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Nope. I'm expecting a lot of stories like this in the coming weeks.
It sucks, because right wing media will suddenly make it seem as if Biden magically dropped the ball. But in his defense, you figure that doing your best to make sure a vaccine for a disease ravaging the country you're the leader of is a priority for pretty much anyone in that position.
Except Trump
Except Trump
Trump and Biden's transition team were basically a student telling the teacher that yes, he did his homework and that he has it right here, as he rifles through papers in his book bag when he well knows that he did not do the homework.
I'm sure this'll be a common theme for a while..."look at the crazy shit we just uncovered, here it is"
We'll see soon enough. I'm not going to make any bets on the success of that target. To say that is ambitious is the mother of all understatements right now.
Christ. This similarly happened when my company let go of an pretty incompetent, high-level employee: it was quickly found out that several programs that were touted as "going great" or "getting close to launch" barely fucking existed, if they even existed beyond just a proposed title at all. I'm sure the Biden admin is going to unturn a bunch of shit like this that the Trump admin heralded as great successes that actually didn't even fucking exist.
I'm pretty confident it's gonna happen, considering we're already administering ~900k doses a day when Biden is targeting 1M/day.
I'm optimistic that it will. Even with basically no plan under the previous administration we've gotten nearly to 1M a day recently. With an administration that's actually going to have a plan and use all powers they have to push vaccine production and deployment I think it's a lofty but certainly achievable goal.
The GOP are consistently good at controlling the narrative. If truth is actually going to matter again, the Biden administration has to be relentlessly aggressive in fighting back against misinformation.
I have no idea how they should do that, of course, but they can't just take the blame for the utter disaster of the Trump anti-response to COVID.
I have no idea how they should do that, of course, but they can't just take the blame for the utter disaster of the Trump anti-response to COVID.
Yeah, this country is rotten to the bone.
But this was always the end game for the GOP, a barely functioning federal apparatus.
It's terrifying to me that we spent 4 years with nobody at the wheel. Stephen Miller was probably the most competent person in the executive branch, and he's both an idiot and a Nazi.
We're gonna be finding bodies (figurative and literal) for decades as a result of the Trump admin.
This shit is beyond fucked up. I literally don't understand this level of inactivity. Like, what the fuck was Trump's logic here? Even with a vaccine, just shrugging your shoulders and ignoring the situation.
Trump was given a gift with the speed at which scientists developed the vaccine, and he still fucked up the golden opportunity. He can't do anything right.
my mind was blown how America was ok with 400,000 deaths
According to Fauci and Sanjay Gupta, 100 million is the bare minimum that should be a shot in that timeframe. They think Biden's team is deliberately aiming low.
I really wish people would stop calling Trump and Republicans "incompetent" because they were not that. They are malicious.
An absolute black hole of leadership during the biggest domestic crisis we've faced since the civil war. A uniquely unqualified president* during a uniquely challenging time, with hundreds of thousands dead on his watch. He deserves every bit of scorn and disgust leveled at him, and I hope his enablers at every level feel even the smallest amount of shame and self loathing for their part in it.
Seriously. Not only did they not even try, they did it specifically to punish blue states during the early goings.
In a just country, Trump and his enablers in the WH would be prosecuted for it.
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Is anyone surprised? Trump has always just been a hype man with no real plans that wanted everyone to forget about covid. So many more people would be alive today if the man had even a sliver of a conscious.
I'm shocked that Trump would fuck vaccine distribution up after the great job he did handling the outbreak
He bascially got bored of it according to reports. He's been in campaign mode since summer (well his whole Presidency lol) but he at least made appearances.
Post election, he focused on his fraud nonsense for weeks and basically did no work.
It's easy to control the narrative when one base eats up misinformation while the other generally doesn't.
In a way, we're really fucking fortunate that the Trump administration was coming to its end in close proximity to the beginning of the vaccine distribution. That shitty admin already did enough damage, but imagine if they were still in power for another 1+ year.
No shit. Not even Seniors in Florida can get the vaccine as they're being turned away waiting for hours.
I've been operating under the hope that the Biden team was creating their own plan and would start implementing it day one. Because this is the least predictable thing ever.
I wouldn't even say it needed to be predicted. One look at the clusterfuck way everything is being distributed already told you the answer on this. They better have anticipated this and been working under this assumption.
I wouldn't even say it needed to be predicted. One look at the clusterfuck way everything is being distributed already told you the answer on this. They better have anticipated this and been working under this assumption.
I'm usually not a glass half full person but for this I will be. I'm glad there was no concrete plan. I'd rather have Biden start from scratch and create his own plan than having to clean up a an absolute dogshit nightmare that I'm sure Trump's administration would of cooked up.
