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On the one hand is a Democratic administration determined to use the government to fight the coronavirus and rebuild the country. Forty years after President Ronald Reagan announced that “government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem,” President Biden and his team are using the vaccine program to demonstrate what the federal government can do.
When he took office, Biden promised to deliver 100 million shots within his first 100 days. Today, the U.S. passed the landmark of administering more than 100 million vaccines. This includes 16.5 million administered under the previous administration, but since today also set a record of 2.9 million vaccines given, Biden should significantly surpass his initial goal.
In his first prime-time address last night, the president directed states, territories, and tribal governments to make all adults eligible to get the vaccine by May 1. To meet this milestone, the federal government will launch a new website to enable people to find vaccines, allow new vaccinators—dentists, paramedics, and midwives—and establish new vaccine locations.
Biden promised not to relent until we beat the virus, and asked Americans to do their part by getting the vaccine and helping friends and family get one, too. “[I]f we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together -- by July the Fourth, there’s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or your neighborhood and have a cookout and a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day.... After this long hard year, that will make this Independence Day something truly special.”
“The government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital,” Biden said. “It’s us. All of us. We the people.”
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OJ
I appreciate the historical context that Ms. Richardson often provides.
Tonight's newsletter about the appointment of Representative Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior Department is a good example. It summarizes the early history of the Interior Department and its impact on indigenous people's lives.
There's a parallel, very negative saga out of Canada about the way religiously-sponsored Residential Schools abused their native Canadian students: members of the First Nations, as they are officially called these days. By the way, among the more famous First Nations fellows (to Americans) is an actor named Chief Dan George. A leader of the Salish Band in British Columbia. Featured in "Josie Wales" with uncle Clint Eastwood, and in "Little Big Man." Others too, surely.
Indulge me:
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Israel and Mayo clinic are studying these circumstances.
Long hauler stories are scary. A neighbor who recovered from COVID is now having much weaker lung capacity. He is limited to sea level elevation since he have hard time breathing above 3,000 feet. The Pacific Nothwest have a number of mountain ranges in excess of 10,000 feet.
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