Biden Speech Will (Finally) Include Important Admission About COVID Spread Among the Fully Vaccinated – Opinion

This weekend we covered the news about a shift at the White House in regard to the Wuhan virus (and the COVID vaccine).

“Out” will be the lofty promises of “shutting down the virus,” which both then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his vice presidential running mate Kamala Harris vowedThey would do, if elected. “In” will be an acknowledgment that the virus will not be eradicated and that we must learn how to co-exist with that inconvenient fact.

Biden suggested that some messaging could be very dramatic in a Thursday meeting of his COVID response group.

For unvaccinated: We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death, if you’re unvaccinated. For themselves, their family, and the hospital they’ll soon overwhelm.

A President Biden acknowledgement regarding vaccines is long overdue. It is now that the COVID virus can be transmitted to and caught by anyone, even if they are fully vaccinated.

During today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki noted that in a speech Biden was going to give Tuesday on the importance of getting the vaccine and booster shots, he would mention that people who had already done so were still at risk of catching it, although according to Biden’s team of medical experts, the risk of severe infection is less likely if you’ve had all three shots:

PSAKI: “Unvaccinated persons will continue to drive hospitalizations & deaths.” The government is not trying scare people. Perhaps it’s trying to explain to the people of the country the potential risks associated with not getting vaccinated. pic.twitter.com/wCCdf0OvoU

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 20, 2021

This might seem small to Biden’s supporters, but consider the many times Biden falsely claimed that people fully vaccinated can catch COVID. Three instances are the least I have seen, but I believe there may be more.

As I said last week, in making those claims, Biden repeatedly ignores “the science” he says we should listen to, and in my opinion, it was happening so often that I was starting to wonder if it wasn’t actually an infamous Biden “flub” but instead a deliberate attempt to mislead people and lull them into a false sense of security by falsely claiming you can’t catch nor spread the virus if you get the vaccine.

In my personal opinion, people should not let what politicians say unduly influence their medical decisions, but it’s a reality that many do. There are no doubt people who have listened to Biden’s statements or read about them later in the news and thought that if they get the vaccine they are immune to the virus and that if they go to the doctor or hospital that a vaccinated healthcare worker couldn’t transmit COVID to them.

Apparently, his team of advisors have determined that it’s now incredibly important for him to clarify what he’s said in the past so people won’t look at stories of fully vaccinated public figures like Sen. Elizabeth Warren catching COVID and get confused. Though the White House isn’t doing this in an effort to give people all the available information they need before making an informed decision as to whether or not to get the vaccine and booster shots, the good news is that it’s being done. The problem is that next week Biden will likely be back to stating the same falsehoods he previously has, because that’s just what he does.