CHAPTER 7Build a Legacy
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
—Joe Biden
The day before his first Memorial Day weekend as president, President Joe Biden declared, “Covid cases are down [close to 90 percent from the highs of the winter of 2020], Covid deaths are down, unemployment filings are down, hunger is down. Vaccinations are up, jobs are up. Growth is up. To put it simply, America is back. America is on the move.”1 Biden had much to celebrate that day.
Little did he know that the world was about to be turned upside down once again. By the time Labor Day arrived, the United States had experienced a terrible reversal of Covid-19 fortune. That was particularly true in the most Southern states. Daily cases had been up since July 4, due to the Delta variant, a far more virulent form of the strain. Millions of Americans, spurred on by lawmakers and governors who politicized science, had enough of the virus. But no matter how “finished” people were with the virus, this new, more deadly Delta variant was nowhere finished with America.
Biden was understandably frustrated. He and his administration could not have done more to make multiple vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J) free and available within five miles of most every American's home. Yet vaccine hesitancy was literally killing America.
While most Americans were accustomed to choosing a political party, they were less familiar with the way Covid-19 was used as some oath barometer ...
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