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Originally Posted by GGG
You are saying that the US did a ####ty job on procuring the vaccine despite having the most vaccine in the world available at the earliest date?
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Yes, that is exactly what I am saying, because what you portray is wrong. The United States HAD the opportunity to procure all the vaccine it wanted, because it funded much of the research, but Trump elected to only order 60 million doses, which only would have addressed 30 million people, or 10% of the population. That was a failure of epic proportions when herd immunity is projected at 80% of the population or higher. What made matters worse, this action and the associated rhetoric then fed the mania about not needing to get vaccinated. The health experts made a recommendation and it was ignored for political purposes.
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From a global perspective perhaps, from the America first perspective they delivered.
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No, they didn't. When we only had 20-30% of first responders(!) around the country even having access to vaccine until March, that was was not hitting any mark. Maybe in the contemporaneous context you can say the US has hit the mark, but that was thanks to the Day One mandate of the Biden administration. This is actually the most important thing to focus on, especially in the context of your original comment which I responded to directly.
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Originally Posted by GGG
In my opinion working with republicans and giving them credit for vaccine procurement would have been a starting point to get people embracing it. Instead it was used as a look at how trump was failing and how great we are.
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Republicans had ZERO to do with positive vaccine procurement. NOTHING. They fed the narratives that spread the anti-vax bull####. They supported Trump in not provisioning enough vaccine, much to the complaints of the Democrats and the states themselves. This was turned into a political issue because the blue states were hit hardest during the initial outbreak and Trump was going to punish them for not kissing the Dear Leader's ring. Then Republicans continued this strategy, doing everything they could do to block funding focused on anything with pandemic response, which would have provided funding to states to undertake appropriate measures to get vaccines in arms, pushing their malfeasance into the shadows and putting the blame on those states who were in need of vaccine and funding.
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Biden did the easy part that no jurisdiction but Japan has failed at. Getting doses in arms. It didn’t need to be a partisan issue.
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What? We didn't have a reasonable pandemic response until Biden came into office and depoliticized the issue, making it a healthcare issue rather a political pawn. Once that happened states got access to money to get their response plans kicked into gear, and then when the proper amounts of vaccine arrived, the infrastructure was ready to handle it. Om top of that, they even allowed for more vaccine pods to be created, granting access to large employers to setup their own vaccine program and get doses in arms. All of this happened long after Trump has gone into hiding in Florida, and none of it was a result of Republican involvement. You're way out of touch on this issue and the reality of the American pandemic response. We were in very dire straits until mid to late March, and only the last two months has really turned the tide. And we also need to understand, we are not out of the desert yet. We are still way short of where we need to be, so ANY back patting and handing out participation ribbons needs to be halted.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-...-in-your-state