CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “A lot of people are dying [from coronavirus]. We’re up over 160,000 people dead so far. And I’ll end by saying that it goes back to the study some months ago by Columbia University saying that we didn’t have to be this way.
If the president had acted sooner, just one week earlier, it would have saved 30-some-thousand lives. Two weeks earlier, I think it was 51,000 or 57,000 lives. I hope we’ve learned a lesson. Hope the president has learned a lesson, but again, this is not about Democrat, Republican or independent. It’s about saving America’s lives, so let’s Institute a mass mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives. The estimates are we’ll save over 40,000 lives in the next three months if that is done.”
-Joe Biden as quoted by PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks about COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Aug. 13, 2020