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Pressed on Test Shortage, Biden Claims
White House Was Caught Off-Guard by Omicron

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/21/2021 9:37:21 PM

Addressing the public Tuesday, President Joe Biden blamed the Covid-19 test shortage on the rapid ascent of the Omicron variant, which sprouted in South Africa just after Thanksgiving and has since swept the nation with astounding speed. A number of reporters relayed the concerns of citizens who have been unable to obtain Covid-19 tests due to insufficient inventory ahead of Christmas. “What’s your message to Americans who are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and who are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing?” a reporter asked the president. Biden replied: “C’mon, what took so long?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 12/21/2021 9:51:42 PM (No. 1015038)
If you had a bad cold would you get a test? These people all getting the test and have no symptoms are wasting the test and their time getting it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 12/21/2021 9:56:42 PM (No. 1015042)
We hear people from all political persuasions pleading for more “testing”. But why? If positive, the two best early treatments, hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, are difficult to find, not prescribed in emergency or “quick care” organizations or by most physicians. Monoclonal antibodies, although very effective, are next to impossible to get. If you are sick enough to be admitted to a hospital, they won’t give you the antibody, but instead poison you with remdesivir, which they are paid handsomely for. So why test? Doesn’t improve the outcome, only subjects you to quarantine, whether the “test” is accurate positive, false positive, a frequent occurrence, or true or false negative.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: singermom9 12/21/2021 10:40:32 PM (No. 1015075)
Dana Perino said that they knew about Omicron Nov 6. And we still have not enough test? I remember when they screamed anout GJT and the PPE and how terrible that he did not have enough stored, after obama did not restore them. I also remember cuomo selling all their supply (ventilators too).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 12/21/2021 11:08:32 PM (No. 1015082)
They are all too stupid to even bother with. How can someone get it wrong 100% often time? Even a stopped clock is occasionally right, but never, ever Traitor Joe.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Nimby 12/22/2021 12:09:07 AM (No. 1015116)
If he had a single firing neuron, he would have known what some of us knew on November 5th news from S. Africa!!! The fact that he was unprepared, says more about clueless FAUCI and Rachel Walensky who deserve to be FIRED Didn’t he say he will get rid of the VIRUS?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 12/22/2021 1:43:52 AM (No. 1015142)
The test was slated for being abandoned due to being essentially worthless, admitted by the CDC in July, but said they'd still use the (worlthless) test until Dec. 31st. So....sticking with the WORTHLESS test which finds essentially ANY coronavirus and is NOT specific for the Wuhan flu. FAKE test results is what we are getting.
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