A fully inoculated Biden has advanced in recent days to wear a mask indoors and outdoors. That is not concerning the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the country's premier public health agency, finding people immunized against COVID-19 who leave their faces uncovered are at low risk unless they are in large groups.
The updated guidelines, unlike others from the Trump and Biden administrations, were clear. Yet, Biden's choice to keep masking up and the range of writings about why smart Republicans with more material to condemn him with claims he is doing little more than virtue-signaling as the politicization of mask-wearing ramps up as the country inches toward regularity.
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Anita Dunn, a White House senior aide, this weekend suggested the president still wears his face covering outside due to "habit." But just days before, her boss's comment was he did so out of a "patriotic responsibility" to lead by example. The president also risks sending a signal that the coronavirus vaccines he almost daily encourages people to take are subpar.
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Biden's mask rhetoric is "so far one of the bigger failures" of his administration, according to Republican strategist Susan Del Percio. He has not explained what is "acceptable" behavior about face coverings as coronavirus restrictions ease around the country, she explained.
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"If the president wants to wear a mask, or first lady Jill Biden, or even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Kamala Harris at the address to Congress, just say we're doing it to send a message," Del Percio told the Washington Examiner.
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"That is a clear way of showing that you still want to support mask-wearing where appropriate and send a message that, you know, you do need to wear a mask at times," she said.
As scientists learn more about the coronavirus thanks to a growing bank of data, the CDC has reformed its directions. The agency, for example, recently changed its guidance concerning social distancing in schools. It had earlier upset teachers with its position that educators did not need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to return safely to in-person instruction in their classrooms.
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"Since COVID came to our shores, we've been adjusting, and we can continue to adjust. But we have to stay focused on one message. We have to follow the science," Del Percio said. "If there's an exception to it for reasons of good public messaging from the president, he should say why he's doing it and it should be clear."
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