President Joe Biden, 79, finds himself losing credibility over his management of the Covd-19 crisis, repeating the same statements about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” a cliché emphasizing the importance of vaccines. But since the Omicron variant showed resistance to existing vaccines, including those boosted with at least three mRNA doses, it’s clear that breakthrough infections are occurring a record numbers, proving, that the current Covid-19 crisis is not only about the unvaccinated. Reports of the Omicron variant also having more mild symptoms have not been proved accurate with bouts of hospitalizations and Covid pneumonia at record rates. Hospital beds and ICU units are approaching record highs, despite the millions of American already fully vaccinated. Confusion from the CDA about quarantine guidance for Omicron-infected patients also hasn’t helped the public.
Biden spent the 2020 campaign ridiculing former President Donald Trump who started the Covid-19 crisis from scratch, having no guidance from medial authorities about sufficient ways to manage a runaway global pandemic now causing over 863,488 U.S. deaths, compared to 5,520,194 worldwide, staggering number of deaths from the outset of the crisis in early 2020. Biden and the Democrat Party used the Covid-19 global pandemic to discredit Trump, not realizing that they eventually discredit themselves, attesting to Biden 42.2% aggregate approval ratings. Despite have almost 100% media support, Biden’s approval ratings plummeted because of his Covid-19 response, but, more importantly, his failures on the economy and foreign policy where his policies have brought the country to near war with Russia and China, the worst relations in modern history.
Omicron’s rapid spread now accounting for 93% of U.S. cases of Covid-19 presents problems for health authorities, uncertain how to stem the rapid rise in cases. Biden’s comments that it’s a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” has not proven correct because current vaccine protocols does not stop Omicron from breakthrough infections related to the fact that current mRNA and adenovirus vaccines don’t provide protection. “I do think it’s about competence and capabability and telling the truth and using all of the tools that are at the president’s disposal,” said former Health Human Services Secretary under the Obama administration, Kathleen Sebelius. Sebelius admitted that Biden spent most of his campaign running down former President Donald Trump’s Covid-19 response but now finds himself caught in the sticky wicket, getting no better response with the Delta and now Omicron variants.
Biden has told the public they won’t get severely sick if they’re fully vaccinated. But Omicron has proven that plenty of fully vaccinated people are getting severe illness, requiring hospitalization or effective therapeutics, not widely available to most people. Schools and businesses continue to remain open despite alarming rates of infections of students, school personnel and businesses. Hospital personnel, airline staff, first responders, including police and fire, have seen dramatic numbers of people unable to work. With a nationwide shortage of home test kits, it’s made managing the nationwide crisis more complicated, leaving many citizens overwhelmed. There’s no indication that at home test kits will be plentiful anytime soon, leaving the White House look incompetent in managing the Covid-19 crisis.
When CDC Chairman Rochelle Walensky shorted the quarantine guidance to five days from 10 Dec. 27, 2021, she threw the public for a loop. She offered no scientific guidance only that the public could tolerate it better. “In terms of the communication and the trust in the CDC, it feels like we’ve have gone backwards,” said Lean Wen, former Baltimore health commissioner. “There’s agreement that the messaging has to be better and that it would be important to be simpler for people and more targeted toward what’s people nee and action guided,” said Ezekiel Emmanuel, part of Biden’s transition medial team. “I think we just need a clear message so people what the ‘to do’ is,” said Emmanuel said. “There has to be an admission at the federal level [about] what is not going well and frankly, we have a testing mess,” said Sebelius, seeing the White House losing credibility.
White House Press Secretary Jens Psaki has made matters worse for the White House painting only a rosy picture when most citizens know differently. “”Now we’re in a different place that were a years ago,” said Psaki. “We have a range of tools at our disposal, including antivirals and other treatments. So we’re going to continue to expand that , but we are in a different place than we were a years ago,” Psak said, saying nothing about the inadequate supplies of home testing kits, something inexcusable given the advance nature of the pandemic. Psaki tries to compensate for what are obvious Biden inadequacies when it comes to explaining the Covid-19 crisis. With so many fully vaccinated people getting infected with Omicron, it makes his look ignorant talking about a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Today’s vaccines don’t stop Omicron infection, despite possibly lessening the severity of infections.
