Politico is reporting the Biden administration is struggling mightily to deliver on its promise. It campaigned on its boasts about its ability to get a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic. Now it appears they may have lost track of as many as 20 million vaccine doses.
We are just over a week into the Biden Administration. Some may conclude this is a reason to doubt the credibility of its campaign promises. The destination of the maybe lost, maybe not, doses were the states. But don’t panic they have doses for the prisoners in Gitmo.
The report notes Biden officials are learning a perfect pandemic response is easy to promise. Being responsible for results; that’s hard. It is much easier to promise a vaccine than to actually deliver a vaccine, on time, to where it can be used.
Campaign promises do not deliver the vaccine
The Politico report observes the administration has largely jettisoned its coronavirus response plan. It seems Tinkerbelle cannot wave her wand and make everything okay. They are discovering the challenges they face in getting the pandemic under control. They may have been more than they were able to grasp. The quote from an administration official is:
“It’s the Mike Tyson quote: ‘Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.'”
The Politico report indicates: The Biden administration cannot locate about 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. It thinks they were sent to the states. The administration is concerned:
“the crucial supply is boxed away in warehouses… sitting idle in freezers or floating elsewhere in the complex distribution pipeline… from the administration to individual states.”
Biden administration officials blame this problem on the Trump administration. What else could it be? They claim Trump was not tracking the vaccines after sending them to the states. And it took three weeks to figure out they lost 20 million doses of vaccine…? Okay, in a pandemic… if you say so… we believe that… No, really we do.
Making promises is easier than delivering the vaccine
You lost two million doses a day of the vaccine. That’s going to make delivering 91 million doses by April 30 as Biden promised more challenging. It puts the effort almost 22% behind right out of the gate. Now to make the commitment you need to produce, transport and deliver nearly 1.22 million doses of Vaccine per day. Is that possible?
The report says administration officials have discovered that the available stockpile of vaccine is “mostly empty.” They are struggling to find ways to boost production. That is the only way to meet the administration’s initial goal of 100 million vaccination doses in the first 100 days.
The friends of the administration widely criticized the goal as being too modest. They said it was not even an improvement on the rate of vaccine delivery during the final days of the Trump administration. It kind of makes you long for the Trump days… at least he delivered on his promises.
The ability to deliver vaccine seems to parallel the ability of the POTUS
The shortage of vaccine supply seems to have caught the Biden administration by surprise. How shocking. The Politico report, says the shortage may not be recoverable even by as late as this summer. That’s shocking… just shocking. Lost: 20 Million Doses of Covid Vaccine, if you find them call Joe at 1-800-dial-a prayer.
What it means is the administration’s plans to help America return to normal activity are about likely to succeed as Joe delivering a thought without a teleprompter, an ear bud and a coaching team. It just ain’t gonna happen… You voted for a dementia patient for president and did nothing to stop his inauguration. You are getting what you voted for.
