“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving, until we control the virus.” – Joe Biden
Biden says he’s willing to shut country down to stop coronavirus if scientists recommended it
Fox News – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said in a Friday interview with ABC News that he would agree to shut down the country again if scientists recommended doing so to fight the coronavirus crisis.
“I would shut it down; I would listen to the scientists,” Biden said, appearing alongside vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris in their first joint interview as the Democratic Party’s official nominees with ABC “World News Tonight” Anchor David Muir in an interview set to air Sunday.
The unprecedented decision this spring to close businesses, schools, churches in order to fight the spread of coronavirus has had wide-reaching ramifications on the daily lives of Americans. President Trump has been pushing for schools, churches and businesses to reopen to get the economy moving again.
In the ABC News interview, Biden pointed to what he called the Trump administration’s “fatal flaw” in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic that has infected to 5.6 million Americans and killed over 175,000 people.
And the economic effects of which put over 30 million people out of work during the month of July alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Biden told Muir.
“I will be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving, until we control the virus.
“That is the fundamental flaw of this administration’s thinking to begin with. In order to keep the country running and moving and the economy growing, and people employed, you have to fix the virus, you have to deal with the virus … ” Read more.
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