Greater Miami Shores wrote:Vassenor wrote:
I don't see other nations trying to discourage masks. Or stripping back their own ability to respond to major outbreaks. Or insist that the outbreak isn't real. Or prevent hospitals from sending outbreak data to the body meant to coordinate responses.
Trump held news conferences you and I saw and we all saw urging people to wear the masks and social distance.
Trump said the recommendations, which came after a week of heated deliberations inside the White House, were voluntary and that he would not partake.
"I don't think I'm going to be doing it," he said, going on to suggest it was hard to envision such a thing in the Oval Office: "Wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens — I just don't see it."
Urging? Not really. Instead, he emphasized that the guidance were voluntary, and saying he didn't see a point to wearing it himself because he "feels good".
Greater Miami Shores wrote:Businesses by government laws and their own rules and regulations are requiring workers and customers to wear masks and social distance, hospitals and doctors are dealing with the virus crisis, they cant do more.
Trump has mocked the idea of wearing masks, and have played up the culture war aspect of it all.
Last month, he told the Wall Street Journal that some people only wore masks as a political statement against him.