What happened to the 300 million tests you promised three months ago, Joe? Biden has spent a YEAR assuring Americans he would up the U.S. capacity before the Christmas fiasco that's seen huge lines - and contract issues make the wait even longer

Daily Mail ^ | 23 December 2021 | ELIZABETH ELKIND, RONNY REYES and KATELYN CARALLE,

[conservative98]

President Joe Biden admitted on Wednesday night that he wished his plan to send 500 million Covid-19 tests to people's homes came to him earlier - despite promising nearly three months ago to increase the supply by 'nearly 300 million.'

Just two days until Christmas, Americans nationwide are still waiting in long lines for Covid-19 tests and even longer for their results amid a massive spike in demand.

Three major studies have already confirmed the Omicron variant is noticeably milder than Delta, the previous dominant strain. In the United Kingdom, Covid patients with Omicron were 20 to 25 percent less likely to need hospitalization, according to one study. Another paper found Omicron was up to 45 percent less likely to lead to hospitalization than Delta, based on 300,000 people in England.

But Biden was forced to defend his administration's response to the highly-contagious Omicron variant as it rips through all 50 states. He told ABC host David Muir that 'nothing's been good enough' though repeated his and his top officials' line that nobody 'saw it coming' as rapidly as it had.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was forced to clean up the president's remarks to ABC in her Thursday press briefing.

'First I would say that uh, nobody saw - knew there would be the number of different variants, nobody knew

[conservative98]

Uhhhhhhhhhh

We're eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn't have a plan to get this virus under control.

I do.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 16, 2020

Over 215,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and what is President Trump doing?

Nothing.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 16, 2020

A slight change of tone from the president for one night doesn’t cover up the lies he told. It doesn’t change the fact that over 220,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 on his watch.

We can’t take another four years of Donald Trump’s failed leadership.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 23, 2020

[House Atreides]

Massive testing (including testing of the non-sick) is counterproductive and merely serves as a reason to keep the panic and lockdowns/restrictions going.

[volunbeer]

From a President who kept more promises than any in my lifetime to a President who has not kept any promise beyond the goals of wokeism.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

The Biden administration [of cognitive enhancing drug cocktails] made their biggest error not putting Kamala’s name and face on this.

White guy fails, black woman takes the fall again, blames the press and everyone else of racism/sexism again.

Pete, Hillary, Karen come to her rescue with long knives hidden behind their backs looking for just the right time.

“It was Pete, with the Knife, in the SCIF.”

[matt04]

Show the best scientists in the world, that supposedly work for the Biden White House, had no idea viruses mutate and will always mutate. This is for the admission they never had a plan to deal with Covid they were just winging it as they went along.

[matt04]

Exactly. With the omicron Variant, we know the symptoms are so mild you may not even know you have it, but by upping the testing it will keep showing more cases that are incredibly mild but will further justify more restrictions.

[Tench_Coxe]

Well that puts people into a quandary if the Supreme Court lets that OSHA mandate stand. Can’t test weekly because there is no test? Get jabbed or lose your job, because businesses aren’t going to want to pay those fines.

[Organic Panic]

The Big Guy always gets his cut first.

[XRdsRev]

Every test kit the government puts on contract is one less test kit on the store shelf available to people who need them.

[nascarnation]

You make an interesting point.

In a similar category, how does sending National Guard doctors, nurses, and paramedics to hospitals for “COVID” (like they are doing here in Indiana) do anything more than just move pieces on a chess board. Not actually creating more workers?

[drypowder]

What happened?? Jobama obviously has severe and terminal case of CRS!! He even gets lost in the bathroom and can’t find his way out.

[Carriage Hill]

In his presser, he kept referring to “300 million pills”, than to “300 million test kits” and then back to “300 million pills”. Not even a tiny clue as to what he means.

[conservative98]

The Big Guy always gets his cut first.

[delchiante]

It’s almost like they are designing a system where there will always be a pandemic because they will continue to test people who are well enough to get out of bed and go to the store, stand in line..

All these tests feel like hoops the reindeer have to jump through so they can too join in the reindeer games

[SaxxonWoods]

Someone can have mine, I’m fine.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

“Massive testing (including testing of the non-sick) is counterproductive “

Yup. You’ll have hypochondriacs in moon suits getting tested twice a day, while us sane folks yawn.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

When a population self-selects for a test, the results are statistically meaningless.

(Six-sigma black belt)

[antidemoncrat]

The longer they take to get Covid-19 under “control”, the more time they have to get their plans for a Climate Change enforcement army in place.

[TexasM1A]

C’mon man, he ordered 500 million pills, err I mean tests and they are being made right now...
They will be ready in a month or two, what’s your hurry?