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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore Americans died in less than one year to C-19 than in all of WW II*. Joe Biden** has crushed...
... it in under 6 months. Still we have lots of work to do, some people are still going to get sick and some will die, we still have to deal with the anti mask/vaccine idiots, and we need to still listen to the experts but this was and still is an outstanding job on Joe's part.
* 405,399 (wiki)
** And his corona virus team.
And now Joe is along with some really good people is working on climate change.
Link to tweet
We can tackle the climate crisis head-on with a new Civilian Climate Corps. The American Jobs Plan will invest $10 billion to put Americans to work conserving our public lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, and advancing environmental justice.
Best POTUS job I have ever seen. Go Joe Go!
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)In 4 Months & 7 Days into his term.
How many more would have died had he lost? We would easily have passed 600K by now.
Initech
(100,107 posts)Go Joe!!!
ffr
(22,672 posts)Biden is a superstar!!!! He's a rock star! Whatever you want to call it. He is looking out for all of us.
Thank you democrats and anyone else who helped elect democrats recently. The QOP needs to be wiped out! We should not have to fear for our lives under an oppressive regime, like we had under T----.
forkol
(113 posts)FDR created the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), which helped with major environmental projects and also helped to created our modern federal and state park systems. Good to see Joe proposing to do something similar with his Climate Corps.
Midnight Writer
(21,812 posts)He was very proud of the work he did on parks in this area. Some of them are still quite impressive.
He was the oldest of 14 kids and he turned his pay over to his Mother to support the family.
Botany
(70,592 posts)Notice the American Chestnut paneling, wood burning stove, no TV, and cell phones don't work to well there.
I try to go there in the winter.
This big government project has paid back the local and national economy many times over.
Riverman100
(277 posts)loved and respected a President this much.
bucolic_frolic
(43,331 posts)Botany
(70,592 posts)Want to go to an Ohio State or NFL game prove you have been vaccinated.
Same will go for jobs, insurance, restaurants, markets, schools and so on hey
you don't have to get a vaccine but @ the same time no need to go into your job
today.
BTW some of the anti vax/anti mask people are being pushed on by people who have
had the vaccine but for political reasons don't want to see President Biden "have a win."
Digital vaccine passports, a QR code on your phone screen thats linked to the CDC database. Just scan it at events like they scan my phone when I buy movie tickets.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)I assure you that the smattering of events requiring vaccines, will eventually go down to zero, as we go with the "honor system." Because Americans are so honorable, and will do the right thing. If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
WarGamer
(12,485 posts)But I do credit SCIENCE.
Tens of thousands of hard working Medical Research professionals, my co-workers...
Men and women in lab coats, working long hours and endless days killed COVID-19.
Once the vaccines were developed last year, the Virus was "dead virus walking"... it was just a matter of time. A race against time.
Combine that with the A+++ job Joe has done with distribution... and C19 is on it's heels, at least here in the US.
Botany
(70,592 posts)* Or their backing of that research. I will still die mad at what happened to Hillary in 2016
because if she had been rightfully installed into the White House we and the World would never
have had to go through this C-19 nightmare. President Obama and his team left the people,
the protocols, and materials in place to tackle the virus from the start.
WarGamer
(12,485 posts)Anyone who lived through the 90's agrees, lol...
best decade ever.
WarGamer
(12,485 posts)Science says... and I hate to say it. We're fucked. There's no amount of "greenification" that the West can do to compensate for the increased CO2 emissions from the developing world.
You have 2 billion people in China and India who will be demanding more access to energy over the next decade. Oxen will be ditched for tractors, people will flip on an air conditioner for the first time and access the internet and enter the digital age.
One step forward, five steps back. We increase EV's to 30% of the automotive population and China adds 300 coal fired power plants... get it?
I.m not promoting "do-nothing" but remember, we're already headed down the river and using your size 11 Adidas as an oar might be better than nothing but you're still going off the waterfall. Soon.