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Dr. Fauci Says If People Won't Wear MASKS, Maybe It Should Be Mandated
'Fauci says if people won't wear masks, maybe it should be mandated.' Axios, Oct. 23, 2020.
NIAID director Anthony Fauci told CNN on Friday evening that if "people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it." Why it matters: Fauci made the comments the same day the U.S. hit its highest daily COVID-19 case count since the pandemic began.
What he's saying: The infectious disease expert said in September that a national mask mandate "probably would not work," citing difficulties with enforcement.
He again noted to CNN on Friday that "there's going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that's important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we're going to mandate it, but let's just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly."
Fauci added that the U.S. must "double down" on measures like mask-wearing and social distancing as the country heads into the cooler winter months. "They sounds very simple. But we're not uniformly doing that and that's one of the reasons we're seeing these surges," Fauci said.
The big picture: Former VP Joe Biden has called for a national mask mandate, saying such a measure is needed to save tens of thousands of lives...
https://www.axios.com/fauci-arent-wearing-masks-mandate-c67c3388-942f-48d1-90dd-24a7ca4f642a.html
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fauci-maybe-we-should-be-mandating-masks-amid-record-high-coronavirus-cases
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Dr. Fauci Says If People Won't Wear MASKS, Maybe It Should Be Mandated (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Oct 2020
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. It should have been a mandate before now.
yankee87
(2,181 posts)7. Agreed
But according to Putin's puppet, it will magically disappear
soryang
(3,299 posts)2. "If?"
"maybe" "if everyone agrees?"
Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)3. I support this mandate 100%. nt
madaboutharry
(40,224 posts)4. I would love to be alone in a room with him and ask
what he really thinks of Trump.
I bet his comments would include more than a little cursing.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)5. Let's scream those unnecessary death numbers from the roof tops!
Skittles
(153,200 posts)6. I think a lot of Trump humpers don't wear masks because they're afraid of what their buddies think
MANDATE MASKS ALREADY