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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
137 days to turn the country from a fucking shithole to a world leader againt. Decent job for a guy that puts his suit pants on right.
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It's a bit more complex than that. Previous administration bungled containment initially. But really, was this ever going to be contained in a nation this size? No.
But as far as pushing aside FDA and other bureaucracies and getting vaccine makers to move quickly, prior admin deserves a lot of credit. Current admininstration deserves credit for grabbing that baton and pushing to make vaccines widely available by enhancing federal delivery mechanisms instead of allowing states to entirely control rollout, and by pushing aside bureaucracy when small issues involving side effects occurred. Biden could have stopped or slowed deliveries for long period when media started scaremongering about outlier situations like blood clots, etc., but he wisely weighed the costs/benefits and plowed ahead.
