Maybe more people died since Biden's inauguration, but that's largely due to idiots who won't vaccinate, wear masks or socially distance. Since January, vaccines have been widely available, free of charge and encouraged from the top down, whereas before, Trump actively sabotaged Covid mitigation efforts.

once again for the brain dead sheep that believe everything the propagandist media tells their flock… vaccines don’t stop the spread of covid. Biden is a complete failure on his no1 lie that he will stop Covid-19. He is a embarrassment to our country.

How about just reducing it? Honestly, if we actually had 75-90% of the population properly vaccinated, it would save hundreds of thousands of lives in the US. Clinical studies have already shown that vaccinated individuals are 70-95% less likely to become infected and are 11 times less likely to need hospitalization. That said, it's unclear how effective these vaccines will remain with all the variants coming along. Even the monoclonal antibody treatment (the one that President Trump got) is not effective against the omicron variant. Who knows what's next.

But Bart, if you've got some credible sources to show this isn't true, I'd like to see them.

It was a good case till it reached 'whereas ..'

Trump's push on the vaccines - while the leadership / regulatory agencies in the rest of the World, hesitated - is already referred to as the 'great moment' that broke the tidal curve 'exponential' of infection. For the record, statutory regulations required waiting periods of 3 to 6 months after each vaccine tests as the trails progressed to the next stage of increased sample population.

Sure Trump has multiple negatives but when this generation of politicians are gone, history will mark 'vaccination at warp speed' - as Trump's greatest achievement.

Regarding Biden's high point - as he says - it's 'build better infra keeping climate change in mind'. On the accompanying 'inflation'; there have been no convincing answers so it's going to be 'bite the bullet'.

So far, with allies / and non-allies; Biden's peaceful approach is working!! That's a real climate change. Yeah, I've to give this to the Dems.

I agree that vaccines do a great deal to lessen the severity of covid symptoms and most people will survive if they are vaccinated. But I haven’t seen evidence that it lessens the spread of Covid-19 . So I don’t see the need for mandates to protect others from getting Covid-19. With all the break thru examples I think the mandates are a overreach by the government

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data-vaccines.page

According to NYC dept. of health:
The vaccination rate for all people is 81% have had one dose and 72% are "fully vaccinated".
The vaccination rate for adults is 92% have had one shot and 83% are "fully vaccinated".

Even with one of the highest vaccinations rates nationally the NYC dept. of health states "Early evidence shows the omicron variant is spreading rapidly in NYC."
Average daily case counts in New York City more than doubled over the week ending Friday Dec. 17, according to the latest data available on the the city’s health department website. New York is reporting a seven-day average of more than 7,200 cases per day, up from about 3,200 the week prior, a 127% increase.

I don't know where you saw that "Clinical studies have already shown that vaccinated individuals are 70-95% less likely to become infected" the ACTUAL data from NYC, which has strict mask and vax mandates, contradicts what you posted.

I've received 3 vaccine shots, I'm not anti vaccination. Current data shows that the chance of being hospitalized if you are vaccinated is low but there isn't enough data to show "that vaccinated individuals are 70-95% less likely to become infected".
CDC earliest report on the Omicron variant showed that 79% of the cases were occurred in persons who completed the primary series of an FDA-authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine. It was a very small sample size but the trend showed there was a high rate of fully vaccinated people getting the Omicron variant.....the good news is the symptoms are cold/flu like.

In other words, you catch a cold. Like some do every winter if they aren't careful.

I happened to catch some doctor on tv a while back. He said that many that died from covid, were fat to obese. That got me to look up the stats on that. 50.5% of the covid deaths, happened to obese people. That came from that fly-by-night outfit called the CDC.

Some time ago, I had a couple friends get the flu. Their gripe points about it, was that they had gotten their yearly Flu shots, and still caught it. They couldn't figure out why. I asked them when they did get their shots, it was a month before the contracted it. Some investigation by me online,I found out their immunity to the flu would NOT come to them, for 6 to 8 weeks after their shots. Why? They are fat. The local pharmacy did not inform them about the waiting period for their immunity.

I Fully suspect that covid is operating in the same way.Your covid shots aren't protecting you completely for a time, say 6-8 weeks after you get them. Like if you're carrying extra baggage, then your shot immunity isn't fully in play, yet.

What I really think, is this Omacron variety, is going to get us to "Herd immunity". But biden gets to hold the record for having more covid cases during his watch than trump did. Mr."I'm defeating covid!" gets to brag on how he blew it.

That's a really good clarification. Thanks!

I'll also clarify that my previous statistics were for earlier variants of Covid. While the vaccines were shown to be up to 95% effective, they were only tested against the early (Alpha) variant, and Omicron is blowing everything up. Reports (not studies) indicate that vaccinated people suffer milder symptoms and are still less likely to require hospitalization, but Omicron also renders some prior treatments ineffective.

I suspect the continued vaccination mandates will continue for a few reasons. First, they save lives. In places with mandates, vaccination rates are higher, with fewer cases of Covid, fewer hospitalizations and deaths per capita. Second, mandates help businesses, keeping employees ready for work. It helps the economy. Lastly, mandates, even with diminishing returns show that we're at least doing something. Maybe they'll only save a couple hundred thousand lives over the long run, but some people actually support saving a few lives at the risk of other people's freedom.

Just like when Charlize Theron (White liberal actress) made claim to be "African-American", despite the FACT she was born in Benoni-Gauteng, South Africa, moved to the States, became a citizen and CAN rightfully make the claim she is "African-American".
Several black "leaders" about went apeshit (pun intended) when she called herself that.
Al Sharpton even came out and said "She can't be African-American, you have to be BLACK to be African-American".

how about this concept
you hire the most qualified person for the job regardless of their color or sexual preference
a qualification for a position should not be the color of skin or what you prefer to do in your your bed.
because after all, what the hell does that gave to do with doing your job

Kamala Harris meets all the requirements of the office. She's US-born and exceeds age and residency requirements. She's accomplishing as much or more than Mike Pence or Dan Quayle. I'm sure she's not Republican enough for you, but that's a feature; not a problem.

Wow, what ignorance on display here. Scary stupidity. My grandmother meets requirements too but that doesn't make her a good VP.

Kamala is "a woman of color" which was the ONLY reason she was on the ticket. She dropped out of the Presidential run BEFORE IOWA due to her unpopularity by her OWN PARTY and now, after seeing her in action (INaction actually), we all know why.

Mike Pence was the governor of my state. We thought he did a good job, because we re-elected him to another term as Governor. Dan Quayle stepped out of politics after his term of vice president. So how come we kept referring to harris as princess spread eagle? And just why did she lay an egg in Iowa?

really, can you name one accomplishment that she is responsible for. She’s been AWOL most of her 1st year( which is probably a good thing). One thing in her favor is at 30% approval rating she has higher numbers than sleepy joe.

Harris got her first 2 political appointment thru her affair with a married man, Mort. Harris received least then 1% of the vote before bailing out of the election race, meaning she was not even well liked within the Democratic party.
during the the VP selection her color snd gender were touted as a reason to pick her...not her accomplishments
Harris own people are fleeing in droves claiming that she is basically in way over her head.
but to be fair Mort, in one year what exactly are her major accomplishments? Let's start with the total failure at the boarder which she refused to visit for over 100 days but found the time to chris- cross the nation proping up Dems running for reelection.
with a 26% approval rating it would seem the Dems don't even like her experience level or manage/ people skills
but please ..do tell
what exactly has she done?

This is what happens when America is brainwashed by the Black Lies Matter and Me Too movement. The color of ones skin and/or race has become the number one priority in picking leaders, many people will admit they voted for Obama because he was "Black" knowing nothing else about him, mayors of many major cities are now people of color, color and/or sex is a part in choosing police and fire chiefs, apparently appearance is more important than knowledge and experience in this day and age.

Just because someone meets the "requirements" of a political position it doesn't mean the meet the competency or the qualifications a political position requires.

During the presidential primaries she met the requirements to be president. During the primary the RealClearPolitics polls showed Harris with just 3.4 percent support nationally, and just 3.3 percent and 2.7 percent backing in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire respectively. Democrat voters obviously DIDN'T think she was Democrat "enough" for them and that WAS a "problem" for HER, that was NOT a "feature" created by Republicans or the MSM.

But Harris has been a historic vice president...in November Harris's approval rating falls to 28%, a historic low for any modern vice president.

Bozo the Clown meets the requirements to be president too. But that doesn’t mean he would be a good choice for president…unless he’s running against any one of these progressive democrats that spew their ideology racism on a daily basis. It has nothing to do with republican or democrat it a lot to do with common sense and integrity which she has neither. She is a real bozo no no.

The guy who played Bozo died many years back, so no. Not qualified.

Veep Harris, on the other hand, is alive, holds a J.D. from U.C. Hastings, and won numerous elected offices. Compare that to the last guy: 4-year degree from a business school where he got his daddy to bribe the school to help him pass, then got his daddy to prop up his businesses. Probably only let them go bankrupt because his dad passed away. But I digress. Veep Harris is still better-than-average qualified, and Republicans are grasping for anything to discredit her. Shows they're scared. :D