Part of our core mission? Exposing the Left's blatant hypocrisy. Help us continue the fight and support the 2024 Year-End Campaign now.

August 25, 2020

Biden Plagiarizes Trump’s COVID Plan

Other than exceeding authority with lockdowns and masks, it’s a straight copy.

One of the big decision points for undecided voters in November will be how the presidential candidates have handled or will handle the China Virus. With the incumbent, Donald Trump, we already know. He’s pushing hard for new testing and new remedies, putting faith and funds behind the FDA, the CDC, and private-sector drug manufacturers to find a way out of this pandemic. Trump is also adamant about keeping the country open for business while we do it, recognizing that the widespread shutdowns probably did more harm than good.

Democrats spent much of their national convention last week tearing apart Trump’s response to COVID. But, when asked what he would do about the situation, Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has suggested doing pretty much everything that Trump is already doing.

Biden says he’ll develop rapid testing that produces immediate results. Last week, the FDA approved two new rapid tests, and testing in general has improved dramatically in recent weeks. The country is conducting upwards of 700,000 tests per day, almost double the rate in June, and seven times greater than in March when the lockdown began.

Biden demands a coordinated nationwide effort to produce and distribute medical equipment and supplies under the Defense Production Act. Trump invoked the act at the start of the lockdown, exhorting American industry to help make ventilators and other necessary items. Of course, ventilators wouldn’t have been in short supply if Democrats like New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hadn’t squandered the opportunity to shore up emergency-response plans years ago. But the point here is that Biden is offering nothing that Trump hasn’t already done.

When it comes to treatment, Biden is also shadowing Trump. The Democrat nominee wants ramped-up manufacturing of vaccines and other methods of fighting the virus. The Trump administration is already working with private industry to make this happen. All the major pharmaceutical companies are on board, feverishly working to develop a vaccine. Treatments are being tested that demonstrate the original thinking and bold ideas of America’s manufacturing and medical-science sectors. Just last week, the FDA authorized the use of a very promising treatment that transfuses blood plasma from recovered patients, which includes antibodies to fight the virus, into those needing treatment.

The one dramatic outlier that differentiates Biden’s virus “plan” from Trump’s is top-down control. Biden is willing to shut down the country again. Claiming that he would “listen to the scientists,” Biden is proposing what has been widely panned as one of the biggest mistakes of our virus response.

Cities, states, and regions should be allowed to respond to the virus based on their specific situations, not what is going on in New York City. And to which scientists is Biden referring? They don’t think like a monolithic bloc, and you will receive different responses from different scientists based on their own area of expertise and focus.

Biden also favors a nationwide mask mandate, disregarding the fact that such a mandate is completely outside the authority of the president.

For the last four years, Democrats have based their strategy on doing exactly the opposite of what Trump does. This is a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has dire consequences for the rest of us. Biden changed a couple of things about Trump’s response, but mostly he just wants you to think he’s doing something different. In any case, it’s clear that the health and safety of the country is just another lever to pull in the Democrats’ insatiable quest for power.

(Visit our comprehensive CV19 Pandemic response and recovery page to review our timeline of government and political actions related to the pandemic, and see our related pages regarding the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.)

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.