Joe Biden’s victory in the USA presidential election has taken over from coronavirus as our main, obsessive concern.
A welcome change too. Helping us realise that other countries are going through the same frustrating, exhausting experience.
In his first speech as President elect Mr Biden spoke of the need for his country to unite and stop the feuding and violence, but his first priority is to make a better job of taming coronavirus than Mr Trump, who was a disaster.
It should not be difficult. Mr Trump has alternated Between almost dismissing it, ignoring the rising death toll, and even suggesting it could be defeated by drinking disinfectant!
It wont be easy.
The USA, with 10 million cases and 249,000 deaths, has one of the worst records in the world and there is little sign of improvement.
The last four years will go down as one of the most bizarre periods in the country’s history with an almost deranged leader addressing his country and the world with middle of the night tweeting.
America deserves better and at least there is now a possibility of sane, calm leadership.
The news has delighted Doreen Murphy, my friend in New London, Connecticut. Doreen, a former teacher and friend of Therese in Penarth, says it has made her feel better than for years. The pandemic has got worse there - no plan, leadership or penalties so people do as they please. She says she is ‘hunkered down’ in her condominium, missing her family.
In Britain, the hopes are that in England, the new restrictions will slow the second wave and in Wales the easing tomorrow will lead to a calmer period with people starting to relax and even enjoy themselves.
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