From Politico: "Biden appears to be over Covid protocols"
"After the first lady’s illness, the president has contradicted precautions the White House insists remain in place.
"For two days straight, the White House told anyone who would listen that President Joe Biden was taking his Covid exposure seriously by following a strict set of public health precautions.
"Then Biden strode into a room full of people on Wednesday and reduced those precautions to a punchline.
"'I’ve been tested again today, I’m clear across the board,' Biden said, smiling as he held up his face mask. 'They keep telling me, because it has to be 10 days or something, I gotta keep wearing it. But don’t tell them I didn’t have it when I walked in.'
"The joke earned muted laughter from the audience. But outside the State Dining Room, it served as further confirmation of what many public health officials and outside experts have long come to believe: The president who once pledged to eliminate Covid altogether has grown significantly less worried about it. And may be all but over it on a personal level.
“'It’s unfortunate,' said Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and former Covid adviser to the Biden transition. 'Because as we begin to see the number of deaths rise in the country, Covid is still with us.'"
And that's no joke at all.
.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment