Amy Walter:
That is proper.
I believed it was noteworthy that he mentioned, be involved, however do not panic, and likewise that he mentioned, we’re not going to do lockdowns, made very clear we will defeat this with vaccines and with boosters. We do not have to enter the place we had been in 2020.
So, the problem, although, for the president, as he famous additionally in that speech, is, he does not have any management over what different international locations are doing. And that is, as we all know, a worldwide pandemic. So, sure, the U.S. can ship lot of vaccines all over the world, however you are still taking a look at international locations in Africa which have — like South Africa, what’s it, 6 p.c or one thing, of a vaccination charge. So that is going to go on for fairly a while.
It appears to me the opposite problem the president has although, is, he is dealing in actual time with these mutations which can be going to be with us, whereas the lengthy tail of COVID continues to be with us, similar to this piece that ran earlier than us concerning the psychological well being challenges for teenagers.
We watched this 12 months the place we’ve file variety of overdose deaths, that we’ve individuals getting in fights on airplanes and punching flight attendants, proper? There’s nonetheless — we’re nonetheless coping with the consequences of being in lockdown for 2020 that that have not been resolved. We’re nonetheless type of getting again into society, whereas we’re additionally coping with the current actuality of a mutating virus that’s in all probability going to be with us for a while.
