Joe Biden announced in an interview Tuesday that it is the duty of Americans to wear masks and abide by social distancing rules, and that doing so is ‘patriotic’.
During the appearance with NBC News, Biden said “I hope that we’re going to be able to have a united voice on the need to mask, socially distance, testing and tracing.”
“They’re critical, critical pieces to dealing with bringing down this virus in a more manageable place,” Biden added.
“The words of a president matter,” he continued, in a dig at President Trump’s refusal to dictate to Americans that they must wear muzzles.
“I think it’s critically important, I think it’s a patriotic responsibility to wear a mask, to socially distance,” Biden then declared.
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Biden’s comments come on the heels of both the head of the World Health Organization and numerous other prominent individuals asserting that rolling lockdowns, mask wearing, social distancing and other restrictions are here to stay, even after the pandemic is over.
In his book Covid-19: The Great Reset, World Economic Forum globalist Klaus Schwab asserts that the world will “never” return to normal, despite him admitting that coronavirus “doesn’t pose a new existential threat.”
A senior U.S. Army official also said that mask wearing and social distancing will become permanent, while CNN’s international security editor Nick Paton Walsh asserted that the mandatory wearing of masks will become “permanent,” “just part of life,” and that the public would need to “come to terms with it.”