Abby08 (01-26-2021),carolina73 (01-26-2021)
Abby08 (01-26-2021),stjames1_53 (01-26-2021)
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"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
Abby08 (01-26-2021),carolina73 (01-26-2021),Peter1469 (01-26-2021)
stjames1_53 (01-27-2021)
As CNN breathlessly ran with the bogus "scoop" that the Biden administration had been left with no vaccine distribution plan, forcing the new president's team to "start from scratch," the narrative began disintegrating almost instantly. It was patently untrue, as should have been obvious to literally anyone paying even the slightest bit of attention to actual events. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was borderline worshiped by many on the Left during the Trump administration, slapped down the claim in no uncertain terms – so definitively, in fact, that even some of CNN's on-air personalities rejected their own network's reporting. Here's Fauci late last week, in case you missed it:
The Post Millennial
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WATCH: Dr. Fauci debunks CNN's false claim that Biden had to start vaccine distribution "from scratch"READ: https://thepostmillennial.com/cnn-falsely-claims-trump-administration-had-no-vaccine-distribution-plan-in-place
For those credulous enough to continue to believe the "from scratch" tale, let's check in on some updates from over the weekend:
The cumulative statistics generally lag by a few days due to the reporting system, so we're likely blowing past 25 million by this point, not to mention the million-plus daily pace that has been achieved. Not bad for "no plan," eh? America still has real challenges on this front – bottlenecks, dysfunction, supply issues, etc., all of which demand serious attention and improvement. Flaws and shortcomings absolutely exist and must be addressed. Nobody is arguing any of this is perfection, or anything close to it. But among Western nations with reliable data, the US ranks third on per capita vaccination doses administered, vastly outperforming all of continental Europe. A bronze medal isn't a gold, of course, but it's clear evidence that worst-case doomsaying from some quarters is simply untrue. I've hardly been an unflinching apologist for President Trump's approach to, or messaging on, the pandemic. But overlooking good news is indefensible, as is attributing failures to political actors when the facts don't support it (this Reuters piece is especially instructive on that point). For some of that good news, I recommend this worthwhile column by Alicia Smith about the remarkable success of Operation Warp Speed, which Team Biden is fortunate to inherit. And there's another very positive development on the vaccine front, evidently right around the corner:
Team Biden is busy whispering falsehoods to gullible reporters, and lashing out at journalists who point out that the US was already on track to achieve the president's big "100 million vaccine doses in 100 days" goal:
Bloomberg also piled on in a piece headlined, "Biden's 100-Day Vaccine Goal Was Nearly Met Before He Arrived." It's not subtle. Neither is the heel-turn shift in tone Biden himself is attempting, from "elect me and I'll fix it," to "there's not much we can really do in the near term":
I'll leave you with failures on each coast. First, in California, where the pandemic has been raging terribly (in spite of some of the most intense government restrictions in the country), and where vaccination progress is dead last in the nation. The little people just wouldn't understand the complex data, you see:
And last but not least, there's New York, where the situation has been worsening lately (New York already has the highest COVID death toll in the country)......snip~
'No Plan' Update: 20 Million-Plus Vaccine Doses Now Administered in US, More Than 1 Million Daily by Guy Benson (townhall.com)
LOL.....Biden getting caught lying again.
History does not long Entrust the care of Freedom, to the Weak or Timid!!!!! Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
stjames1_53 (01-27-2021)
Hey what do you know!
Uncle Joe is using the defense production act to get syringes that allow an extra dose from the Pfizer vial.