The daughter of Hollywood bigwigs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner delivered a speech to the United Nations about the importance of mask mandates in preventing the surge of COVID-19 — five years after the disease shut down the world.
Violet Affleck, 19, made her emotional plea while wearing a KN95 mask as part of the “Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action” at the UN Headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
The Yale University freshman, who contracted a post-viral condition in 2019 , lectured world leaders about how the world is ignoring the “ongoing pandemic” and warned that the population has dropped mask mandates too quickly. 5
“We are told by leaders across the board that we are the future,” Violet said. “But, when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stol