Lukewarm .

 

Biden seemed, to many, to be the man who could provide it, the man who could loosen Trump’s stranglehold on our society. 

Democrats were afraid to take too much of a chance with their nominee. Wanting too much, let alone demanding it, felt dangerous.

So we settled on the elder statesman. The straight white man. The middle-of-the-roader: not too hot, not too cold, lukewarm.

He was the “scrappy kid from Scranton,” the unapologetic “union man” who could win back the pixies of politics: the working-class white voters who could back Barack Obama in one election and Trump in the next.

Biden pitched electability moderation rather than transformation and voters liked it.

However, now there is a new realization. 

There is a hardening perception that the president isn’t even being silently productive, but voiceless and vacant.

A new poll from Morning Consult and Politico finds that 42 percent of registered voters say that Biden has accomplished less than they expected. More than a quarter of Democrats felt this way.

Target..

 

A leading expert who helped create the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine said giving everyone in the world booster shots multiple times a year is not feasible.

"We can't vaccinate the planet every four to six months. It's not sustainable or affordable," Professor Andrew Pollard, the director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and head of the UK's Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Tuesday.

Pollard also stressed the "need to target the vulnerable" going forward, rather than administering doses to everyone age 12 and older. 

More data is needed to ascertain "whether, when and how often those who are vulnerable will need additional doses," 

Pollard also said he thought further evidence was needed before offering a fourth Covid-19 shot to people in the UK, which is currently rolling out third shots to healthy people 18 and older, and at-risk people 16 and older.

Sigh..

 

With..

 

Incompetance..

 

Solution..

 

The Unifier. The man of solutions.  Just a thought.

Saga..

 

Is the vaccine protecting you and others?

Is the Vaccines protecting you?

Are there other factors in the process that cause severe illness, but wasn't shared with the public?

The Saga continues. Just a thought.

Bite..

 

Jan..

 

Working for poor people. Just a thought.

France..

 

France has put the United States on its COVID-19 travel "red list", meaning unvaccinated people coming into the country will have to quarantine for 10 days.  

The rules will not change for fully vaccinated people coming into France from the United States: they still have to show proof of a negative test before boarding their flight. 

The move puts the United States, where new infections are topping 300,000 a day due to the Omicron variant, on the same list as countries such as Russia, Afghanistan, Belarus and Serbia. 

France is also grappling with record levels of new infections, with 200,000 cases reported daily over the last four days.