Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The Short Unhappy Presidency of Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

 Biden said his administration was nearing a deal with Pfizer and Moderna for 200 million more doses by summer’s end. It may not speed up vaccinations.

 ...a time frame that his predecessor had also envisioned, and one that may not accelerate the current pace of vaccination for months.

The purchases would boost the administration’s total vaccine order by 50 percent, raising it from 400 million to 600 million doses — enough to vaccinate 300 million Americans by the “end of the summer, beginning of the fall,” Mr. Biden said.

Although the president has been in office for less than a week, he is already under intense pressure from a frustrated public to accelerate vaccinations. 

Dear God, this fucking thing will have mutated every which way by then. Yesterday Pfizer said their vaccine would be slightly less effective against the South African variant and Moderna said it was "studying" whether a change to its vaccine was needed.

Mr. President, this is just not acceptable. 425,000 Americans have been killed by this thing, 15,000 (!) in just the five short days of your presidency.  This is now the Biden Plague. 46-1 lost the election for his mishandling of this thing. Your "time frame" is the same "envisioned" by him? Then sir, your time frame as president is going to be the same as his!

This entire country has got to get vaccinated--yesterday. I don't care if you have got to nationalize Pfizer and Moderna,

This

Has

Got

To

Get

Done



151,112 new reported Cases on Joe Biden's watch on Jan. 25 (a reporting weekend day).
1,915 new reported Deaths on Jan. 25.


The 14-day changes,

-31% Cases
-11% Hospitalizations
-3% Deaths

mask a depressing change in the 7-day averages:
That's right. For the first time since the Jan.8 iteration the Cases 7-day average ticked UP. Yesterday it was 172,429, up from 170,559 in Jan. 24's iteration.

Hospitalizations stayed on their pronounced downturn but Deaths, Deaths are so disappointing,

Deaths have moved from drunken mini-toggle wobble to sober sure-foot STEP. UP each of the last two iterations to a daily average, Jan. 19-25, of 3,136.