So President Biden has been busy...I don't know how all of you feel about that, and to be honest I know there have been a flurry of executive orders to the point where some critics of Biden have use the words "record-setting" executive orders. I wish I was more knowledgeable on all of them to have a better viewpoint, but I don't so I'm not going to try and attempt whether all of these moves are good or bad. From what I do hear, placing some importance on climate change issues and immigration and racial injustice sound good, but those issues have been important to past administrations as well, even if the specifics of the orders were different.
And the whole thing with executive orders confuses me a bit. You current social studies folks probably know more about them than I do. I get the impression that some of them are more ceremonial than anything and others of them are challenged in the judicial branch for legality purposes.
The COVID issue obviously hasn't gone away with the new administration and this administration is being criticized for the slow pace at which vaccinations are distributed. It's difficult to wrap my brain around the reported goals of past administrations and this administration, but it is disheartening to hear local news stories of local different county health departments that were expecting to get thousands of doses of vaccine but received one hundred. I don't pretend to have a solution, I just sort of think the role out of the first vaccines seemed to get a lot of hype in the network broadcast news shows, but perhaps at that point any type of good news was just good to hear.
Kayla B., Sydney, Kaylee,
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