'We just have to keep going’: Biden faces promise and peril amid surging delta variant
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The nation added nearly 1 million jobs in July, which he touted as a validation of his economic policies. The Senate is inching toward passage of a sweeping infrastructure plan that Biden believes is crucial to delivering on his promise to boost not only the economy but his faith in bipartisan dealmaking.
But after he reached the lectern, the majority of his remarks were devoted to the issue that helped win him the presidency, the one that has consumed his first six months in office and now threatens to engulf the next: the coronavirus.
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The delta variant is spreading rapidly, threatening to consume the Biden administration just a month after he attempted to make a July Fourth declaration of freedom from the virus. The liberal wing of his party — which earlier in the week flexed its political muscle and helped force Biden to take more action on extending an eviction moratorium — has expressed concerns about the compromises made with Republicans on his infrastructure plan.
And the jobs report, while positive, could be a lagging indicator, reflecting last month’s optimism that the country would return to normalcy — not the fresh worry that is now prompting businesses to delay reopening or impose new restrictions.
The delta variant is the common cold, which is the original coronavirus that has never been "cured" and never will be. Get used to that fact.
Since flu is worse than the common cold, and symptoms are more intense, and common colds are milder than flu, I'm even more wondering about your mental health.
I'm really appreciative of your concerns, Walter, but there's been a total of 25 deaths in the whole of Australia since October 2020, but the dickheads in power think it's fine to turn the nation into a prison camp.
According to Builder that must be the normal death toll of the common cold in Australia - I do wonder, how many die from (in)flu(enza).
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blatham
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Sat 7 Aug, 2021 07:41 am
It just occurs to me now that for the well-being of the site, A2K really ought to allow entry only to those who have been vaccinated. Just imagine the advantages.
I just saw on FB where someone suggested the government should just start vaccinating people like they do when they anesthetize big animals in Africa - with darts fired from high powered rifles.
It’ll never happen but I sure got a smile from imagining it.
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izzythepush
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Sat 7 Aug, 2021 11:21 am
@MontereyJack,
That could be covered by kicking out anyone who has boasted about their fictional IQ 732 times or more.
Stop lying. There is nothing fictional about the fact that I am infinitely smarter than you are. And addressing the subject of my IQ when you raise the subject is not in any way boasting. Boasting would be if I raised the subject myself.
