Biden’s COVID Policies - Overconfidence and Overpromising

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   Sharlee01posted 3 years ago

   
   
   If there’s anything Joe Biden should have learned over the first year of his presidency, it’s that his attacks on Donald Trump’s management of the pandemic in 2020 were unfair.
   
   As of today, the White House struggles to cope with a new Covid wave that eclipse prior waves in the sheer number of confirmed cases. Perhaps Biden should be, in the quiet moment, and reflection and yes, even regret about the over-the-top assaults he and other Democrats made on Trump, stating Trump let the virus run rampant through pure callousness and neglect.
   
   In truth,  the virus has proved again and again to work in ways that are out of the control of governments both red and blue.
   
   Biden's own pledge to “shut down” the virus isn’t coming to fruition.   He seemed to perhaps assume, that the vaccines would crush cases, he relied on it.  While the vaccines have proved a much better protection against severe illness, they have not produced the outcome Biden had counted on.
   
   Biden also sought erroneously to blame a  once in a lifetime virus crisis on Trump, and verbally blame him for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American's. He accused him of bad intentions and poor policies in his handling of COVID.  Stating, Trump was responsible for the widespread outbreak last year, and he assured Americans that, with a change at the top, normal life could be restored, and that he intended to "Shut down the virus."
   
   Now, Covid variants continue to wreak havoc. He no longer claimed "he will shut down the virus" he will leave that up to individual states.   
   
   So,  if Biden were today to hold himself to the standards he set out during the campaign, he would be exposed as the same cold-blooded monster he accused Trump of being.   As it happens, after all the scorn he heaped on Trump for his handling of COVID.  Biden has been too rosy in his prediction to shut down the virus.  He now sees the extensive spread of the virus,  and the high level of problems a virus of this nature can cause an administration. All was just not as rosy as he felt it would be.
   
   Let's return to Biden's speech at the Democratic National Convention ---  He dramatically laid into Trump in his acceptance speech on that August day 2020.  “Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He’s failed to protect us. He’s failed to protect America. And my fellow Americans, that is unforgivable.”     
   
   However, now Biden has had nearly a year to “protect us,”   In my view, it is basically impossible to discern any Biden effect on the most basic Covid data. On Jan. 20, 2021, the day he was inaugurated, there had been roughly 25 million cumulative Covid cases in the United States; now there have been are over 50 million cases.   On Jan. 20, 2021, roughly 415,000 Americans had died; now, more than 800,000 have perished.
   
   Biden Stated in his convention speech.--   “Five million Americans infected by Covid-19. More than 170,000 Americans have died. The tragedy of where we are today is it didn’t have to be this bad. Just look around. It’s not this bad in Canada or Europe or Japan, or almost anywhere else in the world.”
   
   Yet, during 2021, the U.S. has outstripped Europe, Canada, and Japan in per capita cases and deaths almost all year long. Sure, Covid had already spread everywhere by the time Biden took office and had become a fiercely partisan issue in the United States, but it’s not as though he was making careful allowances for difficult circumstances when he was lodging his charges at Trump.
   
   The fact is that Biden has taken a different tone on Covid than Trump did while president. He paid more LIP  service to the science and demonstrated different masking practices.   And there are big policy differences between the two parties on Covid, especially around masks, mandates, and lockdowns. However,  as it turned out, none of these held the magic key to crushing the COVID pandemic. 
   
   In fact, the idea that we shouldn’t be locking down or shutting schools, positions that once were characterized as part of a Republican “death cult idea's,” is not now widely accepted by the Biden administration., even at a time when cases are surging higher than any other time in the pandemic. Is this not hypocritic?
   
   After Biden's Covid speech this past week, Biden took questions from the press and explained that the country currently has a shortage of rapid COVID tests. He claimed because the Omicron "wave came on so quickly". This has an all-to-familiar ring;   it’s the thing U.S. officials said when the CDC had its testing breakdown at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 under Trump. 
   
   The Democrats called Trump's testing problem a dire mistake in 2020.  But now they look at Biden's lack of supplying testing kits as a misfortunate problem that occurred due to not feeling Omicron would not spread so quickly.  Yet, for three months the new mutation Omicron was been reported in South Africa, and the virus has been a problem in the  UK for two months. Both countries showed that Omicron was a super spreader. Yet the US did not take the initiative to order more tests kits to be available to the public? Test that would be required to keep Americans at work, and perhaps children in schools, due to Biden's projected mandates that would be going into effect in the first part of Jan 2022.
   
   Before Christmas Biden claimed he ordered 500 billion tests, and that all American's will be eligible for a free COVID test. He talked about a website where one could get the tests. Unfortunately, at the time of his Dec speech, the tests had not been contracted for as of yet, and the website was not set up to obtain these COVID tests as of yet. 
   
   Throughout the Holiday citizens were having problems obtaining a COVID test that they needed due to being ill.  Many sat in lines for many hours, many not being able to get testing appointments for days.   Most sites that did sell COVID tests kits were out of kits, and many testing sites were not even making appointments to perform tests due to not having testing kits.
   
   Perhaps Biden should take a more realistic approach and acknowledge that the virus will not truly be shut down as he predicted.  Instead, he created expectations with his word that he can't deliver on.  In reality in my view,  preventing the pandemic was truely beyond Trump, and ending it has proven beyond Biden.  But Biden has been overconfident and certainly been making promises he has not kept.
   
   Free at-home COVID rapid tests: What to know about Biden's plan to deliver 500 billion kits. What's the truth. Dec 27th 2021
   
   "WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden says the federal government will buy half a billion COVID-19 rapid test kits and distribute them free of charge to people to use at home. But despite the high public demand for tests, it will still be several more weeks before these kits are available to be shipped. The administration is still working on details for how the program will work."
   
   "Does the government have the tests? DEC 27th 2021
   Not yet. As of this week, the departments of Defense and Health and Human Services were "executing on what's called an 'accelerated emergency contract,'" the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, said. The contract is expected to be signed soon." 
   
   Fact --- Jan 4th, 2022 --- 
   
   "U.S. finalizing the purchase of COVID tests, to be distributed for free." 
   WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) -" The Biden administration is finalizing contracts for 500 million rapid COVID-19 tests that it plans to distribute for free to Americans who request them, spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Tuesday." Source
   https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden- … 022-01-04/
   
   "When will the tests be delivered?
   The first delivery is expected in early January. All 500 billion kits will not arrive at the same time but instead will be delivered in batches."
   
   "My drugstore doesn't have any tests. How can I get a free kit from the government?
   
   "You'll go to a new government website to request a kit, but the site won't be functional until after the first batch of test kits have been delivered, Psaki said. She said the process was being handled that way to avoid creating more confusion for the public. But the idea is that anyone who wants a test kit would log onto this website to request one."
   
   I have not found any information on the website that Biden claimed we could get a COVID. testing kit --- Jan 6th, 2022.
   
   "We're obviously not going to put the website up until there are tests available," Psaki said
   https://abc7ny.com/covid-test-biden-tes … /11393472/
   
   In Biden's Dec speech on COVID Test Kits -- own words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMTN2qhQJ4
   
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      Sharlee01posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      We are having real  serious problems in regard to obtaining COVID tests or Kits in Michigan https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2 … mited.html
      
      Children have been told to return to school even though they can't obtain tests to check for negativity. Drug appointments are hard to find, and a long wait of days before the appointment.   It's impossible to find testing kits to purchase. Our health departments just say schedule appointments online. We need some kits here in Michigan, how about your state?

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