in the morning, let alone be elected to a State house?!!?
I think China must be sitting back and watching and learning. Come 2050 they have a good shot at being the world leader in tech, business, culture, etc. Because Americans are going to stupid themselves out of that spot.
