JOE BIDEN SAYS A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING

JOE BIDEN SAYS A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING<br /><br />Joe Biden addressed the nation recently to discuss the surge of covid cases hitting the United States due to the omicron variant. His speech comes a little over a year after promising Americans that as President, he would "shut down the virus." If you didn't tune in, you're in luck... because I forced myself to watch it. Here's what you missed:<br /><br />Key takeaway: This was all about damage control. Here we are, nearing the end of the second year of the Covid pandemic, entering the winter months and across the country, people still have to stand in lines for hours waiting to get a Covid test.<br /><br />Let's break it down: For starters, the speech took place at 2:30 in the afternoon, while most Americans were at work or school, which is unusual [Google the term "sundowning" to understand why he did it in the afternoon]. You can break the address down into two parts: new federal actions and fear-porn.<br /><br />1. New federal actions: Biden announced a few executive actions he would take to help deal with the surging Covid cases across the country. <br /><br />Here are a few:<br />Adding 10,000 vaccination sites to the already 80,000 sites set up across the country<br />Setting up more testing sites across the country [needed to do this a long time ago]<br />Sending out 500 million at-home Covid tests to Americans [not until January]<br />Preparing to deploy 1,000 troops to help staff at local hospitals<br /><br />2. Fear porn: Someone must have advised Biden to tone down the rhetoric. Recently he was screaming that this would be a "winter of death" for the unvaccinated. <br /><br />But in his speech he said:<br />"If you're unvaccinated, you're at a higher risk of getting severely ill from Covid-19, getting hospitalized, and even dying."<br />"Your choice is not just a choice about you. It affects other people. You're putting other people at risk."<br />"The unvaccinated are responsible for their own choices. Those choices have been fueled by dangerous misinf