President Joe Biden is opening a new line of attack against former President Donald Trump this week, flipping the script on the classic Reagan-era “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” question to remind voters of life during his predecessor’s tenure.
The pandemic lasted from early 2020 with a public health emergency lasting through into 2023. COVID itself has become a global endemic; similar to the flu.
The economic effects, the death toll. The social unrest. It was all only ramping up.
People stopped dying. That’s about the only way the situation has improved. But dead people are still dead and they’re not going to be coming back. Everything else has continued to degrade.
So yes. I am much worse off now than 4 years ago. Or any other time in 2020.
The pandemic lasted from early 2020 with a public health emergency lasting through into 2023. COVID itself has become a global endemic; similar to the flu.
The economic effects, the death toll. The social unrest. It was all only ramping up.
People stopped dying. That’s about the only way the situation has improved. But dead people are still dead and they’re not going to be coming back. Everything else has continued to degrade.
So yes. I am much worse off now than 4 years ago. Or any other time in 2020.
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”