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We begin the show here with a
FOX News alert.
The Biden administration has
now officially declared monkey
pox to be a public health
emergency as cases
have been doubling ire at
roughly every 7 to 8 days.
We talked about monkey pox a
little bit last week and some
of the debates around the
stigma. And what is fair to say
and what the role of public
health officials ought to be.
>> You should be out there around monkey pox because people don’t want to
stigmatize the lgbt community.
I’m a member of that community.
So I think I can talk about
this a little bit. Take all we
want to make it a gay disease.
I understand that anyone can
get it. If you come in contact
with a lesion. Skin to skin
contact. That’s true. It’s
not only gay man or bisexual
man or men who have sex with
men at risk. But if you look at
the numbers.
>> Overwhelmingly that is who’s
at risk
which is why the vaccine which
is extremely scarce more on
that in a moment is being
rightly limited to people in a
pretty narrow category. And I
don’t think that it’s wrong to
simply tell the truth about
that to prioritize care and
vigilance for certain people
and not freak out a bunch of
other people that seems
sensible to me. Now I will
tell you
I was very angry about this
earlier today and I still am I
decided to lead with this
because let me say this as
says simply and bluntly as I
can the Biden administration is
blowing it on monkey pox.
Who sat in his basement and promised to defeat the virus and the virus on covid. We can
talk more about that later if
we want to. And now on his
watch another public health
emergency has emerged. Not
his fault. I’m not a hack I’m
not going to blame Biden or his
team for this type of virus
coming to the floor and
spreading what I will blame
them for is abject incompetence
in responding to it. And we
have example after example,
piling up.
And I think if this were a
Republican administration screw
ing up this badly over and over
again on a public health issue.
It would be a much bigger story
than it is.
Especially given the fact that
it is overwhelmingly targeting
gay and bisexual people.
You can almost imagine what the
outcry. What sound like and
look like you have activists
you have the media you have
Democrats. This administration
doesn’t care. About
gay people. They don’t care
about our lives. They don’t
prioritize us. This is
callous disregard.
This is Darryl election.
This is bigotry this is what
modern bigotry looks like like
that is what they would be
saying. Exactly this set of
facts applied to the other
political party, but I think
because Biden team are
Democrats a lot of the
critiques you did or
nonexistent you’re hearing it
from some people. Because
it is a real and acute problem
and a growing problem. There’s
a way to stop the problem and
team Biden is blowing it.
And they’ve been blowing it for
weeks.
And if all the other
gatekeepers of truth and the
firefighters of media. Aren’t
going to level with you about
that.
Last week when we talked about this I mentioned this New York Post story from early July,
here’s a snippet.
The White House is allowing red
tape to snarl delivery of a
million monkey pox vaccine
doses. Currently stock at the
manufacturing plant in Denmark.
The U.S. government spent at least 2 billion dollars our money. Taxpayer money to
billion. Plus developing and
manufacturing the vaccine for
the National stockpile however,
the Food and Drug
Administration FDA and this
administration has refused to
import the shots million of
them. After
it failed to inspect
the plant and then refused to
accept the inspection results
from the EU so regular Tory
arm, which team the facility
safe.
So there’s a million shots that
we developed and paid for
sitting in Denmark, this is as
of early last month.
And FDA couldn’t be bothered
apparently drop the ball could
get its act together to inspect
the facility. The warehouse,
whatever it is the plant.
So because of the red tape and
you know the all the I guess
we’ll just have to leave those
doses there
and the EU said actually will
do the inspection it is safe.
The shots are going into arms
of European man.
And our administration said no
not good enough. This
is what bureaucracy looks like
and failure. So that was a
month ago. Here’s
the story from the Washington
Post. This week.
Don’t expect America’s shortage
of monkey pox vaccine to ease
anytime soon. On Saturday, the
Washington Post reported there
is currently only enough supply
of the 2 dose monkey pox
vaccine to fully vaccinate
about one 3rd of the gay and
bisexual men in the U.S. who
are considered highest risk for
the virus. And listen to this
more doses aren’t expect to
arrive are expected to arrive
in the United States until at
least October. So months from
now.
Over
now. Over 6,000 confirmed cases in the
United States and there’s been
exponential growth and we don’t
have nearly enough vaccine,
doses.
And the next batch of doses
apparently isn’t going to
arrive in the United States
despite all the money that we
have paid as taxpayers to
develop this.
Talking arrive until at least
October.
Which experts fear may give the
virus all the time it needs to
become permanently established
in the country I even demick.
Was operating at any level of competence. And had prioritize this.
We wouldn’t be necessarily
talking about this becoming
permanently established monkey
pox as I would
say effectively an STD that
also can be transmitted other
ways in the United States.
If we had gotten the return on
our investment in a successful
vaccine.
That was then administered
properly by a government that
wasn’t filled with absolute
incompetence.
We could be having a very
different conversation but
we’re not.
Public health authorities have
already begun to ration the
vaccine. By withholding the
second dose member with covid
you got the first shot unless
it was J and J got the first
shot than you
went home for a couple weeks
and you came back to get the
second one to boost up
the effectiveness the efficacy
as much as possible same drill
here on monkey pox but they
have so few doses. They have
delayed indefinitely the second
shot. Just to give out as many
first shots as possible.
This is rationing.
We’re the richest most powerful
country on Earth.
Our government has spent
billions of our dollars
developing this vaccine.
And because of their fault.
The people who need it can’t
get it many of them.
And I think I just come back to
the point if this set of facts
were happening under a
Republican right now.
The motives would be question
at a very high-decibel. They
would be called the face of
modern hate.
They don’t care about this
population of people it would
be a much larger scandal than
it is. But the scandal is what
it is. They’re just happens to be predeceased e next to the name so it’s all sort of still
whispered about for the most
part.
Then comes this story from the
New York Times wait for this.
The shortage of vaccines to
combat a fast growing monkey
pox outbreak was caused in part
by the Department of Health and
Human Services, failing
early on to ask that bulk
stocks of the vaccine it
already owned be bottled for
distribution. According to
multiple administration
officials. So we had
the vaccine, we paid for it.
It was ours and HHS in the
Beit administration forgot to
ask for it to be bottled.
So it can be sent to the United
States. And injected into arms.
By the time the federal government placed its orders the vaccines denmark-based
manufacturer Bavarian Nordic
had booked other clients and
was unable to do the work for
months.
To speed up deliveries. The
government is now scrambling.
How often are they scrambling.
Scrambling Afghanistan
scrambling on inflation,
scrambling on baby formula
just scrambling all over the
place because of their own
failures. Here they are
scrambling again to find
another firm to take over some
of the badaling and capping
and labeling of the frozen bulk
vaccine that is being stored in
large plastic backs. Outside of
Copenhagen. Because
that final manufacturing phase
known as fill and finish is
highly specialized. Experts
estimate it will take another
company at least 3 months to
gear up.
August September October we’re
looking to maybe get into
November.
One more detail from this story
in the New York Times. Health
and Human Services, this is the
Biden administration also
miscalculated the need for
vaccine. So badly that in May
late May. They allowed
this company to deliver about
215,000 fully finished doses
that the federal government
already bought.
To European countries instead
of holding them for the U.S..
So they didn’t do their
inspection and wouldn’t take
the EU inspectors. So that was
a million doses sitting.
Then there were 215,000 fully
ready doses
that the U.S. government in
Biden’s team just said we don’t
need him, you know what given
to Europe, it’s fine. Now we
have this acute crisis. Where
there is they’re calling it a
cliff. A vaccine Cliff they
will not have enough vaccine
for the population that needs
it. The most is they want won’t
come close. And we’ll have to
wait for months.
As monkey pox as monkey pox
grows and spreads and
proliferates.
A bunch of other vaccine that
they had ready.
They forgot to ask for it to
get bottled and labeled and now
they’re just casting can anyone
do this. And the process is
going to take months to do
that.
Absolutely pathetic and
outrageous.
Now a lot of the failure falls
on the Department of Health and
Human Services HHS I would like
to remind you who is in charge
of that. Cabinet agency.
A man named Javier Becerra.
We were very critical of this pick at the time but Sarah is a lawyer. And a lifelong
career politician. He has been
in some
office political office since I
was 5.
I’m in my late mid to late 30’s
now since I was in kindergarten
this guy’s been some
legislature is attorney general
in California, he’s a lawyer by
training and a politician by
career.
Public health experience or
expertise, none.
It would be outrageous to put
someone with that experience or
lack thereof that resume in
this position as the health
minister of the United States.
Under
any circumstances
but in the middle of a global
pandemic that Biden ran on the
pandemic this is the whole
thing we’re going to Killen
shut down the virus on like
Trump. Then he comes in
and puts in a health secretary
with no experience in health,
public health or otherwise,
none.
The guy was known for
persecuting nuns and pro-life
groups in California that’s his
big claim to fame. Javier
Becerra. So why was he picked.
In the middle of
a pandemic this man.
CNBC reported at the time late
2020. Biden selection of the Sarah comes amid calls from the congressional Hispanic Caucus,
for the president elect to
include more Hispanics among
his Cabinet picks Biden has
made diversity a central value
of his incoming Sarah would be
the first Latino to lead the
department.
So the woke identity fixated
obsessed leftists were saying
this Cabinet needs to be more
diverse. We need more.
Brown people with this Ali talk
about people literally by their
skin color we need more Brown
people in the Cabinet and
Biden’s like that go find some
with a Latin X last name and
put him in charge of the Health
Department what could go wrong.
So they found I guess
the closest. Latin
X person to use their
ridiculous term that they could
find with no expertise and they
put him in charge of HHS.
How’s that working out. How’s
that competence going for the
American people. It wasn’t just
Biden who named him. It was the
Senate Democrats who confirmed
him. That’s Javier Becerra.
Our health secretary. Failing
during covid no experience
whatsoever now there’s another
big problem on his watch
and his administration is
asleep at the switch his agency
is failing and flailing badly.
The lgbt community. Is in the
cross hairs of this disease.
And this is what’s happening.
Mistake after failure
after screw-up, but hey at
least the White House projected
rainbow colors on to the White
House during pride month
doesn’t that make you feel
better.
The signaling was very strong
about their support when it
comes to helping the well-being
and the health.
Of gay and bisexual men in this
country with this mess on our
hands. They’re just sort of
like oops. I guess we got that
one wrong again. But our health
secretary who has no business
being in that position.
It is absolutely outrageous
and you know, and I know that
this would be a much bigger
story and be treated as the
scandal that it is under
slightly different
circumstances, but the reality