Posted on 02/22/2021 4:21:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... As Biden has acted to strengthen the federal government's hand in coordinating vaccination efforts across the country — particularly in empowering FEMA as the lead response agency — he has also reversed the politics of combating the crisis.
Former President Donald Trump used his power over federal resources and contracting dollars to reward governors, senators and business leaders who praised him privately and publicly as he sought re-election. By contrast, Biden has prioritized vaccinating people who are both vulnerable and representative of his political coalition. His administration is even providing support to vaccination sites in churches, hoping to persuade more Black and Hispanic people to get the shots.
Trump faced a barrage of criticism from Day One of the pandemic that his priorities and mismanagement were hampering the response. Now, Biden is trying to balance his top priorities: getting as many shots into arms as quickly as possible while ensuring that the process prioritizes low-income and minority communities, without doing so in a way that creates delays.
"Heavy emphasis on communities of color, minority communities, economically and socially disadvantaged," a FEMA official said. "Anything Trump did, we're doing the opposite."
But Andy Slavitt, the White House senior adviser for the Covid-19 response, praised the metrics the administration ignored during a briefing for the media Friday.
"The goal is to launch vaccination sites that use processes and relocations that promote equity and deploy the CDC's social vulnerability index," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
You forgot the BARF alert
No bias in this “news” report.... < /sarcasm >
Total misstatement of the facts, some kind of reversal of polarity in the known timeline of events. By following the thread backwards, convoluted though it may be, the buried kernel of truth is apparent.
Biden is the one ordering the accelerated assistance to the political favorites, while the original Trump priorities were for the “most vulnerable” and the front-line care providers.
In other words, the pandemic is going to be over before most of us can get shots. (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing.)
"Christians, Caucasians, especially males, and old people...go to the back of the bus"
What a bunch of horsedchit!
This is a press release for the illegitimate regime that NBC cut and pasted into a ‘news’ story.
The in-your-face bias is astounding.
But hey, “We Won !” *
(* needs citation)
An amazing article: a masterpiece of doublespeak and obfuscation.
The goal is to launch vaccination sites that use processes and relocations that promote equity and deploy the CDC’s social vulnerability index,” he said.
Who talks like that? What the hell does that mean?
The Power of Duuhhh?
Head shake.
Let’s see after a week of vaccination distribution through this system how many shots get thrown away because people don’t show up or mishandling of the very temperature sensitive vaccines. I wouldn’t be surprised at a very large number, but no one will investigate nor will it reported.
What a laughable piece of propaganda this is.
Does he know who he ran with? Pop Corn was a baaaad dude.
Do they at least label this an editorial?
Not mentioned is the major irony in all this.
Blacks being told to take the vaccine first are now convinced it’s a conspiracy to kill them off and are refusing to take it.
Oops!
The DCCC's newest employee is a former gang member who is on parole in New York.
Dyjuan Tatro, a former "triggerman" for an upstate New York gang, began his DCCC employment this week.
Tatro is the Democrats' senior adviser for ....wait for it....."diversity and inclusion."
Top DCCC Senior Adviser is on Parole in New York
Gang 'triggerman' and attempted murderer Dyjuan Tatro leads Democrats' diversity and inclusion efforts
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