COVID is now simply one other background sickness, but Workforce Biden retains appearing — and spending — as if it’s nonetheless early 2021.
The most recent: $600 million on free at-home COVID exams.
Huh? The bug is way much less harmful now: Should you’re sick, whether or not it’s COVID or the common flu, simply keep house. (In uncommon circumstances the place it will get actually unhealthy or when you’re immune-challenged, in fact, reply appropriately.)
There’s no level to mass testing, not to mention free house supply: Checks are actually ample and low-cost.
Congress rightly refused new funding for this waste, prompting an all-too-telling tweet from President Joe Biden’s ex-chief of workers, Ron Klain, grousing that the prez “needed to take from different important well being wants.”
That’s, Joe’s not solely losing this money (how lots of the exams will even get used earlier than they expire?), he’s taking it from extra vital functions.
This follows even crazier Biden spending on new vaccines and boosters — billions on jabs of doubtful efficacy and security, most of which can expire unused, simply as occurred a yr in the past.
Unprecedented authorities motion in offering exams and creating jabs was applicable in 2020, on the top of the emergency — however the emergency is lengthy since over.
We all know most Democrats suppose each authorities program ought to get greater and last more, however there’s no want to shut the barn door now that this horse has absolutely flown — but Biden retains shopping for new barns.
Shut the curtain on COVID theater.
