President Biden argues that “there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next few months” – which is exactly the opposite of what Presidential candidate Joe Biden promised voters during the 2020 campaign . Candidate Biden’s plan said that ‘the path of COVID-19 in America is heading in the wrong direction’, and only he can fix it.
The Biden plan came down to a bunch of nebulous promises that would be carried out to rectify the “Trump fiasco”, such as speeding up the development of a vaccine, producing more masks and putting governors under pressure to mask mandates to sign. Biden has repeatedly promised to change the trajectory of COVID-19. In a platform speech on October 23, Biden pledged to “immediately implement a national strategy that will put our country in a position to finally promote this virus and get our lives back.”
‘Immediate’ is an adverb that means immediate. That does not mean waiting to be honored for the vaccination of the Trump era.
Biden constantly underestimated the speed at which medical technology would move. Every time former President Donald Trump promised that a vaccine would be available by the end of the year, ‘fact checkers’ were deployed to claim it was a lie. By December 23, the United States was leading the world in vaccinations, with more than a million people vaccinated.
This is despite the fact that Democrats like then-candidate Kamala Harris made a cynical biased attempt during the presidential campaign to undermine confidence in the government by claiming that the effectiveness and safety of vaccines under Team Trump would be jeopardized.
Now CNN reports that Team Biden “has not inherited a coronavirus vaccine distribution plan.” An anonymous source claims that ‘there is nothing for us to rework. . . . We are going to have to build everything from scratch. ”
Why does CNN allow anonymity in a piece based on the previous government? Most likely because the claim is obviously untrue. Even the coronavirus tsar, dr. Anthony Fauci, refuted the idea. The existence of the vaccine also refutes the idea.
If there was no vaccine plan yet – or, as is the case, we need a better plan – why was the Biden government not ready with its own? The president promised to seek “governors and mayors and other leaders of both parties, from every state, territory and tribe, and consult with leaders on education, technology, business and labor” – basically everyone except your sister – so that he may be “ready to hit the ground running and fight the virus as our next president.”
The phrase “hit the ground running” means to start a new activity immediately and with a lot of enthusiasm.
At a news conference on Thursday, Biden claimed that the Trump administration’s distribution of coronavirus vaccines was a ‘sad failure’ and aimed to vaccinate 100 million Americans by the end of April, or about 1 million people per year. day.
But the day before Biden made his promise, Bloomberg said 1.6 million doses had already been administered in the United States. One hopes that Biden does not intend to delay the vaccinations, and that his ‘plan’ was merely a clumsy attempt to persuade a press to acknowledge him for the existing achievements.
When a reporter gently pushes back and notices how ambitious the government’s goals are, Biden shoots back: ‘When I announced it, everyone said it was not possible. Come on, give me a break, man. ‘ Did they? Who has? The Trump plan’s “plan” showed that by the end of April, the United States would administer at least 170 million doses.
I’m skeptical that Team Trump could have done much more to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Almost everything we did was reactive. Almost every economic and political system has also struggled to contain the virus. Almost every state, blue and red. However, it was not a prospect shared by Democrats that blamed Trump and Republicans for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens.
Biden has more power than Trump had – and all the new prez has done is bend.