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Updated 3:04 PM ET, Fri September 11, 2020
(CNN)Thousands of people flocked to Freeland, Michigan, Thursday night to hear President Donald Trump make the case for why he deserves a second term in office. Very few among those thousands wore a mask.
Which prompted CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta to ask “why” — given that masks are one of the few proven ways that we can mitigate the spread of Covid-19, which has sickened more than 6 million Americans and killed nearly 200,000 Americans since March. The responses Acosta received to his simple question, are, well, startling.
Here are some (thanks to CNN’s Angie Trindade for transcribing these):
* “I have a hard time understanding people when they talk, so that’s why I don’t wear it.”
* “Because there’s no Covid. It’s a fake pandemic created to destroy the United States of America.”
* “I am not wearing a mask because I had my temperature taken already and I’m not sick.”
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Carl Sagan
Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/11/politics/masks-trump-michigan-rally/index.html