Dr. Fauci Says If People Won't Wear MASKS, Maybe It Should Be Mandated

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'Fauci says if people won't wear masks, maybe it should be mandated.' Axios, Oct. 23, 2020.

NIAID director Anthony Fauci told CNN on Friday evening that if "people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it." Why it matters: Fauci made the comments the same day the U.S. hit its highest daily COVID-19 case count since the pandemic began.

What he's saying: The infectious disease expert said in September that a national mask mandate "probably would not work," citing difficulties with enforcement.

He again noted to CNN on Friday that "there's going to be a difficulty enforcing it, but if everyone agrees that this is something that's important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and says, you know, we're going to mandate it, but let's just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly."

Fauci added that the U.S. must "double down" on measures like mask-wearing and social distancing as the country heads into the cooler winter months. "They sounds very simple. But we're not uniformly doing that and that's one of the reasons we're seeing these surges," Fauci said.

The big picture: Former VP Joe Biden has called for a national mask mandate, saying such a measure is needed to save tens of thousands of lives...

https://www.axios.com/fauci-arent-wearing-masks-mandate-c67c3388-942f-48d1-90dd-24a7ca4f642a.html

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fauci-maybe-we-should-be-mandating-masks-amid-record-high-coronavirus-cases

[In_The_Wind]

1. It should have been a mandate before now.

[yankee87]

7. Agreed

But according to Putin's puppet, it will magically disappear

[soryang]

2. "If?"

"maybe" "if everyone agrees?"

[Laffy Kat]

3. I support this mandate 100%. nt

[madaboutharry]

4. I would love to be alone in a room with him and ask

what he really thinks of Trump.

I bet his comments would include more than a little cursing.

[Karadeniz]

5. Let's scream those unnecessary death numbers from the roof tops!

[Skittles]

6. I think a lot of Trump humpers don't wear masks because they're afraid of what their buddies think

MANDATE MASKS ALREADY