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Masks will save lives, president-elect Joe Biden declared on Twitter just days before he was sworn in as 46th President of the United States. More than 50,000 lives, according to experts, if Americans make an effort to cover their faces in public between now and April. I know masks have become a partisan issue but it s a patriotic act, Biden explains.
And the squabbling among respondents begins at once.
There is no scientific evidence to prove that masks work, says one. What about the unmasked migrant caravan making its way this very moment from Honduras and Guatemala towards the Mexican-US border, asks another? It s just a flu old man, claims a third.