The Omicron variant has us all on edge. I think we know that if a new variant comes along that evades vaccines (zero evidence of that yet), we are basically going to sit back and let hundreds of thousands of people die rather than go back to square one. I know that we are planning on flying next month and I will be shopping for N95 masks prior to that. If we do return to the worst days of Delta, then - yes - I fear hope for the midterms is lost. This is about as favorable a Senate map as Democrats will face for a while, so that's pretty huge. All the doom-posting about Democrats based on Virginia seemed misplaced (if entirely in character for Dems), given that the single biggest issue is Covid.
So, we need some good news!
Gas prices are stabilizing and should start dropping as countries ramp up pressure and production. Gas is unusually vulnerable to price manipulation, and Biden threatening oversight is a good step. Hopefully, more people follow the clues and do what our family did and move to hybrids.
The Biden Administration will be helping underserved communities find health care workers. Elections matter! Good policy is good policy.
Shipping delays are starting to ease, as Biden Administration puts the boot to port facilities.
The Charlottesville racists have been fined enough to bankrupt them.
We are making it harder to drill for oil on protected land and easier to build windfarms.
The frustrating thing about American politics is that Democrats have plans and ideas to make the country better. Republicans do not, because their basic idea is that government can't do anything and anything it does do is tyranny. It's frustrating, because a proper, unified response to Covid would have shown that the government CAN do big things. But we have an incompetent fraud in charge and a million Americans have died.
Ideally, Democrats could have a nice 12 year run of control of the government to set things right in this country, but I'm not terribly optimistic.
Sorry, this was supposed to be optimistic.
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