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| DATE | 2021-02-12 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Not being silent in the face of broad lies
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In previous presidencies, especially under Obama, I'd been more or less
content to let the lies from the adminstrationt to just go forward,
without much protesting. After all, all politicians lie, if not all
people, and this would be the officer elected by the people. And
through all that, I watched our healthcare system systematically
destroyed, our freedoms eroded, and hysterics to become the accept
political party line.
Not this time. Joe Biden, like Andrew Cuomo, is a bad human being who
lies to promote his standing to a fearful nation. Here is a prime
meating example.
Biden will have us rewrite history and claim Trump never pushed through
the vaccine programs and had no plan to administer vaccine. IT IS A
BALD FACED LIE.
There would be no vaccines without Trump relentlessing pushing for them
while our FDA and government agencies, like Fauci, through water on the
idea (and STILL DOES) and dragged their feet on aprovals while
misrepresenting the facts.
Here is the FACTS:
In the US we can distribute vaccines to every American and in the
shortest of possible time scales and we have done so for generations.
This is not a theory. We have done this repeatedly. The Federal
Government has minimal direct role in this. States run their state wide
healthcare systems, and the private sector provides drugs and vaccines.
NOBODY can distribute these vaccines better than Pfizer can directly to
the public through normal business channels, and neither can anyone else.
We have created in NY and elsewhere soviet style bread lines for
vaccnations. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH US.
Vaccinations can be had from millions of MDs, Nurses, and Pharmacist,
especailly pharmacists, nation-wide. If the vaccine was available, it
could be distributed instantly.
The Federal purchase of vaccines was a GIFT to the pharmacy companies to
gurantee sales even in the event that the vaccines didn't work. THAT
CATALIZED AND UNDERWROTE the R&D needed to get these vaccines up and
running in record time. And BTW - Moderna was able to make its vaccine
in FOUR DAYS. Everthing else has been safety testing and playing
politics with the FDA and NIH.
There is NOTHING for Biden or Coumo to do at this point but to get the
fuck out of the way. They can nationalize production if they wanted to
and throw Federal money in order to the ramp up vaccine production to a
degree that would not make sense otherwise economically, and I would see
wisdom in that, and only if they want to... but they are not doing that.
They can expand payments to healthcare provides and expand funding to
healthcre systems so we aren't wiped out by a minor epidemic, but they
WON'T DO THAT either.
So they aren't doing a damn thing. Biden is Lier and inhuman, taking
advantage of ignorance and fear, fear they create with there 24/7 hysterics.
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wsj.com
Opinion | Joe Biden’s Covid Schooling
Kimberley A. Strassel
6-8 minutes
WSJ Opinion: Joe Biden's Coronavirus Schooling
WSJ Opinion: Joe Biden's Coronavirus Schooling
WSJ Opinion: Joe Biden's Coronavirus Schooling
Potomac Watch: Rather than reopen classrooms, the new president coasts
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Handling a pandemic is hard work. Lucky for Joe Biden, he’s discovering
his predecessor did most of the heavy lifting.
Mr. Biden ran on two big promises. One was national unity, which he has
redefined as Republicans agreeing to his agenda. The other was to “get
control of the virus that’s ruined so many lives”—enabled, he says, by
the Trump administration and “the worst performance of any nation on
earth.” He would do this by “finally” imposing “a plan” to get the
economy running, schools open, vaccines distributed.
The new administration has spent every minute talking coronavirus. Yet
90% of its energy has gone to trashing its predecessor and resetting
expectations, not to any sweeping policy change. Logistically, it would
seem Mr. Biden inherited a fine plan after all. In the few areas where
he might actually force improvement—notably reopening schools—the
president has whiffed.
On the top priorities, vaccine production and distribution, Mr. Biden
continues to pretend he had to start from scratch. This week he accused
the Trump administration of misleading his team about the amount of
“vaccine available.” How so? The prior administration started placing
bets on vaccine candidates last summer, helping companies manufacture
them before clinical trials were complete. By December, two vaccines,
from Pfizer and Moderna, had panned out, and officials had announced
that a total of 400 million doses would be delivered by summer.
The Biden administration has made little change to the
vaccine-production plan; there’s nothing much to be done. It made hay of
its early decision to order 200 million more doses. But the deal won’t
accelerate the pace of production and may prove unnecessary as other
vaccines become available sooner. The administration also crowed that it
is invoking the Defense Production Act, ordering suppliers to prioritize
Pfizer’s demand for raw materials. A good sound bite, though
unnecessary. The Trump administration already provided Pfizer priority
with a deal in December.
The new administration has made no real changes to vaccine distribution
either, relying on the sweeping logistical network already in place.
Team Biden did inject racial politics into distribution, announcing this
week it would increase “equity” by sending more shots directly to
community health centers that serve minorities. Yet these allocations
will be small at most, given supply. How good was that existing
distribution plan? Mr. Biden within a week of taking office had to
revise his “100 million shots in 100 days,” given the states had already
outpaced it.
Most of what the administration is doing seems aimed at aggravating the
nuisance of Covid mitigation. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention now suggests that two face masks are better than one, and
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is busy on a plan to make
airline travel even more onerous.
Most remarkable is the administration’s failure to take steps that would
do real good. Parents are revolting now that their children have been
denied education for nearly a year. The CDC issued a study saying it’s
safe to return, and the Biden-appointed CDC director, Rochelle Walensky,
last week reaffirmed the teachers can safely return to the classroom
prior to getting a vaccine. Yet White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki now
says Ms. Walensky was speaking (at an official briefing) in her
“personal capacity.” So much for “listening to the experts” and
“following the science.”
This is Mr. Biden channeling American Federation of Teachers head Randi
Weingarten. So much so that the administration this week redefined its
goal of opening schools in 100 days. It’s new definition of “open” is
50% of schools holding in-person learning one day a week. Conveniently
for Mr. Biden, estimates are that more than 60% of elementary and
middle-school students are already getting some form of in-person
instruction. Look, the Biden “plan” is working!
Johnson & Johnson meanwhile has submitted an application for emergency
use authorization of its vaccine, of which millions of doses will be
available as soon as the Food and Drug Administration approves. Yet
rather than use this opportunity to revisit its turtlelike review
process, the FDA won’t rouse itself to meet until Feb. 26.
Then there’s Congress’s bipartisan, 56-member Problem Solvers Caucus,
which recently issued a plea for a quick vote on a $160 billion package
focused entirely on vaccine distribution. This is eminently sensible, so
of course House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the White House dismissed it.
Democrats are willing to delay vaccines rather than risk derailing their
$1.9 trillion blowout.
These pages pointed out last year that Mr. Biden’s promises on the
pandemic were a “me-too” plan, “little different on the substance” from
what the previous administration had been doing. But the voters who
believed him are getting a sharp awakening. Get ready for a lot more
expectations management.
Write to kim-at-wsj.com.
Appeared in the February 12, 2021, print edition.
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