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President Joe Biden seems to be handling COVID pretty well. At 79 he’s in a high-risk age group, but he’s also fully vaxxed and boosted — which drastically reduces the odds for serious illness.
We wish the president a rapid recovery. So far, it looks like his case is high-profile evidence that the pandemic is completely over — that Americans’ anti-coronavirus efforts should focus exclusively on getting jabs to those who need them and treating cases as they pop up.
That means absolutely no mandates — not for mass masking and so on, and not even for vaccination (except perhaps for special cases such as those who care for the elderly).
Yet clickbait-hungry media keep promoting health-care professionals who urge the nation to behave like it’s still early 2020 — ignoring not just the fact that the virus has become a background threat like so many others, but everything we’ve learned about what works and what doesn’t.
Some officials act on this madness: San Diego and Cedar Rapids schools have mask mandates back; Los Angeles is close to ordering public indoor masking. Federal health authorities are recommending under-12s get jabbed even though actual scientists are quitting in droves in protest, because the advice lacks any scientific basis. --->READ MORE HERE
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n emergency is a dangerous situation requiring action. Someone tell our elected officials — they clearly don’t know the meaning of the term.
Last week, President Joe Biden considered declaring climate change an “emergency.” Pressured by his party’s leftist flank, which can’t enact climate-change legislation and wants a work-around where it doesn’t have to persuade people to accept its ideas, the president ultimately decided to hold off.
But something either is an emergency or isn’t. The president being able to control the timing of that emergency announcement means it isn’t.
Putting aside that there’s no evidence that any climate proposals, even the radical Green New Deal, would have any effect on global climate change, declaring something an emergency when it’s not is simply a naked power grab.
I understand the president’s confusion over what constitutes an emergency. We’ve been living under just this kind of anti-democratic diktat for more than two years.
When COVID hit in early 2020, it was easy to understand why governments declared emergencies across the country. A new virus was spreading, and we had no idea what it was. We allowed our elected officials extra powers to deal with it. That was a mistake. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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