A bumbling war effort

The estimate today is that about 10 percent of the U.S. population has received at least the first vaccine shot, which amounts to nearly 33 million. That seems like a decent start, but the program needs to speed up dramatically if summer is going to look very different from 2020.

I was thinking about how things might work if we really treated the virus as a wartime situation. Can you imagine the government telling soldiers during a "shooting war," like WWII, that enough bullets for their weapons would be available within six months... but to keep fighting?

I have no idea of the pragmatic challenges in ramping up manufacturing and training and testing and distribution options, but imagine they are daunting.

But in a true war, challenges are often met and goals are exceeded. It takes money, of course, but it also takes willpower. 

We fought a phony war on drugs, and a half-hearted war on terror, and not much clear success was achieved. 

Our track record as a country lately is that our war on the virus suggests this is another case of not committing to the effort. Sorry to be skeptical about our efforts, but there we are.