There’s also the added bonus that they can’t act like he’s down playing it. And they’ve now whipped the public into a vaccine frenzy so they won’t react well if they stop distributing vaccine.

They also won’t react well if they stop inoculating for “safety” but states that don’t have insane restrictions keep seeing cases drop. Biden can’t go back on the “we need the vaccine” at this point; their lack of factual grounding for their decisions is being exposed at the border and in the public health sphere.