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What did Dr. Fauci have to say in 2009 about the deadly H1N1 pandemic?

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/what_did_dr_fauci_have_to_say_in_2009_about_the_deadly_h1n1_pandemic.html

It seems some viral infection pandemics are more equal than others. At
least when it comes to burning a vibrant Trump economy to the ground.

In September 2009, after millions had become infected with the H1N1
influenza and thousands had died (13000 in the US), some of whom were young people and children, a relaxed and unalarmed Dr. Anthony Fauci told an interviewer that people just need "to use good judgment."

"Parents should not send their kids to school if they're sick, if you're sick
don't go to work ... avoid places where there are people who are sick
and coughing, now that's a difficult thing to do,” he said. "...You

can't isolate yourself from the rest of the world for the whole flu
season." That’s quite a change from the esteemed expert’s views on the
current virus from China sweeping the world.

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turd_ferguson wrote:: What did Dr. Fauci have to say in 2009
about the deadly H1N1 pandemic?

In September 2009, after millions had become infected with the H1N1
influenza and thousands had died (13000 in the US),
some of whom were young people and children,
a relaxed and unalarmed Dr. Anthony Fauci
told an interviewer that people just need "to use good judgment."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
there were about 60.8 million cases of infection
with the novel type of influenza virus H1N1 in the U.S.
between April 2009 and April 2010,
with a total of approximately 274,304 hospitalizations
and 12,469 deaths.

While that death toll may sound high,
it’s_ over an entire year
and, in fact, ended up being far lower than was initially expected.
The strain of influenza also turned out to have
a case fatality rate of just 0.02% —
well below even many typical seasonal influenza.

Everything that’s known about the new coronavirus
so far suggests that it’s an entirely different beast
than its most recent pandemic predecessor.
Peter Jay Hotez, a professor and dean
of the tropical medicine school at Baylor College of Medicine,
told us that the new virus, which is known as SARS-CoV-2, is
considerably more transmissible and more lethal than H1N1

For those reasons, he said,
“the urgency to contain this coronavirus
is so much greater than the H1N1 2009 one was.”

The COVID19 pandemic is very different
from the 2009-H1N1 pandemic primarily because
they are caused by two different viruses.
The virus causing COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus
called SARS-CoV-2 whereas H1N1 is an influenza virus.
H1N1 caused mild disease
whereas SARS-CoV-2 causes more severe disease.

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Continual updates:

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Subject: Re: Trump / Pence / Covid-19. Sun Mar 22, 2020 4:56 pm

Something to think about:

If COVID-19 forced the shuttering of Planned Parenthood for two weeks, it will have saved more lives in the country than it’s claimed.

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March 22, 2020

Trump says report of Chinese CDC expert being fired before coronavirus is likely ‘100 percent wrong’

It was revealed Sunday by Reuters that several months before the coronavirus pandemic, a public health position in Beijing intended to aid in outbreaks was eliminated.

“The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue.

The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November, and as cases exploded, the Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to help,” said Reuters.

“It was heartbreaking to watch. If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster,”
said Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who worked in the role between 2007 and 2011.

But when asked about it during a press conference Sunday, Trump said he didn’t know anything about it.

“Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases,” Reuters said.

“As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier.”

Trump paused before handing the question to the CDC director, and ranted that all of the reports that he had hurt the CDC with his budget and fired people were all false.

In fact, Trump’s 2021 proposed budget, which has not been passed, would have cut the CDC budget if it had passed before the outbreak hit.

Under Trump’s administration, the person tasked with national security around pandemics was fired, and the National Security Council unit focused on pandemic preparedness was disbanded.

The director of the Center for Disease Control, Dr. Robert Redfield, said that the unit was “actually being augmented.”
He didn’t answer whether the person in the position for 30 years was let go, quit, or something else.

In a statement from the CDC to Reuters, they claimed that the elimination of the adviser position had nothing to do with Washington ignoring the coronavirus and not acting sooner.

The position was cut in July, just months before the first case appeared in China in mid-November.

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3/23/2020 AP

‘He misses his rallies’: AP reporter reveals the real reason Trump is holding daily coronavirus press briefings

President Donald Trump quickly took over coronavirus task force chief Mike Pence’s daily press briefings as soon as he realized the Vice President was gaining some credibility and popularity. But there’s another reason Trump is holding these press briefings, some for hours each day, seven days a week.

“He misses his rallies,” the AP’s White House reporter Jonathan Lemire said on MSNBC Monday afternoon. “He misses the road.”

“And that’s why, despite a number of senior aides telling him he should not be appearing at the briefing every day he insists that he will.”

Lemire described Trump as “deeply frustrated,” and suggested the President wants to campaign against former Vice President Joe Biden but under current circumstances cannot in the ways he planned.

He also said not just the President, but other White House officials believe it’s necessary for the sake of the economy, for Americans to go back to work – as Trump has strongly suggested – despite the obvious cost of human lives.

But it’s not just their concern for the economy.

“They worry about it endangering the President’s re-election hopes,” he added, noting these White House officials believe “the danger of this virus is overhyped.”

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"This is a tremendous opportunity to restrict things to fit our vision"

~ Nancy Pelosi on the corona virus stimulus bill

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turd_ferguson wrote:: "This is a tremendous opportunity to restrict things to fit our vision"

~ Nancy Pelosi on the corona virus stimulus bill

Stop lying-
trump and his cult lie and lie..

Pelosi did Not say that--

now the truth;
McConnell lays out how House Democrats have openly said they want to use this crisis to push their agenda, quoting Pelosi’s top lieutenant Rep. James Clyburn as saying last week “this is a tremendous opportunity to restrict things to fit our vision.”

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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is using the coronavirus pandemic to further the GOP’s war against women.

Paxton has issued an order banning abortion services in what he claims is an attempt to “expand hospital bed capacity as the state responds to the COVID-19 virus,” CBS News reports.

Abortions do not require hospital beds.

The order reads: “Health Care Professionals and Facilities, Including Abortion Providers, Must Immediately Stop All Medically Unnecessary Surgeries and Procedures to Preserve Resources to Fight COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Paxton says “all licensed health care professionals and all licensed health care facilities, including abortion providers, that, pursuant to Executive Order GA 09 issued by Gov. Greg Abbott, they must postpone all surgeries and procedures that are not immediately medically necessary.”

Abortions necessary “to preserve the life of” the mother will be allowed.

“We must work together as Texans to stop the spread of COVID-19 and ensure that our health care professionals and facilities have all the resources they need to fight the virus at this time,” Paxton’s order also says.
“No one is exempt from the governor’s executive order on medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures, including abortion providers. Those who violate the governor’s order will be met with the full force of the law.”

(((( bwaa the republicans will twist and turn
whatever needed to stop abortions..
trump/republicans will never get the votes
not now, and all their against women like=
them having equal rights that they trashed.

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2/24/2020

In the last twenty-four hours,
it has become clear that, despite warnings
from experts like Dr. Fauci,
Donald Trump is willing to sacrifice
lives to try and save the economy
and his chances for re-election.

The amazing thing is that some
of his prominent supporters are starting
to say the silent part out loud.
Consider the comments of Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson,
who, a few days ago, said,
“We don’t shut down our economy
because tens of thousands of people die on the highways.
It’s a risk we accept so we can move about.
We don’t shut down our economies
because tens of thousands of people
die from the common flu.”

In other words,
we take inherent risks all the time.
Why should a global pandemic be any different?

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3/26/2020

Trump wants to play-act the hero, but don't forget: This crisis is his fault
Trump made the coronavirus catastrophe dramatically worse.

Donald Trump, reality-TV phony to his core, clearly believes all he needs to do to erase his almost unfathomable levels of failure that have led to the coronavirus crisis is to play-act being a resolute leader on the teevee.

Having spent weeks denying, minimizing and outright lying about the coronavirus threat, Trump now seizes live airtime every day to preen about what a strong and capable leader he is —
to present himself as the biggest victim of this crisis, even as people die and millions find their jobs are threatened — even as he does nothing consequential but tweet, lie and boost his own ego.

Trump's commitment to being seen as the conquering hero (while doing as little as possible) is a result of his bottomless narcissism, of course.

There's good reason to fear that Trump's reality-TV simulacrum of a competent leader is working to fool Americans.
His approval rating has jumped, hitting almost 50% in the latest Gallup poll, which is as high it's ever been. Indeed, polling repeatedly shows the majority of Americans believe Trump is doing a great job handling this crisis.

He isn't. On the contrary, Trump is largely to blame for the horrific situation we now face, where the disease is spreading rapidly and the economy is tanking.
The biggest screw-up that caused this situation was Trump's belief that any problem can be made to go away by simply lying about it and denying it.

To that end, he did everything he could to hide the fact that the coronavirus had already reached the U.S. — and by trying to hide the problem, he allowed the virus to spread unchecked through the population.

Now it's too late to do anything but embrace drastic lockdown procedures nationwide, which are grinding the economy to a halt and, likely kickstarting what will amount to another Great Depression.

The sheer number of lies Trump told to bamboozle the public — and the markets — into thinking coronavirus was no big deal is too large to list in detail.

He promised it would "work out well" in January and suggested that a vaccine would be available shortly (at best, it's next year).
Throughout February, Trump promised that the virus "miraculously goes away"
and said that "the numbers are going to get progressively better" (they have been getting progressively worse).
In March, he was continuing to call it "mild" and saying "I'm not concerned at all."

He told these lies despite the fact that, as various reports have showed, intelligence services had been briefing him about the threat of coronavirus for months.

Instead of trusting his own intelligence reports that the Chinese government was covering up the extent of the viral spread,
Trump instead chose to believe the notoriously dishonest President Xi Jinping of China, thanking Xi for his "transparency."

Meanwhile, South Korea was swinging into action, instituting a plan to corral the spread of the virus without facing the economic devastation of a lockdown.
That nation has 50 million people and is one of the most densely populated in the world, and yet was able to dramatically slow the spread of the disease without much curtailment of people's freedom.

The key, according to Science magazine, was the institution of widespread testing that allowed doctors to focus resources and quarantine efforts on people who were already infected, instead of locking people at home and crippling the economy.

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On Friday, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) lost his temper as President Donald Trump spoke about coronavirus at his latest press conference.

In an expletive-laden tweet, the former congressman blasted the president for failing to offer sympathy for Americans sick with COVID-19:

Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom
FUCK Trump. 30-40 minutes into this stupid briefing and not one FUCKING word from him about all the Americans who are sick and dying. Not one FUCKING word. He doesn’t give a FUCK about the Americans who’ve been killed by this virus.

Every FUCKING word is about him.

FUCK Trump.

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Fri 27 Mar 2020 The Guardian

The US president has been exposed by the coronavirus crisis.
The only small comfort for the rest of the world is that he’s not their leader

Pity the people of America. They do battle now with one of the greatest challenges in their history, led by a man who is not only among the worst ever occupants of the White House but whose character makes him the last person on the face of the Earth you would nominate to be in charge at this moment.

On Thursday the US reached the top of the global league table for coronavirus infections, edging ahead of its closest rival for that honour, China.
No law of nature dictated that outcome.
Much of it is directly attributable to one dreadful fact: that Donald Trump is president of the United States.

It’s become a commonplace to note Trump’s lack of basic human empathy, his tendency to be unmoved by others’ loss. But that gap in his mindset matters now far beyond an inability to offer consolation to the bereaved: it is warping his approach to a lethal disease.

“This is just my hunch,” he said as he dismissed a projection of the likely Covid-19 death rate by the World Health Organization as “a false number”.

On Thursday, he said “I have a feeling” that New York would need far fewer ventilators than the tens of thousands the state has requested. “You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators.
And now all of a sudden they’re saying can we order 30,000 ventilators?”
An imbecile at the head of the US government would always be a problem.
But an imbecile so narcissistic that he elevates his own stunted knowledge above the judgment of medicine and science is a calamity.

The effect is to undermine whatever public health effort the professionals can mount, as they try to work around the man they serve.

At its most visual, it’s the daily press briefing where Trump fails to observe the social distancing measures his administration is demanding of the American public, with himself standing at the centre of a cluster of speakers bunched together by the podium.
Note the initial insistence that corona was nothing to worry about, that it was no more than flu, that it would soon disappear, like a “miracle”.
All of that succeeded in lowering Americans’ guard.

Trump’s dishonesty matters here too.
He was rightly derided in 2016 as a “snake-oil salesman”, and the cliche is so well-worn it’s easy to forget what it originally refers to:
the 19th-century hawkers who sold bogus cures to the gullible.
Recall that Trump rushed to tell people a pre-existing drug would cure Covid-19, leading to a shortage of a medication that was needed for other illnesses. and several deaths, as desperate people rushed to buy tablets that, for them, proved lethal.

The US president always was capricious and vengeful, but now that character flaw is a matter of life and death.
State governors are crying out for federal help, not for themselves but for the people they represent:

the nurses and doctors who need protective equipment and testing kits, the patients who need ventilators.
But instead of leaping to their aid, Trump tells the governors it’s their responsibility, even though they have a fraction of the procurement power of the US government – adding that if they want help, they’d better grovel.
“It’s a two-way street,” Trump said this week.
“They have to treat us well.”
Even when lives are on the line, his ego with its paper-thin skin comes first.

Americans are paying the price for his lack of foresight, his closure of a pandemic task force for no better reason than it was established by Barack Obama –
he hates anything with his predecessor’s name on it
His failure to heed the warnings of a pandemic preparedness exercise, codenamed Crimson Contagion, that identified glaring gaps as recently as last October.
Yet still he repeats the line that nobody could have known what was coming. And they are paying the price for his weakness, as he demands steadfastness in a war against an “invisible enemy”, only to leave heavy hints that he’s ready to fold after a week, apparently deciding that 15 days is too long to stay at home.

America is lucky it has a federal system that means not all power lies with the president, that at least some rests in the hands of responsible mayors and governors, the likes of New York’s Andrew Cuomo. The nation is lucky too that the House of Representatives is controlled by Democrats, who crafted a $2.2tn economic bill from what would otherwise have been a trough into which Trump’s corporate pals could sink their snouts.

But these are small consolations for America and indeed for the world, which needed the leadership only a US president has the clout to provide.

Instead, the world’s peoples now look at the US and comfort themselves with the small solace that they, at least, face only a lethal disease, and not the malignancy that is Donald Trump.

Full:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/trump-narcissism-american-blood-coronavirus

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On Monday, ABC News reported that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) issued a dire warning to the Trump administration about Native American tribal nations’ vulnerability to the coronavirus pandemic during a conference call between the White House and state governors.

“We’re seeing incredible spikes in the Navajo Nation, and this is going to be an issue where we’re going to have to figure that out and think about maybe testing and surveillance opportunities,” said Grisham.

“The rate of infection, at least on the New Mexico side — although we’ve got several Arizona residents in our hospitals — we’re seeing a much higher hospital rate, a much younger hospital rate, a much quicker go-right-to-the-vent rate for this population. And we’re seeing doubling in every day-and-a-half.
And it could wipe out those tribal nations.” she said.

Trump reportedly replied, “Wow, that’s something.”

Native American tribal governments often face unique challenges in delivering health care, as many are located in remote, rural areas.

The news comes just after the Trump administration moved to disestablish tribal lands of the Mashpee Wampanoag in Massachusetts —
a centuries-old tribe who had been building a casino that would have competed with Rhode Island gaming operations with ties to Trump.

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DEMOCRAT Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham must be up for re-election.

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4-01-2020
NPR

Republican- Larry Hogan The Chair of the National Governors Association

Maryland GOP Gov. Hogan says Trump’s COVID-19 testing claims ‘just not true’

WASHINGTON — Maryland’s Republican governor on Tuesday dismissed President Trump’s claims there were no coronavirus testing issues in the US, saying, “That’s just not true.”

Larry Hogan, who is also the chair of the National Governors Association, slammed Trump’s claims that he hadn’t heard about COVID-19 testing shortages for “several weeks” during an interview with NPR.

“President Trump has suggested that the testing problems are over. They’ve been fixed. It’s no longer an issue,” said NPR host Rachel Martin.

“Yeah, that’s just not true,” countered Hogan.
“I mean, I know that they’ve taken some steps to create new tests, but they’re not actually produced and distributed out to the states.”

“So it’s an aspirational thing, and they have taken — they’ve got some new things in the works, but they’re not actually out on the streets, and that’s — no state has enough testing,” he said of the administration.

In a call with governors on Monday, Trump denied knowing anything about testing shortages as several rural governors including Steve Bullock of Montana, a Democratic senate candidate, warned their states were facing critical shortages.

“I haven’t heard about testing in weeks,” Trump said, before telling governors to call if they needed anything, according to the audio obtained by CBS News.

Hogan said it was important to
“get the facts out there.”

“And we’re listening to the smart team, the coronavirus team, the vice president and Ambassador Birx and Anthony Fauci and people like that who are giving factual information on a daily basis.”

The interview comes one day after Hogan issued a dramatic three-month stay-at-home order as the number of coronavirus cases topped 1,400.

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Sportscaster Mike Francesa Turns On Trump:
‘We’re Watching People Die!’

Sports radio personality Mike Francesa, a longtime defender of President Donald Trump, tore into him over the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump for two straight days has suggested that health care workers are stealing masks and other supplies, leading to shortages around the nation.

“Is it going out the back door?” Trump asked, then told a reporter to investigate.

Francesa wasn’t having it.

“You go investigate that! You have your military or FEMA investigate that,” the broadcaster said.
“That’s your job ― you’re in charge of this.”

Francesa said New Yorkers are watching people die “by the 10s and 20s by the day,” with body bags coming out of a Queens hospital “five minutes from where [Trump] grew up.”

And he told Trump that New Yorkers know that what’s happening isn’t right.

“They know it’s not,” he said. “They don’t have the supplies they need. So don’t give me the MyPillow guy doing a song and dance up here on a Monday afternoon when people are dying in Queens.”

He was referring to pillow peddler Mike Lindell, who Trump invited to speak at a news briefing on Monday. Lindell said “God gave us grace” with Trump’s 2016 election victory, then urged Americans to read the Bible.

Francesa also scorched Trump for saying he’ll have done “a very good job” if 100,000 to 200,000 Americans die from the infections.

At the time Trump made those comments, about 2,000 people in the United States had died of the virus.

“How is that a good job in our country?”
Francesa asked. “Not if another 198,000 people die. So now 200,000 people are disposable?”

Trump did nothing for 2 critical months...this is no less than his implicit admission to his incompetence, arrogance, and stupidity...

March 30, 2020 - The day that Mike Francesa's unwavering loyalty to his old friend DonaldTrump finally came to an end.

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Boston Globe: Come November There Must Be A Reckoning___

The Editorial Board;
the Boston Globe__

A president unfit for a pandemic:
Much of the suffering and death coming was preventable.

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,”
wrote W.B. Yeats in 1919.

A century later, it’s clear:
The epicenter cannot hold.
Catastrophic decisions in the White House have doomed the world’s richest country to a season of untold suffering.

The United States, long a beacon of scientific progress and medical innovation with its world-class research institutions and hospitals,
is now the hub of a global pandemic that has infected at least 745,000 people and already claimed more than 35,000 lives worldwide.

Now that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States — more than 140,000 — has surpassed that of any other nation.

Americans are consigned for the coming weeks to watching the illness fell family members and friends, and to fearing for their own fate as they watch death tolls rise.

While the spread of the novel coronavirus has been aggressive around the world, much of the profound impact it will have here in the United States was preventable.

As the American public braces itself for the worst of this crisis, it’s worth remembering that the reach of the virus here is not attributable to an act of God or a foreign invasion,
but a colossal failure of leadership.

The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country.

Here’s how we got there;
The outbreak that began in China demanded a White House that could act swiftly and competently to protect public health, informed by science and guided by compassion and public service.

It required an administration that could quickly deploy reliable tests around the nation to isolate cases and trace and contain the virus’s spread, as South Korea effectively did, as well as to manufacture and distribute scarce medical supplies around the country.

It begged for a president of the United States to deliver clear, consistent, scientifically sound messages on the state of the epidemic and its solutions, to reassure the public amid their fear,
and to provide steady guidance to cities and states.

And it demanded a leader who would put the country’s well-being first, above near-term stock market returns and his own reelection prospects, and who would work with other nations to stem the tide of COVID-19 cases around the world.

What we have instead is a president epically outmatched by a global pandemic.

A president who in late January, when the first confirmed coronavirus case was announced in the United States, downplayed the risk and insisted all was under control.

A president who, consistent with his mistrust and undermining of scientific fact, has misled the public about unproven cures for COVID-19.

A president who has pledged to oversee the doling out of the $500 billion in corporate bailout money in the latest stimulus package, some of which will go to the travel industry in which his family is invested.

A president who has reinforced racial stigma by calling the contagion a “Chinese virus” and failed to collaborate adequately with other countries to contain their outbreaks and study the disease.

A president who evades responsibility and refuses
to acknowledge, let alone own, the bitter truth of National Institutes of Health scientist Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony:
that the country’s testing rollout was “a failing.”

Timing is everything in pandemic response:
It can make the difference between a contained local outbreak that endures a few weeks and an uncontrollable contagion that afflicts millions.

The Trump administration has made critical errors over the past two months, choosing early on to develop its own diagnostic test, which failed,
instead of adopting the World Health Organization’s test —
a move that kneecapped the US coronavirus response and, by most public health experts’ estimation, will cost thousands if not hundreds of thousands of American lives.

Rather than making the expected federal effort to mobilize rapidly to distribute needed gowns, masks, and ventilators to ill-equipped hospitals and to the doctors and nurses around the country who are left unprotected treating a burgeoning number of patients,
the administration has instead been caught outbidding individual states trying to purchase medical supplies.

It has dragged its heels on invoking the Defense Production Act to get scarce, sorely needed ventilators and masks into production so that they can be distributed to hospitals nationwide as they hit their peaks in the cycle of the epidemic.

It has left governors and mayors in the lurch, begging for help.
The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID-19 cases than were necessary.
In other words,
the president has blood on his hands.

It’s not too much for Americans to ask of their leaders that they be competent and informed when responding to a crisis of historic proportions.

Instead, they have a White House marred by corruption and incompetence, whose mixed messages roil the markets and rock their sense of security.

Instead of compassion and clarity, the president, in his near-daily addresses to the nation, embodies callousness, self-concern, and a lack of compass. Dangling unverified cures and possible quarantines in front of the public like reality TV cliffhangers, he unsettles rather than reassures.

The pandemic reveals that the worst features of this presidency are not merely late-night comedy fodder; they come at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and our collective psyche.

Many pivotal decision points in this crisis are past us, but more are still to come.
For our own sake, every American should be hoping for a miraculous turnaround —
and that the too-little, too-late strategy of the White House task force will henceforth at least prevent contagion and economic ruin of the grandest scale.

But come November, there must be a reckoning for the lives lost, and for the vast, avoidable suffering about to ensue under the president’s watch.

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April 2, 2020
AP
How Trump let coronavirus take over America

Trump dismantled a top pandemic response team.
Trump dismantled a group of health experts
specifically designed to warn about global health pandemics.

Here's how we got here:

2017:
Ignored warnings from President Obama
Before leaving office, President Obama's National Security Council staff prepared a 69-page report on how to handle a global health pandemic.
The playbook noted personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies that would be needed in response to a global outbreak, as well as steps the federal government could take to mitigate the damage.

The playbook "just sat as a document that people worked on that was thrown onto a shelf," one former U.S. official who served under both Obama and Trump told Politico.

_ May 2017
the Trump administration had
left vacant almost 700 positions at the CDC, including many within the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

Withdrew CDC staff from China
Between 2017 and 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of CDC staff in China — the presumed epicenter of the outbreak —
from 47 to just 14,
Reuters reported on March 25.

_ May 7, 2018
The CDC held a daylong conference at Emory University to hear from experts on lessons learned 100 years after the 1918 flu pandemic.

Three days after the conference, Trump waved off those concerns, disbanding a National Security Council unit tasked with preparing the government to face future pandemics.

_ May 10
Dismantled NSC pandemic response group.
The NCS was the smoke alarm keeping watch to get ahead of emergencies, sounding a warning at the earliest sign of fire all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm blaze."

_ February 2020
Trump released a budget proposing to cut $3 billion from global health programs.
The budget called for a 50% cut in U.S. funding of the World Health Organization,
a global entity critical to coordinating responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

The budget also called for a 9% cut in funding for the CDC.

_ Trump downplayed the coronavirus outbreak more than a dozen times in January, February, and March 2020.
--- A few examples include:

Jan. 22:
"We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine," Trump said in an interview with CNBC.

Feb. 7:
Trump tweeted that China's President Xi Jinping would be successful in dealing with the outbreak "as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone."

Feb. 24:
"The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart," Trump tweeted.

Feb. 26:
"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done," Trump said at a White House news conference.

March 4:
"Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they'll get better. There are many people like that," Trump said at a briefing with the CEOs of some of the country's major airlines.

March 9:
"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, 'The risk is low to the average American,'" Trump tweeted.

March 10:
"We're prepared, and we're doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away," Trump said at a briefing with Republican senators.

March 24:
"We've never closed down the country for the flu. So you say to yourself, 'What is this all about?'" Trump said at a Fox News town hall, wrongly comparing COVID-19 to the seasonal flu.

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Trump Lies About Cutting White House Pandemic Team to Dodge (Checks Notes) Fox News

DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST campaign rally disguised as a coronavirus task force briefing took a remarkable turn on Wednesday when he was stunned by a tough question from, of all people, John Roberts of Fox News.

Trump was sailing along, singing his own praises (“Did you know I was number one on Facebook?“) and denying any responsibility for the catastrophe when Roberts asked the president about the massive blunder of disbanding the White House pandemic preparedness team set up by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.

Roberts raised the subject after Trump had trotted out his now familiar, if nonsensical, excuse of blaming Obama for his own administration’s abject failure to test Americans in sufficient numbers for the new coronavirus which emerged in China four months ago.
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“Remember this, we inherited — bad tests,”
Trump claimed, absurdly, of testing
for a virus that did not exist when Obama left office three years ago.

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“We really inherited bad tests,
these are horrible tests,”
Trump added, disavowing tests which were, in fact, created in January by the Centers for Disease Control under the leadership of a director he appointed.

That led Roberts to observe that officials from the previous administration have blamed the federal government’s slow response to the Covid-19 outbreak on the fact that Trump’s White House dissolved the National Security Council directorate for global health security and biodefense,
which was dedicated to preparing for pandemics, in 2018.

“You have talked about the failings of the Obama administration, in leaving you with empty shelves and no plans,” Roberts began, uncritically repeating Trump’s false claims that he bears no responsibility for the poor state of the national stockpile of medical equipment he has overseen for three years.

“They have said you got rid of the pandemic office in the National Security Council –” he added, before being cut off by Trump.

“We didn’t do that. That turned out to be a false story,” Trump claimed, falsely. “What are you, working for CNN?” the president asked sarcastically.

“No, no, no,” Roberts replied, retreating quickly.
“I’m pointing out what they have said, and what you have said, that’s all.”

“I thought you were with Fox,” Trump cut in. “But Fox isn’t so easy, either, don’t kid yourself,” the president said, apparently forgetting that it is supposed to be a secret that the network’s role is to go easy on him and refrain from criticizing his months-long failure to prepare for the pandemic.

As Roberts objected — “It’s not about Fox or CNN” —
Trump cut him off again.
“Look John, let me tell you something. You know that’s a false story,” the president insisted.

“What you just said is a false story,” Trump said.
“This doctor,” he continued, gesturing to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, “knows it better than anybody.”

By suggesting that Fauci would back him up on his false claim that the office was not disbanded,
Trump briefly skated onto some very thin ice.

In testimony to Congress just three weeks ago, the doctor was asked by Rep. Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat, if it had been a mistake
“to dismantle the office within the National Security Council charged with global health and security?”

Fauci answered,
diplomatically.
“I would say we worked very well with that office.
It would be nice if the office was still there.”

Connolly was one of at least five Democrats in Congress who had written to the White House in 2018 to sound the alarm about the downgrading of pandemic preparedness when the NSC office was shuttered and its director, Rear Adm.

Timothy Ziemer, was let go by the White House, just as the world was commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic.
“We fear these recent decisions will leave the United States vulnerable to pandemics and commit us to a strategy of triage should one occur,”

Connolly and his colleague Rep. Ami Bera wrote to Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, at the time.

Rep. Elliot Engel also expressed his concerns publicly in a May 14, 2018 tweet, as the CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Thursday.
Sen. Sherrod Brown wrote to Trump four days later to demand that he put someone in charge of “preparing for the next pandemic threat.”

Sherrod Brown

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Not true, @realDonaldTrump. I wrote to you more than 600 days ago demanding answers after you fired the entire White House pandemic team.
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April 2, 2020
AP
How Trump let coronavirus take over America

Trump dismantled a top pandemic response team.
Trump dismantled a group of health experts
specifically designed to warn about global health pandemics.

Here's how we got here:

2017:
Ignored warnings from President Obama
Before leaving office, President Obama's National Security Council staff prepared a 69-page report on how to handle a global health pandemic.
The playbook noted personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies that would be needed in response to a global outbreak, as well as steps the federal government could take to mitigate the damage.

The playbook "just sat as a document that people worked on that was thrown onto a shelf," one former U.S. official who served under both Obama and Trump told Politico.

_ May 2017
the Trump administration had
left vacant almost 700 positions at the CDC, including many within the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response.

Withdrew CDC staff from China
Between 2017 and 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of CDC staff in China — the presumed epicenter of the outbreak —
from 47 to just 14,
Reuters reported on March 25.

_ May 7, 2018
The CDC held a daylong conference at Emory University to hear from experts on lessons learned 100 years after the 1918 flu pandemic.

Three days after the conference, Trump waved off those concerns, disbanding a National Security Council unit tasked with preparing the government to face future pandemics.

_ May 10
Dismantled NSC pandemic response group.
The NCS was the smoke alarm keeping watch to get ahead of emergencies, sounding a warning at the earliest sign of fire all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm blaze."

_ February 2020
Trump released a budget proposing to cut $3 billion from global health programs.
The budget called for a 50% cut in U.S. funding of the World Health Organization,
a global entity critical to coordinating responses to the coronavirus pandemic.

The budget also called for a 9% cut in funding for the CDC.

_ Trump downplayed the coronavirus outbreak more than a dozen times in January, February, and March 2020.
--- A few examples include:

Jan. 22:
"We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine," Trump said in an interview with CNBC.

Feb. 7:
Trump tweeted that China's President Xi Jinping would be successful in dealing with the outbreak "as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone."

Feb. 24:
"The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart," Trump tweeted.

Feb. 26:
"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done," Trump said at a White House news conference.

March 4:
"Some people will have this at a very light level and won’t even go to a doctor or hospital, and they'll get better. There are many people like that," Trump said at a briefing with the CEOs of some of the country's major airlines.

March 9:
"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, 'The risk is low to the average American,'" Trump tweeted.

March 10:
"We're prepared, and we're doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away," Trump said at a briefing with Republican senators.

March 24:
"We've never closed down the country for the flu. So you say to yourself, 'What is this all about?'" Trump said at a Fox News town hall, wrongly comparing COVID-19 to the seasonal flu.

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Subject: Re: Trump / Pence / Covid-19. Mon Apr 06, 2020 8:48 pm

You've posted that same info three different times.

Example: Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:18 pm MT in this thread

And again two minutes ago in another thread.

Lay off the weed.

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