It’s been nearly a year since President Joe Biden announced the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion plan to “rescue the economy” by “containing the virus,” as Biden said in his introduction of the plan.
At the time, new media propped up Biden’s plan to spend a record amount of money to contain the virus and get the economy moving.
“President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion plan to rescue the U.S. economy by beating the pandemic, proposing economic and public health measures that include $1,400 checks for Americans, extended unemployment benefits, expanded daycare, and hiring 100,000 new public health workers,” BuzzFeed promised.
The economic aid has been blamed for widespread inflation that negates a lot of its benefit.
And a year later we can say for certain, that whatever else it did, that the ARP most definitely didn’t beat the pandemic, even before the outbreak of the new Omicron variant started a record surge of Covid recently.
Let’s just look at a few examples of what was promised and what has been delivered.
The ARP set aside $50 billion for new testing initiatives, according to Vox.
Vox promised this as part of the “immediate relief” given by the ARP because “the economy getting back to normal is contingent on getting the virus under control” as quickly as possible with the help of testing.
One benefit of the new testing regime, in addition to getting more people tested, said Buzzfeed, was that it would “aim toward detecting new more transmissible variants of the coronavirus.”
Yet, today, the U.S. is still faced with major shortages of testing even as the new Omicron variant proves to be more transmissible.
And the fact that Omicron is more contagious is an eventuality that took the administration and the scientists by surprise despite spending in the plan to make discovery of new variants and testing a priority to the tune of $50 billion.
Hospitals are also facing another crisis of capacity as the number of Covid cases surge, even though the administration promised it “will hire 100,000 public health workers to give shots and follow outbreaks” with the money approved by the ARP according to BuzzFeed News.
Even before the ARP, it was apparent that the one thing the federal government could do to great effect was surge staff to localities that had had hospital bed shortages. It’s a capacity that is just now being utilized under Biden, despite spending under ARP on 100,000 new health care staff.
The administration is considering a fourth round of vaccinations to finally do what the first three vaccinations have not done: Get the virus under control. But a fourth round of vaccinations could have been accomplished quite independently of the ARP.
In short, the only tool that the administration has used to keep the Covid case count down has been vaccinations– which was developed before the ARP — and which strain looks to be playing out with the new Omicron variant.
The new media heads at BuzzFeed and Vox promised that if the government just spent the money in the ARP, Covid would be contained.
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This isn’t news that the head puppet clown lied. That thing cannot tell the truth until he is told to by his handlers. America will be very fortunate when we finally cut the strings that are destroying us.
Joe bragging about how he would beat the virus once empowered by the executive office of THE PEOPLE is like bragging to your hot girlfriend how rich your father is in order to get a date. Now you see why Hunter turned out so screwed up. This one has proven he cannot lead, refuses to follow those who could, and needs to just get out of the way, PERMANENTLY, and take your puppet Veep home in her case when you leave. Had he just done nothing and left Trump’s plan in effect we would all be a lot healthier and more people would be alive to vote him out of office, instead of being dead and voting mail-in Democrat from the grave.
IT Was never INTENDED TO contain the virus.. JUST CONTROL US MORE…
Bingo!
Given the biological nature of a virus, why does anyone think that a monstrous bureaucratic machine like the federal government—rife with incompetence—is somehow going to “contain the virus”? What qualifications does Biden have in fighting viruses? He can’t even assemble a panel of capable and knowledgeable people to address the issue.
Even by Following the Science we all know that trying to stop the spread of the virus is like trying to stop the wind. All joe has accomplished is breaking more wind when he speaks, and taking the breath away from the American healthy and replacing it with masked recycled covid infected breath.
WHAT SCIENCE?! The left is incapable of following it, since they refuse to even acknowledge it, RE GENDERS/Sexes!
He can’t even hold a state of the union address but we are very fortunate he found the time to go on late night tv. The only place and people moronic enough to care what he has to say.
There was never any plan to “contain” the virus. No amount of money could do that. Especially when the money is controlled by democraps.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
And now 29 democrats in the house will not be seeking re-election. That’s real nice they have voted to destroy America and will be walking away with great pensions and we get screwed.
They’re only walking away, because they KNOW they have no chance in hell, of getting re-elected.. SO BETTER BOW OUT NOW..
The most severe virus in America today are the democrats and rinos.
AND THEIR voters!
Too bad the one sure shot to rid America of a virus is not legal.