Can Pelosi Make the Center Hold?

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention at the George R. Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. June 19, 2019. (photo: Gage Skidmore)

This past year has been unfairly hard on Democrats.

Elections have consequences, and it seems winning in 2020 meant a good deal more than sending Donald Trump out to pasture in furthest Florida.

Winning in 2020 meant getting stuck on clean-up duty, KP- come what may with COVID19. And what came was far from an orderly retreat of the novel coronavirus and a full return to life as usual.

The challenges of COVID19 alone continued well into Joe Biden’s presidency, as we all know only too well. Variants, endless debates over masking, school closures, mandates; all juxtaposed against a steady march of deaths from covid, hospitalizations from covid, and covid cases.

A recent move by the administration to change the way hospitals report COVID19 may provide some much-needed good news.

Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations

Everyone checking into a hospital for any reason over the past two years has been tested for COVID19. Considering how many people are asymptomatic, this testing choke point may have…