bob10
21st January 2021, 04:56 PM
ON DAY ZERO of the presidential administration of Joe Biden, the single priority of the federal government must be Covid-19. Without torquing the numbers of deaths and infections downward, no other policy—economic improvement, immigration reform, even a serious approach to stopping climate change—can happen. And that sentence works in reverse too; dealing with Covid-19 is dealing with all that other stuff.
Like any big machine, the federal government’s public health system takes time and energy to come up to speed. It hasn’t functioned at its peak efficiency during the administration of Donald Trump. So nothing will change at first. And then something will. And then everything will.
Assuming all goes as planned. For the last year, nothing has gone as planned, when there was a plan at all.
Biden’s Covid Plan Will Define His Presidency | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/bidens-covid-plan-will-define-his-presidency/?bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&cndid=52475003&cndid=52475003&esrc=subscribe-page&esrc=subscribe-page&hasha=38b653f59d8a788d2b8029d349fb05f1&hasha=38b653f59d8a788d2b8029d349fb05f1&hashb=acd4725d670d172aa9d05ce7f671dc63250efce1&hashb=acd4725d670d172aa9d05ce7f671dc63250efce1&hashc=c17365ab07572ed90614d245ada5ad675f6bc00189fa 766123c70d76d1d7cddf&hashc=c17365ab07572ed90614d245ada5ad675f6bc00189fa 766123c70d76d1d7cddf&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_012021&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_012021&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4&utm_term=list1_p4)
Like any big machine, the federal government’s public health system takes time and energy to come up to speed. It hasn’t functioned at its peak efficiency during the administration of Donald Trump. So nothing will change at first. And then something will. And then everything will.
Assuming all goes as planned. For the last year, nothing has gone as planned, when there was a plan at all.
Biden’s Covid Plan Will Define His Presidency | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/bidens-covid-plan-will-define-his-presidency/?bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&cndid=52475003&cndid=52475003&esrc=subscribe-page&esrc=subscribe-page&hasha=38b653f59d8a788d2b8029d349fb05f1&hasha=38b653f59d8a788d2b8029d349fb05f1&hashb=acd4725d670d172aa9d05ce7f671dc63250efce1&hashb=acd4725d670d172aa9d05ce7f671dc63250efce1&hashc=c17365ab07572ed90614d245ada5ad675f6bc00189fa 766123c70d76d1d7cddf&hashc=c17365ab07572ed90614d245ada5ad675f6bc00189fa 766123c70d76d1d7cddf&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_012021&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_012021&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4&utm_term=list1_p4)