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Right Wingers FURIOUS That Biden is Vaccinating So Many People
Coronavirus vaccines in the United States are becoming more readily available and the nation keeps setting records for vaccines administered per day. On Saturday, there were a record 4.5 million immunizations and the average per day now is up to 2.4 million. President Biden made an announcement at the end of last week, saying that every American adult will be eligible for a vaccine starting May 1st. The promise still stands to get every American adult who wants one their first vaccine dose by the end of May. This timeline has been moved up dramatically and it suggests life could get back to pretty much normal by around the Fourth of July holiday. Biden said as much during his address to the nation, saying this year’s Independence Day can include unmasked small social gatherings among vaccinated people.
Right-wing media doesn’t know how to report on Biden’s successes regarding vaccine distribution. Radio host Mark Levin went on Fox recently and said “this speech that Joe Biden gave is the most disgusting, propagandistic speech, that a demagogue, even a politician, has given.” Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham chatted about the speech during the hand-off between their programs and Ingraham said, “it seemed a tad like a funeral for America,” prompting Hannity to laugh. Later during Ingraham’s show, a guest said it was “unamerican” for Biden to pick Independence Day as the day life can go back to normal but she failed to make the case as to why. If this is going to be right-wing media’s strategy for covering the Biden administration, then they’re going to be in for a long four years.
Sorry, Trump Doesn't Deserve Credit for Vaccines
Donald Trump has been trying to take credit for coronavirus cases plummeting in the United States, in part due to the three vaccines becoming more widely available across the country. The office of the former president released a tweet-like statement last week that read, “I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t president, you wouldn‘t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all. I hope everyone remembers!” President Biden and many Democrats have given some credit to Trump for Operation Warp Speed, which helped deliver vaccines in record timing, however when it came to an actual game plan for distribution, the last administration left the new one high and dry.
The Trump White House lacked a plan for getting vaccines into people’s arms. They wanted to leave it up to the states, as was their plan for basically everything else surrounding COVID-19. The former administration also lacked a plan to get Congress to pass funding for the states to be able to administer the vaccines. This was made worse by the fact that Trump was not concerned one bit with coronavirus in the final days of his administration, instead dedicating his time to wallowing over his reelection defeat. Now, Biden has overseen a dramatic drop in cases and the scaling up of immunizations to an average of 2.4 million vaccines administered now in the US every day.
From over the weekend:
Absolute Lunatics BURNING MASKS at Deranged "Protest"
Last week, people gathered outside the state capitol building in Boise, Idaho to hold a mask burning ritual. Dozens of men, women, and children gathered around a fire and threw their cloth and medical-grade masks into the blaze. The mask-burning made no sense for a number of reasons, chief among them because the US still gets around 50,000 new coronavirus cases per day and 1,500 daily deaths. But also, Idaho doesn’t even have a mask mandate so it’s not like there was anything for people to be protesting. To make matters worse, many of these masks should not be getting burned in close proximity to people because the fumes can be toxic. There were layers upon layers of stupidity with this event in Boise, Idaho.
--More on the show:
--A new record if 8.8 million COVID vaccines are injected over the weekend in the United States
--Dr. Anthony Fauci is baffled by nearly half of Trump voters not wanting the COVID vaccine
--Joe Biden's first prime time national address drew a larger audience than Donald Trump's first prime time address back in 2017
--The leaked Donald Trump audiotape exposing Trump pressuring Georgia election officials was actually found in a trash folder on the computer of an investigator
--Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who previously said the January 6th rioters could have been fake Trump supporters, admits that he wasn't scared of the protesters because they were on his side politically and not Black Lives Matter nor Antifa
--Fox News host Greg Gutfeld announces bodily functions live on air, apparently not realizing his microphone was on
--Voicemail caller wrongly thinks all or even most Democrats support Medicare for All
--On the Bonus Show: KY Senate votes to make it a crime to insult police, Spain will launch four day work week trial, Capitol Police starting to remove fencing in Washington DC, much more...
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