9/23/2020

BUSINESS/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Now there’s no national standards as to how to open [after coronavirus quarantine]. How do you open safely? President says, ‘Just put up a sign, Come on in.’ Well, you know your employee. Beyond your employees, your customers are going to go, “I don’t know. I mean, does everybody have to have the mask? Do they have dividers in the restaurant? Tell me how the sanitary conditions are working.” Well, you need money to pay for all that stuff. That’s why we proposed to have a multi-billion dollar program where businesses are able to get the money, not borrow the money, get the money to be able to open in the middle of this pandemic, including fixing the testing fiasco.

You should be in a situation where your employees can, in 24 hours, get a test to determine whether or not they’re positive or negative. You need to do that for your own protection, and the public likes to know that is protection that there are protection against anything that happens within your restaurant. The bottom line is the money is already there. The president is just not releasing it.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden and Chris Paul LIVE discussion at the Black Economic Summit,” YouTube.com, Sep. 23, 2020