President Joe Biden marked the deaths of one million Americans from COVID-19 since the pandemic began more than two years ago, ahead of the second COVID-19 summit that he will be co-hosting on Thursday.
Came through ATL airport yesterday on way to Sarasota. Guessing about 3-8% of us wearing masks at airports & on plane. Happily wore mine. No unruly Magats, so it was a nice trip. Camped out at my fav beach spot and staying very low key. Will probably test myself upon return but so far, so good except knowing DeSantis is Gov.
I just checked, and on the first listing I found our per-capita death rate was 18th out of 155. Certainly when I go around I only occasionally see a mask or any other indication the bugs are still out there and cases are rising. I assume most people I do see are either “vaxxed and relaxed” or simply in denial. We’re just bad at this, I’m afraid.
“One million empty chairs around the dinner table,” Biden said in a proclamation. “Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community, and a nation forever changed because of this pandemic.”
Frankly, quite a few of these people will not be missed.
I have a MAGA cousin who unfortunately didn’t fall into missed column. The guy’s whole working career was in the public sector, military then teacher, so he’s collecting $$$ pension and he bitches about paying taxes.
Not if we do our job on messaging and actually get our shit together. Republicans have absolutely NOTHING to brag about. Not. One. Thing. This is our election to lose.
And who’s going to be in charge of that? Who’s our mastermind on messaging? Howard Dean was best at it and he was ridiculed and pulled off the stage. Who else have we got? Serious question…