National overview
The dishonesty of Biden’s COVID messages
After a campaign in which Joe Biden expressed the full confidence that he could put an end to the coronavirus pandemic, or at least limit the damage it caused, his administration’s handling of the pandemic has much to be desired. left. Rinse back to last fall. Biden gave speeches about how he did not trust Donald Trump on vaccines in general and was therefore skeptical about the coronavirus vaccines in particular. Kamiden Harris, then-Senator Kamala Harris, said she would be reluctant to take a vaccine that came out during Trump’s term. When she was asked if she would do it as dr. Anthony Fauci and other authoritative health authorities would endorse it, she doubles: ‘They will be muzzled; they will be oppressed. ‘By December, it was clear that the vaccines were in fact on the verge of FDA approval, and that the distribution by the time Biden and Harris took their positions above the executive would be well under way. Biden received the Pfizer vaccine mid-month, and Harris received it just before the end of the year. It was only right that the principals of the incoming administration should be protected. But it remains so that Biden and Harris, without foundation, undermined confidence in a medical miracle for their own political benefit and then jumped to the forefront of the substantial line for it. After receiving the vaccine, Biden moved to the White House with the mandate to bring the pandemic under control. He announced his moonshine plan for national vaccination: he delivered 100 million shots by his 100th day in office. It was a dishonest PR ploy. During the week of Biden’s inauguration, the US achieved an average of 983 000 vaccinations per day, which means that the government itself set a standard that it could already ensure. Of course, the public noticed this, and almost immediately Biden had to increase his goal: he would now aim for an average of 1.5 million vaccinations per day at the end of his first 100 days. We have already reached that higher target, and not because of the new efforts of the Biden administration. As Jim Geraghty of National Review reported, the Biden administration’s vaccination plan includes new federal sites, but no more doses of the vaccine. It does not provide an opportunity to expand vaccination efforts – there are already many places where people can be vaccinated, but a bureaucratic obstacle that made the states more difficult, some of whom were not even aware that additional doses would not be available. . at the new sites. Even worse, the Morning Jolt of yesterday noted that there is still a large gap between the number of vaccines that Pfizer and Moderna provide and the number of vaccines actually administered: according to the New York Times, according to the New York Times, Moderna and Pfizer have more sent more than 70 million doses to the states, and somehow the states received only 52.8 million of these shots in the arms of humans. The Bloomberg graph has a slightly better figure, showing that states administered 54.6 million doses, of about the same total. It leaves between 15.4 and 17.2 million doses in transport or sits somewhere on the shelves. The country, according to Times data, vaccinates about 1.67 million people a day, 1.69 million a day on the Bloomberg chart. Not good. The Biden administration was likewise flawed in its approach to reopening the school. White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced last week that his goal was to keep 51 percent of schools “at least one day a week”. This target suffers from the same problem as the vaccination target: it has already been reached and exceeded. About 64 percent of the school districts had already offered some sort of personal education when Psaki spoke. Given the enormous cost of virtual tuition to students, the goal is to open the remaining 36 percent and make partial reopens full-time again. To some extent, during a CNN City Hall event on Tuesday, Biden stepped back from Psaki’s incredibly lazy goal, saying, “I think a lot of them [will be open] five days a week. The goal is to be five days a week, and to call Psaki’s statement a ‘mistake’. However, there are still questions: if it was just a mistake, why did it take a week to correct it? And why is the correction so vague to allow for fudging? How much is exactly what ‘many’ is for the Biden government? Biden’s expectation game is a symptom of a bigger problem: he never had the plan to deal with the pandemic. His assertion about the campaign season that he did it was always a smoke-and-mirror act that had more to do with tone and messages than it did policy. To disguise the absence of tangible changes it brings to the fore, the new government tried to flood the zone with already achieved goals and then designate their achievements as achievements. Dishonesty takes many forms, and the government of Biden has not proven itself more straightforward than its predecessors, even though the deception is sometimes more artistic.