Joe Biden had said he’ll do everything in his power to convince American people to take the COVID-19 vaccine and wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus so lives can be saved.
But while answering questions from reporters on Friday, Mr Biden said he wouldn’t make vaccines and masks mandatory, contrary to what was initially said.
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The former vice-president whose supposed 2020 presidential election victory has been highly attributed to election fraud by President Trump campaign and supporters called Friday’s unemployment report “grim,” as he urged Congress and President Trump to immediately pass a COVID-19 relief measure and warned that the future will be very bleak without such a deal.
Responding to a question on whether taking the vaccine should be mandated for Americans, he said, “I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory, but I would do everything in my power… it’s like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide”.
Mr Biden vowed he’ll “do everything in my power as president of the United States to encourage people to do the right thing and when they do it, demonstrate that it matters. That’s why I said in my inaugural speech I’m going to ask people to commit to 100 days to wear a mask.”
“if people do it for 100 days in the middle of what will still be a raging crisis, and the vaccine is able to be distributed, they’re going to see deaths drop off the edge. They’re going to see hundreds of thousands of people not getting sick. And my hope is they’ll then be inclined to say ‘it’s worth the patriotic duty to go ahead and protect other people.”
Biden noted during his speech that when it comes to distributing the vaccines across the country, “there’s a lot more that has to be done,” while adding that “if people do it for 100 days in the middle of what will still be a raging crisis, and the vaccine is able to be distributed, they’re going to see deaths drop off the edge.
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“They’re going to see hundreds of thousands of people not getting sick. And my hope is they’ll then be inclined to say ‘it’s worth the patriotic duty to go ahead and protect other people.’”
