2 Million Vaccinations a Day
In his speech, Biden pulled out a card that he says he always carries with the cumulative number of people who died from Covid.
Here’s the Complete Transcript of his speech.
Speech Excerpts
“I know it’s been hard. I truly know. As I’ve told you before, I carry a card in my pocket with the number of Americans who have died from COVID to date. It’s on the back of my schedule. As of now, total deaths in America, 527,726. That’s more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and 9/11 combined.
“My fellow Americans, you’re owed nothing less than the truth. And for all of you asking when things will get back to normal, here is the truth. The only way to get our lives back, to get our economy back on track, is to beat the virus.
“Just 14% of Americans over the age of 75 — 50 days ago had gotten their first shot. Today, that number is well over 70%. When I came into office you may recall I set a goal that many of you said was kind of way over the top. I said I intended to get 100 million shots in people’s arms in my first 100 days in office. Tonight, I can say we’re not only going to meet that goal, we’re going to beat that goal. Because we’re actually on track to reach this goal of 100 million shots in arms on my 60th day in office. No other country in the world has done this, none. And I want to talk about the next steps we’re thinking about.
“First, tonight, I’m announcing that I will direct all states, tribes, and territories to make all adults, people 18 and over, eligible to be vaccinated no later than May 1. Let me say that again. All adult Americans will be eligible to get a vaccine no later than May 1. That’s much earlier than expected. That doesn’t mean everyone’s going to have that shot immediately, but it means you’ll be able to get in line beginning May 1.
“Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated to lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated. And, finally, fifth, and maybe most importantly, I promise I will do everything in my power. I will not relent until we beat this virus.
“But I need you, the American people. I need you. I need every American to do their part. And that’s not hyperbole. I need you. I need you to get vaccinated when it’s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. And to help your family, your friends, your neighbors get vaccinated as well. Because here’s the point.
“If we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by July the 4, there’s a good chance you, your families and friends, will be able to get together in your backyard or in your neighborhood and have a cookout or a barbecue and celebrate Independence Day. That doesn’t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together.
What If?
If President Trump had given a speech with some of those ideas, and a lot of that empathy, he may have been reelected, perhaps even easily.
Of course, if he gave such a speech, he would not have been Trump.
Mish
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Speech summary:
Content: Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated. Get vaccinated. We’re betting the farm on vaccines.
Delivery: Weirdly quiet and slow. What is this? … … … Mr. Rogers! And, judging by the first comments on this@Mish post, there’s a ready Mr. Rogers audience. So, good job.
But WTF was that slow hobble off to the renaissance-perspective-sunset at the end? That was quite the edgy creative. Was it meant to create an Obi-Wan Kenobi out of the guy?
The problem with the speech, and Mish’s take, is the basic misuse of key words to create a deceptive and manipulative narrative.
First, by .gov’s own admission the correct phrase is “died with with a positive PCR test result” not from covid. With replication cycles intentionally set at an invalidating 40, the PCR can ‘find’ fragments of coronavirus rna in motor oil.
Second, they are not vaccines they are gene therapy. Big difference.
I am concerned about my family, community and country ; that is why I am against the lock downs, and masking requirements, both of which are causing serious harm to our physical and mental health. The economy should of stayed 100% open,unencumbered by the totalitarian edicts of want to be dictators. Suicides, depressions, self harm have all skyrocketed in the younger generations, leaving enduring scars. No vaccine is going to fix the damage that is done, and will be continue to be done by our misinformed leaders who fail to follow the science.
Better to bury the dead than bury our society , one that is built on the individual having freedom and liberty.
It does appear the lockdowns have caused serious harm to your mental health. I’ll give you that much.
But you don’t know nearly as much about science as you think you do , either. That’s another problem. Lots of people think they know more than they really do about science.
Our leaders are doing the best they can with a situation that in Texas we’d refer to as a shit sandwich. Some are doing better than others.
You just sound like a typical whiny-ass anti-vaxxer who has a problem with authority and is grasping at straws to try to defend what is essentially a completely illogical argument that anybody with one eye and half sense can see right through.
Looks like I won the argument because your have degenerated to name calling and attacks.
Yeah, you won, Tim….you’re the man. Nobody gonna make you get vaccinated….you’ve got all the facts….100% wrong on every one of your bullet points, but you got ‘em…
I found Biden’s speech dark, depressing and uninspiring. Unlike others, I don’t need our President to decipher the information available to the public and tell me when i can have a bar-b-que in my backyard. I agree Trump should have infused humility in his offerings, however, Biden’s unwillingness to offer credit to the effort to bring about the very vaccine that he believes is the solution is not unifying.
All of the Covid 19 vaccines to date are experimental , unapproved with no stated indications …this is per the FDA’s literature released on each vaccine. The Public is part of a hugh clinical for which the long term health ramifications will not be know for years!! I plan to remain in the “placebo” group and not take a Covid 19 vaccine until the FDA officially licenses these vaccines.
I love the circular logic…..”I don’t trust the government so I won’t take the vaccine until the government says it’s safe.”
Any vaccine you can get has emergency use authorization, which means it successfully completed 3 clinical trials. So the public is not part of a clinical trial.
Pfizer is said to be applying for full licensure by next month. I hope for the sake of people like yourself that your trusted ally the FDA doesn’t screw around as long as they usually do on giving drug approval.
These arguments have less and less validity as millions more people get the vaccine, and side effects are within the normal range for vaccine side effects. As of today or tomorrow the US will have given 100 million doses…..335 million doses have been given worldwide.
You’re more likely to step off the curb and get taken out by a bus than you are to have serious side effects from a COVID vaccination. I get that you’re concerned for your own safety. Too bad you aren’t concerned for your country, your family, and your community.
I am concerned about my family, community and country ; that is why I am against the lock downs, and masking requirements, both of which are causing serious harm to our physical and mental health. The economy should of stayed 100% open,unencumbered by the totalitarian edicts of want to be dictators. Suicides, depressions, self harm have all skyrocketed in the younger generations, leaving enduring scars. No vaccine is going to fix the damage that is done, and will be continue to be done by our misinformed leaders who fail to follow the science.
Better to bury the dead than bury our society , one that is built on the individual having freedom and liberty.
Worth a look if you have a spare 20 minutes.
What if ya’ll had the epiphany that you’re victims of a govt sponsored psychogical/biological terrorism operation undertaken for the purpose of subjugating you?
Like anybody is left that isn’t fully subjugated already. The American people don’t need a psy-op…..most of ’em would chew gum off the sidewalk for a dollar.
If there was a shot that made people smarter half the public would be too dumb to take it.
I bet you believe in Jeebus too.
That will happen mid April when the FDA has a 4 month data review, and viola, approved without an EAU. Mandatory is next after that. Papers please.
Nothing against Biden (I voted for him) but making everyone eligible is different than actually receiving the vaccination. Eligibility doesn’t prevent infections.
“Fourth, in the coming weeks, we will issue further guidance on what you can and cannot do once fully vaccinated to lessen the confusion, to keep people safe, and encourage more people to get vaccinated.”
I take that to mean he will heavily incentivize getting the shot, which is good. There are a number of ways he could do that.
I actually find the above statement very scary. As in totalitarian scary.
I’m sure lots of people feel that way. But unfortunately failure to get a high percentage of people vaccinated (one way or another) just hurts everybody in the long run. Public health is more important in a case like this than individual rights.
Conservatives will scream freedom but the Federal government is already providing guidance that companies can legally require vaccinations. It’s going to have to occur
It will ultimately end up in the supreme court taking months to adjudicate though all the various court levels.
The court will undoubtedly say some jobs like say the medical profession will be able to require it (since it’s likely already in the job description) but I doubt that say cashiers at the grocery store will be able to be forced by their employer to take them.
These “vaccines” do not provide immunity, only reduces symptoms.
Another “ scientist” who doesn’t know the science.
Listen, one more time. We do NOT KNOW whether the vaccines provide immunity. That is NOT the same thing as knowing they DON’T provide immunity.
Pretty soon now we WILL know if the vaccines provide immunity or not..or how much immunity, and eventually we’ll know how how long the immunity lasts, if the vaccines DO provide immunity.
With millions vaccinated now, it won’t take too long to find out the first part.
Yes, we will know something soon since the Public is part of the clinical trial process.
I doubt that part has been explained to vaccine recipients.
Glad to see he’s going to push vaccination. That simply I the only way out of this mess. If we don’t get close to 100% vaccinated it’s just going to drag on and on.
It’s true the bar is pretty low for Biden. Nobody expected or expects much out of him. You might not like his politics, but he is functional in a way that Trump was not, He has the experience and the temperament to suit up and show up, at least.
“simply is”…damn spellcheck.
Thanks for the recap. I did not watch Biden speak. I think I’ve completely lost interest in ever listening to Presidents address the nation again.
It’s always been pushed but there is a big difference between being pushed and being mandatory.
What I found a lot more chilling was that he gave no indication we are going back to ‘normal’ given he specifically said small gatherings only and that the gov’t would tell you want you could and couldn’t do after being vaxxed. I continue to believe that the gov’t is addicted to the new normal (more control) and won’t be giving it back as events of Jan 6th along with covid will be used to justify no mass gatherings of any kind again.
I agree with TexasTim; what’s the point of taking a vaccine if we can’t go to ball games, concerts,other live events, casinos? Even if we approach 90% plus vaccinated it seems we’re going to be restrained forever !!
Be patient. It won’t be forever. I’m not in favor of forcing anybody to get vaccinated, but universal vaccination……like we once had with polio and smallpox BOTH in this country……is the key to getting back to normal. Anybody who would argue with that is delusional.
I don’t think the government wants to keep America on permanent lockdown….I see no sign whatsoever that is anything to worry about.
The problem is Smallpox/Polio was a 1 time vax. You get it and you are set for life and can’t get the disease. This effectively wiped out both diseases to the point where they don’t even vax for them anymore.
On the other hand Covid vax is not a 1 time thing. It’s going to be ongoing like flu shots since it has clearly been stated it’s not a lifetime immunity and we will not be wiping out Covid by vaxxing everyone. We also didn’t need special apps to prove people were vaxed (ie you were free to move about and travel).
It’s a massive difference.
Nobody knew that smallpox and polio would be eradicated with one shot when people first started getting vaccinated. We know that now because we have the benefit of hindsight.
But more importantly, the assumptions you’re making about the COVID vaccines are in serious error.
It has NOT been clearly stated that a COVID vaccination isn’t lifetime immunity. What HAS been stated (correctly) is that we don’t know how long COVID immunity lasts…..from either vaccination OR previous infection.
Why don’t we know? Because only time can tell us one way or the other. The data isn’t in yet on that.
We MIGHT need to take boosters developed for resistant variants…..but we don’t even know that…..yet.
What you (and many others, I don’t mean to pick on you personally ) are getting from what is being published is not a logical conclusion that you can make…..not from what is actually known today. You’re ASSUMING what is really a worst case scenario. And calling those assumptions fact, which is what just did in your prior post.
As far as moving about freely, the best way to get back to that is to get 100% of the population vaccinated. How can we ever be safe if some large percentage of people cling to any argument they can dream up to avoid cooperating with what is surely the best public health policy we can come up with, given the virus and how it acts?
If you have some BETTER way to protect the public and get us all back to normal I’d damn sure like to hear it. But let’s face it, you DON’T.
If we all have to take a booster every year from now on, it’s still better than letting COVID run amok the way it is right now in Brazil…..talk about using the general public for an experiment…..their hospitals are completely overwhelmed.
The Covid contrarians were showing up here on a daily basis here in previous months calling for government to let COVID run its course so we could all get herd immunity….see how that’s working out in Manaus now? Where are all the herd immunity experts now?
I don’t see how you can even dream we are getting lifetime immunity. I haven’t seen even 1 doctor anywhere even hint at such a thing. In fact EVERYTHING screams that we will need constant shots.
Countries and companies don’t develop Covid passports and apps if vax is a 1 time thing. You develop such things if you know or are very very certain it’s going to be ongoing forever as all virus’s are. Then there is the new title of Covid Czar that Biden created. When’s the last time a Czar position was created at the federal level and later went away due to not being needed?
It’s also impossible or next to impossible to achieve 100% vax in a country with 350 million people including countless millions of undocumented people and open borders. Just too many people will slip through either by choice (amish, Mennonites, anti-vaxers, hermits) or accident (illegal immigrants, travellers etc). Especially when the vax WON’T last a lifetime and booster shots will be needed on a regular interval.
Also, who is going to pay for these yearly shots? We are getting them free now (including endless free tests), but what about in future years, what will the cost be to families in terms of time and money? Another whole new industry set up for this like the TSA?
You want to get back to normal? Do what ever it is you personally need to do to feel comfortable about your personal health. Get vaxed, wear a mask in public for the rest of your life, rarely come out in crowded public places. Then let me do whatever I personally need to do to feel comfortable about my personal health. It’s the ONLY way things will return to normal or at least semi-normal depending on one’s comfort level.
“In fact EVERYTHING screams that we will need constant shots.”
What evidence do you have to substantiate that claim?
I’ll answer that, because I know the answer. You have zero evidence.
I’ve paid for thousands of dollars in rapid testing to keep my doors open safely. I know what COVID testing costs, because it’s a cost of doing business for me.
No, we won’t get 100%…but the closer we get the better off we are. And we can easily get better than 90%, if we just get cooperation from people like yourself, who just need to better understand how to evaluate the risks…
I think things will get back to normal, and sooner than you think…..but making bad arguments to support your bad decision to not vaccinate yourself is not helping.
If you not getting vaccinated was strictly about YOU, I’d be fine with your decision. But unfortunately, it affects us all, and you need to understand that, even if you don’t like it.
Hard to know what percentage we’ll get. I’ve read that ‘herd immunity’ is reached before we get close to 100% (current estimates are 70-95). If it’s 70%, I think there is an excellent chance we get there. I don’t think we’ll get to 90+.
I’m not getting a shot because I had Covid and the effect were zero on me and I was told I have a few months natural immunity (technically time to get the country to herd immunity). I know it can be different next time (if there is a next time), but that’s my call and I personally don’t feel it will be any different for me based on my health. I’ve also never gotten a flu shot in my life and haven’t had the flu in over 30 years (or if I did have it, it was so mild like my Covid that I had no idea I even had it).
As for how long it lasts, I’m reading plenty that says not forever (hence the Covid passports and apps). You can easily google around same as I can to find all kinds of doctor related info on immunity length. No doctor currently claims it last forever and just about all of the ones I’ve read are saying it’s highly likely you’ll need booster shots like the normal flu. The rationale for that is because it’s a form of the flu. We’ll obviously find out for sure in a few months time (say 8 months or so from the initial people getting vaxed).
If having had COVID confers robust and lasting immunity, then you are correct about the shot not being important for you. But McCullough is the first credible source I’ve heard say that. I hope it’s true, because that would be a very positive thing.
“No doctor currently claims it last forever and just about all of the ones I’ve read are saying it’s highly likely you’ll need booster shots like the normal flu. The rationale for that is because it’s a form of the flu. “
Yes, I understand the rationale for why they might expect boosters to be needed….I get that…..I understand the flu analogy.
As a dentist, I can assure you that I have a lot of training on how to prevent the spread of infectious disease, because it’s been a very big deal in our field ever since HIV and Hep C came along. For my entire 30 plus year career.
I ‘ve treated patients with AIDS. I was one of first the first pediatric dentists to read an AIDS infant with rampant dental caries, way back in the mid 1980’s.
I treat Hepatitis patients routinely.
But that assumption about needing boosters every year like flu is just a guess. Not supported by any evidence AFAIK. You should not take that as any kind of truth.
As you can see from McCullogh’s testimony, doctors are not yet up to speed on COVID treatment. We are all learning as we go.
The precautions WE use were not given to us. We developed them ourselves and the dental board and the ADA got on board later…..way late to the party. It took them two months to figure out what to tell dentists….we were treating patients during that time.
Peter McCullough’s testimony this week was insightful and worth watching. (imo)
Stunning. He’s very good.
Saying the same thing that Marik (and yourself and many other clinicians) have said all along.
I don’t get how the ball was dropped so badly on this, but it’s completely obvious that all attempts at developing a widely shared treatment protocol have been stonewalled from the beginning of the crisis.
Fauci and the CDC bear enormous responsibility….you can only draw the conclusion that they made a conscious decision to ignore treatment and put all their eggs in the vaccine basket…..that their corporate masters told them to promote.
It also has to do with the fear most MD’s have of getting in the same room with the COVID virus.
And now I feel better about the screening we did al year to keep symptomatic people out of our office. This idea, that there are virtually NO real asymptomatic spreaders….that lines up very well with our experience of being able to stay open and see a lot of people, yet have no spread.
It was always the “asymptomatic spreaders” that I thought would take us down…I expected that….but it didn’t happen….now I have an idea why it didn’t happen.
Thanks for posting that.
Only Mish could have been impressed with the Potted Plant and his twaddle.
This is acting as a true president.
Two speeches one year apart
Biden conveyed empathy. He really does care and it genuine. When asked Trump said, “it is what it is”. Trump’s a narcissist .Doesn’t really care about his fellow human. This isn’t hyperbole.
Agree completely, but I cannot understand why Trump just didn’t fake it, fake the empathy–even that might have gotten him relelected. Is he so completely crazy he didn’t realize that?
Because of prior measures taken in 2020 we have a lot of vaccines coming online. We will have enough to to vaccinate everybody by that date. His ideas are nothing new. However some people judge a leader by how much empathy they project so they like what Joe says. Anyone can have an expert speechwriter write a speech and just about anyone with some training can read it with feeling from a teleprompter and then walk away.
The last president simply ignored his speechwriters and went freestyle saying whatever felt good. Didn’t work very well. That’s one reason he is no longer president.
When will Biden stop reading from a teleprompter and actually respond to questions and do a real press conference? So far he’s ducked everything and his handlers are careful with him because it’s clear his cognitive facilities are compromised.
Combine that with Harris doing unprecedented conferences with other world leaders and it makes me think Biden won’t even finish out 2021 before handing things over to her.
Yes, when will Biden fire up the chopper and spew word garbage on the white house lawn for ten minutes like a real president…
Let’s put Trump back in so even more people can die, and even more female reporters can have their periods described graphically live on television.
I didn’t think Biden had a speech like this in him. Rising to the occasion
This is what an American President looks like. As I said when he was elected. He will govern somewhere in the middle compared to his predecessor and his old boss.
Did you say Trump ? John Dean says indictments coming soon after Cohen’s SEVEN meetings with Manhattan DA office.
That is the type of speech trump should have made.
good comment and I agree. Will add a note to my post
Yeah if trump had walked out on stage with an American flag mask on said we were at war with the virus and every red blooded American must do their part. We might be doing a lot better as a nation rt now. Not just with the virus.
There was a better chance of the sun rising in the west before Trump giving a speech like that.
That is true as well.
Trump is simply incapable of such a speech. Instead he said, “It is what it is”. And contrary to what he told Jonathon Swan the United States wasn’t doing all that could be done. Far from it.
In the interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan last week that aired in full Monday night on HBO, Trump was asked how the virus is under control when 1,000 Americans are dying each day.
“They are dying, that’s true. And you have — it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can. It’s under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague,” Trump said.
Thought it was just the flu
His reply to the Nero fiddling while Rome burning tweet said it all. He’s ignorant, doesn’t care, and thinks whatever happens is something sucking up to him.