They have provided examples of how not to wear masks. https://thegreggjarrett.com/schumer-brags-about-wearing-face-mask-wears-it-completely-wrong/
Never heard of that but I do know for fact that the U.S. already have researchers, scientists working in Taiwan or South Korea that are using technology to help those countries have excellent performance against Covid-19. Yet, one key variable...face mask wearing is mandatory in those countries. Thus, obviously you can't do one thing and not the other. Just like a leader making false claims that a vaccine was around the corner back in May and continue to do so going into the U.S. elections... It resulted in a lot of people letting down their guard, not wearing face masks, not socially distancing because they thought in error / manipulated into thinking they could get a vaccination next week or so...a leader that did such just to get votes. He's gone now...time to pull all the resources together with face mask wearing, social distancing, hand washing, contact tracing and other technologies that's being used in countries like Taiwan and South Korea. These countries even have education at schools to show how to properly wear a face mask and they give pamphlets to children to take home to their parents with the same education info. wrbtrader
In Arizona a mask mandate reduced COVID cases by over 75%. Now for what a COVIDIOT Governor does... South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won't comply if Biden pursues national mask mandate https://www.theblaze.com/news/kristi-noem-will-not-comply-biden-mask-mandate
Biden calls for 'urgent action' from Trump amid COVID-19 surge https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...for-urgent-action-from-trump-amid-covid-surge President-elect Joe Biden on Friday called for the Trump administration to take immediate action to help stem the spread of the coronavirus, as daily case numbers and hospitalizations hit new highs. Biden wrote on Twitter that he was "alarmed" by the surging number of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths reported across the country. "This crisis demands a robust and immediate federal response which has been woefully lacking," he wrote. Biden emphasized, however, that he will not enter office until January and "COVID-19 does not respect dates on the calendar, it is accelerating right now." "Urgent action is needed today, now, by the current administration," he added. States have reported an increase in testing recently, though it trails the rate of case growth. The U.S. has averaged more than 136,000 daily cases over the past seven days, while hospitalizations topped 68,500 on Friday and fatalities attributed to COVID-19 hit 1,301, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Biden made his criticism of President Trump's coronavirus response a centerpiece of his 2020 bid and he weighed in on Friday just hours after Trump held a news conference in the White House Rose Garden to tout the administration's efforts to secure and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. The event marked the first public remarks that Trump has delivered since last week, when he declared without evidence that the presidential election was being stolen from him. Trump has not conceded the race as his campaign challenges election results in several states. At one point during his comments Friday, Trump appeared to come close to acknowledging Biden's status as president-elect while emphasizing that his own administration would not lock down the U.S. in an effort to curb the virus' spread. “This administration will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the — the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administration it will be, I guess time will tell, but I can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown,” Trump said. A top health adviser to Biden suggested this week that the country could weather a shutdown of up to six weeks as part of efforts to constrain the coronavirus. However, two other public health experts advising Biden on the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday rejected the idea of lockdowns like those seen earlier this year, which led to a spike in unemployment and business closures. “We’re not in a place where we're saying, ‘shut the whole country down,’ ” said Vivek Murthy, a former surgeon general in the Obama administration who serves as co-chairman of Biden’s COVID-19 task force. “We got to be more targeted. If we don't do that, what you're going to find is that people will become even more fatigued, schools won't be open to children and the economy will be hit harder," he continued. "So we've got to follow the science but we've got to also be more precise than we were in the spring.”
I am in Florida. There is no official mask mandate but when you go out anywhere EVERYONE IS WEARING A MASK. As to your Arizona mask statistic, quit posting nonsense. Arizona Florida
COVID-19 cases in Arizona dropped 75% after mask mandates began, report says https://www.azcentral.com/story/new...opped-75-following-local-mask-man/5911813002/
Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns https://apnews.com/article/joe-bide...rus-pandemic-33ab870fbf13f8052111d7892764261a Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear a mask and view the coronavirus as a threat that has no regard for political ideology. But the debate has been livelier among members of the coronavirus advisory board Biden announced this week. One member, Dr. Michael Osterholm, suggested a four- to six-week lockdown with financial aid for Americans whose livelihoods would be affected. He later walked back his remarks and was rebutted by two other members of the panel who said a widespread lockdown shouldn’t be under consideration. That’s a sign of the tough dynamic Biden will face when he is inaugurated in January. He campaigned as a more responsible steward of America’s public health than President Donald Trump is and has been blunt about the challenges that lie ahead for the country, warning of a “dark winter” as cases spike. But talk of lockdowns are especially sensitive. For one, they’re nearly impossible for a president to enact on his own, requiring bipartisan support from state and local officials. But more broadly, they’re a political flashpoint that could undermine Biden’s efforts to unify a deeply divided country. “It would create a backlash,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security who added that such a move could make the situation worse if people don’t comply with restrictions. “Lockdowns can have consequences that diminish the value of such an approach.” During his first public appearance since losing the election, Trump noted on Friday that he wouldn’t support a lockdown. The president, who has yet to publicly acknowledge Biden’s victory, would likely reinforce that message to his loyal supporters once he’s left office. Still, the pandemic’s toll continues to escalate. The coronavirus is blamed for 10.6 million confirmed infections and almost a quarter-million deaths in the U.S., with the closely watched University of Washington model projecting nearly 439,000 dead by March 1. Deaths have climbed to about 1,000 a day on average. New cases per day are soaring, shattering records. The latest came Friday, when more than 184,000 people tested positive, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Several states are beginning to bring back some of the restrictions first imposed during the spring. But leaders in much of the country are proceeding with caution, aware that Americans are already fatigued by virus-related disruptions. Indeed, after Osterholm made his comments, a number of Biden’s task force members went out to publicly disavow lockdown possibilities. Dr. Vivek Murthy, the former U.S. surgeon general who’s serving as one of the co-chairs on Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, said the group is looking at a “series of restrictions that we dial up or down” based on the severity of the virus in a given region. “We’re not in a place where we’re saying shut the whole country down. We’ve got to be more targeted,” Murthy said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “If we don’t do that, what you’re going to find is that people will become even more fatigued. Schools won’t be open to children and the economy will be hit harder, so we’ve got to follow science, but we’ve also got to be more precise.” Speaking on CNBC, Dr. Celine Grounder, an infectious-disease specialist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and another task force member, said that, “as a group, really the consensus is that we need a more nuanced approach.” “We can be much more targeted geographically. We can also be more targeted in terms of what we close,” she said. During the campaign, Biden pledged to make testing free and widely available; to hire thousands of health workers to help implement contact tracing programs; and to instruct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide clear, expert-informed guidelines to businesses, schools and local officials on reopening in regions where they’ve closed. To prepare for possible surges in cases, he’d prepare Department of Defense resources to provide medical facility capacity, logistical support and doctors and other medical personnel if necessary. Biden would also use the Defense Production Act to ramp up production of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment to help alleviate shortages at hospitals. But Biden himself fueled some of the confusion about his stance on lockdowns during the campaign. He initially told ABC he would “listen to the scientists” if they advised him to shut down the country, and then took a more nuanced position. “There’s going to be no need, in my view, to be able to shut down the whole economy,” he said at a town hall in September. Even if a nationwide lockdown made sense, polling shows that Americans’ appetite for a closure waning. Gallup found that only 49% of Americans said they’d be “very likely” to comply with a monthlong stay-at-home order because of an outbreak of the virus. A full third said they’d be very or somewhat unlikely to comply with such an order. Kathleen Sebelius, who was the health and human services secretary during the Obama administration, said Biden would be wise to keep his options open for now, especially as Trump criticizes lockdowns. “It’s a very dicey topic” politically, she said. “I think wisely, the president-elect doesn’t want to get into a debate with the sitting president about some kind of mandate that he has no authority to implement.”