'There was concern ... that households receiving masks might create concern or panic.'
“Our organization is uniquely suited to undertake this historic mission of delivering face coverings to every American household in the fight against the COVID-19 virus,” the then-postmaster general and CEO, Megan J. Brennan, said in the prepared release.that everyone wear facial coverings, particularly when social distancing wasn’t possible.
“There was concern from some in the White House Domestic Policy Council and the office of the vice president that households receiving masks might create concern or panic,” one administration official toldabout the proposal. Apparently, though, “there was concern from some in the White House Domestic Policy Council and the office of the vice president that households receiving masks might create concern or panic.
The USPS got as far as drafting a press release promising to send 650 million masks, five to every household, touting its "unique" ability to help in the pandemic.
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