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What does the EU thing tell you?

I agree about not taking it.

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January 2020. Nobody believed Trump when he said he’d have it in a year. I didn’t. Lost an avatar bet.

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Blind squirrel and all sure.

So he’s known for a year and yet… no plan? No DPA? Military? Amazon?

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DPA was done. States. States.

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Brussels unelected officials trying to make (A Win) of an ever closer union with the vaccine after the Brexit catastrophe. The individual nations signed off on letting Brussels handle the vaccine rollout which traditionally was handled by individual nations in the EU.

It is one of two reasons for Brexit one being immigration the other most voters where skeptical of the “Ever closer union” which means giving up power in your country and handing over to unelected officials at Brussels.

“Health policy has traditionally been largely reserved for individual nations. But Ms Von der Leyen announced that the EU is now “building a European Health Union”. The commission president liked the idea that Covid-19 would demonstrate the virtues of European solidarity”

“How did it come to this? Much of the blame lies with the European Commission — which, over the summer, persuaded the EU’s 27 member states to co-ordinate their vaccine drives and to put the commission itself in charge.”

A good article on it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/6bd192b4-6f7a-4df1-a484-1853bb054ba5

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Sounds someplace else I know.

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Yep that was the EU’s goal to become basically the U.S. and during its tenure it has made the same mistakes our government continues to make, by giving more power to the federal government while simultaneously taking away power from the states in their case countries.

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Teachers and students should be back in school. Its just not the same intensity of learning by listening to an ipad, or pretending to listen to an ipad, as being in class. To do that, states really should put teachers toward the top of the list. Otherwise they are going to be apprehensive of being there and possible spreaders to their students as well as the other way around.
However, some states did good by moving those with underlying conditions and over 65 to 1b while CDC still wanted them in 1c. These states saved lives that the CDC would have lost. Feds have recognized this by saying states should go to doing 1b and 1c.

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Of course you will.
20,000,000 have already gotten the vaccine.
That should, by all normal processes, only ramp up with the learing curve and production increases.
This was all set before Biden took office.
He is not responsible for any short term increases in the disease nor will he be responsible for the results of the vaccine.
You can see the ramp up by following local neighboorhood postings. At first, people were searching all over the place to try to sign up. Now, most people in my area who wanted it have gotten their first dose (assuming they were 1a or 1b).
Pharmacies, local schools, hospitals, are all increasing the distribution.
Biden, of course, will say how terrible things were and then he took over and fixed it.
No, it is just the normal stepping up a new process.

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I think there are still many vulnerable people and the virus is going to find them no matter how many mitigation efforts we take.

Like a keen predator it preys on the weak.

Best plan is to get vaccine into as many as fast as possible.

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Fauci…CDC…Say get back to the classroom.

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I agree with everything you have said. Indiana has done that as well. We are currently vaccinating at 65 years of age. While teachers have been dropped down. Teachers are the corner stone of getting the economy going. By protecting them, we get schools wide open.

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Apparently the teacher’s union likes Jbiden.

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They are abusing their influence at the moment.

They may well overstep so far they get sanctioned in some manner.

They really are harming children.

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Remember when Reagan dealt with the air traffic controllers? That was awesome!

Come on Jbiden!

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I said ‘early on in the pandemic’.

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How was last Nov early?

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We had a hard time until nov/dec. There were lots of test sites, but they would fill up. That changed around december, and now, its very easy to get tests.

I don’t think this was true everywhere, but in March/April/May - early in the pandemic - the entire nation suffered from poor testing availility.

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That’s 9 months into the pandemic. There is no metric where that’s considered early.

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November. Put the goalposts down.