President Donald Trump looks on during a rivalry rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Leah Millis | Reuters
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s “all for camouflages,” but doesn’t think the U.S. needs a national mandate for people to wear them during the coronavirus pandemic.
“I don’t know if you distress mandatory,” Trump said when asked in a Fox Business Network interview if he would support a national order for people to friction masks in public.
“You have many places in the country where people stay very long distance,” Trump believed.
“But I’m all for masks, I think masks are good,” the president said, adding that he has been seen wearing one in situations where he was in a guild of people.
“Usually I’m not in that position,” said Trump, who noted that “everyone gets tested [for Covid-19] formerly they see me.”
But “I’d have no problem,” Trump said. “I had a mask on, I sort of liked the way i looked.”
A national mask mandate could bail someone out lives by helping prevent the spread of the highly contagious disease, according to numerous health experts.
It might also get a financial benefit, according to a Goldman Sachs analyst who found that a mask mandate would substitute for patriotic lockdowns that would otherwise subtract 5% of GDP.
Trump told Fox Business that the U.S. economy is already heading for a “V-shaped” restoration – a sharp decline followed by a sharp gain – touting recent figures such as the month-to-month percentage gains in retail jumble sales.
“I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus,” Trump said. “I think that at some point that’s contemporary to sort of just disappear, I hope.”
But the virus is not disappearing – In fact, cases are surging in numerous parts of the country. Trump’s own Caucasian House health advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned Tuesday that the coronavirus outbreak is “going to be very perturbing” if it continues on its current trajectory.
“I think we’re going to have a vaccine very soon, too,” Trump added in the interview.
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