Let me try to make the point a different way ...

How many of the ten thousand Americans who have lost their lives in the last 10 days or so were vaccinated?

Dunno the answer (and too lazy to research it) but I've gotten the first Moderna Vax and I believe that I read that the Moderna vax testing resulted in

1- greatly reduced hospitalizations, and,

2- ZERO deaths.

BTW I appreciate it that you can be critical of Joe Biden. As a Loud and Proud Libtard I also hold him to a higher standard. Aws such I am greatly pleased at the political acumen that Joe has this far demonstrated -- woot!

I'm sorry that he lost Beau right before 2016 and therefore didn't run as Obama's logical successor. But I am really starting to believe that Joseph R. Biden is EXACTLY THE MAN FOR THIS MOMENT.

Signed-
Mancrush on Joe in Green Valley Lake, CA

Thank you for sharing that. I know that sometimes it is easy to think that because our suffering may not have been as bad as others have had to deal with, so we don’t acknowledge our own pain... which is not good for us to do. Keep pushing forward.

-Russ

“ First, tonight, I'm announcing that I will direct all states, tribes and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than May 1.”

Maybe I am wrong, but I do not remember a President addressing our nation as a whole that truly addressed the whole nation like this! Inclusion of the territories and our tribal nations is such an incredible way of reminding those Americans that we are ALL ONE!

They are just as American as any of us (tribal members are arguably MORE American than the rest of us, but that is a discussion for another time) and I think hearing Biden including them will do wonders for those living in these places who feel forgotten in this pandemic!

Only if everyone does what they're supposed to do Re. complying with the basic health protocols to reduce transmission. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

What? Alleged Elizabeth Miller criticizing Joe Biden?

Where is the @realElizabethMiller and what's the ransome?

Heh.

obviously!

“I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!” ? Muhammad Ali

We're safe to presume the shot qualification must be good looks, right?

AS for the stimulus check, I used my first one back in March or April or whenever it was to pay for a root canal to improve my health. Almost all of the first one went for that. The 600 dollar one went to pay bills. Where I work has cut down drastically on hours up until now. So, thankfully while I never lost my job and remained employed, I've had to dip into what little savings I've had just for day to day ordinary expenses to make up for diminished wages. So this next 1400 dollars, when it arrives, will mostly go to replenish my reserves for emergency contingencies. Like the recent 400 car repair bill that I had. Thankfully work seems to be picking up now again, so hopefully I can slowly crawl my way out of the debt that I have accumulated over the past several months.

If they could do just one more covid relief check after this one, that would completely lift me out of debt and really brighten my optimistic outlook.

So called "Free Money" is 1) not a hand out to the lazy and shiftless, (Such an attitude is both inherently bigoted against several categories of people AND biased in favor of the wealthy class.) but 2) a hand up to help the ordinary little workers who pay taxes and work hard, without the benefit of an army of lawyers, and accountants supporting them and economic laws skewed against them, and who have to struggle with circumstances or conditions not in their favor. (Without the safety net and security that extreme wealth provides. The toll on just mental health is enormous.) You don't lower public debt and make the economy boom by constant tax cuts for the rich. Tax cuts never pay for themselves and past a certain point, the law of diminishing returns takes over. You make an economy grow by providing a decent minimum income for the poor and middle class who drive consumer spending and consumption on a mass scale.

Anyway, I just thought I would share my perspective On how the covid situation and Biden's and Democrats response to it has affected me. Just to remind everyone, lest we forget or get lost in technical jargon in our discussions that we are talking about tangible real world circumstances and actual people's lives.

In the least-polished part of the speech, Biden then did a jarring and awkward segue into talking about losing a job.

The least polished? Awkward?

Well, maybe for people who haven't lost their jobs and who haven't had to make that long walk up the stairs to tell their kid that everything isn't alright and we're going to have to move.

I'll bet that part of the speech struck many Americans to their very core.

How many of the ten thousand Americans who have lost their lives in the last 10 days or so were vaccinated?

After all, the idea behind vaccination right now is to prevent death, not the sniffles.

"Millions of people in high-income countries may have already received vaccines, but many low- and middle-income countries have yet to issue a single dose.

"As the poet John Donne noted centuries ago, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Never has that been truer than during the current worldwide plague. If the bell continues to toll, it will be tolling for us all."

I guess I can't blame Biden for not mentioning this but, it did stand out as a glaring omission. Especially when he said that no country on earth is vaccinating its citizens as well as America is. Well, that's kind of the problem for America and its economy, in a nutshell.

No country will be safe and able to realize a full economic recovery until EVERY country is safe.

On the bright side, my wife got her first vaccine shot today... (I am still waiting, I don't qualify yet).

:-)

-CW