Biden Gaffe Renews Questions About COVID Transparency

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By Philip Wegmann

President Biden so desperately wants the vaccine-hesitant part of the country to get their shots that he may have spread a little misinformation. “You are not going to get COVID,” he promised during a CNN town-event Wednesday night, “if you have these vaccines.”
 
Of course, this is not true. Biden knows it. He said as much later during the forum, explaining that, while vaccinated individuals enjoy significant protections, they can still test positive for the virus. But even if that happens, the president pointed out, the vaccine largely mitigates the most serious dangers. “You are not going to be hospitalized,” he said, reciting the latest scientific consensus. “You are not going to be in the IC unit, and you are not going to die.”
 
The fact that fully vaccinated individuals can still contract the coronavirus is a medical reality. It has also led to more uncomfortable questions about transparency for the Biden administration.
 
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed at Tuesday’s briefing that there had been previously undisclosed “breakthrough infections” among vaccinated employees at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Psaki refused, two days later, to say how many White House officials had gotten sick.
 
Reporters pressed her on the issue. After all, as the country learned the hard way during the pandemic, the health of the people working directly for the president can end up influencing the health of the republic. A lot of people have those jobs, more than 2,000 in the White House itself and the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building. According to Psaki, that means “that just statistically speaking, there will be people who are vaccinated individuals who get COVID on the campus.”
 
Will the White House make those statistics available as they develop? “No,” Psaki said. “I don’t think you can expect that we’re going to be providing numbers of breakthrough cases.”
 
Well, why not? The story of the pandemic has been told through the charts and graphs presented to the public by members of the White House COVID task force. Why should this data be exempt?
 



 
When Kelly O’Donnell of NBC News pressed the White House to explain the lack of transparency, Psaki responded by saying that things are different now: “Well, Kelly, I think, one, we’re in a very different place than we were several months ago. The vast, vast, vast majority of individuals who are vaccinated who get COVID will be asymptomatic or have mild cases.”
 
Psaki continued by saying that everyone who clocks in and out at the White House campus “has been offered a vaccine.” But those administration employees, like the rest of the federal workforce, have not been required to roll up their sleeves and take the shot. Face coverings have disappeared all the same at the White House, and aides are expected to follow the rule Biden laid out in May: “Get vaccinated or wear a mask until you do.”
 
But since even vaccinated individuals can become infected with the virus, what happens in those cases? “We have been very clear that we will be transparent with anyone who has had close proximity contact with the president or any of the four principles as deemed by the White House medical unit with all of you,” Psaki said.
 
And if someone sick with COVID comes into close contact with those principles, the press secretary said that the case itself would be made public but the infected individual would decide whether or not his or her name would be released. She promised, “We will protect their privacy.”
 
White House staff were made aware of this policy in a campus-wide email sent recently, and Psaki said Tuesday that the White House was abiding by “an agreement we made during the transition to be transparent and make information available.” They had committed then, she insisted, to releasing “information proactively if it is commissioned officers.”
 
The White House did not provide a copy of that commitment to transparency when asked to do so by RealClearPolitics.
 
It is a touchy subject. On one hand, the White House would rather not deal with headlines about vaccinated staffers coming down with COVID at the exact moment they are singing the praises of getting vaccinated. On the other, they would rather keep contact tracing apolitical and skip the pandemic parlor game that consumed the press and the previous administration.

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Bubbling Biden like all Liberal Democrats he can count on the M.S. Media bottom dwelling Muck Suckers to cover up for him why else did that liberal rag Time name him their Person of the Year just like they did for Hitler back in 1938

Oh, you gotta love it when anyone in this regime expects you to take their word on faith. Idiot Biden actually intoned, “My word as a Biden.” Really? That and a dollar will give you a dollar. These people, out of totalitarian necessity, do nothing BUT lie.

Something, as usual with this regime, simply doesn’t smell right. We are told the vaccines protect us. Everyone is told they should be vaccinated. Government leadership sets the example by, they say, getting vaccinated one and all. Yet, we are told, in rare cases, vaccinated people can get the virus.

But, six out of the 50 cowardly, anti-American Texas Democrats came down with COVID. That’s better than 10%. They then went on to infect some White House and Pelosi aids. All of these, we are told, are vaccinated. Really? Either the vaccines don’t protect as well as they say or someone is faking vaccinations. Either way, the left is lying again.

Why won’t Psaki tell us who has gotten infected? Oh… that’s right. She said that if they were IMPORTANT people, she would. Just… trust me.

By the way, CNN didn’t bother “fact checking” idiot Biden’s misinformation even though a “fact checker” was standing right next to him, finishing his sentences for him. This regime, which includes its media propaganda partners, wants to lie and be able to suppress the truth.

I wonder when WaPo and NYT are going to start running their articles listing all the lies, near-lies, not-yet-kept promises and comments taken out of context and counted as lies, as they did Trump?