Dear President Biden,
You have a lot on your mind right now with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but I'd like to throw an idea, about something else, on the table.
The term "national security" has been used and re-used over the years to cover a multitude of situations and issues. Right now, Covid is affecting the entire nation, not just the dictatorships that DeSantis, Abbott, and their cronies are trying to create. People are still travelling between states and can easily transmit the virus over state borders. That is a nationwide problem.
I suggest you get a hold of several people who are very good at spinning stories, come up with a reasonable way to spin the Covid problem into "national security," and sign an executive order making it a Federal crime for states, local governments, school districts, corporations, and other entities to prohibit or take adverse action against people for wearing masks if they choose to do so.
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This not the same as mandating that people wear masks -- this is a prohibition against mandating people to NOT wear masks. A couple of good constitutional scholars can probably find a way, or a precedent, to refer to the Constitution as the governing document.
At the same time, I suggest you get a few media-savvy people, including Jen Psaki, to anticipate how the right-wing media will respond to this and take steps to pre-empt or tear it apart it once they do.
If this happens in a timely manner, we know the media will pounce on it and more than likely cut back on their doom-and-gloom coverage of Afghanistan.
Best regards,
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They wouldn't want to be defunded.
