the biden admin publicly mocked the idea of sending free at home test kits to americans. now they're in the middle of coming up with a plan to do that.
an admin official privately mocked the idea of sending free N95 masks to americans. now the biden admin has come out and said they will do that.
Never let anyone tell you to be nice to politicians. The only time you can ever get them to do anything even halfway not horrible is by threatening and mocking them.