'People have to have realistic expectations—and that may be where the president has failed,' Chris Christie tells ABC News of legislation passed to respond to the coronavirus outbreak.
, but the president may not have done enough to manage Americans' expectations as the federal government tried to respond to the pandemic.
As the governor of New Jersey during Hurricane Sandy, Christie has experience dealing with a crisis, and he recently outlined a five-point plan in aChristie emphasized that he believes this has to bebecause"if it were up to the medical professionals, they'd have us locked in our homes until we have a vaccine." It's going to take leadership to get the country going again, and it won't happen without accepting some risk.
One point of his plan is analyzing COVID-19 cases data on a county-by-county level, and allow for businesses to reopen, even in limited capacities, based on what that data is showing. He said that people will have to wear masks, and he thinks that will be"just a reality of American life" until there's effective treatment or a vaccine for the virus.
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