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Originally Posted by New Era
Here's the problem with your argument. You're making it based on the total number of options on contracts they made, the vast majority of them for unavailable and not-yet approved vaccine product, rather than the actual orders they placed. Why should anyone get credit for something when the product is not in production or even completed trials? You only get credit for what you actually manage to have delivered. When Pfizer was approved and available they should have executed as many orders as they had options, which the Trump administration did not.
As someone who works in government I can tell you that the federal response under Trump was a joke. His administration dumped the responsibility onto the states and gave no clear guidance of who would get what vaccine in any shape or form. It was a complete cluster#### from the word go because there was no consistent guidance from the feds. Conversely, after it was turned into a health concern, and the experts who understand emergency response got involved, plans were quickly disseminated and things drastically improved.
Yes, there are huge populations of people who are not getting vaccinated. Getting vaccinated has become a political issue because of the messaging from the Trump admin and the QAnon set (there's 5G trackers in the vaccine!).
The drive through vaccination sites are actually incredibly well run and efficient. No hot takes there as they just continue to work and get vaccine into people's arms. Frankly, the government needs to take all measures possible to get the vaccine in people. Unless we hit the herd immunity level, this effort is likely for naught and we'll see variants quickly develop that make this vaccine much less effective to almost useless. The good thing that is happening right now, employers are incentivizing their employees to get vaccinated, which will probably be most helpful.
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I agree with you the Trump roll out of injections was awful.
I’m not counting vapourware vaccines though. Trump won global vaccine procurement. He had 700 million contracted of Pfizer, AZ, and Moderna and an executive order prohibiting export. They had so many vaccines they didn’t need to approve AZ like other countries did. 15 million JJs were contaminated and it didn’t matter.
The Ohio lottery program increased vaccinations by 33% so that promsing.
Paying people to get vaccinated, free beer with vaccine and other incentives need to keep being added.