{"id":386033,"date":"2021-12-26T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-been-breaking-his-promises-on-covid-tests-all-year-only-to-keep-doing-it-again-and-again\/"},"modified":"2021-12-26T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:36:22","slug":"bidens-been-breaking-his-promises-on-covid-tests-all-year-only-to-keep-doing-it-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-been-breaking-his-promises-on-covid-tests-all-year-only-to-keep-doing-it-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden&#8217;s been breaking his promises on COVID tests all year &#8212; only to keep doing it again and again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden&#8217;s been breaking his promises on COVID tests all year &#8212; only to keep doing it again and again<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/CovidTest-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In last week\u2019s Omicron speech, President Joe Biden tried to show strong leadership by saying he\u2019d make 500 million at-home tests available for free to all who wanted one. But it turns out his people haven\u2019t even finalized the contracts yet \u2014 and, in fact, he\u2019s been <em>promising<\/em> more tests all year.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times reporters, to their credit, exposed the no-contracts-yet issue within a day of his speech, flagging that nothing would be available before New Year\u2019s, let alone Christmas. Heck, the Web site to order them won\u2019t even launch until January (at the earliest).<\/p>\n<p>Which left Biden flubbering when ABC\u2019s David Muir asked about it in what the prez surely hoped would be a softball interview Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago,\u201d the president said. \u201cI wish I had thought about ordering 500 million at-home tests two months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Never mind the contradictions where Biden sometimes claims he predicted the crisis a month ago, and sometimes says no one could\u2019ve then (even though lots of public-health experts started sounding the alarms when Omicron first hit in South Africa).<\/p>\n<p>The bigger problem is that Biden already vowed to order 300 million rapid tests three months ago, in his big speech on the Delta wave.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, his \u201cmore tests\u201d promises began soon after he took office.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Back in January, the new prez promised to \u201caggressively speed up\u201d his administration\u2019s COVID response, especially on \u201cvaccines and testing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On Feb. 17, he vowed to \u201cimprove the availability of tests.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On March 11, he said \u201cWe continue to work on making at-home testing available.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>July 6, he bragged, \u201cWe\u2019re going to deploy things like testing to expand detection of the virus.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In reality, Team Biden plainly figured all it <em>really<\/em> needed to do was keep getting jabs into arms. Because, lo, in his nationally televised Sept. 9 speech, the prez said he would \u201cuse the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests,\u201d ensure drugstore retailers \u201csell at-home rapid test kits,\u201d and \u201cpurchase nearly 300 million rapid tests for distribution . . . so that every American, no matter their income, can access free and convenient tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Dec. 2, he told the nation, \u201cThis winter, we are going to make free at-home tests more available to Americans than ever before,\u201d mainly by ordering health insurers to pay for it. Which, of course, didn\u2019t guarantee there\u2019d <em>be<\/em> tests available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oops: There he was Tuesday, telling the nation that Omicron \u201cmeans we need more testing. . . .And on that score, we are [not] where we should be.\u201d Then he said the feds (i.e., the tapayers) would buy those 500 million at-home rapid tests and send them out for free.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that this president acts as if saying he\u2019ll do something is the same as doing it, when action won\u2019t actually follow for months \u2014 as with the mandate for employers to require vaccinations of employees, which he also announced Sept. 9 though the order didn\u2019t even go out for two months, wouldn\u2019t kick in \u2019til early January and is <em>still<\/em> tied up in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Far worse that Biden keeps promising essentially <em>the same thing<\/em> when it comes to tests, fails to deliver and then offers fresh vows as if the prior ones had never passed his lips. 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But it turns out his people haven\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/CovidTest-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122634,1545,43,991,120464],"class_list":["post-386033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-26-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-joe-biden","tag-omicron-variant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}