Because given the press announcement last week about the acting commissioner (the administration says she is unfit to nominate) it’s clear they’re setting her up as a scapegoat. That conveys, to me, an administration without foresight or ethics. Scapegoats that are obvious are not good scapegoats.
Doing nothing could have been chalked up to typical sclerotic political mechanizations we’ve all come to expect.
They could have, instead, put out a few tidbits in friendly media outlets about how easy it is to get a booster: you go to cvs and tell them you are unvaxxed. Run stories about how “everyone is doing it(tm)”. That’s a better way to stimulate demand IMO. Fewer long term consequences like permanent distrust of all vaccines, the administration and the fda.
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