It's a fait accompli COVID is DEFEATED...HUH?

Here is where people need to relax. Imagine FDR fireside chats where he only ever talked about American deaths in Europe and Pacific, how the Nazis were almost invading England, where Japan had crippled the Navy in the Pacific. American morale would have been busted, losing the will to work 16 hour days (some sleeping on the factory floor), because there was no HOPE. No, he chose to focus on the things that were good, and positive. The Doolittle Raid...did nothing strategically. But it gave Americans HOPE that we could take the fight to the Japanese mainland. Yet, FDR claimed a victory here. Why?

This is no difference, he is trying to give people the optimism, the positivity, that this can be defeated, you don't have to be fearful. As a osteopathic thinker myself, positive thoughts can really influence your health. A does of optimism is OK and the whole country needs to see what it is he is doing: Giving America hope that we will get beyond this, you can beat it, we can move on. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen, set backs won't happen, but holistically, as a Nation, we will be OK.

With that said, I wish he wasn't so combative against measures that work (i.e. masks and distancing). But the world has to go on, leave it up to the local elected officials. The federal government needs to get on with business as usual, they have done about all the can (DPA, red tape, vaccine pre-purchase, etc) to get us into position.

After-all, we are a Republic. Each state and county needs to solve their own challenges based on their individual economies and demographics. Oh, and let's remember, Elections!