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Tossing vaccine priority list, Biden tells states to open eligibility by May 1:
On the first anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, US President Joe Biden announced that he will direct states to open vaccine eligibility to all American adults no later than May 1, a dramatic acceleration of the national immunization plan that has been sluggish and, at times, chaotic.
"That's much earlier than expected," Biden said in a televised, prime-time address. It doesn't mean every American over age 18 will have their shot by then, Biden cautioned, but you'll be able to get in line.
The announcement means that carefully crafted prioritizations for vaccines will soon no longer apply. The White House COVID-19 Response Team landed on May 1 for the deadline after concluding that national vaccination efforts would be far-enough along by the end of April to make the prioritizations obsolete anyway.
"If we all do our part, this country will be vaccinated soon," Biden said, "our economy will be on the mend, our kids will be back in school, and we'll have proven once again that this country can do anything."
(Score: 2) by helel on Saturday March 20 2021, @10:49PM (6 children)
Your entire counter argument seems to hinge on the fact that Brian Sicknick's cause of death was initially misreported in the midst of a chaotic attack on our nations capitol. Initially there were reports of six deaths in the assault. Followup reporting quickly clarified that those were medical emergencies and not criminal. If there is a media conspiracy shouldn't it be claiming all of them were a result of Trumps mob?
Yes, Trump eventually tweeted out a weak-ass "go home" after denying use of the DC National Guard SIX times. SIX. Had he done nothing the National Guard would have been standing by and standard protocol would have stopped the attack the building was breached. Had he authorized the Guard to respond the first time he was asked the attack would have ended minutes after the insurrectionists entered the buildings.
Even if you think there was no planning and no forethought whatsoever Trumps actions during and after the assault amount to near treason.
Imagine if a BLM protest breeched the Capitol Building and individuals armed with quick cuffs and guns were marching through the senate chambers chanting "Murder Moscow Mitch." If Biden ordered the National Guard to stand down and do nothing for three hours would that seem like a reasonable response? Would you say that was an appropriate way to uphold his oath of office?
(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Sunday March 21 2021, @04:39AM (5 children)
It wasn't "initially misreported". The framing of Sicknick's death being a brutal murder by protesters persisted for weeks. By the time of his honorary at the Capitol Rotunda, the autopsy had been fully completed, and he had been cremated. His completely fabricated murder at the hands of protesters was used as a key building block in the impeachment trial, and was similarly used to justify by the (still ongoing) militarization of the capitol by framing the protest as deadly, when in reality not a single person was killed beyond an unarmed woman who was shot in the throat.
This is such an extreme and gross and malicious lie that it should make you strongly question any and all narrative you have heard about what happened on the 6th. If you'll excuse me going full Godwin what you are doing now is akin to had a German citizen learned that the Gleiwitz incident [wikipedia.org] was entirely fabricated and going "Okay, so the Poles didn't attack the radio station. There's no doubt though, the are evil. Haven't you heard about what else they've done!?"
(Score: 2) by helel on Sunday March 21 2021, @11:04AM (4 children)
If the misreporting was intentional why didn't they do it for everyone else the died in the capitol that day?
(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Sunday March 21 2021, @01:57PM (3 children)
Because Sicknick was the only "good guy" that died. The whole narrative required a martyr and a martyr who died in a brutal way.
(Score: 2) by helel on Sunday March 21 2021, @02:39PM (2 children)
What you are doing is called motivated reasoning. You have a conclusion you want to be true - in this case that the insurrection didn't happen or at least wasn't a serious problem - and you are latching on to any thread to support your conclusion.
You can't deny the breech of the building nor the violence. You can't deny that Trump supported it by, at the very least, allowing it to continue for hours. So you've found this one minor detail that was initially misreported and now has been corrected and you've decided that because this one detail was wrong the whole story must be a lie.
(Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Sunday March 21 2021, @06:47PM (1 child)
You know this is not a minor detail. There have been thousands of hours of media dedicated to this lie. Officer Sicknick was elevated alongside the likes of Rosa Parks on a lie. Congress, the President, Vice President, and others staged a ceremony dedicated to a lie. All of the footage derived from that ceremony, all of the somber ponderances during that ceremony - all based on a lie. All of the claims in the media, repeated unquestioningly, that he died from injuries suffered during the protest - all lies.
This is one of the most extreme fabrications in modern American history, if not American history period. Of course obviously the problem you're having reconciling is: if this is such a big deal why isn't the media talking about it? And the answer to that question is the same as that to the question of why they unquestioningly, and so aggressively, spread the lie to begin with.
I'll conclude here with one simple thing. Imagine in our little conversation here that I actively and aggressively claimed something. And you eventually were able to prove that what I was saying was not only a lie, but something I would have known was a lie. What would you think about my motivations? What would you think about my own personal opinion of what I was arguing for, given I had to resort to lies? What would you think of anything else I had to say?
(Score: 2) by helel on Sunday March 21 2021, @07:53PM
Can you condemn Trump for refusing to stop the attack on the Capitol Building? Are you willing to state, directly and unequivocally, that Trump betrayed his oath of office by leaving our representatives in danger for nearly three hours?