As you know, President Biden has tested positive for Covid-19 and is said to be isolated in the White House where he’ll stay until testing negative. Aside from that, news about Biden is being closely guarded and the president’s personal physician isn’t talking to reporters:
White House aides are closely controlling the optics of Biden's coronavirus infection. No independent cameras or media footage of the president. Biden's personal physician will not answer any questions about his health.
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) July 22, 2022
The White House has scheduled another briefing today with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha.
Neither of them has seen the president or treated the president since Biden tested positive for coronavirus.
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) July 22, 2022
Before we get to Dr. Leana Wen (former head of Planned Parenthood and current CNN medical analyst) and her spin on Biden catching Covid, it might be a good time to remind everybody what Biden promised in October of 2020:
I'm not going to shut down the country.
I'm not going to shut down the economy.
I'm going to shut down the virus.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2020
A year ago Biden assured Americans that they couldn’t catch Covid if they got vaccinated:
One year ago today, Biden VOWED to us that if you get vaccinated, you will NOT get COVID, and so he got the vax to prove it.
Today, Biden tests positive for COVID. You can't make this up. pic.twitter.com/JAAqDtc6rJ
— Pearson Sharp (@PearsonSharp) July 21, 2022
Fast forward to this week when the president contracted the virus he promised to shut down and Dr. Wen’s spin in a Washington Post op-ed:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA pic.twitter.com/roXZSolE0a
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) July 22, 2022
“President Biden’s Covid-19 diagnosis is an opportunity for his administration to demonstrate the success of his leadership on the pandemic and what living with the coronavirus looks like.”
Wow, the expectations sure have been lowered since the heady days of “I’ll shut down the virus.”
This is almost certainly not the only time Biden will get the coronavirus, @DrLeanaWen writes.
"He, like the rest of us, could contract the virus once a year or more." https://t.co/7YGpKkS72w
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) July 22, 2022
This is entirely laughable, but of course the White House really appreciates help with the spin:
.@DrLeanaWen: "Biden, his medical team and others in the administration have done all the right things to demonstrate what should happen after a covid diagnosis." https://t.co/2hbtOwe8AG
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) July 22, 2022
"Thanks in large part to Biden’s leadership over the past two years, the United States has had so much success with vaccines and treatments that even when the president gets the virus, it’s business as usual."
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) July 22, 2022
We’ve seen some goal posts being moved in the last couple of years but perhaps none have been moved as far as this one.
So, what happened to “get vaccinated&you wont get Covid” and it’s a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”? #BidenHasCovid https://t.co/8NkAguPIVH
— PatriotGirl07041776 (@girl07041776) July 22, 2022
Do these people read what they write?????
— Tio Paulão2 (@CryptoPaul68_2) July 22, 2022
Out: “I’ll shut down the virus,” “get vaccinated and you can’t catch Covid” and “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
In: “Hey, everybody’s going to catch Covid on a regular basis from now on.”
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