In a virtual meeting, online, the National Governors Association talked with President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., last week. The biggest issue? COVID.
About COVID tests, “I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion two months ago,” Mr. Biden confessed.
While serious people are taking this seriously, blah blah, the truth may be that tests do more harm than good. There have always been problems with the tests: too many false positives; they induce panics at mere “case” levels, thus feeding propaganda and unworkable government “solutions” to the “crisis.”
About which Biden now admits he’s got . . . nothing.
Having run against Donald Trump and his alleged lack of a plan, boasting how the Democrats would conquer COVID, Biden now declares defeat: “Look, there is no federal solution.
“This gets solved at a state level,” acknowledged the president, “. . . and it 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.”
That last phrase is odd.
“Preventing the need for help” sounds like he might mean patients taking control of their health care and their own immune systems. Could Mr. Biden be alluding to Vitamin D, Vitamin K, zinc, HCQ, Ivermectin, and many other immune system boosters and virus blockers?
Or Biden could merely be fumbling. He’s made much of the Omicron Variant, including at the governors’ meeting. But instead of addressing the actual trend of the latest iteration, politicians and propagandists push the idea that Omicron is deadly, when the evidence is clear: it is much less deadly than previous variants.
The great danger of COVID remains the governmental response.
Including, alas, Biden’s.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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“Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level.”
I can think of several federal cabinet-level departments that could be eliminated completely (and their workers dismissed), if this were the philosophy of most politicians. Our republic might actually live long and prosper. Instead, the relentless growth of the federal government will be our undoing.
Too bad they are not interested in their “enumerated powers”.