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To: Land Shark who wrote (1335030)	12/21/2021 3:52:51 PM
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Is the wall around Obama and Pelosi's properties fascist?

To: Land Shark who wrote (1335030)	12/21/2021 3:58:46 PM
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For Biden, a day of COVID reckoning is coming Washington Examiner, by Byron York Original Article For Biden, a day of Covid Reckoning is coming. President Joe Biden has come up with a new set of measures to deal with the surge in COVID cases. The plan, which focuses mostly on assisting hospitals, home testing, and promoting vaccinations, is the latest evidence that Biden, who during the presidential campaign portrayed himself as an experienced leader who knew how to handle the pandemic, was not, in fact, prepared to handle the pandemic. The simple fact is, Biden has failed to live up to his promises to control the pandemic. During his second debate with then-President Donald Trump, Biden pledged to "shut down the virus." After the candidates' first debate, Biden tweeted: "220,000 deaths. If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this: Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States." <snip> During the campaign, Biden promised over and over that he had a "comprehensive plan" to fight COVID. There wasn't much to it. The heart of the plan was to distribute the vaccine developed under Trump's Operation Warp Speed. <snip> Biden was not prepared for new developments. The delta variant hit midway through his first year, and now, the omicron variant has arrived. The administration was caught flat-footed, which Vice President Kamala Harris, in an unexpected moment of candor, admitted in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We didn't see delta coming," Harris said. "I think most scientists did not, upon whose advice and direction we have relied, did not see delta coming." And then, Harris added: "We didn't see omicron coming." Biden's top COVID adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, later tried to clean up after the vice president, suggesting that she and the administration always knew there would be variants. But the damage was done. Harris had admitted what everybody knew: After all his big talk during the campaign, Joe Biden wasn't ready to deal with COVID. <snip> Now, with his new announcement, Biden is scrambling to provide enough tests for widespread testing during the omicron threat. But didn't candidate Biden promise that such tests would be available to any and all when he became president? Didn't he slam the Trump administration for shortages of testing and other COVID basics? And now, many months later, as 2022 begins amid long lines of people waiting hours for a test, he is presiding over a testing shortage?