File photo of Jill Biden. Fox News/AP.
Jill Biden has tested positive for the Coronavirus. Fox News. Joe Biden was tested as well and has tested negative. Jill Biden reports only mild symptoms and it is the 2nd time she has had Covid. Jill Biden has been double vaccinated and double boosted for the disease but still caught it. The incident comes after reports of a resurgence in cases and rumors of a return to restrictions.
My Comment:
Normally someone catching what is the equivalent of a bad cold or a weak flu would not be national news but these are the times we are in. To be fair, Jill Biden is 72 years old which is about the time people should start to worry if they get a respiratory virus of any kind. She's still at an extremely low risk.
There is also a minor concern that Jill might have passed her virus over to Joe Biden who would be at elevated risk given his advanced age and generally poor health. Biden, quite frankly, looks like a stiff breeze could take him out so him getting a Coronavirus infection would possibly be an issue for him. So far he has tested negative and if he were to get sick he would get the best treatment money can buy.
Still, this whole thing makes me nervous. Nobody cares about the coronavirus anymore and the pandemic is essentially over. The virus has mutated to a dramatically less dangerous form and most people have a level of immunity from the virus.
Indeed, I personally don't care at all. Someone at work was sick with a cold last week and other than my general hypochondria I wasn't worried at all. Given that I was exposed to the virus dozens of times and never caught it as far as I am aware (or had it and I didn't know it), I'm not sure why I would be worried in the first place.
But given the fact that Jill Biden is a public figure and people are generally talking about bringing back Coronavirus restrictions I am concerned that this will be used as evidence that the restrictions should come back. If someone as famous as Jill Biden can catch the virus you can too, though I don't know why anyone would care.
What I do know is that even rumors of returning restrictions caused a massive outrage and at least one of the few companies that tried to bring back the mask mandates, Lionsgate, has already lifted it. I really don't think people will actually go back to the way things were in 2020, even if Jill Biden dies from this virus, an outcome that is extremely unlikely.
But the Biden administration might try it anyways. Keep in mind the only reason why they "won" in 2020 is because of mail in voting and the last minute changes they did to voting laws. A return to 2020 style restrictions could allow them to do the same thing and is about the only thing, short of assassinating Donald Trump (which seems to be on the table for these people) that would allow Biden to "win" in 2024...
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