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Democrats call on Biden to step up virus response
The Hill ^ | 1/16/22 | Peter Sullivan

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: brandon; covid; democrats; policestate; tyranny; virus
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To: Libloather

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.

How many of these reps are holding stock in the testing companies?

And to what end is this testing? What if one tested every day, or every hour. What is the point as the tests produce false negatives and false positives. You end up quarantining those who are well and releasing those who may be transmitting the virus. Never mind the entire wildlife population that is now out there transmitting the virus.

This is all very typical of leftists with their compulsion to try and control everything in life, much of which cannot be controlled. An airborne virus being one of those things.


41 posted on 01/16/2022 6:39:37 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: srmanuel

Democrats will never do any of these things they have boxed themselves into their positions.

Indeed. For leftists to stop their draconian edicts, which have not worked for the past 2 years, they would be admitting they made a mistake, which would bring into focus that their worthless decisions resulted not in the eradication of the virus, but destruction of the worldwide economy.


42 posted on 01/16/2022 6:44:36 AM PST by Flick Lives
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To: bk1000
They want the # of cases to regularly top 1M.

With test positives coming from the symptomless sheeple, we'll get to 1M real easy... already went over 1M on 1/10.

All sorts of fun and games can be justified with 1M cases.

43 posted on 01/16/2022 6:49:09 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Sacajaweau

The “case” count drives the .... “pandemic”. Having dropped the 98% false positive PCR test that originally created the “massive increase in cases” as opposed to true hospitalization for a “flu like” coronavirus which may or may not have ever been the covid strain. Said hospitalizations that resulted in deaths, as to causality as “covid” (when they were, when analyzed due to co-morbidities that were going to kill them, and a “flu” or a “covid” helped along the pneumonia and the pulmonary deficits to kill the patient, faster). Because the data is controlled (like Stalin counting the “votes”) this analysis is retrospectively difficult. And so, they just “say” it was all covid.

Fortunately, Nature has provided the nearly non-lethal mutated covid virion strain and increased infectious S-Protein to spread it, and rapidly diluting a “pandemic” to an “endemic” like coronavirus-influenza. So they are desperate to keep controlling people to keep their power, making it up as they go along.


44 posted on 01/16/2022 6:51:57 AM PST by John S Mosby ( Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Flick Lives

One of the reasons Ron DeSantis is so popular is Florida was in essence the “control group” of how to handle Covid, while all the Blue State Governers fell in line and all did the same things, DeSantis has in most areas did the opposite and showed his ideas worked, which is why he’s target #1 after Trump for the Democrats .


45 posted on 01/16/2022 6:55:31 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: Libloather

Biden said there was no federal solution. It’s up to the states to deal with COVID per the resident.


46 posted on 01/16/2022 6:58:33 AM PST by Cecily
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To: srmanuel
With the flu shot, they've said that take it. 50% chance it'll work. Maybe not.

We should had said that with the covid shot. But by then, many more people won't take it. So that's why the government was not completely honest so we'll get more people to take it.

47 posted on 01/16/2022 6:59:18 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: John S Mosby
Fortunately, Nature has provided the nearly non-lethal mutated covid virion strain and increased infectious S-Protein to spread it, and rapidly diluting a “pandemic” to an “endemic” like coronavirus-influenza.

Yep. Imagine if we were hit with a variant that's as deadly as delta but with the contagiousness of omicron.

48 posted on 01/16/2022 7:02:22 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Libloather

“…every American can take two a week for a year.”

330 million x 2 x 52 = 34 billion tests
At $25 per test, that’s $858 BILLION DOLLARS.

Almost a trillion dollars for what? Think of the productive investment that could be made for that amount.

These people are insane.


49 posted on 01/16/2022 7:03:50 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: kearnyirish2

“Dems seem VERY nervous about these upcoming mid-terms...”

That’s why they are pushing their federalizing-elections-to-ensure-demonkkkraps-win-majority-every-election bill while the average working person sees empty shelves, rampant inflation, and are told if they are not the right race they are intentionally pushed down a priority list to be denied medical treatments. They are not sure they can pull off another rigged and stolen election and continued big tech censorship - some people have caught on and won’t let the issue go. And expect the “racist” joker’s wild card to be pulled out 6 weeks before the election and the clueless GOP leadership still extending the hand of comity to their “fiends” across the aisle, instead of giving back to the demonkkkraps a daily dose of their own political medicine.


50 posted on 01/16/2022 7:06:25 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: MinorityRepublican

I understand, Fauci has admitted as much about his stance on masks, he told a “Nobel Lie” for the greater good, the result has been a disaster, IMO telling a little lie up front for the greater good ends up costing a lot more when people buy into the lie then find out they were lied to destroying any credibility the person and agency had.

In the future we might have a situation where people like Fauci are telling the truth and no one believes them and we all suffer because of it.


51 posted on 01/16/2022 7:12:05 AM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: Pollard

Chancellor Nehammer claims vaccination is “the best guarantee to live in freedom,”

Welp that is as Orwellian as it gets. Do as you are ordered so that you can be free.


52 posted on 01/16/2022 7:14:25 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Brian Griffin

Let companies like Amazon and FedEx buy the tests and offer next day delivery.

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How about NO.

Fed EX and Amazon deliveries are already maxed out. I work in the shipping industry and FEDEX is extremely overwhelmed. Amazon is using our Postal Workers to maximize their deliveries. The Postal workers are overworked and first class mail is being pushed out more and more. What has once took 2 to 3 days is now 6 to 7 days.

This is a bloody 99% survivable virus for anyone with zero co-morbidities. Stop acting like it is the Spanish Flu or Ebola.

JUST FREAKING STOP YOUR CHICKEN LITTLE ANTICS. Better yet, go post on a Commie Rat infested site.


53 posted on 01/16/2022 7:18:32 AM PST by HypatiaTaught ( Born Free, Live Free, Die Free)
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To: Dennis M.

Didn’t Gates and Soros corner the market on these tests? Follow the money.


54 posted on 01/16/2022 7:19:01 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: Brian Griffin

Many older people are multiple meds due to their DIETS.

Eat healthy and exercise and watch what happens.

Boom, it’s magic!


55 posted on 01/16/2022 7:21:37 AM PST by HypatiaTaught ( Born Free, Live Free, Die Free)
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To: TalBlack
“the best guarantee to live in freedom,”

Nothing about COVID. Just to live in freedom. At this point, two years later, I think people are starting to figure out that the vax isn't going to stop a mutating coronavirus with animal reservoirs. There's a lot of pissed off, double shot plus booster people who just got Omicron.

56 posted on 01/16/2022 7:26:14 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard

At this point, two years later, I think people are starting to figure out that the vax isn’t going to stop a mutating coronavirus with animal reservoirs. There’s a lot of pissed off, double shot plus booster people who just got Omicron.
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Maybe a few... I actually know a few people who are all “vaxxed up” and who got the latest virus de jour. One co-worker was out for a week. I asked him, Hey Jim, aren’t you triple jabbed? He said, “You bet. But I know this omicron would have been way worse without my jabbs.”

Can’t fix stupid or the brain washed.


57 posted on 01/16/2022 7:34:38 AM PST by HypatiaTaught ( Born Free, Live Free, Die Free)
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To: C210N

The “ Buy from China” spending package

I wanna know if my covid testing kits are gonna come with egg rolls?


58 posted on 01/16/2022 7:40:58 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: Allegra

Right - and how many people are going to say “Yes” and give Dems a landslide?

The CoupFlu was done in 2020 because many people could say “Yes” regarding Trump - and the Dems knew they had no chance unless they created a crisis.


59 posted on 01/16/2022 7:48:05 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

The GOP leadership has reaped what is has sown, and that is why the base turned on them and rejected all of their candidates in favor of Donald Trump. Many in the leadership know this, and are warning to tread carefully in terms of Orange Man - “Orange Man bad” doesn’t play well with the Republican base, independents, and taxpaying/working Democrats.


60 posted on 01/16/2022 7:59:25 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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