Star Member Rhiannon12866 (130,625 posts)
8. And 71% on his handling of the pandemic, per Rachel Maddow
Meanwhile, in the real world:
"Where's the plan?" World -- and insiders -- losing patience with Biden on vaccineshttps://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2021/05/11/wheres-the-plan-world-and-insiders-losing-patience-with-biden-on-vaccines-n389267Plan? Did the Washington Post forget whose administration this is? Joe Biden has managed the COVID-19 fight in the same manner that he handled immigration — by issuing statements raising expectations, then providing no plan on how to meet his expressed goals. Thus far, Biden’s skated by on the pandemic by following the Trump administration’s playbook while complaining about it publicly.
Now, however, the rest of the world wonders where Biden’s promised assistance is. And for that matter, so do members of his own administration:
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It’s not just other “global allies” who have been left in the dark over Biden’s plans to impress future historians. The Washington Post’s Dan Diamond and Tyler Pager hear from people inside Biden’s administration that they have no idea what Biden plans to do, other than provide some instant reaction to pressure:
Even some administration officials concede that Biden’s recent decision to support the developing world’s petition for a vaccine-patent waiver, which drove a wedge with drug companies that sped hundreds of millions of doses to inoculate America and is unlikely to boost supply this year, shows the risk of dribbling out tactics, rather than setting out a comprehensive strategy to help vaccinate the world.
“Where is the plan?” asked one Department of Health and Human Services official involved in the coronavirus response who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. “The waiver is not a plan.”
The waiver probably made things worse rather than better. Theoretically, allowing other manufacturers to produce generics should spike supply. However, it also removes some quality control from the process and requires more FDA certifications, assuming those manufacturers are in the US. Furthermore, it interrupts a smarter option — having Pfizer and Moderna contract out their manufacturing themselves more broadly, which not only would boost production but create fewer headaches. Instead, Biden has put them at odds with US officials and created a whole new distraction.
LIEden and Crew demonstrated their deceitful willful ignorance of Trump's planning, before the election, during the Transition, and ever since.
LIEden and Crew do not have the capacity to plan and carry out what Trump planned and got into full motion. The best Biden could do was let what Trump planned keep going and not F it up.
The mishandling of the J&J vaccine investigation and a 40% plummet in US daily injections coincide. I won't say that mishandling was the
sole cause of the plummet, but I think it was at least the greatest contributing factor. Because
LIEden and Crew are incapable of having a plan, they reacted in panic and screwed up.
The proposal to steal companies' patent rights, if carried out, will be a similar or worse failure. Again, because
LIEden and Crew are incapable of having a plan, they are reacting in panic to India's situation and some nations' pressure.
