And, let’s be honest, this is China’s fault. What could Biden have really done? Of course, he ran on shutting down the virus, not the economy, and has done neither. Meanwhile, imagine this NY Times piece if Trump were still president. Heck, it’s not even the top story. Whining about January 6th is
U.S. Covid Death Toll Surpasses 900,000 as Omicron’s Spread Slows
More than 2,600 Americans are dying from Covid-19 each day, an alarming rate that has climbed by 30 percent in the past two weeks. Across the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has now claimed more than 900,000 lives.
Yet another, simultaneous reality of the pandemic offers reason for hope. The number of new coronavirus infections is plummeting, falling by more than half since mid-January. Hospitalizations are also declining, a relief to stressed health care workers who have been treating desperately ill coronavirus patients for nearly two years.
Those are the workers who had to work more because their unvaccinated coworkers were fired and no longer allowed to work in hospitals and such, right? Because of mandates by Biden and other Democrats, right?
All that has created a disorienting moment in the pandemic: Though deaths are still mounting, the threat from the virus is moving, for now, farther into the background of daily life for many Americans.
Patrick Tracy of Mundelein, Ill., has seen the disconnect up close. In his county, new infections have fallen in recent weeks as the highly infectious Omicron variant has begun to recede nationwide. But as those case rates were dropping, Mr. Tracy’s wife, Sheila, died from Covid. Ms. Tracy, 81, a native of Ireland who was devoted to her grandchildren and the roses she tended in her front yard, was vaccinated, but also had underlying medical conditions.
“The people that don’t get vaccinated — you tell them that almost 900,000 have died, and they say, ‘They’d have died anyway,’” Mr. Tracy said. “We have very little consideration for our fellow man.”
Funny, more unvaccicanted are dying now than before. Joe might want to talk to China about this. Oh, right, he’s buying huge amounts of masks and tests from China. And there’s literally no relevant mention of President Biden, as if he has nothing to do with this. The guy who said he had a plan had no plan.
At this point (Friday late night), the Washington Post has no article. Nor does CNN. Nor CBS News. ABC News has a lower priority article, and NBC News has one way down the page. The focus is on Jan 6th and Pence rebuking Trump. The LA Times leads with the China Olympics, and a small story on 900k Americans dying from the Chinese coronavirus
