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The new AT age – “After Trump” – began on either Election Day, Nov.
3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had
known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented.
Pfizer had
hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then,
mysteriously, it wasn’t. Then, stranger still, it appeared – a few days
after Election Day.
Suddenly, after Joe Biden’s inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and
other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their
economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates.
During
the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death
from COVID-19. Now, the media reports that career scientists and health
administrators in the federal government, especially at the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, were largely to blame for past slow
testing, and were tardy and lax in apprising the nation of the
infectious threat.
Coincidentally, after weeks of disastrous state incompetence in
getting residents vaccinated, Amazon has told the new administration
that it will lend its infrastructure and organization to speed up
vaccinations. If Amazon could announce that in late January, why not
weeks earlier?
Speaking of Amazon, it is opposing mail-in ballots
for its own employees voting on whether to unionize a warehouse in
Alabama. Amazon says it’s worried about fraud. Yet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
also owns the Washington Post, which ridiculed those who were concerned
about massive mail-in voting in the 2020 election.
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