The Biden team said it had identified 12 “immediate supply shortfalls” in the Trump administration’s pandemic response plans. . . Some of Mr. Biden’s advisers said they were stunned by the vaccination plan — or the lack of one — that it inherited from the Trump administration, and said the Trump team failed to share crucial information about supplies and vaccine availability. “What we’re inheriting is so much worse than we could have imagined,” Jeff Zients, the new White House Covid-19 response coordinator, said. Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary, told reporters on Wednesday evening that Mr. Biden “absolutely remains committed” to invoking the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era law, to bolster supplies. Administration will mobilize Public Health Service and military to open, staff and operate large vaccination centers. (Allow me to observe that the Public Health Service has been progressively weakened for decades, starting with the Reagan administration. It is a shadow of what it used to be.)
I went to sleep last night and woke up this morning with a very strange sensation. It took some time to analyze,but eventually I realized that I'm not afraid anymore. For four years every day, every moment, no matter what was going on in my own life, there was a constant, underlying fear. That's gone now. Thank you, Pres. Biden!
President Biden’s White House has renewed subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post after former President Trump canceled them out of anger over how he was portrayed, The Hill reports.
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Biden’s 17 Executive Orders and Other Directives in Detail [Click] Gee. I guess I can forgive him for having the Oval Office so cluttered up with busts. . .
ReplyDeleteReport: Biden Admin Discovers Trump Had Zero Plans For COVID Vaccine Distribution [Click] Excerpts from other stories:
ReplyDeleteThe Biden team said it had identified 12 “immediate supply shortfalls” in the Trump administration’s pandemic response plans. . .
Some of Mr. Biden’s advisers said they were stunned by the vaccination plan — or the lack of one — that it inherited from the Trump administration, and said the Trump team failed to share crucial information about supplies and vaccine availability.
“What we’re inheriting is so much worse than we could have imagined,” Jeff Zients, the new White House Covid-19 response coordinator, said.
Jen Psaki, the new White House press secretary, told reporters on Wednesday evening that Mr. Biden “absolutely remains committed” to invoking the Defense Production Act, a Korean War-era law, to bolster supplies.
Administration will mobilize Public Health Service and military to open, staff and operate large vaccination centers. (Allow me to observe that the Public Health Service has been progressively weakened for decades, starting with the Reagan administration. It is a shadow of what it used to be.)
Biden Comes Out Swinging With Flood Of Actions Reshaping Fed Role In COVID Response [Click]
DeleteBiden Fires Trump Appointee At National Labor Relations Board [Click]
ReplyDeleteOne can only hope he'll reinstate the NLRB as an agency with real responsibilities and real powers.
DeleteCruz doesn’t know *anything* about the Paris agreement except that he is opposed to it. [Click] Probably doesn’t know anything about Pittsburgh, either.
ReplyDeleteDid a coronavirus cause the pandemic that killed Queen Victoria's heir? [Click] Fifteen years ago, scientists suggested that the “Great Russian Flu” of the early 1890s may have been a Covid-like virus that crossed to humans from cows.
ReplyDeleteSerum Institute: Fire at world's largest vaccine producer kills five [Click] No effect on Covid vaccine production—company has production facilities in reserve, and the fire was at a facility under construction.
ReplyDeleteOh,and the Trump administration turned down repeated offers of vaccine from the company.
DeleteThe handwarming story of how Bernie Sanders got his inauguration mittens [Click]
ReplyDeleteThis is the best photo of Bernie and his mittens, I think.
The thought crossed my mind of taking up a collection to get Bernie a new desk chair. . .
DeleteHe would prefer a used one.
DeleteI went to sleep last night and woke up this morning with a very strange sensation. It took some time to analyze,but eventually I realized that I'm not afraid anymore. For four years every day, every moment, no matter what was going on in my own life, there was a constant, underlying fear. That's gone now. Thank you, Pres. Biden!
ReplyDeleteOHIO; COVID cases 849,704 and 10,518 deaths.
ReplyDeleteEzra Klein: Democrats, Here’s How to Lose in 2022. And Deserve It. [Click] You don’t get re-elected for things voters don’t know about. [From NYT—not yet found elsewhere.]
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ReplyDeleteCharlottesville Inspired Biden to Run. Now It Has a Message for Him. [Click]
I found this on the front page of the NYT, then used Google to locate it outside a paywall.
DeleteTrump Businesses See Sharp Revenue Decline [Click] “The issues facing the Trump Organization are likely to get worse in the coming months.” Works for me.
ReplyDeletePresident Biden’s White House has renewed subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post after former President Trump canceled them out of anger over how he was portrayed, The Hill reports.
ReplyDelete‘Really quite shocking’: Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon [Click]
ReplyDeleteVT COVID CASES for the last 2 days:
ReplyDeleteW: 10,471-10,321=150 (+8 +142)
TH: 10,580-10,471=109 (+8 +101)
Deaths:
W: 165 (+2)
TH: 168 (+3)
Hospital
W: 42(+2), ICU:5(-2)
TH: 45(+3), ICU:7(+4)
2 days' worth:
Recovered 7083 (66.9%)
Tests 291,297 (+904)
Positivity Rate down to 2.5%
Death Rate still 1.6%
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Thanks, Cat!
DeleteInteresting that there's another option.
I assume the ads at the top are not optional...? Would we be able to make the Kitties photo larger or no?
Thanks so much for the research and sharing.
I wonder why the ad I see at the top is in Russian. Unfortunately, my Russian is too rusty for the advertiser to benefit.
DeleteI don't see any advertisement.
DeleteGot no ads. But google is not letting me sign in. Keeps taking me back to the beginning. jeeper.
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