People get blamed for things all of the time, and it’s one of those things where you have to go through the whole process of explaining yourself.

Now, it’s bad enough when it is something that you did and you did for good reason. When you had nothing to do with something and getting blamed for someone else’s issues, that’s when things can get a little bit annoying.

For example, I remember once when I was in the military I got blamed for something where some machine got broken and could have cost a ton of money to get fixed. I got blamed up one side and down the other, yelled at for what seemed like an hour until someone after I told my higher-ups that I couldn’t have broken the machine because I was on leave. They didn’t believe me until I saw the paperwork. Yeah, I got a few days off for that one.

Anyway, the point is that there is nothing wrong with standing up and accepting blame for things that are your fault. Getting blamed for someone else’s mess, that’s totally different…

Biden’s first 10 days have been a mess dominated by vaccine mysteries. Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. As pressure mounts from the public, the Biden team starts blaming Trump.

Joe Biden promised he’d bring in a competent, tested team to run the pandemic response, set ambitious vaccination targets and impose strict public health guidelines.

His team arrived at the White House with a 200-page response plan ready to roll out. But instead, they have spent much of the last week trying to wrap their hands around the mushrooming crisis — a process officials acknowledge has been humbling, and triggered a concerted effort to temper expectations about how quickly they might get the nation back to normal. Their knee-jerk reaction was to blame the mess they inherited from Trump.

After a week on the job, Biden’s team is still trying to locate upwards of 20 million vaccine doses that have been sent to states — a mystery that has hampered plans to speed up the national vaccination effort. They’re searching for new ways to boost production of a vaccine stockpile that they’ve discovered is mostly empty. And they’re nervously eyeing a series of new Covid-19 strains that threaten to derail the response.

“It’s the Mike Tyson quote: ‘Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth,’” said one person with knowledge of the vaccine effort who’s not authorized to discuss the work. “They are planning. They are competent. It’s just the weight of everything when you sit down in that chair. It’s heavy.”

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