{"id":1119035,"date":"2021-12-14T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119035"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:59:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T22:59:30","slug":"in-2020-biden-promised-to-shut-down-the-virus-the-cdc-director-just-said-covid-probably-isnt-going-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-2020-biden-promised-to-shut-down-the-virus-the-cdc-director-just-said-covid-probably-isnt-going-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"In 2020, Biden Promised To \u2018Shut Down The Virus.\u2019 The CDC Director Just Said COVID \u2018Probably\u2019 Isn\u2019t Going Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-2020-biden-promised-to-shut-down-the-virus-the-cdc-director-just-said-covid-probably-isnt-going-anywhere%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119035&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cI\u2019m going to shut down the virus, not the country,\u201d said President Joe Biden during his presidential campaign in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Biden administration is admitting that it\u2019s \u201cprobably true\u201d that COVID-19 is here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appeared on \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d on Tuesday and was asked about whether we will ever be \u201call clear\u201d of COVID.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going into year two, people think we\u2019re waiting for you to sound the trumpet, say it\u2019s all clear. We\u2019re not really going to get an all clear are we? We just have to face the fact that we\u2019re going to have to live with this, true?\u201d asked host Gayle King.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that that\u2019s probably true,\u201d Walensky responded. \u201cBut what I would say is we have a lot of control and power to do that as we come together, as we get vaccinated, as we do those prevention things that work to protect one another and ourselves, and our family. We can bring down the amount of disease in this country and get much faster to that place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden: &#8220;I\u2019m going to shut down the virus, not the country. It\u2019s his ineptitude that\u2019s caused us to\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Debates2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Debates2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KpoC2X2lRP\">pic.twitter.com\/KpoC2X2lRP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quicktake\/status\/1319449075603935232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-pledge-shut-down-virus-predicts-winter-covid-19-spike\">Fox News<\/a> pointed out, \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s previous promises to \u2018shut down the virus\u2019 have slowly been walked back after the discovery of the Omicron variant, with the president saying the United States will need to \u2018beat it back\u2019 before we \u2018shut it down.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gotta beat it back before we shut it down. Look, this is gonna take time worldwide. In order to beat COVID, we need to shut it down worldwide,\u201d Biden replied when asked if he still intended to \u201cshut down\u201d the virus during a Dec. 3 press conference, Fox added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts say that COVID-19 cases will continue to rise in the weeks ahead this winter, and that we will see more omicron cases here in the United States in the days, weeks and months ahead,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/12\/02\/biden-covid-vaccines-omicron-winter-plan\/8827606002\/\">wrote<\/a> in an op-ed for USA Today. \u201cI know that Americans are exhausted from COVID-19 and want to know when it will end, and the new variant is adding to that unease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWe will beat it back with science and speed, not chaos and confusion \u2014 just as we did in the spring and again with the more powerful delta variant in the summer and fall,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president \u2014 and you\u2019ll hear him speak to this today \u2014 continues to believe that if we build on the bold steps that we\u2019ve taken to date, if we continue to make the vaccines more accessible, to increase testing, increase masking, we can return to a more \u2014 a version of normal in this country,\u201d said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the subject of Biden\u2019s strategy. \u201cThat\u2019s what everybody wants and everybody would like to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-only-20-of-omicron-cases-occurred-in-unvaccinated-people\">CDC: Only 21% Of Omicron Cases Occured In Unvaccinated People<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to shut down the virus, not the country,\u201d said President Joe Biden during his presidential campaign in October 2020.But now, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Biden administration is admitting that it\u2019s \u201cprobably true\u201d that COVID-19 is here to stay.CDC Director Rochelle Walensky appeared on \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d on Tuesday and was asked about whether we will ever be \u201call clear\u201d of COVID.\u201cWe\u2019re going into year two, people think we\u2019re waiting for you to sound the trumpet, say it\u2019s all clear. We\u2019re not really going to get an all clear are we? We just have to face the fact that we\u2019re going to have to live with this, true?\u201d asked host Gayle King.\u201cI think that that\u2019s probably true,\u201d Walensky responded. \u201cBut what I would say is we have a lot of control and power to do that as we come together, as we get vaccinated, as we do those prevention things that work to protect one another and ourselves, and our family. We can bring down the amount of disease in this country and get much faster to that place.\u201dBiden: &#8220;I\u2019m going to shut down the virus, not the country. It\u2019s his ineptitude that\u2019s caused us to\u201d #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com\/KpoC2X2lRP\u2014 Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) October 23, 2020However, as Fox News pointed out, \u201cPresident Biden\u2019s previous promises to \u2018shut down the virus\u2019 have slowly been walked back after the discovery of the Omicron variant, with the president saying the United States will need to \u2018beat it back\u2019 before we \u2018shut it down.\u2019\u201d\u201cWe gotta beat it back before we shut it down. Look, this is gonna take time worldwide. In order to beat COVID, we need to shut it down worldwide,\u201d Biden replied when asked if he still intended to \u201cshut down\u201d the virus during a Dec. 3 press conference, Fox added.\u201cExperts say that COVID-19 cases will continue to rise in the weeks ahead this winter, and that we will see more omicron cases here in the United States in the days, weeks and months ahead,\u201d Biden wrote in an op-ed for USA Today. \u201cI know that Americans are exhausted from COVID-19 and want to know when it will end, and the new variant is adding to that unease.\u201d\u00a0\u201cWe will beat it back with science and speed, not chaos and confusion \u2014 just as we did in the spring and again with the more powerful delta variant in the summer and fall,\u201d he continued.\u201cThe president \u2014 and you\u2019ll hear him speak to this today \u2014 continues to believe that if we build on the bold steps that we\u2019ve taken to date, if we continue to make the vaccines more accessible, to increase testing, increase masking, we can return to a more \u2014 a version of normal in this country,\u201d said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the subject of Biden\u2019s strategy. \u201cThat\u2019s what everybody wants and everybody would like to see.\u201dRelated: CDC: Only 21% Of Omicron Cases Occured In Unvaccinated PeopleThe Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by\u00a0signing our petition\u00a0to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}