He built in a cop-out though. Now that Joe's POTUS it's no longer the POTUS' responsibility.

Very clever, innit.

So apparently, the media is interested in the children of presidential candidates past and present.....as long as it is the Tik Tok videos of Ted Cruz's 13 year old child.

But covering 51 year old Hunter Biden....well kids are off limits

Over 1 million US COVID cases recorded in 1 day......Joe has really shut down the virus

So you now believe Joe will have to introduce compulsory vaccinations?

I cannot speak for Kiwiguy, but Biden has done anything but shut down the virus which was one of the main tenants of his campaign ...no? He criticised Trump for his handling of the virus and yet more deaths have occurred under Biden than under Trump.

And mandatory vaccines for a variant which does not respond to the vaccine? That strikes me as ridiculous! Wasn't the whole purpose of MRNA was that one could tweak the vaccine when necessary? Well, that has not been done. And so all of those boosters we are receiving are for the Alpha variant - which left many moons ago.

So, can someone enlighten me as to the purpose of boosters when the vaccines do not address the variants? And, if you should propose it reduces hospitalisations, well - please give me stats as to how many afflicted with Omricon end up in the hospital? And, how many of those in hospital with Omricon are already vaccinated? The numbers I see from Canada suggest most in hospitals with "COVID" are already vaccinated - 70% from what I read. The US has not published figures yet (go figure as it probably does not suit them!)

Note, that even Fauci stated last week that hospitalisations among children in the US does not differentiate between "because of" Covid versus entering the hospital for a different diagnosis (ie, bone break, appendicitis etc...).

Wonder if one could extrapolate Fauci's claims about children to all who were admitted to hospitals and "designated" with a Covid diagnosis. It certainly suits the US hospitals monetarily... Is it "with" or "because of"? Here's the link for those interested: https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-child...micron-1664676

What really ticks me off about Fauci, Biden et al... Is how the narrative keeps shifting. We went from "stop the spread"/lockdowns and when those didn't work...They shifted to keeping hospitals/ICUs unencumbered. And, we all need to get boosters even when those boosters aren't that effective re: new variants.

And in the Newsweek article I just linked, Fauci says,:"What are we trying to prevent? We're trying to prevent people from getting sick." Are they really trying to prevent people from getting colds now or any virus? Is that even plausible?

They/governments basically shot themselves in the foot with the narrative (hospitals/ICUs being overwhelmed) now that "Omnicron" arrives in a much less dangerous form but far more transmissible (isn't that the case with most corona viruses when they mutate?)

Putin even said in early December, "Let's not get ahead of ourselves" regarding Omnicron's potential threat. And then referred to Omnicron as a "live virus/vaccine" which could help - given it's weakened form.

https://tass.com/world/1372047

You claim the vaccines are not effective against the new variants which is not true.
You claim the boosters are for the alpha variant which is not true, all the vaccines and boosters are for the original virus and have not been tweaked for any variant.

You claim 70% of the hospitalised in Canada are vaccinated which is the exact opposite of the Canadian Govt figures here and below.
The same Canadian link shows eight times as many deaths in the unvaxxed versus fully vaxxed.
Why do you keep spreading misinformation?

Because they hacked into his laptop and made public private material & Ted Cruz's clever young daughter posted her information publicly?

Misinformation seems to be a paying gig.

But hospitals and ICUs are being overwhelmed in the US due to Omicron?

Hospitals across Maryland are so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that this week the governor declared a state of emergency to allow the National Guard to help and give health officials the power to restructure resources.

Hospitalizations have doubled in the last day, and more than 600 patients were waiting in the emergency waiting rooms for hours on Monday, said Dr. Ted Delbridge with Maryland’s Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems.

Even Fox News; The United States (US) healthcare system has experienced an unprecedented overload amid the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus (Covid-19) Omicron. This can be seen from 78 percent of beds in intensive care units (ICUs) across hospitals in the US have been filled.

Anyway, we seem to be drifting away from the topic?

Marton, just checked and the Maryland hospitals are "overwhelmed" because most are going to the ER for COVID testing - not because of COVID (although some exhibit "minor" symptoms). Thanks to the Biden administration and the lack of tests, people are going to hospitals to get tests they cannot access elsewhere.:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/c...tests/2923603/

To quote the article: "An influx of people seeking care for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 cases is adding unnecessary stress to staff and resources, the association said."

The Alpha is the original Wuhan COVID virus Marton - not a variant . Explain to me how vaccines are effective against Omricon when cases are raging? I should have clarified and wrote Ontario as opposed to Canada. Here is a link regarding Ontario and their hospitalisation rates (NOTE: the data is far more current than your link)

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/...cloud/comments

Even Fox News; The United States (US) healthcare system has experienced an unprecedented overload amid the spread of the new variant of the coronavirus (Covid-19) Omicron. This can be seen from 78 percent of beds in intensive care units (ICUs) across hospitals in the US have been filled.

Just to clarify... This is not Fox News which most recognise but some random affiliate news group which I have never seen before called News Fox 24. And some of the info in their article is misleading regarding hospitalisations among children which even Fauci corrected (not because of Covid but with Covid). Looks like a highly questionable source!

You can do better Marton! Who is misleading whom here??

Wrong actually. Alpha is the variant that showed up in Kent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2

You seem to have missed important points in your link; "The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 at the La Plata, Maryland, hospital doubled between Dec. 18 and Dec. 28.
University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center says it is moving to crisis standards of care, meaning it will modify surgery schedules, streamline processes and redeploy staff."

It is called the Alpha variant

According to your link, 12% of Ontarians are unvaccinated but 25% of the people in hospital are the unvaccinated showing how well the vaccine works.

The ICU numbers are even more dramatic in favour of vaccination where more than half the patients are the unvaccinated, over four times their share of the population.

Biden Jan 6 speech today
live video here Biden begins about 9 mins into the video.

For the first time in our history a president not just lost the election, he tried to prevent a peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob breached the Capitol."

He’s not just a former president. He’s a defeated former president.
Defeated by a margin of over 7 million of your votes, and a full and free and fair election. There is simply zero proof the election results were inaccurate.
He pointed to the numerous court rulings and election audits that have definitively shown his victory was clear and legitimate last November.

He attacked Trump for spreading a web of lies.

Another excellent piece by Glenn Greenwald: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the...OTWw6MbukImuYI

Great speech by Biden.

If by "excellent" you in fact mean "right-win propaganda piece written by someone with a clear political agenda looking to downplay a serious attack on democracy" then yes I agree, it was indeed most excellent.