‘They’ll Understand In The Long Run’: Mayor Issues Mask Order | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Mayor Steven Reed of Montgomery, Alabama, talks with Rachel Maddow about overruling the city council and issuing an executive order requiring masks as coronavirus runs rampant through his city. Aired on 6/18/2020.
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'They'll Understand In The Long Run': Mayor Issues Mask Order | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

74 comments

    1. @Jeffrey Dahmer your people, meaning the people who elected him to represent them in the district, township or city. Any MORE QUESTIONS? RIGHT! I THOUGHT SO.

    1. @Jeffrey Dahmer telling that a racist troll uses the name of one of the few transracial serial killers….

  1. Thank God Montgomery has an intelligent Mayor who actually cares about the people that he represents, and wants to save lives!!! Unlike the Republicans that could care less if people die, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, etc! If there were more mayor’s like him, we’d have less deaths, plus be able to open the economy a lot sooner!!

  2. This pandemic became a political football because Republicans in local, state and federal government chose to be sycophants rather than leaders.

    1. I’m reading Maddow’s producer’s book on the “post-policy” GOP. It puts into words what I’ve seen but couldn’t explain. Recommended.

    2. Don’t talk rubbish the reds states are the dumbest in the world. When a third of these states loose their population from this virus. Look out side you tiny minded look no further than your nose states and see what’s happening in the world and look at true democracies, not self styled US half hearted democracies. This virus is lethal not just for the elderly. The young are dying from multiple organ failure due to the virus..

  3. beautifully said, ty mayor reed and dr maddow. you are brave at a time when bravery from public officials comes at a premium, bravo! i hope that the people of your city thank and appreciate you. many lives are likely to be saved by your actions.

    1. it remains mildly amusing but even more pathetic when russian trolls ‘drop by’ to comment on youtube videos about American issues while they pretend to be Americans. granted, they wish that they were. even as bad as things are here right now, thanks directly to trumputin and putin, it is still better than their ‘country’, under putin. add to that the fact that trumputin is only here temporarily but they are stuck with their dictator for life. funny, putin is a dictator but also a worldwide laughingstock, on oh so many levels. that these poor pathetic trolls do this for money, 85 rubles for each direct reply, is even more pathetic. they prostitute themselves for just about the equivalent of $1 American money… wow, really pathetic. but also really quite amusing.

  4. The rest of the world looks on and wonders what sort of people need to be instructed to use the commonsense God / evolution gave them. It hasn’t escaped us that these are the same people who think covid-19 is ‘like the flu’ / a Dem plot / the spawn of that there science stuff and the earth is flat’.

    1. People who Blindly follow a Con-Man leader. So many stupid & selfish people in the U.S. THIS IS A VERY REASONABLE REQUEST. PERIOD.

    2. @Peter Pan
      Many of the protesters did where masks and try tried to keep their distance, but of course that’s not really possible in a large gathering.
      And do you really think no Republicans care about racial justice?

    3. Peter Pan The risks are completely different when you are outside vs. inside. And many protesters wear masks

    4. @marugmad to wedge loved ones apart, many permanently, with people who did not even have the ‘virus’ being forced to die alone to combat the threat of the ‘virus’, the BBC describes its role as: “Bringing us closer”.

    5. We are people here on planet Earth in charge of our own destiny. Please don’t bring a mythical, imaginary, invisible ‘god’ into play here.

  5. You are doing the right thing. With you in prayer. No one can honestly say you don’t do your community a great service.

    1. @Blunted206 By every logical metric, when you define and classify the CONCEPT of “God” then you cannot presume to deny the existence of the defined and classified CONCEPT! That’s how simple it is!

  6. Only trump could turn a worldwide pandemic into a partisan political fiasco. His incompetent “leadership” is the #1 reason the USA with only 5% of the world’s population has 25% of Covid-19 fatalities.

    1. Geno, when you blame one man for all the cases of the coronavirus in the USA, well no one should seek your advice on ANYTHING! Dementia Joe says preventing the coronavirus is xenophobic!

    2. the real death #s here are about 200,000. Epidemiologists know this. In Britain, they tell their people, and explain how they get to the number higher than counted-at-hospital, but here, you have to dig into the medical journals to get the info, or have been educated in epidemiology, so you know how to run the real numbers. By Xmas, it’ll be over half a million dead in the USA

    3. @Bud Fudlacker When your only “counter-argument” is to blame another man, then you shouldn’t ‘ve said anything in the first place.

  7. Your paid to make decisions on behalf of all the citizens in Montgomery. Good on you following the Government’s own CDC advice and trying to protect all even though some will disagree.

    1. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES. What would be the reason for blocking wearing a Mask. This isn’t asking the Morons to give up their Guns…..omg.

  8. Alabama Mayor is smart to mandate wearing masks in public. I hope Texas and other states follow his example.

  9. The truth is always the truth no matter what the morons say , if you protect yourself you might survive , if you don’t then it was nice knowing you

  10. this country is so screwed … man can jump from planes, climb Everest, win wars but too weak to pick up a mask to save his country.

    1. What do you expect when our country is being led by a self-serving draft dodger??? He’s the weakest of the weak.

    2. It would take…at LEAST a half of a whole # % of a death rate to make many people wear a mask. I DID at 1st, theeeeen I seen Dr.s exposing .03% #’s and MORE IMPORTANTLY, MEDIA DELETING AND CANCELLING THESE DR.’S. So whatever your beliefs, why’d they do that? Lol

    3. Non Typical I also saw a lot of these videos, some confusingly with demands to restate the videos. It seems they are all there all right after all. Masks are more complex an issue than it seems but the consensus is definitely to wear them to slow down the spread. Lots;of epidemiologists warn it is not a silver bullet, but they do seems to help. Personally, I would wear a Mickey Mouse costume if that prevents another lockdown!

    4. *”to wedge loved ones apart, many permanently, with people who did not even have the ‘virus’* being forced to die alone to combat the threat of the ‘virus’, the BBC describes its role as *“Bringing us closer”*

    1. By listening to the DIVIDER-IN-CHIEF INSTEAD of SCIENTIST & MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, coronvirus will have its way thru their CULT. No bullets required.

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