On his first day in office, newly-elected President Biden vowed to jump-start the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic while claiming that our country was not ready for mass inoculations because President Trump did not do his job.
At the risk of contradicting President Biden, I respectfully remind him that the jump had already been started by then President Trump as reflected in the steep drop in cases beginning in late January.
Looks like he really did do his job.
Briefly reminiscing, about a year ago, our nation was inundated with an infection emanating from China, later identified as the coronavirus, and the Trump administration, amid harsh criticism, took immediate action to halt, to the extent possible, traffic from this area and to commence the development of a vaccine(s) to combat it.
President Trump started his job when his many critics were initially totally unaware of the problem and only later grasped its enormity.
In less than a year, under President Trump’s Warp Speed program, vaccines were developed, tested, proven effective, and the envisioned distribution/inoculation was underway.
The Biden administration has followed the tactics and procedures already laid in place by President Trump, who did his job, and the current administration is now reaping the benefits and, preposterously, attempting to take credit for them.
President Biden’s self-congratulatory chest-pounding at these early signs of success is every bit as ludicrous as the crowing rooster attempting to take credit for the sunrise.
But I guess that’s his job.
Dick Pilling
Port Angeles