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Originally Posted by Galaril
Why? The asshole in office now is for all purposes or at least he is operating like so.
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This is absurd hyperbole. There are literally dozens of examples of things he wanted to do and tried to do and didn't get done because he was told he couldn't.
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Originally Posted by JPhillips
The federal government can absolutely fund, staff, and administer vaccine sites.
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Originally Posted by Edward64
If Trump could send hospital ships to NYC, I have to believe Biden can mobilize MASH (? field hospitals or whatever they call them now) units to hot spots. Get every trained medic not deployed to key spots and start giving out shots.
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Sure, it's possible to do those things, but they take a certain amount of time to set up at scale. To reach the stated goal you need to *average* several hundred thousand per day over the first 100 days at a minimum. Not reach that by the end of the period, average it. Then there's also all the competing beauracracy with state health agencies, hospitals, clinics, etc., all of their protocols, and so on.
I'm not trying to argue the President can't do anything or that Biden can't/won't make an improvement over what we have now. I'm saying he doesn't have the power to just snap his fingers and make this happen. If the reports now are at all accurate about his mindset, he will be very frustrated by what actually happens.