Josh Marshall tweet:

[tblue37]

Don't forget. The Trump administration literally had no plan to vaccinate anyone other than nursing home residents. The "plan" quite literally was to deliver vaccines to airports in each state and let states figure it out with no plan or funding. This is a fact.

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. I didn't know that.

[PSPS]

3. Yeah, that was revealed during the "transition" when they were finally allowed on the premesis.

[underpants]

6. Actually read the article. I don't see a mention of airports.

[JHB]

15. Air transport is one of the major means of shipping vaccines...

...especially since they have expiration dates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/covid-vaccine-how-doses-get-from-the-manufacturing-plant-to-your-arm.html

Loading planes & trucks

Within hours of the FDA’s approval of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines last month, FedEx and United Parcel Service started shipping vials of doses. The logistics rivals teamed up and split deliveries by state, UPS Healthcare President Wes Wheeler told a Senate panel at a hearing last month.

Delivering coronavirus vaccines, however, isn’t first time the companies have handled sensitive medical products. UPS provided logistical support throughout Pfizer’s clinical trials. FedEx delivers flu vaccines every year and shipped over 80 million H1N1 vaccine doses in 2009, said Richard Smith, FedEx Express executive vice president.

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Passenger airlines also play a role. Even before Pfizer’s vaccine was cleared by the FDA, United Airlines started shipping doses on Boeing 777s from Brussels, near the pharmaceutical giant’s Belgium plant to the carrier’s hub at Chicago O’Hare. They were taken by truck from the airport to Pfizer’s plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan to position them for distribution.

American Airlines ran trial flights in November between Miami and South America to stress test thermal packaging and handling before it started shipping the vaccines.

[Biophilic]

2. That is truly appalling. I figured it wasn't a very good plan, but I had no idea how bad. nt

[LizBeth]

4. This is what I am putting on any twitter posts.

Good to hear, and to be clear. Trump was not a help. Trump created a mess slowing Biden down stepping into office. Biden had to clean up a mess, hidden from him cause Trump shenanigans. Then implement a doable distribution and get vaccines Trump didn't order.

[frazzled]

5. I remember that

I was seeing clips on the local news of the facility at O’Hare that was slated to receive the vaccines allotted for the region, which were woefully inadequate for the first months.

The state was desperate for more.

[genxlib]

7. I think it is worse than that

I can accept delegation as a plan if you foreworn the states that they will be responsible. Give them some rough guidelines, timelines and volumes with plenty of advanced notice so that they can plan how to take it from there. It is not what I would have done but I could accept that it could work if properly executed and delegated.

There are numerous reports of the states getting caught flatfooted because they were never told this would be their responsibility.

This wasn't delegation of authority. It was abrogation.

[crickets]

10. +1

[tanyev]

14. Yes, that's what I remember, too.

When they became available, it happened very quickly. Great for a pat-ourselves-on-the-back Trump administration news story, but terrible for planning the details of how to actually get shots into arms.

[torius]

8. The Repub states

were hoping they could use a vaccine shortage to vaccinate only the voters they like.

So now they’re opening wide up again to make sure the pandemic keeps spreading. Then when the fourth wave comes they can say Biden’s plan isn’t working and they can cause rushing and bottlenecks that will help them make sure more POC get infected before it’s “too late.”

[poli-junkie]

9. Trump's plan was herd immunity and

take a cut on a tightly controlled vaccine roll-out. Today, Repuke Govs are lifting lockdown measures to hinder Biden's progress.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. And to apparently, sicken and murder their state citizens and constituents.

to hinder Biden's progress.

[Grokenstein]

13. "Just let it wash over us."

Not just Dim Don's "plan," but that of every office holder in his cult.

[CaptainTruth]

11. Glad we took the airports during the Revolutionary War.

I knew they would be important.

[speak easy]

18. Don't forget ramming the ramparts

[Beartracks]

23. ROFL

[SergeStorms]

16. THAT IS A FACT.

So "he who I refuse to name" can stuff every used vaccination needle straight up his ass. He did nothing, NOTHING to help get this nation vaccinated, other than sign a piece of paper. And then taking credit for everything, right down to mapping the human genome, of course.

[Cha]

17. Rt TY With "details & receipts!

[dalton99a]

19. Kick

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[Oldem]

21. But the former guy (loser) got vaccinated.

[gratuitous]

25. Very quietly and away from the cameras

But then, we all know what a shy, self-effacing person Needy Amin is, always looking out for others and never blowing his own horn.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. The Biden administration's plan does seem better.

At least a little. SMH

And millions still support the former chaos and sordid doings of The Previous Guy.

[Beartracks]

24. It's weird they still think Trump was "good for the economy."

All he had to do was ride the coattails of President Obama's economic expansion, which began markedly before Trump was in office... and he still fucked that up.

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[BobTheSubgenius]

26. As a friend of mine rightly opined:

"He could fuck up a free meal."