As viris cases keep declining ….
Governor’s have moved to receind mask mandates….
The CDC recently joined this effort….
The President gingerly is following along well aware that the last time he said things were gettinbg better ?
Omincron made his comments look stupid …..
The President IS lookinbg to join the move to get people back to work and get the economy back….
Oh?
And get some political good feeling’s from Americans’ tired of the word ‘pandemic’…
“Thanks to the progress we have made this past year, covid-19 need no longer control our lives,” he said. “We will continue to combat the virus as we do other diseases. And because this is a virus that mutates and spreads, we will stay on guard.”
The plan laid out on Wednesday is part of a broader White House strategy to convince Americans that life can return to normal amid the president’s tanking approval ratings and Democratic anxiety that nosediving cases and school reopenings have not buoyed a dyspeptic public….
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The delicate balance the administration is aiming to strike — highlighting the wide availability of vaccines, treatments, masks and tests that people can use to protect themselves, while urging continued vigilance — underscores the challenge Biden faces in coming weeks and months. The administration is simultaneously under pressure to ease restrictions and enable a return to normalcy while polls show that most Americans still want some mitigation measures in place as the virus continues to circulate, if at lower levels….
Covid politics….
A bill by Senate Republicans to terminate the national emergency declaration for the Covid-19 pandemic passed 48 to 47 Thursday on a party-line vote.
While the legislation has a slim chance of passing the Democrat-controlled House and President Joe Biden has already threatened to veto the bill, the vote is yet another rebuke of the administration’s pandemic policies at a time it is seeking billions from Congress to keep them going for several more months.
Republicans brought the bill to the floor using a technical process under the National Emergencies Act, which allows for a simple majority floor vote if the committee of jurisdiction fails to take up the bill within two weeks. Given several absences on the Democratic side of the aisle — with some members out sick with Covid and others mourning the death of a relative — the measure was able to pass….
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Per my doctor’s recommendation, I received my fourth shot this week. Right now only cancer and HIV patients and people with organ transplants are eligible for a fourth dose.
I was warned that the shot might not adequately protect me from newer variants.
Any reaction to the shot?
I didn’t have a reaction to any of the shots!
Good…
Yo Z?
My wife just found out a friend of her’s has the virus a 3rd time…..
She IS vaccinated….
Z?
Correction…
My wifes’s freiend has covid the second time….
She was vaccinated when she got it the first time….
Sorry for that….