Posted on 12/20/2021 3:10:44 PM PST by lightman
White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 speech on Tuesday will not involve a push for lockdowns over the spread of the Omicron variant.
Biden “will issue a stark warning” to people who haven’t yet received a COVID-19 vaccination, Psaki said. But the president, she said, will not be a push for locking down over the variant, which has caused few deaths worldwide.
“This is not a speech about locking the country down,” Psaki remarked.
While the World Health Organization named Omicron a “variant of concern” due to its high transmissibility, officials in South Africa and New York City’s chief health commissioner have recently said the strain has resulted in only a fraction of the hospitalizations that were seen in earlier COVID-19 waves.
The president has little latitude in enforcing a lockdown as Congress is the only entity that can regulate interstate commerce. However, should the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offer a recommendation to implement stay-at-home orders, certain municipalities would likely follow suit.
Biden, meanwhile, will announce that the federal government will work to try and make vaccines and COVID-19 testing more available nationwide, Psaki said during Monday’s press conference.
Late last week, White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients said the federal government is aiming to not “disrupt work and school.” The White House confirmed over the weekend that Biden will touch on those themes.
“For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm,” Zients said.
A growing number of businesses, schools, and other institutions have announced they would shut down or impose other COVID-19 mandates due to the variant.
Organizers of Los Angeles’ New Year’s Eve party planned for downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park say there will not be an in-person audience. The event will be livestreamed instead, as it was last year. In Rhode Island, a mask mandate took effect Monday for indoor spaces that can hold 250 people or more, such as larger retail stores and churches.
Cases are surging in parts of the United States, particularly the Northeast and Midwest, although it’s not clear which variant is driving the upswing.
In New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed the new variant is already in “full force,” a spike is scuttling Broadway shows and spurring long lines at testing centers, but so far new hospitalizations and deaths are averaging well below their spring 2020 peak.
If she says it isn’t, that means it is.
Yep.
It’ll be full of spiteful and painful decrees because he didn’t get his BBB passes..
That’s Broke Bankrupt and Bitter
Will he understand any of the words written down for him to try to read off the teleprompters?
I though it was Bulging Bag of Bowel movment.
He won’t close down the country....
... For the fully compliant.
I wait with baited breath for what the white house has to say. The pancake house has more pull today anyway.
Whatever his move is - it’s a losing move. IF he isn’t “tough with the unvaccinated” then his own base will be tanking his approval ratings. If he goes on the attack against us then he’ll be creating more and more enemies ready to strike.
If he backs us into a corner where we can’t move about, get jobs, vote, whatever then he’ll start a revolutionary war.
There is no win here for him. That’s what life is like before a civil war. We’re going to war - yes we are. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in 2022 maybe not in 2024 but we aren’t moving away from war at all and aren’t showing signs of second thought.
Evil isn’t going to give up. There will be no apologies. Only bloodshed and the complete domination of one side by the other. I breathe a sigh of relief about this because I’m ready.
In New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has claimed the new variant is already in “full force,”
We were in NYC today- long lines of triple vaxxed people waiting to take tests to see if they have the virus the vax was suppose to prevent.
We were suppose to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on Saturday night- they cancelled the last three weeks of shows because Rockettes were testing positive. A buddy who is friends with one of the Rockettes said a few of them had colds.
No it will be about shooting up all the unvaxxed as or before winter sets in ... on the darkest day ... Dec 22
Biden will say it is gloom and doom for Christmas. He will be dressed like the Grinch.
We’re going to have American Revolution2 if these idiots try another shutdown.
The bloody globalists running this farce and backing Biden have a lot of protection, but nobody’s totally safe.
He’ll find time to work that he got a new puppy. Maybe a reference or two about Beau
And then “Omnicrom, blah blah, science, blah blah, get vaccinated, blah blahblahblah end of quote”
So BIDEN is Resigning?......
Last Saturday night, Mrs. POF and I went to the “Christmas Spectacular” in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. It truly was spectacular. It wove the Christmas story in with a tribute to the military at Christmas and a “God Bless America” tribute to our great nation. It was a great show. Lots of caroling, laughing, and smiling. The staff were wearing masks, but none of the 300 or 400 in the auditorium were and I didn’t hear of any of the performers being sick.
That’s just what everything he touches turns into…
the old sod is becoming a tyrant.
I wait with baited breath for what the white house has to say.
It’s “bated” breath. As in restrained or paused, Baited is when Tom eats some cheese to lure Jerry into his mouth.
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