Biden, Masks, and the American Sheeple, by Douglas Andrews

One wonders whether Joe Biden had the self-awareness to notice last week that so few of the 40 world leaders in the virtual room for his two-day “climate summit” were wearing a mask. Biden, as seen on numerous video snapshots, appeared at times to be the only masker there. We’re told by the always-helpful fact checkers that he wasn’t, but he was nonetheless the leader of a tiny and embarrassingly conspicuous minority. (COVID, for the record, is not a computer virus — it can’t leap through the ether and nail us from afar.)

What, though, must those other world leaders have thought about the American president? Hadn’t he already been vaccinated? (Answer: yes.)

Perhaps Biden was masked because his handlers were right there next to him, just off screen, telling him exactly what to say next. But hadn’t they already been vaccinated, too? (Answer: certainly.) …

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