Why is the Biden team clinging to its ridiculous statement that “Trump had no vax distribution plan”?
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in an interview over the weekend, again insisting that the new government is effectively “starting from scratch” because of the failures of its predecessor.
There is! After President Biden made a similar statement weeks ago, Dr. Tony Fauci, Biden’s top medical advisor as he was for Trump, clarified things: “We are certainly not starting from scratch because there are activities going on in the distribution.”
In other words, jabs administered before the end of Trump’s term did not magically find their own way into the arms of more than 16.5 million Americans.
Sure, Fauci notes that Biden is greatly increasing federal involvement, but his plan is based on “expanding” what Trump had already established.
Trump’s plan left control to the states, but that is a reasonable choice, not a lack of strategy. The feds partnered and delivered doses to the chain’s pharmacies, set aside billions for vaccine distribution, created programs for nursing home residents and hospital workers, and provided a manual from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide state plans.
Under Trump, the U.S. shot millions, enrolled tens of thousands of private providers in the vax program, and organized a data collection system that includes all 50 states.
To reduce all of these efforts to a “dark failure”, as Biden did, or absolutely “no national strategy or plan”, as Harris just said, did, is totally wrong.
Nor is it even remotely clear that the bidenists’ approach is better: their obsession with racial “equality” in vaccinations, for example, is very likely to add paperwork and other complications, slowing everything down.
The “no strategy” line seems designed to give the new government a ready scapegoat if something goes wrong, which is cheap and shameful.
Worse, it seems that Biden & Co. are trying to outdo Trump by insisting on blatantly false “facts”.