[North Dakota] Gov. Burgum fights back tears at daily press conference talking about wearing masks

[alp227]

Source: Grand Forks Herald

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum fought back tears at Friday's press conference as he asked the state's residents to be empathetic about wearing masks.

Burgum pleaded with residents to not look at wearing masks as an ideological issue.

"I would really love to see in North Dakota that we could just skip this thing that other parts of the nation are going through, where they are creating a divide either ideological or political or something around mask versus no mask," Burgum said. "This is a, I would say, senseless dividing line and I would ask people to try to dial up your empathy and your understanding."

Burgum got emotional as he continued.

Read more: https://www.grandforksherald.com/newsmd/coronavirus/6504545-Gov.-Burgum-fights-back-tears-at-daily-press-conference-talking-about-wearing-masks

[applegrove]

1. It is pretty awful.

[DanieRains]

2. Sorry Masks Are Only For Smart People Who Don't Want To Kill / Die

If he is tearing up it is because of the hordes of lemmings out there in North Dakota sayyin' they are free to infect everyone.

Freedom.

To kill your neighbors, parents.

Freeeeeedumb.

[olddad65]

26. They now have a test to help you determine if you should wear a mask.

It is fairly simple. If you can count to 10 and know the alphabet. You need a mask.

[JI7]

3. the only ones who are making this into a political issue

are MAGATRASH.

[summer_in_TX]

28. I see plenty of people on the Left making it a litmus test.

Attacks instead of conversation.

[BidenMyTime]

30. It costs you next to nothing and could save someone else's life

Why would you not wear a mask if you have the ability to do so? If you somehow can't get any kind of face covering or if you have some condition that makes it difficult, I'd understand. If you just don't want to - that really should be a litmus test.

[summer_in_TX]

31. I definitely believe in wearing masks

when I'm in a group closer than 6 feet apart.

My town is increasingly compliant within the grocery stores for example. Outdoors and walking the trails less so, although when I've walked everyone has given a wide berth if we needed to pass another person on the trail. Many have their mask with them to put on if they need to.

There was an interesting video I saw by a doctor recording under the name ZdoggMD on Masks and Moral Choice. YouTube and Facebook. Very interesting and surprising.

[lostnfound]

29. 41 out of 50 of the anti-lockdown top accounts are bots. The sheep are being led by someone. Nt

[KS Toronado]

4. All Governors should get in front of cameras and tell people to wear them

Hell fine people $50 for not wearing one in public for being a menace to society. It's a real shame a public health problem has evolved into a "D" vs "R" problem and we can thank dumpie and his loyalists for that. Only good that's going to come out of this is that more repubs will be buried than Democrats. So ladies & gentlemen.......STOP TALKING TO YOUR REPUBLICAN NEIGHBORS, COWORKERS, ETC and stay safe.

[Duppers]

6. +100

[Duppers]

5. Bravo for this empathetic and most unusual Republican!

An empathetic Repub is truly a rare breed. He's trying to save lives with reason.

[chia]

13. +1,000

[earthside]

18. Sort of true.

By the way, Nancy's daughter never came out.

And ... my understanding is that this governor supports all of Trump's other crazy policies on COVID.
Sorry, I don't have much empathy for a politician like Burgum who wants it bot ways now.

[wolfie001]

19. Thanks!!!

She was so over-rated. Astrology??? Ha ha

[bucolic_frolic]

7. After all Trump's divisiveness, a hint of sanity returns

[OnlinePoker]

8. I found this on Reddit

[gibraltar72]

9. The NY people sourced PSAs for masks are brilliant.

[marble falls]

10. It should be no more ideological than "no shoes, no shirt, no service".

[greenjar_01]

16. That was deeply ideological in some parts of the country at the time

That's why people remember it.

No stores actually have those signs anymore.

[mac56]

20. Not so in Minnesota.

They are everywhere here.

[marble falls]

21. Oh yes they do!

[marble falls]

22. No shoes is health code issue and a safety issue.

[TeamPooka]

25. so is a mask

[marble falls]

27. Exactly right.

[LanternWaste]

23. Any notable examples of that sign having been "deeply ideological"?

And yes... many, many commercial and retail establishments still place that sign. I'm not too sure what leads you to allege otherwise.

[luvtheGWN]

11. I guess the invisible border between ND and Canada

isn't so invisible after all. Two peoples, side by side for 200 years, pioneers and settlers, and yet the differences couldn't be more apparent.

[paleotn]

12. Only one group of knuckle draggers is making this political...

for the rest of us, it's common sense in the midst of a pandemic. Once again, life is separating the sheep from the goats. The wheat from the chaff.

[jcgoldie]

14. Seen a guy in a Trump 2020 mask at the tractor supply...

... Broadcasting his own stupidity I suppose but at least one of the smarter ones I figured.

[greenjar_01]

17. He's on the smarter end of the stupid side

[bluestarone]

15. Watched this on our local news! I know he's a RETHUG BUT

He WAS sincere! We were thinking tRUMP won't like this! The asshole senators from ND, now that's a different story!! They are true assholes!!!

[hatrack]

24. Gee, that's so . . . . sad . . . .

Lotsa luck with that Governor "Trump 63% Clinton 27.2%".