Why is Team Biden holding on to its ridiculous “Trump didn’t have a vax distribution plan” claim?
Vice President Kamala Harris trotted it out in a weekend interview, but continued to insist once again that the new administration is actually ‘starting all over again’ because of the failures of its predecessor.
Ha! After President Biden made a similar statement weeks ago, Dr. Tony Fauci, Biden’s chief medical adviser as he was to Trump, summed up the facts: “We are certainly not starting all over again as there is activity going on in distribution. “
In other words, the jabs administered before the end of Trump’s term didn’t just magically find their way into the arms of more than 16.5 million Americans.
Of course, Fauci notes that Biden is vastly increasing federal involvement, but his plan is based on “strengthening” what Trump had already established.
Trump’s plan has left the states in control, but that’s a reasonable choice, not a lack of strategy. The FBI partnered with and delivered doses to chain pharmacies, set aside billions for vaccine distribution, set up programs for nursing home residents and hospital workers, and provided a roadmap from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide state plans.
Under Trump, the US gave millions of shots, tens of thousands of private providers in the vax program, and organized a data collection system that spans all 50 states.
To reduce all these efforts to a “dismal failure”, as Biden did, or absolutely “no national strategy or plan,” as Harris just put it, is downright wrong.
Nor is it even remotely clear that the Bidenites’ approach is better: their obsession with racial “equality” in vaccinations, for example, is all too likely to lead to paperwork and other complications, slowing everything down.
The “no strategy” line appears to be designed to give the new government a ready-made scapegoat if things go wrong, which is both cheap and embarrassing.
Even worse, it appears that Biden & Co. Want to outdo Trump by insisting on blatantly bogus “facts.”