THE SHAME OF JOE BIDENhttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/02/the-shame-of-joe-biden.phpDuring the campaign, Biden absurdly alleged that President Trump had mishandled the COVID epidemic, and therefore had murdered the several hundred thousand Americans who allegedly died from that disease. The theory was that if Trump had done something differently–God knows what–the U.S. would have been the only country on Earth with zero Wuhan deaths. Reporters went along with Biden’s fantasy.
Since his inauguration, Biden has continued his assault on his predecessor by claiming, repeatedly, that little was going on with regard to vaccinations until he took office, and that the Trump administration “had no plan†to effectuate vaccinations. This, too, is a damnable lie. Biden repeated it today:
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Having had enough, the GOP responded via email:
Today, Biden again falsely claimed that they inherited a “mess…from the previous administration, which left us with no real plan to vaccinate all Americans.â€
Let’s look at the facts.
The Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed developed a vaccine in record breaking time and was already meeting Biden’s goal of 100 million vaccines administered in 100 days before Biden took office. His own HHS nominee even debunked his claim.
And take a look at the trendlines. As production was ramping up, more people were being vaccinated daily. That’s to be expected, especially as more people became eligible for vaccination. However, there was no change in the rate of increase after Biden took office. In fact, it has recently decreased.
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BTW, that chart starts the first day injections started. Somehow - Joe can't explain how - 200K-300K a day were vaccinated those first several days.
The longer Biden lies, the more people will discover that he is lying, and the higher the cost to him for admitting the truth. He may not know/understand it, but Biden jumped in between a hammer and an anvil.
The supply of doses to the states is not a limiting factor. The CDC's page tracking vaccine progress,
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations , has gotten a bit inconsistent recently in the updates, especially the number of doses delivered to the states, but there has been, for weeks, a consistent 18M-22M doses sitting in storage, waiting to be used. Unless some states get their @#$% together, that gap will widen, significantly, when J & J starts delivering their vaccine, which could start as early as this coming weekend.
