Do you trust him to protect the health of yours? If America is so great at public health, why weren't WE testing and tracking everyone flying in from the affected African countries?
Do you really believe, with America's population, that we're alone amongst the major Western countries in testing and simply not detecting the Omnicron variant here? Hm.
I suspect it will take weeks -- yesterday kicked of the Advent season for practicing Christians in our country -- before the Biden administration really addresses the scientific facts other countries have acknowledged: the vaccinated are catching and spreading the Omnicron virus and the symptoms are not that mild for everyone...
Here in America, Christmas counts bigly in an economic way, even if it's religious significance is lost on non-Christians and their allies alike.
Will the media be complicit in waiting until the end of the month to ask hard questions about the Biden administration's response? (How can you mandate more vaccines for workers if you're unsure how effective they are for how long, and still permit people to pack onto domestic flights -- infected, unvaccinated and poorly masked -- for luxury travel? Are the workers or the consummate travellers more responsible for the continual spread across the country?)
If everyone agrees the virus will continue to mutate in immunocompromised individuals, are we prepared to shut our southern borders until all those coming in and being let in are screened for HIV and the coronavirus? Are they all fully immunized before gaining entry?
There's so much honest skepticism, and Americans can see how other advanced nations are responding... We're not buying that out vaccines and experts and country is "the best" and we just need to wait a few weeks until the Christmas shopping season is done to see how this latest variant might affect the economy... and our unvaccinated, locked-in little ones.
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Btw, why is the WaPo humor columnist contributing to the NYT hard-news coverage of Joe Biden's response to Covid? Alexandria'(sic)s Petrie, raised in DC and like her parents, educated at Harvard undergrad, is the daughter of a disgraced Wisconsin representative who resigned under a cloud of ethic complaints about how much money he made for himself, on the side, while allegedly serving Wisconsin's interests in Washington. (He got elected as the son of a Wisconsin warrior killed in WWII. His wife worked for Mrs. Cheney, Dick's wife. I think Jonah Goldberg's wife Jessica worked for Mrs. Cheney too, but don't quote me on that ...)
I'm just curious, as a reader, what part of the Biden press announcement story today Ms. Petrie, the humor columnist/features reporter at the Post contributed? Anybody see a conflict of interest there, moving Petrie to cover the serious side of things with her family background? Silly news suits her well, but you have to acknowledge her conflicts if you're going to credit her on DC political news today.
Why not assign one of the new diversity hires, with no legacy conflicts like Petrie and Goldberg present, to cover a basic Biden press conference? Even if they ask no pressing questions, the taint associated with previous war and economic coverage that went wrong on a national level might be avoided.
I don't think the country is going to give the Biden administration the month of December off -- once the threat to the Christmastime shopping boost the economy is counting on has passed -- to assess and address the health risks to America's youngest children and most vulnerable.
Which party is the king of wishful thinking -- some call it denial -- now? These conflicts of interests are not going away and if the current administration thinks people will stop asking questions about the pandemic -- and focus all their attentions instead on the January 6 protest turned riot, in which only one protestor was killed and NO police officers (despite how long the media clung to the story, over his family's wishes, that a police officer who later suffered a stroke was clobbered by a fire extinguisher...).
If I were taking a salary as a news reporter or editor right now, I'd bone up on my ethical obligations to present the news no matter how much it tarnished the party in power. Yes you can!
Change is coming, but not from Cape Cod or DC or San Fran or even that most international of cities, NYC. There's still a lot of Americans voting out here in the heartland and America West. Liz Cheney and her father and mother have little pull with the American people -- that's what all those private fundraisers, and private contributions to newsletters, blogs and podcasts fund.
People can buy voices by funding a cc infected DC mouthpiece -- often the relatives of players in the arena riding thinning coattails themselves.
It remains to be seen if the new diversity hires in journalism -- lovingly supported and applauded at every step of their special-identity enhanced careers by white editors, agents and owners -- fall into line and do the bidding of the people in power paying them, or if they work in behalf of the American people asking honest common-sense questions.
Many minorities in journalism are if mixed race, and are more comfortable in white and wealthy settings than with working people, I suspect.
Isolated and affirmatively hired for their black skin, many may have more in common with the legacy journalists like Goldberg and Petrie (Lucianne's son; Rep. Petrie's kid....) than those who cut their teeth in independent reporting jobs -- paid internships and years stringing and covering a hard-news beat.
I hope the new crew of journalists doesn't just band together to sell the country out. Ezra Klein style reporting surely enriches the... creator, but as t what cost to the country as a whole?
I hope some of the natural reporters, with questions crawling out their craw, don't keep going along just to get along on their comfortable corporate journalism careers ...
You just gotta have faith and pray they weren't all brought up to worship money and and status more than the work: an honest day's wage for an honest day of work.
Don't sell your souls for false narratives. They'll never pay you enough to purchase back a set of ethics, and from what I've observed, all the luxury travel and spending that accompanies this type of career "success" only leaves them embittered by those still unafraid to speak the truth. God bless and choose well. Take care what you're selling for cheap -- for the cost of a paid, anonymous subscription or advertiser dollar dump.
