[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”60%”]“We have millions more doses sitting in our warehouse but, as of now, we have not received any shipment instructions for additional doses.”
— Statement from drug manufacturer Pfizer[/mantra-pullquote]
As The Washington Post reports, “Operation Warp Speed” is working about as well as everything else organized by the Trump administration:
Officials in multiple states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine next week had been reduced, sparking widespread confusion and spurring the company’s CEO to put out a statement saying it had millions more doses than were being distributed…
…Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said anticipated shipments to the state in the next two weeks had been cut roughly in half. The uncertainty was even more pronounced in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said new shipments from Pfizer were “on hold,” as officials in his administration reported their expected allocation disappearing entirely in Tiberius, the online tracking system the Trump administration is using to coordinate with the states.
Part of the problem, it appears, is that the Trump administration made the decision to hold onto millions of doses of the vaccine for reasons that nobody can really explain:
Some state officials said the delayed shipment of the second dose only complicated their planning, while a person familiar with Pfizer’s supply, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details, said there were many more doses available that are not being shipped than simply the batches being held back for booster shots.
Another person involved in the planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the situation said Pfizer executives were baffled the administration was not immediately distributing all of its vaccine, and instead leaving much of it on the shelves. [Pols emphasis]
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee summed up what many state officials are experiencing in a Tweet on Thursday:
.@CDCgov has informed us that WA’s vaccine allocation will be cut by 40 percent next week — and that all states are seeing similar cuts.
This is disruptive and frustrating. We need accurate, predictable numbers to plan and ensure on-the-ground success.
No explanation was given.
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) December 17, 2020
For a guy who really wants four more years in the White House, President Trump doesn’t seem all that interested in doing the job.
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Steven Miller is trying to figure how to make it so only White people get the vaccine.
Miller in his debut as Piglet
Or $rump is trying to put states that voted for him first in line for the vaccine. Is Pence in charge of coronavirus response, or is it Kushner?
Edit: Pence is in charge overall,but Kushner is f*cking up
the supply chain.
Javanka has bills to pay. Do you think $$ grows on trees??????
With a big sharpie, he drew a map of the State of Alabama at the top of the distribution list.
I'll see your Beauregard and raise you a Tuberville:
Someone tell the coach that challenging an election is tougher than throwing a red flag onto the field. Or that it doesn't look like he's going to have the conclusive evidence he'll need to overturn the call. Or that he's out of his league. We'll need some type of sports comparison, nonetheless.
James Dobson once dubbed Ttump a baby Christian (we saw how that turned out). As for the baby senator from Alabama.. I have a hunch this experiment is going to end in the same failed, spectacular way although Tommy will get six years to show off his ignorance.
#DelayOfGame
I personally think it’s gonna be a yuge and tremendously entertaining shitshow watching Mitch’s cat herd having to choose on the record between being partially in touch with reality, and simultaneously trying to placate the lunatic fringe (and the real time twitterfingers of the lunatic-in-chief) . . .
. . . choosing between inevitable political death by appearing themselves to be delusion or inevitable political death at the hands of their clearly unhinged delusional.
Pass the Crazy Corn!
Whatever happens will be a reliable indicator of what's going to happen with the republican party. And it may be why they are not even bothering w/an election post mortem.
Why bother!!!!
"Why bother?" The same reason the Republicans didn't do a new party platform this year other than to worship at Trump's feet (who in turn worships at the feet of Putin and Xi. It's all those "commie loans" to the Trump Organization).
From some of the reported details, I'm not sure Tuberville understands a great deal beyond "I won" and "who will be on my team to do the work?"
I suspect his antics during the campaign and now, the transition period, make it MUCH less likely that the best and brightest in Alabama or Washington DC will want to work for him.
Everything criminals do is transactional. Of course, they are settling scores and giving favors with the vaccine, just as with pardons. I am sure they will scorch as much earth and plug as many toilets as they can.
Straight from this fucking inept, grifting, scamming, sadministration to the Ttump2024 Make-America-Great-Again-Again Campaign Fund warehouse . . .
. . . and from there, no doubt, onto the
blackwhitest market.Remember Jared’s (“our stockpile”) ventilators? Same as it ever was . . . to the very last drop.
I am guessing time will show the Orange Destruction was somehow responsible for helping Russia with its giant hack.
How long has Putin been gleaning state information from his useful fool?
Whatever is true for a vaccine black market will be true for the parallel black market in subsubsubsubzero freezers.
Not sure what to make of this
Article explains 'concerns' and 'contingencies' and sez:
"In addition to holding some doses in reserve, Operation Warp Speed is waiting to dispatch the next 2.9 million doses as a precaution against any production glitches and so administration sites don’t have to store the ultra-cold products too long."