Biden: Pandemic A ‘Wake-Up Call’ On ‘Climate Change,’ ‘Institutional Change’

In two virtual fundraisers this week, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden called the coronavirus pandemic a “wake up call” on climate change and said he was “excited” about the crisis because it presents “opportunities” for “institutional changes.”

Rather than sympathizing with the victims of the crisis, the former vice president is in full “never let a crisis go to waste” mode.

“I believe, because, sort of, the blinders have been taken off, because of this COVID crisis, I think people are realizing, ‘My Lord. Look at what is possible. Look at the institutional changes we can make – without us becoming a ‘socialist country,’ or any of that malarkey – that we can make to provide the opportunities to change the institutional drawbacks …’ from education, all the way through to all the other things we talked about,” Biden said in a fundraiser on Tuesday, according to a pool report quoted by CNS News.

“And if I sound like I’m excited, I am,” he added.

To be fair, the former vice president went on to explain why he was “excited”: “because I really think, think about this, the United States – I am a student of history – the United States is one of the few countries in the world, whatever crisis they’re faced with, we’ve overcome it. And we’ve always come out stronger, better.”

At least he acknowledged that this is a crisis. That’s something, right?

At another fundraiser on Wednesday, Biden said the coronavirus is a wake-up call for climate change… as if greenhouse gasses were more responsible for COVID-19 than a bat in Wuhan, China.

“COVID is shining a bright light on the structural racism that plagues our laws, our institutions and our culture. And it’s a wake up call, a wake up call to action to climate change overall and to climate justice,” Biden said, according to The Atlantic‘s Edward-Isaac Dovere.

Darn those sneaky all-powerful carbon emissions — somehow they made bats get sick, made human beings study coronaviruses in bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, made some researcher leave while infected, and made the Chinese Communist Party lie to cover it up and enable the spread.

It seems the only thing they can’t do is actually bring about the climate disaster predicted by so many alarmists.

Don’t ask how carbon emissions controlled bats and the Chinese Communist Party — it’s science. And it’s settled. That all-knowing sage Joe Biden said it, so it must be true — no matter how little sense it makes.

Beyond the patent absurdity of calling the coronavirus a wake-up call for climate change, Biden has shown a disgusting penchant for using the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to push his radical agenda.

His comments about the “opportunities” this virus presents are very much on-brand.

Earlier this month, he told CNN’s Chris Cuomo, “We have an opportunity, Chris, to do so many things now to change some of the structural things that are wrong, some of the structural things we couldn’t get anybody’s attention on. In a sense, no pun intended, the bandaid’s been ripped off here.”

Biden’s view of the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity for structural change should sound familiar, and not just because of Rahm Emanuel. Last month, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told his fellow Democrats, “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision.”

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