{"id":1146849,"date":"2021-12-23T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146849"},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:35:05","slug":"biden-laughs-when-asked-how-he-got-pandemic-forecast-wrong-dont-know-if-well-overcome-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-laughs-when-asked-how-he-got-pandemic-forecast-wrong-dont-know-if-well-overcome-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Laughs When Asked How He Got Pandemic Forecast \u2018Wrong\u2019: \u2018Don\u2019t Know\u2019 If We\u2019ll \u2018Overcome\u2019 COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-laughs-when-asked-how-he-got-pandemic-forecast-wrong-dont-know-if-well-overcome-covid%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=1146849&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>President Joe Biden laughed when asked during an ABC News interview this week how he got pandemic forecasts \u201cwrong\u201d and said that he does not know if the U.S. will overcome COVID-19, despite repeatedly pledging on the campaign trail to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked by ABC News host David Muir if he \u201coverpromised\u201d when he said over the summer that Americans were closer than ever to having freedom from the pandemic, Biden responded by claiming that the statement was true at the time but that there was still a lot of that the administration and health experts do not know about the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Biden later said \u201cwe don\u2019t know, we don\u2019t know for certain\u201d when the pandemic is going to end, how it\u2019s going to happen, or if the U.S. will be able to \u201covercome\u201d the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden \u2014 who promised to &#8220;shut down the virus \u2014 now says &#8220;we don&#8217;t know&#8221; if we&#8217;re going to &#8220;overcome&#8221; COVID. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iPVPjGT0wJ\">pic.twitter.com\/iPVPjGT0wJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1473803001173319689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vice president said in recent days that you didn\u2019t see Delta coming, that you didn\u2019t see Omicron coming,\u201d Muir said. \u201cHow did you get it wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden responded by laughing and claiming that \u201cnobody saw it coming, nobody in the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s claim appears to contradict Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president, who said earlier this week that health officials \u201cdefinitely saw variants coming\u201d in response to comments made by Vice President Kamala Harris during a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t see Delta coming. I think most scientists did not \u2014 upon whose advice and direction we have relied \u2014 didn\u2019t see Delta coming,\u201d Harris told the Los Angeles Times in an interview. \u201cWe didn\u2019t see Omicron coming. And that\u2019s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2021-12-17\/kamala-harris-in-interview-says-administration-did-not-anticipate-omicron-variant\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>President Biden celebrated \u201cindependence\u201d from the virus in an upbeat July 4 speech, saying, \u201cWhile the virus hasn\u2019t been vanquished, we know this: It no longer controls our lives. It no longer paralyzes our nation. And it\u2019s within our power to make sure it never does again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At the time, some public health experts warned that his optimism was premature, given that the Delta variant was already a significant threat. Harris denied that the administration declared victory prematurely, or ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not been victorious over it,\u201d Harris added. \u201cI don\u2019t think that in any regard anyone can claim victory when, you know, there are 800,000 people who are dead because of this virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci responded to Harris\u2019 remarks during an interview on Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely saw variants coming,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/fauci-variants-omicron-mutations-unprecedented\">said<\/a>.&nbsp;\u201cWhat was not anticipated was the extent of the mutations in the amino acid substitutions in omicron, which was really unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANCHOR: &#8220;The vice president said in recent days that you didn&#8217;t see Delta coming, that you didn&#8217;t see Omicron coming. How did you get it wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN: &#8220;Ha ha ha&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FkVgpPQ2HU\">pic.twitter.com\/FkVgpPQ2HU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1473802451853590528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden later said during the interview that he wished that he had ordered hundreds of millions of additional needed tests much sooner than he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve ordered half a billion of the \u2026 test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in America if anybody wants them,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/12\/23\/biden-wishes-he-thought-about-ordering-500-million-at-home-covid-tests-2-months-ago.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cBut the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion [tests] two months ago, before Covid hit here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden admits he was unprepared for a winter surge of COVID cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion [tests] TWO MONTHS AGO before COVID hit here.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hZh1DWk9SO\">pic.twitter.com\/hZh1DWk9SO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1473821554245095426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden laughed when asked during an ABC News interview this week how he got pandemic forecasts \u201cwrong\u201d and said that he does not know if the U.S. will overcome COVID-19, despite repeatedly pledging on the campaign trail to \u201cshut down the virus.\u201d When asked by ABC News host David Muir if he \u201coverpromised\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"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-1146849","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\/1146849","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\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146849\/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=1146849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}