Taliban in Kabul as President Flees

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Mercor, Aug 15, 2021.

  1. #651     Aug 22, 2021
  2. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Trump gave Biden the vaccines on a silver platter.

    Biden had one fucking job which was to convince people to get vaccinated and to get people vaccinated.

    Biden has failed this country.

    The below article outlines the following:

    1. Why Biden is directly and solely responsible for the delta surge
    2. Biden's complete failure containing the delta variant
    3. How Biden put politics and his personal pride ahead of the people of the United States
    4. That the people of the US are suffering due to Biden's public health statements
    5. That Biden is incompetent
    6. By the time anyone decided to do something about delta, it was too late.
    ADD: I just realized that I posted this in the wrong thread. But, I will just leave it here.

    Some excerpts below:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...in-the-delta-surge/ar-AANA8py?ocid=uxbndlbing

    Would the president declare victory too soon? Would the event be seen as beating a virus that was not yet defeated? And would the massive party, with 1,000 guests, contribute to the virus’s spread?

    While many in the White House had set their gaze on the present — eager to mark the progress that President Biden had made as coronavirus cases dipped below 12,000 per day for the first time since March 2020 — health officials were focusing abroad, where a new variant, delta, had sent cases skyrocketing. Even at home, in lightly vaccinated communities across Missouri and Arkansas, health officials were nervously watching cases rise, driven by delta.

    The fears prompted the health officials to relay their concerns to the White House — leading aides to pare back some of the more boastful language in Biden’s original speech, officials said.

    Even so, in an address titled “Remarks by President Biden Celebrating Independence Day and Independence from COVID-19,” Biden hit a triumphant note.

    “Today, we’re closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus,” Biden said to a crowd of mostly unmasked guests gathered on the South Lawn of the White House. “We’ve gained the upper hand against this virus. We can live our lives, our kids can go back to school, our economy is roaring back.”

    But in the days after the White House groundskeepers had stowed the white folding chairs and pulled down the paper lanterns, a measure of concern set in among some aides.

    “We’re going to pay for it,” one administration official said privately shortly after the event

    Over the next month, the surge of delta cases that overran the country forced Biden and his top aides and Cabinet members to reckon with their overconfidence, which led to a host of decisions — on masks, vaccines and other pivotal issues — that had to be reversed or revised as the crisis spiraled out of control. The administration had been caught flat-footed — and then took weeks to enact a plan in an attempt to catch up.

    “This has been nonstop scrambling,” said Irwin Redlener, who directs the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

    This account of the key decisions made as delta surged across the country during the fateful month of July was based on interviews with 24 administration officials and others in close contact with Biden’s health response. Many spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail sensitive conversations

    The Biden administration initially thought vaccinated people couldn’t spread the virus, as had been the case with other variants. But delta proved that assumption wrong — leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ask vaccinated people in large swaths of the country to put their masks back on.

    They thought more people in the United States would get the free and easily accessible shots that others across the globe are desperate to have — but hit a wall in early July with fewer people willing to be inoculated.

    Despite pressure from outside experts and some within the administration, the White House also began the month reluctant to require that members of the military be vaccinated. And there was often hesitancy to engage in conversations about booster shots and the possibility of breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated people as the White House was focused on methods to persuade, rather than require, people to get vaccinated.

    “One thing CDC and the administration could have done better was prepare people mentally that this isn’t over, that we’re still in this and there’s incredible uncertainty,” said Richard Besser, a former acting director of the CDC and president and chief executive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

    Biden hosted only a handful of events at the White House during the first five months of his term, as the new administration sought to model best behavior. The massive Fourth of July fete would signal a return to normalcy and show that the White House was reopening to the public, according to one White House aide involved with the planning.

    But even so, the general sense in the White House in early July was that the fight against the pandemic was receding. The White House was close to Biden’s goal of getting at least one shot of a vaccine to 70 percent of eligible adults. Officials discussed how they would talk about the planned phaseout of unemployment assistance and an end to the pause on student loan repayments.

    “It was sort of this recognition that we were going to have to explain to people how we were moving to a different phase, and why that meant the wind-down to the number of programs,” said one administration official, describing the discussions in early July.

    During this period, some outside advisers urged the administration to move quickly to require vaccinations for members of the military, but officials dragged their feet.

    White House officials also were reluctant to have a public conversation in July about the potential need for booster shots, according to two people familiar with the conversations. Although they privately acknowledged that boosters were likely to be needed — especially for the immunocompromised and the elderly — they worried about how discussion of boosters might affect vaccine hesitancy at the same time they were trying to persuade millions more Americans to get shots, the two people said.

    “There was a recognition from the week of the 19th that the entire public health community felt differently than they did,” said one public health expert familiar with the White House’s outreach. “The White House was going against mainstream public health at that point.”

    On Friday, July 23, Zients — along with other top health officials — met with Biden to pitch the new strategy, which would include the mandates for VA health-care workers, creating inconveniences and restrictions for unvaccinated federal workers and urging the military to mandate the vaccine.
     
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    #652     Aug 22, 2021
  3. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    I'll take the vax when every Taliban is vaccinated.
     
    #653     Aug 22, 2021
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  4. Biden is scheduled to announce tomorrow that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval.

    They are "following the science" that says when you are up to your arse in a disastrous news cycle you get that vaccine approved and make an announcement.
     
    #654     Aug 22, 2021
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  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    "Hey, let's listen to what Tony Blair has to say," said no one in the past decade.
     
    #655     Aug 22, 2021
  6. elderado

    elderado

    Dumbass can't even make it up himself?

    Cheri Jacobus made that up 4 or 5 days ago.
     
    #656     Aug 22, 2021
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  7. elderado

    elderado

    #657     Aug 22, 2021
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  8. Mercor

    Mercor

    Why has Kinzinger gone so far....
    He is about to be gerrymandered out of his job by the Illinois Democratics who are vicious gerrymander racists...like all the other democrats when they have the power

    He will run for Senate or Governer
     
    #658     Aug 22, 2021
  9. Mercor

    Mercor

    #659     Aug 22, 2021
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  10. themickey

    themickey

    More neverending bs....

    Coronavirus: How the pandemic in US compares with rest of world
    By Mike Hills Visual journalist Published 27 May 2020
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52771783
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    #660     Aug 22, 2021