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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans this Thanksgiving to follow COVID guidelines put forth by “health experts,” including wearing masks inside the home, and limiting gatherings to five, but at most 10, family members.
Biden’s comments came during a press conference in Delaware, where he was asked if families should make special coronavirus accommodations this holiday season.
“What is your message to people who are considering, for example, getting together with their families and others for Thanksgiving? Would you consider, would you urge people to reconsider their plans?” a fake news reporter asked Biden.
Biden claimed he’s been told to limit his own Thanksgiving gathering to between five and ten people, and has been instructed that everyone in his home wear masks, be socially distanced, should be quarantined for a certain number of days, and would need to have tested negative for COVID in the past 24 hours.
Here was Biden’s response:
Joe Biden: “Well, here’s what I’d do. Let me tell you what health experts have said to me, and it’s not because I’m unique as president-elect, it’s because of my family: They strongly urge that if in fact we’re going to have Thanksgiving with anyone, that we limit it to a maximum, maximum, they suggest five people, maximum 10 people, socially distanced, wearing masks, and people who have quarantined. So, Jill and I spent this morning, like many of you, trying to figure out: What are we going to do for Thanksgiving? How are we going to do it? And we’ve narrowed down which family members, and that they were tested—recently tested, within 24 hours.
“And, so, I would strongly urge for the sake—not just you’re your sake, for the sake of your children, your mother, your father, your sisters, your brothers, whoever you get together for Thanksgiving. Think about this. There should be no group of more than 10 people in one room—I mean, inside the home. That’s what they are telling me. They’re telling me, making sure that that’s the case.
“And I have the more potent mask behind this. I took it off when I came out here. I wear it inside this. That you be masked. Save lives.
“And so, look, I just want to make sure that we’re able to be together next Thanksgiving, next Christmas. I mean, it’s, it is a international crisis. It’s an international health crisis. And the idea–we’re at war with a virus. And it is we’re at war. For real. “You all seem to be wearing masks all the time, in the group that follows me, that here—follows me—that is assigned to Delaware with me. There’s nothing macho about not wearing a mask.”