The Biden Plan to Combat Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Prepare for Future Global Health Threats
By: Joe Biden Campaign
The biggest problem with Joe Biden's coronavirus response plan is that the experts of the scientific community have repeatedly explained that COVID-19 is novel, new, and never before seen in the human population. There isn't any science upon which to ground a response to the public health emergency. Joe Biden is shifting responsibility onto the scientific community and that scientific community has nothing to work with. Joe Biden is using a skyhook to claim he is ready to confront a crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.
The seeded plan represents Joe Biden's preferences, priorities, and experience dealing with crisis situations. While written in finely crafted political talking points, a careful reading distills to a pattern Joe Biden will follow in dealing with a crisis. Joe Biden will defer decision making to a bureaucracy of expertise, Congress, and the private sector. Joe Biden is promising to be a 'thoughts and prayers' President who will throw favors toward decision makers in government and the private sector while throwing money at the public.
Joe Biden isn't planning to change anything. Joe Biden is promising to revitalize the bureacracy and institutions who have failed to prepare us for the present coronavirus pandemic. And Joe Biden is planning to utilize that bureaucratic and institutional expertise as scapegoats when failures reveal themselves.
The essence of Joe Biden's planned response to COVID-19 is a promise to be a 'do nothing' President. Biden's worldview is grounded in faith that the system works and the most important role for the President is to step out of the way.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
The American people deserve an urgent, robust, and professional response to the growing public health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. That is why Joe Biden is outlining a plan to mount:
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A decisive public health response that ensures the wide availability of free testing; the elimination of all cost barriers to preventive care and treatment for COVID-19; the development of a vaccine; and the full deployment and operation of necessary supplies, personnel, and facilities.
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A decisive economic response that starts with emergency paid leave for all those affected by the outbreak and gives all necessary help to workers, families, and small businesses that are hit hard by this crisis. Make no mistake: this will require an immediate set of ambitious and progressive economic measures, and further decisive action to address the larger macro-economic shock from this outbreak.
Biden believes we must spend whatever it takes, without delay, to meet public health needs and deal with the mounting economic consequences. The federal government must act swiftly and aggressively to help protect and support our families, small businesses, first responders and caregivers essential to help us face this challenge, those who are most vulnerable to health and economic impacts, and our broader communities – not to blame others or bail out corporations.
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The Biden Plan calls for:
- Restoring trust, credibility, and common purpose.
- Mounting an effective national emergency response that saves lives, protects frontline workers, and minimizes the spread of COVID-19.
- Eliminating cost barriers for prevention of and care for COVID-19.
- Pursuing decisive economic measures to help hard-hit workers, families, and small businesses and to stabilize the American economy.
- Rallying the world to confront this crisis while laying the foundation for the future.
Biden understands that this is a dynamic situation. The steps proposed below are a start. As the crisis unfolds, Biden will build on this policy to address new challenges.
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Joe Biden is promising to rebuild what has caused the problem in the first place. Biden is promising to repeat the same mistakes and is urging the public to have faith that next time will be different.
Joe's Nurse let him roam around on his own again ?
YOU, Sir, owe me a new laptop!
Outlining a plan??? WTF is he going on about? Does he imagine that this crisis will wait for next January for him to formulate a plan to fix it? It's happening now, and people are already doing things now to fight it.
"It's happening, Reg! Something's actually happening."
A five point bullet plan - the envy of every useless, bullshit bureaucrat.
"In addition to that, I passed the Brady Bill with waiting periods. I led that fight. But my friend to my right and others have in fact also given to the gun manufacturers absolute immunity. Imagine if I stood here and said we’d give immunity to drug companies. We would give immunity to tobacco companies. That has caused carnage on our streets. 150 million people have been killed since 2007 when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability."
150,000,000 Americans? That's half the country.
The Hunan Virus (or whatever what one wishes to call it) couldn't have derailed the DNC's Biden/Bernie Show at a more inopportune time. Instead of babbling in front of 20 people at one of his major rallies, Joe is babbling in his basement trying to get his teleprompter to work.
Is he still running? Heck, for that matter, is he still alive? Has anyone seen him?
I haven't seen Joe or Bernie in "real time" since their last debate a few weeks ago. Andrew Cuomo gets a hellova lot more media coverage.