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Trump rejects national mask mandate, denies mask’s effectiveness in fighting COVID-19
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he won’t issue an order at the national level mandating the use of masks, even as the United States continued to break its single-day coronavirus case record amid a pandemic far from being contained, and whether to wear masks has become a source of heated debate.
Asked by Fox News anchor Chris Wallace if he would consider issuing a national mask mandate to slow the spread of the virus, Trump said:
“No, I want people to have a certain freedom and I don’t believe in that, no,” according to a clip of the Fox News Sunday show, the full version of which will be aired Sunday.
“I don’t agree with the statement that if everyone wore a mask, everything disappears,” the president added, as Wallace pointed out that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the virus would be brought under control if everyone wore a mask.
“Dr. (Anthony) Fauci said don’t wear a mask, our surgeon general — terrific guy — said don’t wear a mask. Everybody was saying don’t wear a mask, all of a sudden everybody’s got to wear a mask,” Trump said.
“And as you know, masks cause problems too. With that being said, I am a believer in masks. I think masks are good.”
Trump has been refusing to wear a mask himself since the pandemic broke out, citing his good health and frequent negative tests for the virus.
He was seen wearing a mask in public for the first time on July 11 while visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, some three months after the CDC recommended that Americans do so because asymptomatic bearers of the virus could still transmit it to others.
Along with the surge in coronavirus cases — topping 3.5 million after the mind-boggling single-day record of 72,045 infections was set on Thursday, as per CDC’s data — the mask issue has been politicized to the extent that it has become a symbol of allegiance: Those refusing to wear masks support Trump while those donning them are against him.
Earlier in July, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also said the option of a national mask mandate was not on the table. He told the “Fox & Friends” program on July 6 that “a national mandate is not in order. We’re allowing our governors and our local mayors to weigh in on that.”
America is a Humanitarian Disaster.
America is a Shambles.
The 45th elected President of the United States of America – Donald J. Trump remains totally focused WRONGLY on there failing and collapsing economy and avoids any positive position, in relation to the novel coronavirus, that is engulfing his fellow 331 million citizens.
The overall picture of America, it will continue to deteriorate rapidly, under the Presidency of the infamous individual.
When voted out of office this coming November, what he leaves behind, as his catastrophic mess, his legacy, that is the horrific frightening question, that remains unanswered.
It will not be pleasant, and confirm or prove again, that America paid for it’s ERROR.