Joe Biden unites and reassures on Thanksgiving

Joe Biden unites and reassures on Thanksgiving

Joe Biden - Adopting a unifying tone sharp with that of the president to whom he will succeed, Joe Biden used a speech on Thanksgiving to assure Americans that they would go through the pandemic "together".

 

Speaking from his stronghold of Wilmington, Delaware, and looking directly at the camera, the president-elect Biden urged them to remain hopeful, but without letting their guard down, at the dawn of a winter that promises to be difficult.

 

As Thanksgiving approaches, which will take place on Thursday; Joe Biden highlighted the sacrifices made by Americans, for whom this holiday is of the utmost importance. Many of them have given up traditional family festivities due to the pandemic.

 

Public health experts have warned that large family gatherings risked escalating the outbreak of cases already seen and called on people not to travel during the leave.

 

Biden News: Over the past weekend, airport traffic was reduced by more than half compared to last year. But air transport authorities have reported nearly 5 million travellers in the past five days, including more than a million on Sunday, the busiest day since mid-March.

 

Biden the one who will be the 46th President of the United States wanted to lead by example, noting that his own family had resolved to hold separate gatherings.

 

Biden stated, we are all in this together, urging his fellow citizens to stick together.

We cannot forget we are at war with the Covid-19 virus, not one and other.

 

Joe Biden, President-elect of the United States

There is hope, hold on. I know we can and will triumph over this virus, Biden said, promising things would get back to normal.

 

Speaking to relatives of some 260,000 victims of COVID-19, Joe Biden, who lost his first wife and daughter in the 1970s, then his son Beau in recent years, said he understood the ordeal of a first Thanksgiving with a loved one less.

 

I have vivid memories of the first Thanksgiving, the disused chair, the silence. It takes your breath away. It's really hard to get interested. It's hard to give thanks. It's hard to think about the future. It's so hard to hope. I understand.

 

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Referring to the November 3 election, Joe Biden was also pleased with a turnout that had not been seen since the beginning of the last century. Let us be grateful for democracy itself. Our democracy has been put to the test this year, and here is what we have learned: The American people are up to the task, he said.

 

It was the president-designates Biden’s first speech since the official start of the transition process on Monday, but he held a press conference on Tuesday to introduce his national security team.

 

A crisis that remains serious

 

For now, the situation related to COVID-19 remains of great concern: the number of hospitalizations, deaths, and positive tests are all on the rise.

 

The United States on Wednesday recorded more than 2,400 deaths linked to COVID-19 in 24 hours, the deadliest day in more than six months, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The daily threshold of 2,000 deaths was thus crossed for a second consecutive day.

 

The country has also recorded nearly 200,000 new cases.

 

Pledging to use the broad powers of the federal government when it is in power, for example by increasing drug tests, providing more protective equipment, and giving clearer guidelines to businesses and schools, Mr. Biden assured that the United States would change the course of the disease.

 

Joe Biden nonetheless hammered home that everyone had a responsibility to curb the spread of the virus.

 

Distinguishing himself from his predecessor, he advocated for compliance with measures recommended by US health authorities, such as physical distancing, limiting the size of gatherings, and wearing a mask. While waiting for the distribution of vaccines, these are our most effective tools to fight the virus, he recalled.

 

None of these actions that we are asking people to take is a political statement. Each of them is based on science, real science insisted Joe Biden.

 

Biden News - President Trump, who himself contracted the coronavirus in October, has often ridiculed the wearing of the mask, to the point of making a simple piece of cloth a political fault line, held large rallies, and quickly pressed the States to reopen their economies.

 

While Joe Biden appealed for unity, the current occupant of the Oval Office was challenging the verdict of the polls for the umpteenth time around the same time, insisting on the need to overturn the election. Donald Trump was participating by telephone in an event that brought together his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and several Republicans in the state of Pennsylvania.

 

A symbol of the different approaches of the two camps, the meeting was held without social distancing, and most of the participants did not wear masks. Rudy Giuliani, who has himself been exposed to two people who have been diagnosed positive in the past few days, has not given up on showing up.

 

Since the start of the pandemic, which Donald Trump has continuously minimized, the country has totalled nearly 12.7 million known cases.

 

Shortly before the election, he said the crisis was coming to an end.