I’ve said it here. I’ve mentioned it on the Triggered Podcast. I want a COVID relief bill. I want relief checks for working families. In fact, I want huge checks for these families since Democrats torpedoed multiple efforts to get a deal done last year. Liberals wanted to better their chances of winning the election. That’s the Democratic Party. Screwing working families for political gain. With the election over, NOW Democrats can get something done for America’s working class, so they drafted this $1.9 trillion bill…that does none of that. I know, what’d you expect, right? It’s a $1 trillion-plus bill. What could go wrong? With Democrats running the show, it’s everything. With the GOP, there would have been issues too. It’s why everyone hates this town. Yet, there’s this urgency now. The New York Post’s editorial board asks why now? Maybe a few months ago, it was urgent, but Trump was president. Passing something that could help Americans was just not an option for the Left, demented as that sounds. Frankly, with the latest COVID data, getting people back to normalcy might be the best relief package that could happen if Democrats just listen to the science.
Dr. Marty Makary, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins, decided to do something that Dr. Anthony Fauci has refused to do which is to take a position based on the current scientific data, not the political winds. Makary was blunt the straight-forward: we’re going to have herd immunity by the end of April. The vaccination rate is on a trend to hit 100 million people. Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine will add a third option to supplement the supply. And all of this is thanks to the Trump administration. Based on the current numbers, Makary said that with an infection fatality rate of 0.23 percent and 1 in 600 Americans dying from the virus, two-thirds of the country has already contracted the disease. We’re underestimating natural immunity. There’s that other bit too, which is we’ve seen a drop in COVID cases over the past six weeks. How big a drop? Oh, it’s to the tune of 77 percent. Even in nations with these new strains, deaths and cases are going down. Why is this news being buried? Makary said that the scientists he spoke to agree with this projection, at the very least not saying it’s outlandish, but noting they don’t want to be overly aggressive in sharing the good news because it could impact vaccination rates.
Just read another report that says only 9% of that money has to do with Covid. 9%!!!!!!!!!! It should be illegal to add pork to these bills.