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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Democrats find that the COVID-19 pandemic turned out for the to be the biggest money laundering gig that has ever came down the pike for them.
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I agree; I know someone who works for FedEx corporate and she is extremely busy and overwhelmed.
And a college kid I know home for a very long winter break easily got a job working in shipping (not sure which company).
When they test positive, they get zero treatments, so what’s the point of giving the government more ammunition for their crazy mandates. People need to stop the insane testing. Why are people so stupid as to wait for hours in line for nothing? It makes me crazy.
More ice cream Joey, more ice cream. You should takeover Pelosi’s stash.
The real insanity is these morons can’t even do basic math. They are talking about nearly 35 billion tests over 1 years time. We can’t even find 2 right now on Amazon.
Top that with giving each American 8 insurance-covered tests per month.
The insanity in that alone is so bizarre, don’t know where to begin - who gets to now tell insurance co’s to cover this? So, insurance will rise for each person by $240/month for this (8x$30 per test)
People are getting away unvaxxed. That is intolerable.
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