Why playing the blame came can backfire....

President Biden had a fool proof plan to stop Covid in it's tracks. Now he points fingers!

When I was training managers, there seemed to be two types of people. Those who looked to solve problems and those who looked to figure out who to blame. The former could almost universally be counted on to end up being successful managers. The latter would generally be destined to fail if given the opportunity. 

The same thing can be seen in almost any sort of situation where you measure success and failure. Sure a coach of a professional sports franchise can certainly spend some time figuring out what went wrong and who or what might be to blame for a short term failure. But ultimately that should only be done as a means to figure out how to fix the problems and come up with a strategy that is more successful. If all a coach does it point fingers at everyone else without offering something tangible, then being fired becomes a foregone conclusion. 

The President and his minions in the Democratic establishment and main stream liberal media are working overtime to "blame" anyone and everyone but Biden for the current surge in Covid. The main "boogieman" is of course the "unvaccinated" which are being unfairly and incorrectly defined as "anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists" convinced that the vaccine is carrying a microchip. I know a lot of people who are not vaccinated. I don't know anyone who is afraid that they are being given a microchip.

The facts are pretty simple. The only group slated to make the July 4th goal of 70% vaccinations was Asian Americans. Whites and Hispanics were on pace to come relatively close. But blacks were set to be barely breaking 50% in terms of being fully vaccinated by July 4th. But nowhere in the finger pointing or blame game will you see Biden and his cronies bring up any sort of issues with black people .(Which of course would be racist, right?)

Instead Biden and lackeys are wanting you to believe this is entirely a partisan thing. There is little proof that partisanship plays a big part in this, since no official numbers are tracking partisanship. What the CDC has established is that there are certain groups lagging behind. They include racial and ethnic minority populations, people living in rural or frontier areas, people experiencing homelessness, people with disabilities, people with substance use issue, people who are incarcerated, and non-U.S.-born persons. With the exception of rural or frontier people, most of these groups would not identify as conservatives. 

Bottom line:

You don't fix problems by pointing fingers, and you actually exasperate your problems when you point fingers at the wrong people or wrong things. I have little doubt that there are people who are paranoid anti-vaxxers who believe that a microchip is being installed. I also have little doubt that they make up a fraction of the unvaccinated that is so small as to not really even cause a small ripple in all of this. 

But when you focus on this (because of partisan political strategy) then you are not focusing on a real solution. A federal "mandate" might work if indeed the vast majority of unvaccinated people were just stubborn conservatives. But a mandate is not going to fix the problem if the CDC is right about who is actually unvaccinated. Heavy minority areas are not likely going to have much cause to enforce a mandate. Homeless communities are certainly will not. People in jail do not affect you or I. People with substance abuse problems, or people with disabilities are not likely to react to a mandate. 

Now maybe Joe Biden is really stupid enough to believe the political rhetoric. If that is the case, then Covid will continue probably through this winter as he attempts to fix the problems that don't exist while ignoring the ones that do.