CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, I think it’s a false choice to say you have to choose between the economy and our health.
If you don’t fix the health side, the economy is never going to get right. You’re never going to be back in that place. You’re never going to be at a place where you get to a remotely a new normal.
And we have to get back ultimately to normal, where people can gather. But that’s going to take a while until you have the vaccine. In the meantime, there seems to me there are things you can do…
They may have one person doing 50 percent of the job and another person doing another 50 percent. I think the federal government should just come in and make up the difference in the salaries, just make up the difference, to keep people employed.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by CNN, “Chris Cuomo on His Wife’s Battle against Coronavirus; Joe Biden on the U.S. Battle Against Coronavirus; Mark Zuckerberg on How Facebook Is Battling Misinformation about Coronavirus. Aired 9-10p ET,” cnn.com, Apr. 16, 2020