A reporter Friday challenged Vice President Mike Pence on the hypocrisy of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign ignoring COVID-19 safety precautions that have been recommended to the public by the White House’s own health experts. Paula Reid of CBS News asked Pence at the White House coronavirus press conference how the Trump campaign is not “part of the problem” when no one wears masks or practices safe social distancing to help curb the spread of COVID-19 — nor apparently cares if its supporters follow suit. “It really sounds as if you’re saying, ‘Do as we say, not as we do,’” said Reid. “Even in a health crisis, the American people don’t forfeit our constitutional rights.”The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said at the briefing just minutes earlier that Americans have a “societal responsibility” to help stem the spread of COVID-19. He said people can “be either part of the solution or part of a problem.”In congressional testimony Tuesday, Fauci called masks, hand-washing and social distancing the most “powerful weapons” against the spread of the coronavirus.

Source: Huffington Post June 26, 2020 23:37 UTC