Biden says there’s no federal solution for COVID
Apparently, when Trump was president there was a federal solution, and Trump failed to provide it.
Bad Trump. Bad bad Trump.
And when Biden was a candidate, there was a federal solution – a secret, magic one – and Biden would provide it if he were elected and it would shut down the virus.
And some exceedingly gullible and ignorant people apparently believed this would be the case.
But now that Biden is president and he has failed to provide that solution, it seems that it’s because no such solution exists. Fancy that:
Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at a state level. I’m looking at Governor Sununu on the board here. He talks about that a lot.
Sununu is the Republican governor of NH, a state that has been fairly open since June of 2020 and which, despite a recent rise in cases, has been doing relatively well all along in terms of hospitalizations and deaths.
But nothing about COVID is “solved” at the state level; there’s just too much we don’t know about how to stop its spread. The best a governor can do – and I believe that for the most part Sununu and most other Republican governors have done it – is to monitor the situation, try to protect the most vulnerable such as the very elderly, and keep the schools and economy going in as close to a normal fashion as possible.
By the way, in that same phone call in which Biden admitted there was no federal solution, he added the following lies:
And as — as I said last week, Omicron is a source of concern, but it should not be a source of panic. If you’re fully vaccinated and you get your booster shot, you’re highly protected. If you’re unvaccinated, you’re at a high risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19, being hospitalized, and, in rare cases, even dying.
Actually, far as we know, no one is “at high risk of getting severely ill” from the Omicron variant, whether vaccinated or unvaccinated. For that matter, unless a person is very ill from something else to begin with, or is mega-old, there isn’t much of a risk even from the other COVID variants, statistically speaking. And even in those groups, the risk from other variants is not really “high” in the absolute sense, although it is definitely higher.
Stay home if you’re sick.
Otherwise live your life.
Solved it!
P.S.- Same was true in March 2020.
Why does it feel he is slipping out from under his lie he would solve Covid?
Do people not realize this was Trump’s approach and Biden campaigned on the opposite approach? Or is it all just politics and no one really cared as long as it was not Trump saying whatever.
I have been reading that the Omicron variant “goes around” the vaccines. So if you are vaccinated you can get Omicron.
Compare and contrast:
1.
“COVID Lockdowns Will Be Remembered As One Of The Greatest Policy Failures Ever”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-lockdowns-will-be-remembered-one-greatest-policy-failures-ever
2.
“‘Bidenflation’ Is Systematically Destroying The Middle Class”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/bidenflation-systematically-destroying-middle-class
They’re going to have to change that first article to
“COVID Lockdowns Will Be Remembered As One Of The Greatest Policy SUCCESSES Ever”—
That’s right: SUCCESS above and beyond the Democratic Party’s wildest dreams of destruction and subjugation. Of CONTROL.
They’re not “there” quite yet, not quite; but they’re gunning for even greater SUCCESS.
File under: “Darkness visible”
Related:
“I’m leaving NYC — to protect my children from its feckless leaders”
https://nypost.com/2021/12/27/im-leaving-nyc-to-protect-my-children/
From the nation’s paper of record (after the Babylon Bee, of course)….
“. . . there’s just too much we don’t know about how to stop its spread. ”
My money’s on we will never stop the spread. Shoveling seaweed against the tide.
Neo: “For that matter, unless a person is very ill from something else to begin with, or is mega-old, there isn’t much of a risk even from the other COVID variants, statistically speaking.”
What is “mega-old? 70, 80, 90? In my county, 45% of those over 80 who were hospitalized, died. We don’t know how many people over 80 caught it and didn’t go to the hospital. My sister-in-law, who is 89, got it. But she would not have known if she wasn’t in a nursing home where they tested her frequently. Her case was that mild. And it was the Alpha variant.
One of the great mysteries of this virus is why some people are affected more than others. Yes, obesity is a definite issue. But so is ethnicity. In my county ethnicity has had a major role.
Snohomish County COVID-19 Case Rate per 1,000 by Race and Ethnicity
Pacific Islanders 175
Hispanics 99
Native American 96
African American 86
White 44
Asian 34
If I was a medical researcher, I would be looking at this as offering some clue as to how to find what factors lend themselves to being more susceptible to the infection. Or possibly a way to bolster people’s immunity? With Vitamins D, C, and Zinc?
The lack of curiosity and problem solving by our medical bureaucrats is amazing.
Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, Native Americans, and African Americans are statistically more likely to have diabetes and to be obese as well.
If you’re unvaccinated, you’re at a high risk of getting severely ill from COVID-19, being hospitalized, and, in rare cases, even dying.
Biden there is just parroting the Progressive Party Line. Try debating against it on NPR – every voice in the room will instantly be raised in arrogant opposition.
JJ
“The lack of curiosity and problem solving by our medical bureaucrats is amazing.”
Even more terrifying is their rush to “wokeness”. Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Hitchcock in Keene has “diversity, equity, and inclusion” carefully noted on their website.
As scientists, you know, those “curious” folks, I would think that they would understand that D, E, I leads to mediocrity. This is not what I would like in my healthcare provider.
Sounds to me like the Democratic Party has settled on their preferred re-election strategy: Put a little distance on the “We’ll fix what Trump couldn’t” declarations, ease away from those embarrassing pandemic deliverables, abandon the mandates to the courts, and start shoving the day-to-day COVID information sessions down the food chain to the bureaucrats. Watch for more press conferences being given by people you never heard of before, but have impressive Public Health titles. And watch Jen start to refer reporters to those experts to move the dialog out of the White House. I guess they’re hoping this will bring unbearable pressure onto Republican Governors.
As I recall, although I don’t know if I ever put it writing anywhere, I never thought we would ever be able to stop the spread, either in April 2020 or January 2021.
J.J. —
In my county ethnicity has had a major role.
Bret Weinstein’s latest interview regards Vitamin D and the mystery of why all of public health is overlooking it.
One of the interviewees points out that in the first wave of the pandemic, 50% of Sweden’s deaths came from the 1% of the population made up of Somali refugees.
Bryan Lovely:
Minneapollis and Illan Omar must have been especially worried about those Swedish stats.
A friend just posted that she has Covid…Omicron variant…and that she is sicker than she’s ever been before. She’s about 50, in good health, definitely not overweight, and is vaccinated.
Not sure if the virus was definitively identified as Omicron or if they’re just assuming that since it’s now the most prevalent.
re the general effect of the vaccines, they have a *very* strong impact on preventing hospitalizations and deaths; *some* impact on preventing cases and transmission, but not as much as their serious-symptoms impact. This stuff isn’t binary. When Trump said recently that is you are vaccinated, you won’t go to the hospital and die, he was directionally connect but exaggerating; when Biden said that healthcare workers who are vaxxed can’t spread the disease, he exaggerated much worse.
‘A friend just posted that she has Covid…sicker than she’s ever been before’
I hope your friend feels better soon but I find it amusing that she is sicker than she has ever been but not too sick to stop her from posting on social media.
About 15-20 years back I got some bug (flu or something this was when no one cared what exact virus you had) and was truly down and out for about five days and it took everything I had to get out of bed the first couple of days and I was in my thirties at the time.
Just find it funny how now getting a virus that is not much worse than a mild to moderate cold for most is now something that people feel the need to report to the world.
Strange days, indeed.
The OK Health Department posted interesting news yesterday:
https://oklahoma.gov/covid19/newsroom/2021/december/osdh-addresses-misinformation-and-uninformed-opinions.html
“The claim that CDC is reporting 92% of cases in our region are omicron is inaccurate and missing a key piece of information. That claim is a projection only. It is based on CDC modeling (NOWCAST) of variant testing around the country and the anticipated rate of spread. It is in fact, attempting to compensate for the fact that variant testing is always a reflection of what has occurred in the past. It does not mean that 92% of all sequencing completed currently are omicron. Further, to be accurate, the current projection for our region which includes all of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Mexico is 86.7%. This number may or may not accurately reflect Oklahoma cases. ?”
Another interesting point is that the rapid tests don’t provide a large enough sample to do the sequencing test and many of the PCR tests also don’t have a sufficient sample of the virus.
“Within the past 48 hours, Biden has admitted that the virus can’t be stopped, CNN has admitted that masks are useless, and now the CDC has admitted that PCR tests are a fraud. The wheels are finally starting to come off.”
https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1476203636241879045
Problem is, though, that the corrupt media keeps givin’ ’em fresh wheels…installs, ’em, inflates ’em, balances ’em, aligns ’em, etc….
+ Malone banned from twitter:
https://twitter.com/cliftonaduncan/status/1476242064681672709
The real mystery is why the Ministry of Truth (or is that the Ministry of Information?) let him post for so long….
I wonder if this statement can be used in the Supreme Court case regarding federal vaccine requirements? If this is global pandemic is a state issue, as declared by the head of the Executive Branch, then doesn’t nullify Executive Orders in regards to the pandemic?
I get that’s probably not going to happen, but I’m just asking for a sane and consistent part of our society.