“When President Biden took office there were 2 million Americans fully vaccinated. One year later, more than 200 million Americans fully vaccinated. That doesn’t happen by accident.”

— NY Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Feb. 8

We say: Is Jeffries serious? When Biden took office, the vaccine had been available only to a small slice of the population, and for just a few weeks. Over the next year, it became far more available and people had time to get vaxxed. It shouldn’t have been hard for any president to get folks to take a free vaccine that could save their lives and help end the pandemic, yet Biden actually had trouble. Maybe that’s because he and Vice President Kamala Harris spread fear of the vaccine in 2020, since it was developed under President Donald Trump, Biden’s opponent in the presidential race.

“I say to these governors . . .[if] you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way.”

– President Joe Biden, after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) refused to order vaccine mandates in his state, Aug. 3, 2021

“We’ve always said that these decisions are going to have to be made at the local level.”

– CDC boss Rochelle Walensky, when asked if people should listen to their governors or the CDC about masks, Feb. 9

We say: President Biden fumed last year about governors (i.e., Republican ones) not taking his advice on COVID rules, but now that even states with Democratic govs (Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware) are lifting mask mandates despite the CDC’s recommendation to keep masking indoors, Biden & Co. say govs are free to make up their own minds.

We say: NPR questions why whites choose the yellow emoji. Memo to NPR: Not every gesture people make is about race. Sometimes people simply click on the first emoji they see that expresses their thought. But what do your “academics” say about people who see everything through a racial prism?

“With the Omicron variant, kids are either going to get the vaccine or they’re likely to get a serious condition of Omicron.” 

– Biden transition COVID task force member Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Feb. 9

We say: Good for Dr. Emanuel for later apologizing for his misinformation, claiming he merely misspoke and only meant to say kids are more likely to catch the Omicron variant if they’re not vaxxed. Yet his walkback came only after he was skewered by critics, who noted that kids almost never get “severe” cases of Omicron, vaxxed or not. And his initial statement is a perfect example of the perverse tendency by heavy-handed bureaucrats to use fear and exaggeration to manipulate the public.

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board