Posted on 01/05/2021 5:28:23 AM PST by Kaslin
The idea of a new vaccine being developed in less than a year was laughable before last year, before the COVID pandemic, before President Donald Trump. But it became a reality, an unmitigated success. You’d think that would be cause for celebration, in and of itself, right? And while Operation Warp Speed has received some plaudits, leftists can’t bring themselves to give it the full credit the Herculean effort deserves. And now, as the injections are going into people’s arms, the left has found a new way to downplay the Trump administration’s success: the injections themselves.
How many stories have you seen detailing slow injection processes? “As the Virus Spikes, Vaccine Distribution Is One More Hurdle for States,” is how The New York Times put it. Out of Philadelphia comes the headline, “COVID vaccinations taking longer than expected, doctors call for more national oversight.”
Democrat-run states spent weeks trying to figure out how to distribute the vaccine, cooking up a racist scheme to pander to voting blocs favorable to them in the name of “fairness,” in spite of the fact that the biggest preexisting condition and co-morbidity for COVID 19 is advanced age.
Now, complaints are rolling in that the actual inoculations are too slow, that vaccines are being wasted.
The governor of New York, responsible for mass deaths of the elderly, is implementing severe punishments to anyone who deviates from the state’s proscribed distribution priorities, even if that means the vaccine sits around unused.
Slate whines, “Concern Increases Over Slow Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines in U.S.” NPR chimes in with, “Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Has Gotten Off To A Slow Start.”
How were these states not ready? How did these Democrats drop yet another ball? And why in God’s name is the fact that these governments are failing not THE story on the subject?
The answer is simple: Donald Trump. The media is so focused on destroying the man that they’re ignoring every other failure and shortcoming in politics. People are being denied access to something that will save their lives based on the color of their skin, and feet are being dragged because of local incompetence, and it’s somehow being spun as a federal government failure.
What, exactly, are these leftists thinking the federal government has to do now? What is even the point of local governments if they can’t set up and run 24-hour inoculation centers? How hard is it to get something up and running that people have been waiting for, praying for, for months? Moreover, it’s something people knew was coming.
It’s not the federal government’s job, or even within their capabilities, to administer vaccinations. They are the logistics people, as Operations Warp Speed demonstrated. They are the military – need something somewhere, something valuable and fragile, something wildly important? They’re the people you want doing it. They are not the end-service people.
How have these governors dropped the ball? How is it they’ve been largely ignored in their failure? Right now, there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of doses of vaccine sitting idly, in freezers (or worse, not in freezers) doing absolutely no one any good. Where is the outrage? Where is the media? Where are the politicians condemning this incompetence and demanding it be fixed?
The answer is pretty simple – it can’t all be blamed on Donald Trump, on Republicans. If something does not meet that criteria, it might as well not exist. If people are being harmed, if people are dying, and it can’t be used as a weapon against Republicans, they might as well not exist.
As Andrew Cuomo in New York moves to institute fines of up to $1 million for administering the vaccine to people who are not deemed worthy yet by the state, and vaccines sit around unused, the story is being ignored.
It’s being ignored because this is how liberal government works – it picks winners and losers, it allows people to suffer and commodities to go to waste for no other reason than spite, incompetence, or a serious combination of both.
Just get the damn vaccine into the arms of people most vulnerable, period, and go from there.
This week it’s basic vaccine distribution, but what will it be tomorrow? As government grows bigger, the answer to that question is limitless. Just imagine how they’d handle managing all of health care.
At least they’re consistent.
Dems cannot protect their cities from riots & damages.
Dems cannot run a clean election.
Dems cannot distribute vaccines to a panicky populace.
Where is the surprise?????
I would say this...they all knew in July that the vaccine would arrive sooner or later. They all should have sat down then...crafting their vaccination priorities and the reservation system. Instead, they’ve wasted six months doing nothing.
It’s like you hired ten guys to redo your house-roof, and they all arrive today but there’s no hand-tools, no new roof materials, and no ladders.
Some would say that’s not “failure” but intentional.
Oregon’s Brown , and I believe Washington’s Inslee, announced that they’d delay the vaccinations until State resources had reviewed the hurried testing of the Trump vaccine. Miraculously, they accomplished that in a couple of days. I guess they couldn’t use the nine months they waited for the vaccine to figure out a distribution scheme.
The Dems are treating their own family members and staff family members.
Why did they fail?
They believed Fauci and the rest of the left honkers shaking their heads in laughing disbelief that there wouldn’t be a vaccine until summer 2021. They all sat on their hands, procrastinated and are now caught with their pants down.
These are the same people that want Medicare for all.
Let that sink in.
It is not the "Trump vaccine," by any stretch. President Trump cleared the way for the clinical trials to take place and subsequent data to be reviewed by the FDA sooner than they normally would. Hence, here we are today with a vaccine.
There is no purpose for Inslee and his "team" to review any data, because they would be duplicating the effort of the FDA. I doubt Inslee's team has any of the expertise to review and issue guidance in such matters anyway, and what if they disagreed with the data? Is Washington going to reject a drug product that's been FDA-approved? What kind of precedent does that set?
This is government bureaucracy and political one-upsmanship at its worst.
Not unexpected!
The writer complains about the Democrats picking winners and losers and then ends his diatribe by saying this, “Just get the damn vaccine into the arms of people most vulnerable, period, and go from there.”.
It seems to make sense to vaccinate the vulnerable first but that requires a government policy with an enforcement mechanism. It requires the Democrats to then decide who are the vulnerable are how to assure no one else, other than their chosen favorite exceptions, gets to jump the line.
A better way is to vaccinate as many people as possible as fast as possible. First come first served. Brutal? No. Stop the virus from circulating as fast as possible and the. Then the vulnerable will be safe.
They fell for the gaslighting that a vaccine would not be ready in 2020. So they sat on their hands and poof, the vaccine was there.
The media will cover for them as they do for all Democrat politicians, especially covering up the rioting and violence they allow in their cities night after night: Portland and Chicago come to mind.
Hospitals are holding up the vaccinations in Republican states, too. A couple of honest doctors said that they received offers of $25,000 per shot from rich folks to vaccinate them early.
In 2019 the nation’s private drug stores vaccinated 100M / month with the flu vaccine
How did AOC get to the front of the line? She already had hers.
Not I. No way.
I think what we have seen in the Fed side is implementation of a preexisting plan that probably was pulled off the shelf, implemented and is ongoing. This plan is probably updated periodically and when put into action tweaked to account for facts on the ground as they arise. Major players at the Fed level would be the NIH, CDC, surgeon general, 2 or 3 cabinets, the military and a couple of the largest pharmaceutical companies.
So, on day 1 of implementing the vaccination chapter of the pandemic response plan, line item 1 was yes/no is an existing vaccine available. The answer was no so the decision tree branched to expedite development.
One step in this process heavily involved the FDA and note how PDJT had to personally and repeatedly kick them in the butt to not dither around. Another aspect was production capacity once a vaccine was qualified. Actually, production capacity for several hundred million doses was lined up well before it was known which vaccine would be produced. Pfizer for example would be arranging for use of their internal capacity but this is likely supplemented by capacity in other pharmaceutical companies on a tolling basis. Other supply chains would also be involved such as specialty equipment and chemical manufacturers. There are a very small number of these specialty manufacturers worldwide.
Logistics.... The US Military is master of logistics and everything they did directly or were involved in coordinating has been terrific. Fed involvement pretty much ends when the vaccine transfers from the Feds to the States. This is where it gets goofy.
The Fed master plan has recommendations but no control of the State level implementation. Some State and locals are doing great (mainly R) and some are screwing up (mostly D).
“COVID vaccinations taking longer than expected, doctors call for more national oversight.”
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