White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx was forced on Sunday to explain to Fox News host Chris Wallace that she isn’t President Donald Trump’s mommy and therefore doesn’t spend her every waking moment with him.
The explanation was offered after Wallace, the host of FNC’s “Fox News Sunday,” pressed the doctor about the president not wearing a mask at all times.
“Do you wish — I understand it’s a special case, everybody around him has been tested and obviously he’s on television — but both from a safety point of view and from a public messaging point of view, do you wish the president wore a mask in public?” he asked.
It was a strange question given that, as he himself admitted upfront, it’s not necessary for the president to wear a mask at all times because of the White House’s stringent coronavirus security measures.
Listen to Birx’s reply below (disable your adblocker if the video doesn’t appear):
“Well, the president did wear a mask while he was less than six feet in an occasion where that was important when he was traveling last week,” she initially said.
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“I’m not with him every day and every moment, so I don’t know if he can maintain social distance,” the doctor added.
“I’ve asked everybody independently to really make sure you’re wearing a mask if you can’t maintain the six feet. I’m assuming that in a majority of cases, he’s able to maintain that six feet distance.”
In other words, the president is a grown man, and Birx trusts his judgment.
Her remarks come amid attempts by the media to run nonstop alarmist stories about unmasked Americans, including the president, enjoying their lives at beaches and other venues like normal human beings.
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