Biden's coronavirus malarkey

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

President Biden promised to be straight with the public, but when it comes to the coronavirus, it’s clear that his administration is more interested in gaming expectations.

When asked, as he was announcing a series of executive actions on COVID-19, why he wasn’t being more ambitious than 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days, Biden snapped at a reporter: “When I announced it, you all said it’s not possible. Come on, gimme a break, man!” And then he stormed off without taking any more questions.

The exchange happened as administration officials had launched a PR war designed to make it seem as though the COVID-19 response is in such shambles that anything that happens from now on will seem like a stunning success.

A CNN report claimed, “Newly sworn in President Joe Biden and his advisers are inheriting no coronavirus vaccine distribution plan to speak of from the Trump administration, sources tell CNN, posing a significant challenge for the new White House.”

The report, which was pushed all day on the network, featured a quote from a Biden official saying, “There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch.”

This was so absurd that Anthony Fauci was later forced to shoot it down from the White House podium, saying, “We certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution.”

While the vaccine rollout has obviously been far from perfect, the reality is that at the time Biden was sworn into office, the United States was already administering vaccines at a pace of roughly 1 million a day — the same pace that would be required to meet the Biden goal.

On Wednesday, the day the presidency transitioned, the U.S. vaccinated a record 1.5 million people. And the U.S. averaged 912,000 vaccinations a day in the week leading up to Biden taking over.

When White House press secretary Jen Psaki was again asked why the administration was not aiming higher than the pace we are currently at, she replied: “So, the Trump administration was given 36 million doses when they were in office for 38 days. They administered a total of about 17 million shots. That’s about less than 500,000 shots a day. What we’re proposing is to double that to about 1 million shots per day.”

But this is laughable. Everybody knows that in the early days, the vaccination process was going slower and needed to be ramped up — plus the rollout coincided with the holiday season. Including those December days in the average is not a fair metric on which to be judged.

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They were handed a successful vaccine program that they claimed was impossible when Trump announced it.  Now trying to pretend it was not organized is an absurdity.  It is the typical politics of fraud by Democrats. 

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