Impeachment 3.0
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Weāre Taking Our Country Back(wards)
Finish The Job
One People One Nation One Leader
Fight* for America
*not literally
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ARE YOU MAGA?
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White Privilege Rules
Daddy wants Me.
Make America Gullible Again
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Next season on The Apprenticeā¦
Lawyers Guns & Money.
(Ā© Warren Zevon)
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Me trying to get out of here
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Topical
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Iām curious if the Biden administration has got traction with this. Vaccinations are accelerating, but how much would have happened under Trumpās lack of care? What is baked in supply increases and local efforts and what is tangible results from the federal efforts?
My gut says the Biden admin has to be making a difference, but to date thatās all gut feel.
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Cmon mate.
You seen the mob he had running the joint the last 4 years?
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People working vs people watching fox and focusing on ridiculous court cases to overturn elections.
Has to have some impact.
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Look, no matter what the past, Biden was always going to get credit for the rollout. That said, the facts are:
- Trump only cared about minimizing or ignoring the pandemic as he did not want it reflecting badly on him
- Trumpās team wanted the onus to be on the states particularly the Dem ones as they felt it was a good political strategy in an election year
- While Trumpās team funded some of the vaccine development (particularly Moderna) the sole goal was to be able to announce a viable vaccine in time for the elections
Every, single, step was done not to prevent 100s of thousands from dying but to smoothen the path to an election win.
That is precisely why the planning was focused on a deadline of November 2020 and not much beyond that.
This is why the ālast mileā logistics were ignored, the rollout (until literally last week) was a disaster, and there was little to no coordination between the federal and the state governments.
So, when (hopefully in the next 2-3 months) I get my jab I know which administration to thank. And it aināt Trumpās.
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Yeah, I know that Trump was as useless as ā ā ā ā on a bull.
But Biden has had less than a month at the helm. Itās reasonable that any levers he pull will take time to flow through to results on the ground. I fully expect that heās getting results, but itās going to be hard to pick between existing momentum and Bidenās impact.
I hear you. Biden and his team also had 2+ months to have a plan ready to go on day 1 so there was little to no gap.
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Iām really optimistic for you guys.
Currently 12% have had one or more doses. By mid March that should be around 12-14% with 2 doses. That should cover the vast majority of those 65+ and those in the highest risk jobs.
81% of deaths are in that age group. So very very soon the new case to death ratio should drop by at least 81%. So if the spread keeps going at the same speed, the harm it causes will be drastically reduced.
Thing is, the spread should slow down too. Say 20% have been infected, have natural immunity. Add the vaccines and mid March 1/3 of the population is immune. Thatās a level of herd immunity that will drastically slow the rate of spread. So cases will plummet, hospitals will get some relief, quality of care will increase and patients will generally be more resistant. All good things.
End is in sight man. Good things around the corner.
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Thanks, mate! We are all keeping our fingers and toes crossed. Vaccination is our only strategy at the moment.
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