Nancy Pelosi: I Am Indeed Concerned About the Public Health Because of the Protests

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PELOSI: “I am indeed concerned about that, because it is true that wearing a mask and social distancing are very important to stopping a spread. It is — it's -- it's frightening actually. That’s why we’re hoping that very soon we can have the Senate take up the HEROES bill which very much addresses the disparity in the deaths resulting from the Coronavirus among people of color, and that again, people, the social distancing has a purpose and the masking has — wearing masks has a purpose, and when people ignore that, we can bring terrible things home to our children or to our seniors who may be living with us, being one myself, but it is -- it's very dangerous. But again, people are always optimistic and hopeful that it's not an invincible, that's something it's not going to happen to them. But I am very, very concerned. In a couple of weeks we'll see sadly -- hopefully not -- but sadly that of course there will be an increased number. All the more reason for us to pass the legislation. We don't have a vaccine right now, we don't even have a cure that is available to so many people. But we do have what has worked in other countries, testing, tracing, treatment and social distancing, and that makes a tremendous difference.”