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'Coax' Americans to Wear Masks, Professor Terry Advises
11/17/2020
With COVID-19 numbers surging and months of mixed and negative messages from President Trump about mask wearing, how can President-elect Joe Biden reverse the tide?
That’s a question the National Journal put to experts, including IU McKinney Professor Nicolas Terry in a November 16 article (access requires subscription).
Mask mandates on the state and local levels have seen court challenges, noted Professor Terry.
“The best bet is for Biden and less-radicalized states, governors, state legislatures, to coax people into this rather than try to force them,” he said.
Biden should be going back to “the original Public Health 101 playbook that was never used by the Trump administration, which is: You are transparent, you are consistent, you are truthful. We desperately need to get back to that,” he told the National Journal.
