Biden’s COVID Fakery
President Biden declared Friday that “we’ve made important progress on each front” of the six-part Path Out of the Pandemic plan he unveiled two weeks before. Add that to his fastgrowing stack of lies on everything from the border to his Afghan pullout.
In reality, his big Sept. 9 speech stands exposed as a smoke-and-mirrors bid to look like a leader as Delta raised fear across the country — and to change the subject from the Americans and Afghan allies he abandoned. Team Biden hasn’t even begun to implement the few parts of his so-called plan that were anything more than sound bites.
On vaccinations, Biden’s chiding lecture did zero good: Two weeks later, Americans are getting jabbed at the slowest rate since mid-July. First shots averaged just 272,000 a week, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
Biden’s big idea was to mandate shots for 80 million private-sector workers via an emergency order from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. So far, OSHA hasn’t issued a thing — and if an order ever comes, it’s sure to be tied up in court for months.
He also promised “easy access to booster shots for all,” starting as soon as Sept. 20. He bragged “the nation’s top health officials,” including CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Janet Woodcock, had a booster plan “aimed at staying ahead of the virus.”
Did he even talk to those two in advance? A week later, the FDA declined to recommend boosters ahead of its outside panel’s meeting. That panel wound up recommending boosters only for over-65s, plus people with some underlying conditions and certain front-line workers, and the FDA approved. A CDC panel then recommended them just for the elderly and those with underlying conditions, but Walensky overruled the panel and included front-line workers.
Fully shut out is the general public, which Biden said would be able to get them by now.
More fakery: Biden said he was requiring teachers and staff and certain contractors at Head Start and Early Head Start programs to get jabbed. Yet the actual order doesn’t kick in until January.
The prez also vowed to “increase the average weekly pace of shipments of free monoclonal antibody treatment to states.” Instead, he’s started rationing the life-saving treatments.
This was no serious strategy; this White House has never had one — even though COVID was the central problem facing the nation when Biden took over. He clearly thought he could coast by just distributing his predecessor’s vaccines while taking all the credit.
Time and again, this president claims to lead but delivers nothing but cynical fakery.