Six Points of COVID

President Biden has had enough.

The President amounted a new six-point program to combat the delta corona.  His plan is to move forward toward booster shots for vaccinated people, keeping schools open through face coverings and staff vaccinations and vaccinations of students 12 and older, increasing testing, allowing small businesses to borrow up to $2 million in long-term, low-interest loans to deal with the pandemic, improving care for the infected, and getting shots for the unvaccinated with mandates for workers, public and private.  The program makes it easier to mandate vaccines for government employees while giving private employers a great incentive to so the same.

It's this last point that is getting all of the attention, because Biden didn't want to force anyone to get vaccinated.  But nationwide vaccination rates are only going up 0.1 percent daily, while COVID infection rates are much higher than that, mainly because people who don't want to get vaccinated are getting sick.  A lot of folks are saying the President should have done this sooner.

But it seems that even more people don't want the President to to do it at all.  Republican lawmakers and leaders, mostly at the state and local levels,  oppose the vaccination mandates as government overreach, recognizing how many Republican voters distrust the vaccines despite the overwhelming science in their favor.  They're even going to try to stop the mandates with lawsuits.

And they'll only delay the mandates, allowing more people to refuse the shot get COVID and die.  Which in turn will make Biden look weaker and buoy Republican hopes for regaining power in 2022 and 2024.

Republicans are sick.  I don't just mean with COVID 

I'll have more to say on this later.