LIVE: Biden Addresses the Nation on One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Covid Shutdown

(Mar. 11) President Joe Biden will address a pandemic-weary nation on Thursday to mark the day a year ago when the spread of coronavirus forced Americans into isolation, swiftly collapsing the economy and portending more than a half-million deaths.

Biden’s prime-time remarks will acknowledge the personal and collective struggles of the past 12 months while looking ahead to a more promising future in which enough of the U.S. population is vaccinated to minimize the risk of the virus.

“I’m going to talk about what comes next,” Biden said Wednesday. “I’m going to launch the next phase of the Covid response and explain what we will do as a government and what we will ask of the American people. There is light at the end of this dark tunnel.”

The date of March 11, 2020, will remain seared in the national memory as a moment when the peril of Covid-19 hit home. The World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the National Basketball Association suspended its season and actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced they’d been infected.

Biden’s presidential campaign, riding high after a string of primary victories that made him a near-lock for the Democratic nomination, began to consider how to address the pandemic. With then-President Donald Trump downplaying the threat, Biden was able to mount politically damaging attacks and present a more sober vision of what lay ahead.

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[angelslayer]

Welcome to our 1 year anniversary of our 15 week slow the spread

[turkthemarineguy]

Tell me why this looks green screened?

[charleysoutthere]

No criminals allowed. Get out of the white house

[richyp]

“In reality they’re not after me. They’re after you.”  President Trump

[sethmarler]

Look at this guy take credit for all of Trump's work

[tone]

The most supposed beloved president ever has more dislikes than likes, on all of his latest speech videos . I wonder why ?

[Aaron-wqlt]

Energy level is not good. Totally reading. Why even show him? Just have an audio clip. I still wonder how he's gonna sit with other leaders and come across as a powerful president. Maybe he won't. Maybe he will just hang out for 4 years while congress plays tennis with their questioning of people for just dead ends

[nothingelsetodo]

Talk about something else besides covid. We all understand whats going on with covid.

[TP-neez]

OK, I was open-minded listening to this President tonight but one thing that really pisses me off is using the war deaths analogy compared to RELATED Covid deaths, I feel sadden for all the veterans who fought and who died in the wars to be used by this guy to make an analogy.
527, 000 / 332 million =0.0016 or 0.16% RELATED Covid deaths, While deaths by soldiers in WWII was nearly 10% of those who fought....it was very very very much higher % dying in WWII than a RELATED Covid death. This President should be ashamed using that comparison, its unpatriotic.

[BH]

Barely two months in, worst president ever!

[youasked]

great editing - taped in 10 segments and edited seamlessly

[MTWood]

Not my president. Take him out back. Soon.

[kenriley]

I have lost all faith in the government

[neanderthal]

There once was a girl in DC
Who serviced politicians with glee
She said with a grin
As she wiped off her chin
I can't wait till the day I'm VP

[raydugas]

Worries about covid. Hates covid. But opens the border.

[smallfried]

This is like a limp handshake, also prerecorded.

[starplatinum]

He won't answer questions from the press, he looks petrified of the news people

[gabbyphillips]

Loved how he didn’t answer press questions😅😂

[kylejensen]

Teleprompter President brought to you by Hollywood, Big Tech, and China.

[mynameis_d]

No live comments? Why? The MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT IN HISTORY


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