Vice President Kamala Harris admitted in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times that the administration didn’t see Delta or the Omicron variants “coming”:
.@VP to @Noahbierman amid fears of another Covid surge:
“We didn’t see Omicron coming.” https://t.co/ie3kkjmntX
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) December 18, 2021
The actual quote in the article is even worse than the headline:
This quote is even worse than the headline suggests because the rest of the quote illustrates that she’s trying to blame their failures on the advice they got from scientists. https://t.co/Qf5lbm2wKp
— Greg Lipper (@theglipper) December 18, 2021
Here it is, in full:
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the administration failed to anticipate the variants that have prolonged and worsened the COVID-19 pandemic and that she underestimated the role misinformation would play in prolonging the disease that has killed 800,000 Americans.
“We didn’t see Delta coming. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see Delta coming,” she said. “We didn’t see Omicron coming. And that’s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.”
“Which, as it turns out, has mutations and variants”? Scientists and health experts have literally been worried about mutations and variants since day one:
That's how viruses work, champ. This administration is a disaster. https://t.co/JVyoS8svW3
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) December 18, 2021
“But viruses mutate. It’s what they do”:
Vice President Kamala Harris, once again displaying her political chops, tells the L.A. Times that they totally did not see virus variants coming.
But viruses mutate. It’s what they do.
The media tour to rescue her image is going well, I see.https://t.co/gFccntdxld
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 18, 2021
And is she just gaslighting us here? Health experts were most certainly worried about the Delta variant earlier this year:
The WHO is now naming coronavirus variants with Greek letters, assigned in the order in which they are designated potential threats. B.1.617.2, for example, which has contributed to a deadly surge in India, has been renamed Delta. https://t.co/rgt9Jq7nLt
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 31, 2021
She really is bad at all this:
Has the Vice President had media training? https://t.co/VqdwWWTdeq
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 18, 2021
Oh well!
Biden’s campaign was all about how he was the guy who battled a pandemic before and would know what to do.
He was a visionary who had warned us about the next big one (endlessly bragged about an op-ed he wrote).
Totally blind-sided by this one though.https://t.co/gFccntdxld
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 18, 2021
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