Posted on 06/01/2022 10:42:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is headed for “a lot of unnecessary loss of life,” the Biden administration says, if Congress fails to provide billions more dollars to brace for the pandemic’s next wave. Yet the quest for that money is in limbo, the latest victim of election-year gridlock that’s stalled or killed a host of Democratic priorities.
President Joe Biden’s appeal for funds for vaccines, testing and treatments has hit opposition from Republicans, who’ve fused the fight with the precarious politics of immigration. Congress is in recess, and the next steps are uncertain, despite admonitions from White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha of damaging consequences from “every day we wait.”
Administration officials say they’re running low on money to stock up on, or even begin to order, the latest vaccines, tests and treatments. Also lacking are funds to reimburse doctors treating uninsured patients and to help poor countries control the pandemic.
The heap of sidelined Democratic initiatives has grown this year, a victim of GOP opposition and rebellions by centrists like Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Casualties include bills on voting rights, health care, environment, taxes, gun curbs, abortion rights, policing tactics and an investigation of the 2021 Capitol storming by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters.
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The hospitals have had two years to prepare for any “surge”.
Take that money and build the border wall with it.
Late September, early October. Gotta buy off the voters, don’tcha know!
The “unnecessary loss of life” that is coming will not be due to any resurgence of COVID-19 Wuhan virus, or monkey pox, or whatever nasty pathogen that can be cooked up in some laboratory in China or even Iran. It will be from failure to provide medical needs for chronic conditions, from looming mental depression followed by suicides, from simply STARVING, or succumbing to the cold in unheated houses.
And yet the general population cannot die back quickly enough for the elites. Hey, how abut lighting the fires to ignite another worldwide conflict, and bring nukes into the equation? Widespread interruptions to supply chains of all kinds, and the utter destruction of high-tech communications and economic bases throughout the world should drive ravening mobs out to loot what little goods are still not destroyed by other means.
What a world, what a world.
Well, I survived the Winter of Death so...
Bet on it. The midterm pandemic is coming.
Hey Groper, if you Mandated that ALL Federal Employee’s immediately sign up for and join Obamacare, you could use the money currently being wasted on those high price inefficient Health Insurance plans for Federal Employee’s, that you would SAVE!!
COVID???? We need Biden relief funds!!!!
The “or longer” option works for me. How about “never”. Beer flu is over. Move on.
And there you have the bill which dims will use to extend the Temporary Obamacare Subsidies!
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