The following report is from Yahoo News:
In an effort to fulfill President Biden’s goal of having all Americans wear face masks through his first 100 days in office to limit the spread of COVID-19, the White House announced Wednesday that it plans to deliver more than 25 million masks to communities hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense will begin distributing the “high-quality” cloth masks to approximately 1,300 community health centers as well as 60,000 food pantries and soup kitchens next month, the White House said in a press release.
Anyone living in these communities will be eligible to pick up the free masks and will be encouraged to take an individually wrapped package of two for each person in their household. An estimated 12 to 15 million Americans will receive masks, the White House said.
The cost of the program, which will continue through May, will be $86 million, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said Wednesday.
Zients said that the plan is part of the administration’s “equity strategy.”
Not all Americans are wearing masks regularly, not all Americans have access and not all masks are equal. With this action, we are helping to level the playing field, giving vulnerable populations quality, well-fitted masks.
Jeff Zients
The initiative, he added, will not impact availability of masks for health care workers.
On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order requiring face masks to be worn by federal employees at all government agencies. The next day, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a sweeping mask mandate requiring they be worn by all travelers on airplanes, trains, buses and ride-shares, and at transportation hubs including airports, bus or ferry terminals, and train and subway stations.
Under President Donald Trump, a push by the CDC to mandate masks in transit was blocked and the agency instead only issued strong recommendations encouraging masks when social distancing was not possible. Trump also rejected efforts by Congress to mandate mask use.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When I saw this on AOL, the headline read “Biden Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is On Masks.”
The WinePress initially reported on this proposal on February 4th where the plan was to send ALL Americans masks. This initiative launched by the Biden Administration falls a “wee-bit” short of giving masks to everyone in America (approximately 332,280,000). So no, AOL, this senile fool is just putting his foot in his mouth again!
And what do you mean Americans don’t have access to masks?! They’re everywhere in stores and online. Give me a break. More propaganda as usual.
I also love how they make emphasis that these masks are American made. That’s what this nation produces: masks. Not anything of actual value to strengthen the nation, just some other low-paying factory job to further sicken and enslave the masses.
I have the same comments as my initial post:
And this is how our tax dollars are spent: an incompetent fool who has no idea what he signs, and violates his mask mandate on federal grounds almost immediately after signing his executive order. ‘Rules for thee and not for me.’
Now we might have more wasted money on the distribution of masks that the majority of people already have anyways, so now the government will send more. I will not be wearing any thank you very much.
Assuming this passes, I wonder if they will send two per person to stand by Fauci’s “common sense” of double-masking.
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