Headline Roundup • September 8th, 2020
Biden's Reversal of Mask Mandate Plan Draws Skewed Coverage
Facts And Fact Checking,Coronavirus,Public Health,US Constitution,Joe Biden,2020 Election,Safety And Sanity During COVID-19,Media Bias
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Joe Biden wants every American to wear a mask — and if he wins the White House, he has vowed to mandate mandatory masks for all.
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum — every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. The estimates by the experts are that it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months. Forty thousand lives, if people act responsibly,” Biden said last month. “Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide starting immediately,...
Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, walked back Joe Biden's promise for a nationwide mandate to wear a mask, saying the Biden administration will instead enforce a standard of mask-wearing.
Last month, Biden vowed that, if elected, his administration would institute and push for a mask mandate.
"We'll have a national mandate to wear a mask — not as a burden, but to protect each other," Biden said during the final night of the Democratic National Convention. "It's a patriotic duty."
As Business Insider's Aria Bendix reported, Biden's strategy...
Add this to the list of Reasons Not To Vote For Joe Biden: He no longer thinks a national mask mandate would be a good idea. It’s not that he thinks national mask mandates are wrong. It’s that he ever thought national mask mandates could ever fly in the first place.
It’s that it took him oh-so-long to see the light on this — on what should actually be a Constitution No-Duh.
Why’d it take the former vice president so long to reach this (obvious) conclusion?
When Biden said in...
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