This hindsight courtesy of Ezra having his head stuck up Newsom's hind from the very beginning of COVID.
Note Ezra's felching came long after Governor Newsom’s secret $1B CCP deal for undelivered PPA supplies.
Fuck Ezra Klein.
Posted on 01/18/2021 3:22:55 PM PST by Hojczyk
The NYT like all Dems don’t believe this country is a federation of states. The problem is that Dem run states are totally incompetent and thus need the Federal government to always bail them out. At the same time they demand to be able to do whatever they want when it comes to social crap. Notice that the Dem states are dictatorial when compared to Repub states. It is the typical hypocrisy of the Left.
Well you have to admit the federal “War on Poverty” was a huge success. It destroyed the black family structure and created ongoing generations of Democrat voting dependents.
You will see President Harris move to allow the blue states and cities to issue federally backed debt.
Yes I know the fedgov is broke, but the federal charade will go on a lot longer than the state ones.
This hindsight courtesy of Ezra having his head stuck up Newsom's hind from the very beginning of COVID.
Note Ezra's felching came long after Governor Newsom’s secret $1B CCP deal for undelivered PPA supplies.
Fuck Ezra Klein.
Yet another article with no analysis, just hate, hate, and more hate.
Basically red states will have to pay for blue states’ fiscal mismanagement. Illinois is really bad with their pensions, now they will get a bailout in the upcoming coronavirus bill.
If we lost a war for survival against a foreign nation, whose fault would it be? If someone failed to get a job, whose fault would that be?
This is a demonstrably idiotic assertion. You cannot vaccinate people without a vaccine! The Trump administration presided over providing the vaccine supplies which will now be used to vaccinate people. But Klein will give him zero credit.
how long would it take to ramp that up?
Why isnt the flu vaccine administered by the Feds.
Maybe because it is an obviously stupid idea
They will just stop testing like the Bammy/Biden administration did with H1N1.
News about the Whu Flu will end. (You’re already not hearing as much about it now.)
Federal disbursement?
It would be a total clusterf*ck......
Florida’s model is great, push the vaccine out to pharmacies in Publix and others.....
A mix of Public/private.....
Don’t be sucked in by the whores and scoundrels of the media. The fact is, of all the irrational delusions circulating round this land for the last dystopian year, the most obtuse is the idea that a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians can hold back, manage, or “crush’ a pandemic. Nature will out and that is the bottom line we face today and tomorrow.
In the absence of a coordinated federal campaign, the job has fallen to overstretched, underresourced state and local governments, with predictably wan results.
This writer is an idiot.
Has anyone actually compared the numbers for various states and approaches?
You can do a quick check between NY and FL....similar in population but radically different in all approaches to Covid...From quarantine to vaccine.....
Florida is a success story and New York is a disaster...
I changed my search and came up with this:
Due to the MLK Holiday, the numbers are a bit behind, but, I doubt the rankings have changed a lot. Obviously there will always be SOME lag between ANY entity receiving shots and getting them administered, so, I consider anything above 60% as very darn good. However, my tolerance for anything under 45% or so goes downhill in a hurry.
This list gives us FL with an administered vaccines rate of 39.30%, and similar population NY with an administered rate of 36.77% — advantage to FL, but not by a degree large enough to say FL is a success and NY is a failure. (I’d give both a D-.)
However, West Virginia IS a success, with an administered rate of 73.71%. CA is dismal at 27.55%. West V. is a mostly rural, “poor” state, which blows up the narrative about “limited resources”, “only the Feds can do it”, etc.
Of big population states, TX is best, coming in at 49.56%.
Overall, it is hard to spot a trend by demographics or per capita wealth. There may be a slight lean toward red states doing better, but, there are certainly exceptions both ways, good and bad. What is Connecticut doing right (or at least fairly well), or even KY? What is Alabama (worst) doing so wrong, while Louisiana is 8th best?
Maybe some ambitious FReeper can research how each (or at least several notable good and bad) state is getting shots administered. What is in common with the top 6 vs. the bottom 6 states, and a few in the middle, or something like that?
HMMMmmm...
Apple seems to KNOW how to get the next generation; hyped up electronic toy into zillions of hands quickly.
Here’s a question, speaking of vaccines, why is NYS’s Cuomo so keen to get his mitts on Pfizer’s to the exclusion of all others...?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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