When the count is in, today’s daily death count will be about 2600. That’s about 250 more than same day last year.
Ukraine is a godsend to the Administration. They can get the deaths off the front page and maybe quietly start the victory over Covid narrative beneath the Ukraine news.
Victory over Covid has been clearly their only hope in the midterms for sometime now.
“Victory over Covid has been clearly their only hope in the midterms for sometime now.”
It seems to me that the (real) decline in COVID is pretty much baked into the cake by the very high levels of accumulated immunity, and that the Democrats in Government are further putting their thumbs on the scale to accelerate the reported declines.
Conventional wisdom now is that the State of the Union Address, scheduled for March 1st, will likely be the declaration of victory, and signal a raft of re-opening policies, to give the economy some boost going into the mid-terms as well.