Here is Phil's official scorecard on Biden close to his first year in office handling this pandemic
Testing Availability - C+ - there are free testing sites everywhere. At home tests are still too expensive and scarce when people wanted them before the holidays
Guidance - F - Guidance changes and still confusing af and doesn't seem to be based in science
Vaccine rollout - B- - finally tried to mandate it too late. Still could do more. Being as politicized as it was, this was a losing battle.
Booster rollout - F - should have come out hot and heavy pushing this and didn't.
Travel Ban - F - dumb. shouldn't have been done. Worthless.
Messaging - C - he's been pretty consistent but pinning hopes on people getting the vaccine when told "get a vaccine, won't get covid" was a dumb move and weighs heavily on the scoring, even if the data showed that at the time, bad move.
Coordination with state efforts - no idea but this should be part of the grade
Of course I didn't take into account Dax's "Pandemics are hard and no leader can manage them" curve. Overall not impressed.
