Posted on 12/03/2020 5:06:26 PM PST by lightman
Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he’s pushed before to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The move marks a notable shift from President Donald Trump, whose own skepticism of mask-wearing has contributed to a politicization of the issue. That’s made many people reticent to embrace a practice that public health experts say is one of the easiest ways to manage the pandemic, which has killed more than 275,000 Americans.
The president-elect has frequently emphasized mask-wearing as a “patriotic duty” and during the campaign floated the idea of instituting a nationwide mask mandate, which he later acknowledged would be beyond the ability of the president to enforce.
Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Biden said he would make the request of Americans on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.
“On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask — not forever, just 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction” in the virus, Biden said.
Biden also said he asked Dr. Anthony Fauci to stay on in his administration, “in the exact same role he’s had for the past several presidents,” as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert.
The president-elect said he’s asked Fauci to be a “chief medical adviser” as well as part of his COVID-19 advisory team.
Regarding a coronavirus vaccine, Biden said he’d be “happy” to get inoculated in public to assuage any concerns about its efficacy and safety. Three former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton — have said they’d also get vaccinated publicly to show that it’s safe.
“People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work,” Biden said, adding that “it matters what a president and the vice president do.”
In the same interview, Biden also weighed in on reports that Trump is considering pardons of himself and his allies.
“It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice,” Biden said.
Biden committed that his Justice Department will “operate independently” and that whoever he chooses to lead the department will have the “independent capacity to decide who gets investigated.”
“You’re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons, nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets,” he said.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris added that any decision coming out of the Department of Justice “should be based on facts, should be based on the law — it should not be influenced by politics.”
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“War by the prophesies set before you.” I Tim.
What’s the science to 100 days?
Our place started as a camp, grew into a house and is now a fortress.
Both Joe and Kamel get the vaccine and the reaction incapacitates them and several democrat congress critters.
The governors of the republican states replace the dems with republican reps and then vote Trump as Speaker. 6 more years.
What? We are to wear masks for his entire term???
That graphic goes well with my tagline...
Flu?
No problem!
Sloe Joe is not going to be POTUS!
My response to anything Joe says - SCREW YOU - YOU ARE NOT NOW NOR EVER WILL BE MY PRESIDENT!!!
Is that when they’ll stop using PCR tests on healthy people? And when the media suddenly stops reporting on COVID?
That guy is funny.
Nothing.
It gives them time to slow down testing and make the stats make it look like their methods are working.
“Sometimes I wear a mask over my mask so my mask doesn’t get Covid”
What, no 5-year plan?
He’s good.
I like NHs guidelines for mask wearing.
Down near the bottom are the exceptions.
https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt336/files/documents/emergency-order-74.pdf
“ There’s already been more than 100 days of mask wearing, Joe! Try counting.... “
Not really, lots of people haven’t been wearing a mask.
On the other hand he will look like a fool when it has no effect
We’ve been under a mask mandate for months. Months.
Pennsylvania’s began in the evening of April 18 and was doubled down in early July.
That’s at least 228 days.
Sure flattened the curve, stopped the spread, and eliminated the virus, didn’t it? /s
100 days and not 101 or 99?
This virus knows just when to give up.
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