But now things are getting better every day.

Vaccinated friends and family are able to take off their masks, which we just learned

as we got off the plane.

And here I had gone out to buy one that was coordinated with my outfit, so you can't win.

So businesses are reopening.

You know, we're getting back to those things that we lost for so long,

hugging the people we love.

I mean, how great will that be?

I mean, haven't we all missed that just most of all? Nice to see you.

Literally, nice to see you. I don't need it right now. Oh, my gosh, good morning. And welcome to

morning, Joe. It is Friday, May 14th. And Joe, we start today with this great news. And you can see that Jill Biden actually finally matched her mask with her outfit. That's like my luck. I finally have matching masks. Don't need them if you're vaccinated, even indoors. It's amazing.

Well, it really is such an important thing for the government to say, you know, Willie,

for quite some time, there's been a question of whether science was going to be matched by the

government from the right over the past month or so.

A lot of people asking the question from the left, will Democrats catch up with the science?

Will Democrats catch up with medical advice?

And yesterday they did.

Obviously, they believed they needed to be very cautious,

needed to take extra care. But yesterday, finally, Americans got the word. If you've been vaccinated,

it's time to go back to living the life you lived before COVID. Wow.

Yeah, I'd like to point out, I never got the matching mask.

I just reached for whatever gross mask was in that basket by the door as I leave the

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