Posted on 01/16/2022 5:14:24 AM PST by Libloather
The Biden administration is facing rising pressure from congressional Democrats to ramp up its efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The White House this week announced a flurry of moves, including the purchase of an additional 500 million rapid COVID-19 tests, as well as saying a plan is coming next week to make high quality masks available to the public for free.
But some Democrats and health experts are both pushing for more - and questioning why these actions were not taken months ago, before the current surge fueled by the omicron variant took hold.
Five Democratic senators led by Sen. Jacky Rosen (Nev.) released a letter to the White House on Friday expressing “grave concern” with the state of the pandemic response, saying it had too often been “reactive, rather than proactive.”
“This Administration either knew or should have known that testing shortages were occurring across the country over the past several months, and with the full expectation that the virus would likely mutate into a new variant steps to increase testing access should have happened before the current wave hit, not several weeks into the surge, with resources still not available until later this month or beyond,” the senators wrote.
Meanwhile, Democratic Reps. Don Beyer (Va.), Dina Titus (Nev.), Joe Morelle (N.Y.), and Kaialiʻi Kahele (Hawaii), introduced a bill to require the administration to purchase enough rapid tests so that every American can take two a week for a year.
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Exactly. They are desperate and intend to steal many seats in those elections.
Come on Joe: order another lockdown. That’s the ticket!!
“rising pressure from congressional Democrats to ramp up its efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.”
It’s all about the Nov. election. They’re desperate because they can see the ominous (for them) handwriting on the wall. They’re grasping at anything that will wrest control from us peons and put them in charge of everything.
“Meanwhile, Democratic Reps. Don Beyer (Va.), Dina Titus (Nev.), Joe Morelle (N.Y.), and Kaialiʻi Kahele (Hawaii), introduced a bill to require the administration to purchase enough rapid tests so that every American can take two a week for a year”
660 million test required a week. These morons are certifiable.
Many older people get a flu jab yearly.
The more they push this covid crap, the worse it will be for them. People have had enough of this. They don’t want constant vaxes, mandates, masks and they do not want to test all the time. Those tests sure keep Bill Gates life going great!
So keep it up RATs, keep messin’ up everyone’s life. Keep the misery alive.
People are really going to get pissed as the supply chain worsens, inflation goes through the roof. You did it democrats. Cheating is all you have left because you sure stink to high heaven.
We are in danger and it is sad because all you RATs need to be thrown out ASAP.
At say $10/test that would come to about $330 billion/year.
How dare you make sense;^)
Can't be for anything but to raise numbers. People were lining up like it was the opening of the first marijuana give a way store.
But half of Democrats are covidists. They are terrified by the virus. They've socially distanced from the world since March 2020 and each time they go out, they're freaked out.
It’s all about mail in ballots!! No doubt...
A year ago he promised to end it. Fauci has been at it for 2+(?) years now? Maybe they’re the wrong people for the job.
Yes, the destruction of the US is deliberate. They are trying to force China as the world leader.
OK, why would anyone WANT to do that? Your first sentence I agree with but I think the motive is their power, socialism, one party rule, not to cede the country to China.
When something doesn’t work, do it again but harder and louder. *Rinse and repeat*
you got it....blame everything on covid
True, but they are not sold as, take the shot and you won’t get the flu and the flu shot is not mRNA based medicine.
Basically people take the flu shot to prevent a bad outcome to catching the flu, which is why I say the Covid Vaccines have limited usefulness, same as the Flu Shot.
Biden himself and many others stated that taking the Covid vaccine was going to end the pandemic because it stopped you from getting Covid which also stops you from spreading Covid. Perhaps they did not know how the vaccine was going to work which is what they should have said, take the vaccine, it should keep you out of the hospital and we hope it stops the spread, now that neither of statements is true, whatever trust that existed in public health officials has eroded tremendously.
You are not forced to take the flu shot, you won’t lose you job if you don’t take the flu shot, no business denies you access if you don’t take the flu shot, etc....
“ It’s all about mail in ballots!! No doubt...”
This will all tie back to election laws.
Of course they are. That's their whole aim.
The narrative is taking on water. The primaries will signal the end of it.
They can take their test kits and high quality masks and stick them where the sun does not shine.
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