From the moment that Joe Biden entered the White House, he has been hinting at July 4th as the grand reopening for our nation, after well over a year of coronavirus crisis.
In fact, even as Memorial Day travel statistics seemed to indicate that the nation had moved on without his blessing, Biden and his administration continued to push the idea that there’d be some beautiful, “independence” spectacle coming on America’s birthday.
Spoiler alert: It’s not going to happen.
The Biden administration planned to concede Tuesday that it will likely fall short of President Joe Biden’s goal of partially vaccinating 70 percent of American adults by Independence Day, but insist it has “succeeded beyond our highest expectations” in returning the nation to a pre-pandemic normal.
Jeffrey Zients, the head of the White House Covid-19 response team, was scheduled to announce that the administration has hit its 70 percent vaccination target among Americans ages 30 and older, and is poised to reach that threshold for those 27 and older by the Fourth of July.
But it will take “a few extra weeks” to include all Americans 18 and older to that group, he is to acknowledge.
The news comes just days after North Carolina was forced to admit that they’d hit a wall with vaccinations, after a $1 million dollars lottery for those being inoculated only made a 1% difference in the amount of jabs being administered.
