Posted on 06/26/2020 6:27:57 AM PDT by maggief
Former Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would compel Americans to wear masks in public if elected president.
In an interview with Pittsburgh CBS affiliate KDKA, Biden said that he would use federal power to mandate masks.
Q: I know you have been critical of the presidents handling of the pandemic in the past. But lets look ahead. If you became president tomorrow, what would you do differently regarding the pandemic and getting these surging cases now under control?
Biden: I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE [personal protective equipment] lined up, wed have been making sure we stockpile all the things that we need that we dont have now. The one thing we do know, these masks make a gigantic difference. I would insist that everybody out in public be wearing that mask. Anyone to reopen would have to make sure that they walked in their business that had masks.
Q: Couldnt you use the federal leverage to mandate that, though?
Biden: Yes.
Q: Would you?
Biden: Yes, I would from an executive standpoint, yes, i would.
Q: So you would, in effect, mandate the wearing of masks.
Biden: I would do everything possible to make it required that people had to wear masks in public.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
There is now overwhelming evidence from Europe and Asia that universal masking prevents transmission and speeds the rate of decline in new cases to near zero. This has occurred in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam and elsewhere.
Whether the benefit is worth the burden is a valid discussion. Saying that universal masking doesnt work is a lost cause.
While in some ways I like your post, this is too much of a one-size fits all solution.
I live in a county of 120,000 that had 25 cases total, including two new cases in June. We presently have one active case that has been confined to hospital for weeks. Why should I have to keep a mask on my 4 and 7 year old?
Do you like daylight savings time?
I actually wear a Red MAGA mask.
Kim Jung Joe.
Can he start with Maxine Waters and Jerry Nadler, or at least bug-eyed Schitt?
Good for you!
I’ve been forced to wear one just 2x through all of this; once to go to a Big Box store, and once to take my 83 year old Mom to buy shoes.
Other than that, I have not complied. My County is Covid-Free and I’ve not left the County between January and June, 2020, and that was to pick up my Dad’s ashes, who died in the middle of all this foolishness. :( (Cancer, NOT Wuhan Flu!)
Liberate Wisconsin! ;)
Wearing a sometimes filthy mask that most people arent using properly anyway to begin with that contains ones own Co2 exhaust, virus and bacteria trapped in a warm humid environment (around your mouth and lower face) has the great potential to increase the numbers (by touching the mask repeatedly and then touching surfaces) or do nothing at all in prevention.
Many people wearing them I have spoken with are short of breath wearing them, are getting rashes around their lower faces because of them and are experiencing regular head aches they didnt have before. Hello! Your body is rejecting them.
The potential to break down peoples own immune systems wearing these things and decreasing their oxygen levels to dangerous numbers is a bigger danger to most then a virus.
People use their hands and touch their face possibly MORE by wearing a mask and putting it on and taking it off adjusting it etc...Masks have become a germ-harboring false security binkie and may indeed increase risks of health problems.
MASKING OXYGEN LEVEL FAILS OSHA 19.5% REQUIREMENT
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEN039o-a8
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https://technocracy.news/blaylock-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-to-the-healthy/
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-masks-gloves-dont-coronavirus-experts.html
Democratic women would like this. Men couldn’t see how ugly they are.
Haha!
President Trump did it again. Troll #3562.
He is so good at this the Democrats will never stop falling for it.
See what he does?
Step 1: He badgers the fake news, and pick fights with Democrat politicians and Leftist celebrities - to make sure they hate his guts and will oppose anything he says or does.
Step 2. He picks any issue that he knows is wildly unpopular with normal people - higher taxes, open borders, mandatory mask-wearing, gun-grabbing, baby-killing, police-defunding, etc. - and he speaks out or acts against it.
Step 3. He sits back and watches while the Democrats predictably walk right into his trap for the umpteenth time. They hate him so much that they have to take the opposite position from whatever position he took. If he says lower taxes, they automatically have to say higher taxes!
Step 4. He laughs all the way to the election, because he tricked another Democrat into embracing all the unpopular positions, like raising taxes, letting illegals swarm across the border, confiscating guns, killing unborn babies....
.... and leaving Republicans with the popular political positions, like lowering taxes, securing the borders, protecting the 2nd Amendment, protecting the unborn.
Haha! President Trump just trolled Joe Biden into saying he would force us all to wear masks if he was elected President! He did that!
I hope the GOP will someday come to appreciate what Donald Trump has done for them.
The establishment politicians are quite upset, let me tell you.
Mask? I get the objections. Here they are mandatory. I’m wondering how never maskers deal with food shopping where masks are required.
Uglo-Americans’ Feelings Matter (UAFM).
“It would not surprise me if Biden picked A.O.C. for VP she is the female incarnation of Hugo Chavez and could destroy America faster than a refugee Tsunami”
Besides, she’s made a LOT of enemies in the Dem Party, so I don’t think that she would be picked even if she was eligible. That doesn’t make her better in any way, it just means that the other utter scumbags in her party don’t want her to have power at their expense.
They uncover the nose and mouth to speak..
The same moderate wing of the DNC that's been trying to run him out of town, same as their Democrat boyfriends?
Mr. Population Control is back to his yapping now. (Gotta keep the folks masked and brainwashed until his demonic vaccine potion is ready to distribute.)
He says October-November will see ‘big numbers’ of cases...election time!
6/26/2029
“Bill Gates says COVID-19 ‘will be back in big numbers’ in October-November when US temperatures turn lower”
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-covid-will-be-back-big-numbers-october-november-2020-6
Bump your intelligent post.
Bump!
I don’t think they’re going to have to force it. All but the most faithful Christians are begging for that vaccine.
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