The president condemns those who are ‘peddling lies’ about the virus but promises that the vaccinated are well protected
gingerbread White House is coated in pristine icing and decorated with tiny wreaths, surrounded by miniature fire, gas and police stations, a grocery store, post office, warehouse and school, complete with yellow bus.
A long queue of people snakes around a testing site a couple of blocks from the White House. It’s a deja vu of death and despair. The president, who in his January inaugural address spoke of “a winter of peril and possibility”, finds himself in another winter where peril appears to have the upper hand. He is also aware that rightwing critics are eager to portray him as a pro-lockdown, pro-mandate, joy-killing Ebenezer Scrooge.
Biden began with his signature empathy card. “I want to start by acknowledging how tired, worried and frustrated I know you are. I know how you’re feeling. For many of you, this will be the first or even the second Christmas where you look – across the table will be an empty kitchen chair there.”
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