U.S. Covid-19 Projections Paint A Grim Picture For 2022 And A Possible Political Disaster For President Biden And Democrats

Stephen Collinson, CNN: Fauci's new 2022 timeline for Covid fight could be a political disaster for Biden and Democrats 

(CNN)President Joe Biden just got some deeply unwelcome news: The pandemic that he was elected to end could drag on deep into a midterm election year, with all the political and economic destruction that could bring. 

The warning by the government's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the crisis won't be under control until spring of next year -- and even then, it will need most American vaccine skeptics to change their minds -- came as a severe jolt to a weary nation. 

It also meant that Biden's best-laid plans of triumphing over the pandemic and riding an economic wave into the campaign for congressional election results in November next year now look at risk. 

A pandemic that stretches through another grim winter and beyond risks slowing the economic recovery on which Biden is relying for a strong performance next year. It could demoralize the public and trigger the kind of sour mood among the electorate that always spells danger for incumbents. Already, the President's personal approval ratings and public confidence in his management of the pandemic have been ebbing, according to recent NBC and CBS polls. 

Biden's partial declaration of victory over the virus on July Fourth looks highly premature -- as do earlier US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxations of mask guidance.  

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Update: Dr. Fauci says no end to COVID pandemic before spring 2022 — at the earliest (NYDaily News)  

WNU Editor: In the past week there has been two days where Covid-19 deaths surpassed 1,000 on each day (U.S. Covid stats are here). 

Over 240,000 Americans have died since President Biden's inauguration, and if current trends continue it will easily surpass the number of Covid-19 deaths during President Trump's term by spring 2022. 

President Biden and the Democrat Party ran on a platform in 2020 that they would handle the pandemic better than President Trump and the Republicans. It looks like this is a promise that they are not going to keep.

I usually disagree with the above CNN's Stephen Collinson, but I agree with his analysis that if the Covid pandemic continues into 2022, this will become a political disaster for the President Biden and Democrats. 

As to what is my take on there being another destructive Covid wave in 2022. 

During this pandemic I have become a student on the history of pandemics. I certainly have read enough books on the subject to feel that I have a better than average knowledge on what we are facing. 

Bottom line. 

Global pandemics like the Spanish in 1918 last an average two to three years. This means we are probably more than half-way finished in this one.

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