I didn’t like that statement either. Maybe he is under promising and hoping to overdeliver (or sandbagging as you say) or maybe he stumbled over his words. Regardless the message wasn’t good.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 1:23 pm President Joe Biden has painted a bleak picture of the nation’s coronavirus outbreak in his first few days in office.
During a Friday press briefing, Biden said that Covid-19 deaths are expected to reach “well over 600,000.”
The president also warned that “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/biden-s ... onths.html
Here's hoping he's just sandbagging so we're all impressed with his results.
But for so much critique of Trump's lousy messaging, one would think Biden coulda said, "continue to sign up for vaccines, mask, distance, and wash hands."
“Several months” is a lot of time. Over the next several months, hopefully we will be able to vaccinate all or a very high proportion of the most vulnerable population, say, nursing home residents and +75s. If we can accomplish that, that should dramatically reduce deaths and hospitalizations. Taking the strain off the healthcare system would be a huge positive. Plus, hopefully a very high percentage of critical workers will be vaccinated over the next several months.
I imagine he was not intending to include more extreme shut down measures in his comment. Obviously those could, in theory, be taken, but that ship has sailed as the country simply won’t tolerate more shut downs.