We really weren't better off...

“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” challenged Representative Elise Stefanik at a news gaggle a few weeks back. Since, many Republicans have joined the battle cry because Americans seem to have put Covid in the past - and all the economic woes that came with it.  

But, just in case you forgot, here are some of the CNN headlines from the first three weeks in May, 2020:

• Global protests over George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. 

• Kroger is limiting ground beef and pork purchases in some stores

• Ocean warming is causing massive ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antarctica

• Pentagon says Taliban attacks increased following signing of agreement with US

• Jared Kushner proclaims that his father-in-law’s handling of the coronavirus in “great success story” after 60,000 deaths in America

• Trump on handling coronavirus:  “I think we’ve done a great job”

• Trump tweets support for armed Michigan protestors

• No one can find disinfectant wipes

• Officials removing bodies from overwhelmed Brooklyn funeral home

• Florida Governor cites DHS study on sunlight killing Covid to justify the reopening of state parks

• Expert report predicts up to two more years of pandemic misery

• Nearly 100 people may have died from coronavirus at a nursing home in New York City

• The next generation of teachers grapples with uncertainty as coronavirus shuts schools

• City's proclamation requiring face masks in stores and restaurants is amended after threats of violence

• US unemployment hasn't looked this bad since the 1930s

• GE is cutting up to 13,000 jobs at its jet engine division because of the pandemic

• Experts caution 'covid slide' looming for children out of school

• Tyson warns more meat plant closures are coming

• Costco is limiting how much meat customers can buy

• US coronavirus death toll passes 80,000 as states move to phased reopening

• America is trailing in the clean energy race

• Nearly 40% of low-income workers lost their jobs in March

• The recovery from coronavirus could take years

• The price of reopening the economy: tens of thousands of American lives

• Disney’s profit plunged 91% last quarter as its parks closed their doors

• Wendy’s beef shortage will last a few more weeks

• For the first time in its history, New York City deliberately shut down its entire subway system this morning

• Trump says administration will continue legal fight to eliminate Obamacare

• Trump suggests 'injection' of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and 'clean' the lungs (April 24, 2020)

• The Class of 2020 will be graduating online. They're not happy about it

• Customer shot a McDonald's employee after being told to leave due to coronavirus restrictions, police say

• 48 states have ordered or recommended that schools don't reopen this academic year

• Nurses head to the White House to protest lack of protective equipment

• Allies despair as Trump abandons America's leadership role at a time of global crisis

Bring back any memories?  

We were just getting settled into a stay-at-home lifestyle this time four years ago due to the total mismanagement of the Trump administration’s Covid "policy".  And the economy - well not much of that left either, as Trump sacrificed American lives for American dollars in his futile attempt for re-election.  

Worse, we were slipping in our role as leaders of the free world, thanks to the insanity of the Trump Administration’s policy toward NATO and his chummy alignment with the true authoritarians of the world, like Putin.  

Want to go back, now that we have a roaring economy, an open society, and respect once again by our allies across the globe?  

Spread the reality to anyone who will listen: we really weren't better off four years ago, and we will not get a second chance to repair the damage done if Trump gets four more years to destroy the real progress of the Biden administration.