Hope Shows Its Bright Face Once More
Yesterday brought some good news for almost everybody…except, of course, the Trumpenproles of Trump nation.
First and best among the blessings, Pfizer’s two-phase COVID-19 vaccine is ready to go, and according to General Gustave F. Perna, chief operating officer in charge of Operation Warp Speed, distribution is also poised and ready to go. Such was the message he delivered on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes telecast.
Second best tidings—“Acting” President (or Acting Presidential, if you insist) Joe Biden has already assembled his team to fight the pandemic that has killed so many world-wide.
There were celebrations of hope on the city streets across the nation, and indeed around the world—hope that our darkest days are behind us; our energetic President Elect, Healin’ Joe Biden, promises to give executive orders on January 20 to rejoin the Paris climate accord treaty and the World Health Organization, to strike down Trump’s ban on travel by Muslims to our country, and to reinstate the Trump-sidetracked “Dreamers” program.”
There may even be good news for our sulking would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump; the Dow Jones rose almost 900 points yesterday, and he has always reckoned the state of our national economy by the day’s numbers on the Big Board. Ooops! Sorry, I forgot he got deposed and is no longer responsible for our finances. As for his own, I’m guessing that the outgoing president’s personal finances don’t look very promising these days, now that Deutsche Bank has wised up. And then there’s that outstanding debt. As Polonius admonished, “Never a borrower be”…or something like that.
May your present joy last long and be justified by our common effort to face and reverse the many existential challenges threatening to extinguish the human species.
Yours in Schadenfreude,
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