In his first televised teleprompter address to the Nation, intended to “commemorate the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown,” Biden harrowingly and lethargically related our COVID casualties to those suffered in American wars.
“Total deaths in America, 527,726,” Biden read before continuing, “That’s more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and 9/11 combined.” But our Nation’s efforts to combat COVID-19 have frequently been likened to a war. As recently as February 2021, Forbes ran an article with the headline, “How the Biden Administration Can Win the War Against COVID-19.”
On the one year anniversary of our mobilization to defeat COVID-19, I think we can affirm that we have been engaged in a war, but not one we can be proud of, or even claim to have won. I believe it is clear today that our so-called COVID war can and should be compared to Vietnam — futile and without end. Let’s call it Covidnam.