JimofPennsylvan
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The Biden Administration announcement today of its added effort to fight the Covid 19 pandemic deserves mix reviews. It is really a great move to conduct a marketing campaign to move the approximately 100 million people that are eligible for a vaccine booster shot to get one because the statistics are impressive if you get covid and you have gotten the booster you're like seven or ten times less likely to end up in the hospital compared to people that haven't gotten the booster. On this specific topic President Biden was a bit annoying in his announcement because he sort of painted these 100 million of people as short in the character department for not having gotten the booster when it was only thirteen days ago, November 19th, that the FDA and the CDC green lighted the booster for all adults ages 18 years and older; so White House you should extend Pharmacy availability for the booster through January of 2022 not end it at the end of December 2021. Why spend money setting up Family vaccination clinics, the eighty thousand vaccine sites existing today make the vaccine plentifully available, you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist, whole families can get their vaccine shot at current clinics. The Biden White House needs to remember money doesn't grow on trees this policy that the in-home Covid test will now be free because private insurance providers will be mandated to reimburse enrollees for the cost of the tests need a little tweaking everyone will be paying for this policy through their health insurance premiums so let's keep the in-home tests cost as low as possible, the mandate should require a reimbursement for the test cost less four dollars since people will have to incur this four dollar cost this will move them to have a good reason for taking the test so they won't use as many tests thereby keeping the overall nation's bill for in-home tests down.
The responsible parties in the White House are imbeciles, no the dumbest of imbeciles with their tightening pre-departure Covid testing protocols for all inbound international travelers to test within one day of departure instead of the current three days of departure that they test negative for covid 19. This is going to be a real hardship for international travelers, how many travelers will miss their flights because they don't meet this requirement for it specifically requires proof of testing in written or a digital form; real smart move White House the Airline industry is struggling to regain their financial health and you're essentially taking piles of their plane tickets and throwing them in the trash can! I hope the White House feels all good about this action they are taking for appearances sake because it does not have policy merit behind it.
If the White House was smart and they really wanted to lead the nation through this covid 19 crisis in the least painful way they would take this opportunity to indefinitely pull this planned OSHA policy where businesses having over 100 employees must have all their employees vaccinated or tested for Covid weekly or get fined, this policy is so so divisive what is it in Florida the Governor is considering paying the fines of Floridian companies that don't comply with this Federal mandate I am around sixty years old and I never recall such widespread insubordination planning throughout the country against a Federal Government policy. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA head, this week on CNBC was asked what he thinks about this Federal government mandate and he essentially said it is not worth it considering all the trouble it will cause and the country will be fine without it because with good vaccine promotion we will have about eighty-five percent of eligible Americans vaccinated and for the fifteen percent refusing vaccines most of them will end up getting Covid 19 some will die many won't but the survivors will have some residual immunity from that survival and so overall the nation will have a great protection against the spread of Covid 19 and the country will be fine. Dr. Gottlieb here is advocating wisdom and the White House should listen. One last point, Dr. Anthony Fauci should retire; I think the man is a hero, history should remember him like Ben Bernanke during the Great Recession and General Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm I (which stopped Saddam Hussein from taking over most of the Middle East) Americans that played vital leadership roles when the nation was in real trouble. But the bottom line is that amongst large swaths of the American people Dr. Fauci has a really bad reputation they view him as a Democrat, a deep state and/or a pharmaceutical industry agent; the judgment is unfair what has happened during the pandemic has been complicated officials first told the American people that you didn't need mask, then they told us everyone needs to always where one, the fact that the nation in the beginning of the pandemic had an insufficient supply of masks for Doctors and nurses in hospitals treating Covid patients somehow gets forgotten, one could write a book about the incredible leadership difficulties facing health officials trying to lead the nation through this crisis. But life is sometimes unfair and nothing can be done about it and the fact of the matter is Dr. Fauci no longer has the reputation to lead the entire nation through this Pandemic crisis he should step aside and let someone without his baggage do the key role he is trying to do!
The responsible parties in the White House are imbeciles, no the dumbest of imbeciles with their tightening pre-departure Covid testing protocols for all inbound international travelers to test within one day of departure instead of the current three days of departure that they test negative for covid 19. This is going to be a real hardship for international travelers, how many travelers will miss their flights because they don't meet this requirement for it specifically requires proof of testing in written or a digital form; real smart move White House the Airline industry is struggling to regain their financial health and you're essentially taking piles of their plane tickets and throwing them in the trash can! I hope the White House feels all good about this action they are taking for appearances sake because it does not have policy merit behind it.
If the White House was smart and they really wanted to lead the nation through this covid 19 crisis in the least painful way they would take this opportunity to indefinitely pull this planned OSHA policy where businesses having over 100 employees must have all their employees vaccinated or tested for Covid weekly or get fined, this policy is so so divisive what is it in Florida the Governor is considering paying the fines of Floridian companies that don't comply with this Federal mandate I am around sixty years old and I never recall such widespread insubordination planning throughout the country against a Federal Government policy. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA head, this week on CNBC was asked what he thinks about this Federal government mandate and he essentially said it is not worth it considering all the trouble it will cause and the country will be fine without it because with good vaccine promotion we will have about eighty-five percent of eligible Americans vaccinated and for the fifteen percent refusing vaccines most of them will end up getting Covid 19 some will die many won't but the survivors will have some residual immunity from that survival and so overall the nation will have a great protection against the spread of Covid 19 and the country will be fine. Dr. Gottlieb here is advocating wisdom and the White House should listen. One last point, Dr. Anthony Fauci should retire; I think the man is a hero, history should remember him like Ben Bernanke during the Great Recession and General Norman Schwarzkopf during Operation Desert Storm I (which stopped Saddam Hussein from taking over most of the Middle East) Americans that played vital leadership roles when the nation was in real trouble. But the bottom line is that amongst large swaths of the American people Dr. Fauci has a really bad reputation they view him as a Democrat, a deep state and/or a pharmaceutical industry agent; the judgment is unfair what has happened during the pandemic has been complicated officials first told the American people that you didn't need mask, then they told us everyone needs to always where one, the fact that the nation in the beginning of the pandemic had an insufficient supply of masks for Doctors and nurses in hospitals treating Covid patients somehow gets forgotten, one could write a book about the incredible leadership difficulties facing health officials trying to lead the nation through this crisis. But life is sometimes unfair and nothing can be done about it and the fact of the matter is Dr. Fauci no longer has the reputation to lead the entire nation through this Pandemic crisis he should step aside and let someone without his baggage do the key role he is trying to do!
