Joe Biden Is Refusing the Alternatives to Mass Deaths Across America
Not long after his inauguration, where he assured Americans that they "can overcome this deadly virus," Joe Biden announced that as many as hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths are unavoidable in the coming months. But there’s only one reason for that — Biden preemptively ruled out pursuing a national stay-at-home order two months ago.
US President Joe Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House, 2021. (Doug Mills-Pool / Getty Images)
Toward the end of his apotheosis last week, President Joe Biden told the nation, as he’s insisted since before he even ran, that “there isn’t anything we can’t do if we do it together.”
Anything, it seems, except doing the main thing that would save tens, if not hundreds of thousands of lives from the pandemic in the coming months.
Let’s recap: for months, while the Bad Man was still president, the United States and world consensus among scientists and liberals was that the only way to stop the rampaging coronavirus — particularly when it is surging out of control, as it has been for months in the United States, and in a globally unprecedented way — was a temporary national stay-at-home order. That approach is still the global consensus, but has simply ceased to exist in US political discourse since November.
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