what i didn t appreciate her was throwing her hands up in the air and say ing, i ve done all thati can do. she vetoed a bill in alabama that would have allowed for vaccine passports. as governor, she could mandate that allstate workers get vaccinated. there s a lot that she can do to set the tone in her state. i don t think that she s helpless. but it is very frustrating right now. that is true, i think, in a lot of red states in this country. we re also learning this weekend, according to the washington post and some new reporting, that the white house is getting increasingly concerned about what could be this really strong summer surge. they write officials are looking at models that predict anywhere from a few thousand new covid cases to more than 200,000 every day in the fall. one new forecast estimates the united states could see three times the number of dayily deats from the coronavirus by october,