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Posted on 02/21/2022 8:33:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden said the U.S. national emergency that was declared in early 2020 due to COVID-19 will be extended beyond March 1, citing what he called a “risk to the public health and safety.”
In a letter released on the White House website, Biden told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that “there remains a need to continue this national emergency.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the Nation. More than 900,000 people in this Nation have perished from the disease, and it is essential to continue to combat and respond to COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the Federal Government,” he wrote, adding that his office has “determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared” almost two years ago.
As of late last year, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Johns Hopkins University showed that there were 60,000 more COVID-19 deaths under the Biden administration than under the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump had declared a national emergency, which allowed the freeing up of about $50 billion in federal aid.
The emergency would have been automatically terminated unless, within 90 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the president sent a notice to Congress stating it would continue beyond the anniversary date.
“For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, and beginning March 1, 2020, must continue in effect beyond March 1, 2022,” Biden wrote in another statement, adding that the notice will be published in the Federal Register.
His decision to extend the emergency comes as several Democratic governors moved to rescind COVID-19 mandates, including mask rules, in recent days. The governors of New York and Massachusetts announced last week that they would end certain mask mandates in their states, following similar moves by New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Delaware, and Oregon.
Meanwhile, federal health officials last week indicated during a White House briefing that they were preparing for the next phase of the pandemic, as Omicron cases have dropped.
One of those officials, White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci, told MNSBC on Feb. 15 that he doesn’t believe political sentiment is the reason mandates are being dropped nationwide.
Some critics have said, however, that Democratic leaders are turning away from COVID-19 rules because they fear losing control in either the House or Senate in the 2022 midterms.
A Jan. 31 Monmouth University Poll showed that about 70 percent of Americans agree with the statement, “It’s time we accept that COVID is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives.”
I will go out on a limb here and say that covid-19 and its mutant variants will be around for a long time.
A continual state of emergency is not an emergency at all by definition.
Buy-DUNG ran on Fear-fear-fear.
He has absolutely NOTHING else to offer.
I have reluctantly come to the unfortunate and dismal conclusion that the election—if it was merely close and not overwhelmingly stolen (AND I BELIEVE IT WAS STOLEN...I’M FROM PENNSYLVANIA!)—became a referendum on COVID response.
Hula hoop circles vs. airport rallies.
Maskers vs. non-maskers.
“Safety” vs. freedom.
The Karans and Gavins won.
And now they are going for “More Winning!”
The UK ends all restrictions... The US continues on with the nonsense... Awesome!
So If they had any brains, and I do mean IF, this is yet another issue to beat the crap out of Rats with for the midterms.
Remember, they have to have WIDE margins to beat the Dominion cheatware.
Variants of the 1918 Spanish flu are still around, so buckle up...
He’s pulling the same crap Justine did in Canada.
I wonder what he’s going to do when the truckers arrive in DC.
Get ready to rumble!
Every time I hear the 900,00 death figure I say that about 330 MILLION did not die……everything is relative.
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And it became a harmless strain. We are not at that point with covid-19. We were pretty lucky with Omicron in that it wasn't not that virulent. But imagine they next variant that is as infectious as Omicron but as deadly as Delta? No one knows what will happen next.
The emergency is you let go of most of the nursing staff due to mandates and restricted people’s access to medical care. Kidney, heart, diabetes, cataracts, cochlear implants all sorts of things have not been attended to for two years.
Now the caca has hit the fan and emergency rooms are overloaded with patients who could not get care during the “emergency”. Okay, make it worse. (Just spent 10 hours alone in an ER room, no food, no water, no medicine, no IV as promised, no toilet, just got up and left, pulled monitors off setting off alarms, nobody came and told the nurses I had to go home to take the meds they would not give me, they just said “bye”. So I know; my doctor says she hears about this all the time)
Not Covid related, it’s a birth defect.
In other news, Bidet declared March 2 National Sniffles Day.
;-)
And that number is BS.
So, what is the emergency ?
He has to regroup! LOL
Communists.
Does the U. S. Constitution provide for unnamed powers in case of “emergency”?
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Soon it will be shutting down websites they deem “give aid and comfort to Russia”.
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