Gloomy Joe told us "Our Darkest Days are Ahead" once he's in office.
I prefer the presidents outlook (and look back)
Why do you think we are in the "dark days" (and getting darker)? Because Trump's outlook isn't positive. It ignores reality. He's incompetent. He blew the response to the virus and now after having months to prepare for distributing the vaccine that he stood up and tried to take credit for, we find out he fails miserably...again. Biden is being realistic. Looking at a 9/11 or greater every day for the past month, one wonders why Trump hasn't been removed. Because this situation is exactly why we have the 25th amendment.
12:00PM EST on 1/20/2021, he's gone. Good riddance to bad garbage.
WTF are you talking about?
1. Operation Warp Speed developed several vaccines in record time while keeping the US economy from tanking. That is a very positive outlook, on the COVID response, and the economy.
2. The vaccine is a success, not a failure. The vaccine is available, the states need to get the shots in arms faster.
3. Biden is a senile joke who never managed anything, he's just a figurehead who reads teleprompters.
4. Nancy will 25th Biden's ass shortly.
1) Keep drinking this Kool-Aid. There were several companies that already had vaccines in the pipe before the lightbulb went on for Warp Speed (which was just an attempt by Trump to salvage his re-election).
2) The vaccine is a success. However, it was the Trump administration's responsibility to make sure that the distribution plans included getting those shots into peoples arms. Again, you're missing the point that its the feds responsibility to provide leadership, planning, monetary assistance, and guidance to the states in coordinating their response to the virus. That..didn't..happen.
3) Just stop. Two in person debates put that to bed. Pull your head out of alt-right media. Stuff rots your brain.
4) Do any of you right wingers know how the Constitution handles the 25th amendment? What's the fixation with Pelosi? She doesn't get to make that determination.
1. You are the one drinking KoolAde. COVID-19 is a "novel virus" (that means new to humans), google it. So your partisan TDS bullshit is a lie. The Warp Speed vaccine development, testing, and production in less than a year is a medical miracle.
2. The vaccines are being distributed successfully. What's disturbing is that so many are refusing to take the vaccine?! Part of the problem is apparently a lack of manpower to give shots. Schools are closed, so many nurses stay home, and the hospitals and nursing homes are short-staffed. The shots will get in arms, but it will take time to resolve the manpower shortage. IMHO when the vaccines get to CVS and Walgreens et.al. the numbers will improve. The goal was to have everyone who wants a vaccine shot to have one by summer, this vaccine is more like the annual flu shot, not a one-time shot. So the shots will be an annual event, there is no finish-line.
Bloomberg counted up the shots administered in 184 countries and 59 US states and territories
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expects to move quickly after a Dec. 10 review of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and 20 million Americans could be vaccinated this year, its commissioner said on Friday. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to give a...
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Tasty Kool-Aid huh? Why did you bother linking the whole alt-right article on 20M being vaccinated by the end of 2020? We already know that didn't happen. It was closer to 2M. And the numbers for the rest are in jeopardy because it looks like Trump's admin fucked up the distribution plans in addition to the response. No one that I've seen is refusing to take it...the number of vaccines being shipped isn't what they said it would be and the distro plans made no allocation for extra money and extra manpower for the states so that they could get the shots into people's arms. Healthcare systems..overloaded. No leadership from Trump team. Starting to see a pattern?
OMG, its not a sprint, its a marathon. There were 20m doses distributed to states by the end of 2020, as promised. It is a medical miracle, like it or not. The injections are just starting, stay tuned as the shots get to the wider public, whoever wants one will be able to get one.
Why a growing number of Americans say they’ll refuse to take a COVID vaccine — and scientists are worried.
nypost.com
Promises were made by the Warp Speed team. You can't move the goal posts here. The failure to get the number of vaccines out and then the double failure of having the infrastructure in place to distribute them and having them get into people's arms in a timely fashion is a result of poor planning. You can't give Trump the credit for being the savior by developing the vaccine (which he didn't) and not give him the blame for the distro issues. If you can't, you're just a homer.
There is a difference between a "promise" and an "estimate". The CDC estimated that 20m doses of the vaccine could be distributed to the states by the end of 2020, it looks like they actually distributed 12.4m doses by the end of 2020. Its still a medical miracle to develop, test 3-phases, gain FDA approval, manufacture, and distribute 12.4m doses in 8-months, with hundreds of millions of doses to follow. That is a major success, period.
COVID-19 Cases, Deaths, and Trends in the US | CDC COVID Data Tracker
The goal posts were not moved, the weather and holidays slowed the initial delivery schedule slightly, no big deal. Besides, the delivery of doses isn't the main problem, its getting more shots in arms of a limited population. As the doses are made widely available to the public, the number of doses will accelerate. There is no "blame" it takes what it takes, the vaccine should get to herd immunity by late spring, so says Dr. Fauci:
Fauci said once the vaccine becomes widely available, if by "April, May, June, July, we get as many people vaccinated as possible, we could really turn this thing around" by the end of 2021.
health.wusf.usf.edu