Despite Trump's diagnosis and hospitalization, his campaign adviser attacked Biden for his COVID-19 precautions: 'we can't all just stay in our basement'
, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller on Sunday criticized Democratic nominee Joe Biden for being overly cautious in his approach to preventing the transmission of the novel coronavirus.
"Hasn't the caviler approach to masks and social distancing at these rallies been a mistake?" asked moderator George Stephanopoulos duringMiller disputed Stephanopoulos' characterization of the president's events, arguing that the president's campaign takes coronavirus precautions "very seriously" and give all of those in attendance masks should they want to wear them.
"With regard to Joe Biden, I think too often he's used the mask as a prop," Miller said. "A mask is very important, but he could be 20-30 feet away from the nearest person and still have the mask on. That's not going to change anything that's out there. "But also we've seen with Joe Biden, we can't all just stay in our basement for the rest of our lives," Miller added. "We have to get out there and live our lives and take this on, develop the vaccine, develop more therapeutics, and defeat it.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists and other health experts have been in agreement that the widespread adoption of face masks, particularly in indoor spaces and in other areas where proper social distancing is not possible,
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