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Thomas Martinson's avatar

I work in the SSA and we're coming back to office and starting in person services again but Masks will be required which is not well thought out. I have a union so they may be pushing them as they have in other places. I'm hoping they change course before we return at the end of the month.

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Bob Relyea's avatar

OK, as a moderate republican, I found Biden's speech refreshing. Finally a president talking to the Nation, not his base. While I may not agreed on everything he said, I found the move toward solving bi-partisan issues refreshing. I loved the fact that more than once he said something that got more Republican applause then Democratic applause. The fact that Covid was mentioned, but not the central issue of the speech was a good thing. For me, Covid restrictions are quickly becoming irrelevant. Omicron has finally handled the un-vaxxed population. I expect I'll continue to get the boosters at the same time I get my annual flu shot. Vaccination mandates (on either side, either governments requiring them, or governments restricting businesses from requiring them) are now nothing more than partisan signalling. In another month, unless there's another nasty variant, so will masking.

For me, spending the majority of the speech on Ukraine, fighting inflation, and moving forward on your policy agenda signals 'getting back to normal'. Yes, Covid is there, but it's no longer driving what we plan to do in the future. Looking at tackling issues that Democrats and Republicans can agree on lowers the temperature, which is badly needed.

This year, I did not feel the need to listen to any 'response' as a pallet cleanser, but took great solace in the fact that both the extreme right and extreme left felt threatened by this agenda. This is why I voted for Biden to begin with. I'm glad he's finally working on his values, not those of the left ring of the part.

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