donald trump was president. vote for me, joe biden told us, and i will shut down covid. i will put in place a plan to deal with the pandemic. i don t shut down the economy. but i will shut down the virus. i am going to shut down the virus! pa i am going to shut down the virus. i will put in place a plan to deal with this pandemic responsibly bringing this country together with testing, tracing, and masking. i mn not going to shut down the country. i will shut down the virus. will: it would be a bit of an understatement to say a yer into his first term, joe biden has not done any of that. as of yesterday, according to the cdc, there have been over 816,000 americans who have died of the coronavirus. at the start of the year, that number was more than 364,000. that means in 2021, under joe biden, more americans have died of covid banded and all of