Biden plans mask giveaway as Omicron surges

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The Biden administration will announce Wednesday a plan to distribute hundreds of millions of free, high-quality masks through pharmacies and community sites, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.

The masks will be N95s that are sourced from the government's Strategic National Stockpile, the people said, as part of an effort to ensure Americans can access the more-protective masks during a record surge of Covid-19 cases.

The initiative comes in response to growing pressure on the administration to encourage Americans to abandon cloth masks in favor of more protective versions, amid evidence that the cloth coverings do not work as well against the more transmissible Omicron variant.

Public health experts and former Biden transition advisers have also lobbied the White House in recent weeks to give out masks, arguing that cheap and genuine N95s are still difficult for people to find, POLITICO reported last week.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/18/biden-free-masks-omicron-surge-527335

[bahboo]

1. hell...take a page from the orange asshole's playbook...

and print "Ridin' with Biden" on them....

[COL Mustard]

2. JRB has too much class

To ever do something like that. But yeah, courtesy the US taxpayer should be somewhere on there. BTW, I ordered our test kits today. Cheaper than Amazon!

[IronLionZion]

4. We should print "Let's Go Darwin"

for the unvaxxed maskholes

[WA-03 Democrat]

3. Thanks for posting

"sourced from 12 domestic manufacturers."

That is good!

US being dependent on all PPE being imported help land us to the mess we are in. Thanks Trump fuck treason ass,

[appalachiablue]

5. Thank You, President Biden!!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

6. He should do it like a lottery.

Governor Newsome did that for Vaccinations and it was great. It was in from of Universal Studios and he had Optimus Prime.

[Calista241]

7. I ordered some COVID testing kids from the USPS. We'll see if DeJoy actually sends them to me. n/t