what you really get out of vaccinating your child is a high degree of protection that your child won t die, become hospitalized, or get a terrible inflammatory syndrome. that s a pretty good deal. two shots for the health of your child. but secondly, you know, masks aren t going to be forever. and i think the cdc would even admit that. right now, we see delta going down. we see vaccinations going up. there will come a time where masks will be reduced. look right now, only 40% of people in the country actually wear a mask when they re in public places. that s down from 70 to 80% in january and february. so mask use has gone down. but we re still beating the virus with delta going away. it s because of vaccination and it s because of natural immunity. so vaccines will be the nail in the coffin to the pandemic and masks are not forever. they are temporary. but right now, particularly in indoor, crowded spaces,
supporters of the former president, the administration that you served under, they say, then i want to take the mask off, i want the mask off my kid then, if i m going to get vaccinated, they don t need the masks. and i know the scientific explanation for it, why you just want the added protection, you don t really know yet, they re in such tight confines, i ve heard it all. but how do you convince people who say, if i m going to give you that my kid gets the vaccine, i have to get something out of it, their situation has to improve, i don t want masks. what do you make of that trade? you know, it s an artificial trade. what you really get out of vaccinating your child is a high degree of protection that your child won t die, become hospitalized, or get a terrible inflammatory syndrome. that s a pretty good deal. two shots for the health of your child. but secondly, you know, masks aren t going to be forever. and i think the cdc would even
i don t think this is case the case in virginia. you have to put that content in front of irregular republican voters and say your master said don t vote ask. joe biden is still president. it did hurt him in georgia. i think it can hurt in virginia. everything has to be right for young kin to pull that off. i don t think you are looking at a margin of ten points. i think you are looking at a range of one to four points. let s talk about donald trump s command and response. come washington to stop the steal. you have got to come to washington. fight like hell. five people are dead. masks aren t necessary. vaccination rates, he wasn t particularly enthusiastic about vaccine mandates. opposes them. he has now used what remains of his bully pulpit to command his
contention at capitol hill. lawmakers are outraged turning up the mess mandate and prompting a yelling match on the floor of the house. there s confusion about masks across america so it s no surprise is also about where you have to mask up on capitol hill. which is it? vaccines or masks? to the vaccines work or not? do the mask work or not? i d like to know which it is. reporter: masks aren t required but masks are across the capitol rotunda in the larger 435 number house. if there s one doctor in the house and senate, doctor brian has given different mask guidance for each chamber. republicans toured about the house and senate split. if you walk across the hall, is somewhere around the rotunda you don t have to wear it anymore but now the science is different. reporter: democrats defended by
nose but their bums if you will just to be delicate. dr. fauci and cdc head director say they understand why people are afraid to remove their masks. you can understand that when people have been following a certain trend for a considerable period of time that it may take time for them to adjust. not everybody will feel like it s time to rip off their mask. for 16 months we re saying wear them to protect them. now it will get hard to get back to life as we knew it without these masks. harris: i m old enough to remember because it has only been a few months when dr. fauci said on 60 minutes overtime, the online version of 60 minutes. you watch it when the show is over and sometimes you get little drips like well, masks aren t really the end all, be all. he was not really encouraging people to wear masks. maybe the mixed messaging played a role in all this?