‘I would shut it down’ — Biden’s commitment to national lockdown has as little legal support as his mask mandate

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Joe Biden expressed in a weekend interview that he would be quite willing to institute a national lockdown to fight the coronavirus if it combines dangerously with the flu.

“So if the scientists say shut it down?” asked ABC’s David Muir. Biden responded, “I would shut it down, I would listen to the scientists.” Biden’s commitment begs a series of questions, chief among which is, how would he even do that?

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