It was reported earlier that after nearly a year of heckling then-President Donald Trump as COVID-19 spread around the country and vowing, during the 2020 campaign, that he would eliminate the virus’s threat if he became president, Joe Biden has said what rational Americans have known throughout the pandemic.Namely, that “there is no federal solution” to it.
“Look, there is no federal solution,” he said on a call to state governors over the weekend. “This gets solved at state level … and that ultimately gets down to where the rubber meets the road, and that’s where the patient is in need of help — or preventing the need for help.”
“My message to the governors is simple: if you need something, say something. We’re going to have your back in any way we can,” he continued.
The call was the first time Biden joined in for the weekly COVID update that is convened between his team and state leaders, CNN reported, adding that the call — and the president’s comments — come a week after he laid out a plan to ramp up testing and vaccinations.
“The new steps, which included ordering 500 million at-home rapid tests that Americans can obtain for free, came too late to avoid disruptions to winter holiday plans,” CNN noted. “Thousands of flights were canceled as airline staff tested positive. Many Americans downsized their plans amid the viral spread. Biden’s new tests, and the website where Americans can order them, won’t be in place until next month, the White House has said.”
Becker News adds:
Biden admitting that there is no federal solution to the Covid pandemic is a step in the right direction. Free states like Florida and Texas have experienced superior economic and social outcomes to those of lockdown and mask-obsessed states like New York and New Jersey.
New York City, for example, is seeing a massive surge in “cases” despite lockdowns, mask mandates for even the vaccinated, and ‘vaccine passports.’
