Honestly, it is because there has been ZERO national strategy at the federal/executive level to coordinate a response and fight this virus. Everything from the beginning has been pushed to the states who do not have the infrastructure and resources to handle what has become a disjointed pandemic response. All just to be able to alloe the President to abdicate responsibility and point the finger at the governors if things went bad.
The pitiful testing strategy was first. It still stinks. The lack of PPE is another. It was left to the states and governors to bid against each other and drive up prices. The lack of national strategy to educate and coordinate a public response with masks, etc. and outfit businesses. The horrible PPP part of the CARES Act and fleecing of American taxpayers with a program where 90% of funding went to less than 10% of businesses. Businesses not even impacted being given millions while others fail and cant get funding. Failure to fund and prepare our schools for reopening and leaving it to the states and local school boards to do whatever they can however they want. Now you have the non existant vaccination efforts and preparedness to get the vaccine to people. Everything being done is falling to underfunded and unprepared local groups.
Warp speed is a joke. The effort and technology to develop these vaccines in record time has been in the works for over a dozen years. It has been a private sector effort. Sure, the President agreed to purchase vaccines in advance and in some cases give a grant for testing. But the technology was a private sector effort. Signing a check from the taxpayer is something anyone in America could have done.
Where has the leadership been in managing this pandemic response? The task force was disbanded because the president didnt want to talk about the virus anymore and he embarrassed himself talking about injecting bleach. He has been preaching that the virus was all going away after the election and it was all just a media hoax. Now we are almost 2 months after the election and 4,000 people a day are dying. Meanwhile he says and does nothing. He spends all of his time playing golf or propogating an election fraud hoax to sooth his ego.
We have 10s of millions of doses that can rescue our people, our hospitals, and our local economies sitting in freezers because there was no dedicated federal effort to distribute these privately developed vaccines. It is an abomination.
