The long lines at COVID-19 testing sites and unavailability of at-home testing kits is a direct result of the Biden administration’s dismal failure to anticipate the recent surge in cases across the country.
Joe Biden bungled the testing crisis in a way that, if Donald Trump had done it, it would have prompted a congressional investigation.
Weeks after White House press secretary Jen Psaki made fun of the idea, Biden’s plan to distribute a half-billion tests around the country doesn’t begin until next month — a puzzling delay given the desperate need for testing now while COVID is surging.
The state of Massachusetts under Gov. Charlie Baker gave out 2 million at-home testing kits to the communities hardest hit by coronavirus and that impact was immediate.
Cities like Boston were able to distribute the free kits to residents and even those were in scarce supply by Christmas.
Long lines snaked around blocks by testing sites all over the country. And pharmacies with testing kits available for sale were difficult to find over the weekend. More likely patrons were met with homemade signs warning them that pharmacies were all sold out.
“We have to do more, we have to do better and we will,” Biden said on Monday after a meeting with the nation’s governors.
“It is not enough. It’s clearly not enough. If we had known we would have gone harder quicker, if we could have.”
And that is the problem — Biden should have known and probably did know. What one expert called a “pandemic game-changer” — giving access to testing to all Americans months ago — never materialized.
“We are about to see what I think is going to be another testing crisis in this country,” one of the leading experts on COVID testing, Harvard assistant professor of epidemiology Michael Mina wrote in September. “Unfortunately, we do not have the scale of either (rapid or PCR) tests to be able to get fast turnaround time.”
Vanity Fair reported last week that the Biden administration actually rejected a 10-page plan in October to boost pre-holiday testing with free, at-home kits. The ambitious plan to distribute 732 million tests per month was reportedly discussed in a White House zoom meeting, but the experts pushing the plan were told the idea was “dead.”
“We didn’t reject it,” Biden said on Monday in response to a question about the Vanity Fair report, before walking away from reporters.
Snapping at the press. Stomping away from questions. All the signs of an administration breakdown and loss of public confidence are there.
“Should we just send one (test) to every American? spokeswoman Psaki snarkily asked earlier this month.
In a press conference on Dec. 21, Biden was directly asked “what took so long” to approve a testing plan.
“C’mon what took so long? What took so long is it didn’t take long at all,” he responded.
C’mon, Joe. Just admit it. You blew it.
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Presidential candidates like vaccines should be tested, lest the promises made don’t measure up to the results received. Those campaigning basement fireside chats just hid what he had upstairs,,,,,a vacuum inside his brain.
Joe wasn’t much for active campaigning, it wasn’t his desire,
While others worked to get him elected, he hid in his basement by the fire,
Same old COVID fear he offered, he never seemed to tire.
No matter what others did, he just sat there, the liar by the fire.
Like most do-gooders with other’s life force, think when they die, they go up higher,
If Joe keeps doing what he is doing now, he’ll be sitting dead down below again,
but this time IN the fire.
I believe any presidential candidate should be required to master any advanced civilization building game. At the least they will show if they know how money works.
ARE we sure he ‘bungled’ things, and this IS NOT ALL ACCORDING to some evil plan??
That’s what I’ve been saying… like evil numbskull Nancy said…”he’s perfect”
“Biden Bungles”
That’s all you need to know.
“Biden…”
THAT’S all you need to know.
So… that’s what BBB stands for “BIDEN BUNGLES BETTER”
The clown and his car load of minions could f-up a soup sandwich. It would be more news worthy if there was actual evidence that he didn’t bungle something.
So, Obama had it right when he said not to underestimate Joe’s ability to F- anything up.
So why get tested when you can still get CCP Virus after you are tested. Just sounds like another money scam to me. Dr. little man Fauci should be fired just for NOT demanding persons that have bad side effects from the shots are not being recorded because the procedure is not simplified to do so. In my opinion , that is VERY important information!
Same reason most i know, REFUSE TO get the jab.. WHY GET IT, if
A) You are still able to catch coof, pass it on, and get sick.
B) You are stil required to mask up all over the place!
The hosts at FOX NEWS were talking about the coming winter surge (It IS the cold and Flu season, after all.) in early fall.
Golly, I’m starting to think this O’Branden guy isn’t all there.
Had latest version of made in China funded by American taxpayers virus and I have felt much much worse from seasonal flu. This is a scam perpetrated by democrats and their sympathizers to scare America into shutting down their lives for the sake of living. Sounds a little oximoronic doesn’t it?
The dickens you say Timesup….
And the people expected something different from this incompetent regime?