CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “[T]oday I want to talk about one thing. Very straightforward. Doesn’t have anything to do with Democrats, Republicans or independents. It has to do with a single simple proposition: every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate. Every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives [from coronavirus] in the next three months. 40,000 lives if people act responsibly.
And it’s not about your rights, it’s about your responsibilities as an American.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks about COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Aug. 13, 2020