@hightor,
hightor wrote:oralloy wrote:It was only when Mr. Biden took office that the supply of vaccine slowed to a trickle.
That's because of decisions made before he assumed office. It takes a while to produce and distribute vaccines and the orders should have been in the pipeline but weren't. You're making a fallacious
post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument.
Progressives always say it's someone else's fault. This reminds me of Venezuela saying that it's the US's fault that their economy is a disaster.
Well the pipe to my area was certainly flowing. My rural area of mostly open countryside and small towns got 8,100 doses by the beginning of January.
We got another 10,150 doses when Mr. Trump released the reserves, so they clearly were not empty.
We mostly get Moderna out here in the countryside. Pfizer needs special technology to keep it colder than the surface of a black hole, so even if there was a problem with ordering doses of Pfizer (a claim that I do not trust the NYT to tell the truth about), that's got nothing to do with the doses that we received.
hightor wrote:oralloy wrote:He funded the rapid development of many of these vaccines.
He didn't do anything that any other chief executive would have done in that position.
That isn't necessarily true. It was an expensive gamble, and another leader might have chosen to have vaccines be developed normally.
But in any case, since he did it, he deserves credit for doing it.
Should we deny Mr. Obama any credit for killing Usama bin Laden by saying that any other president would have done the same thing?
hightor wrote:He signed onto the commitments made by Congress. You make it sound as if he came up with the idea himself and paid for it out of his own pocket!
He was the leader who decided to commit to doing it.
