White House Bans Filming At Coronavirus Briefing, Triggering Backlash
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White House Bans Filming At Coronavirus Briefing, Triggering Backlash
The Trump White House faced widespread criticism on Tuesday after Vice President Mike Pence conducted a press briefing on the coronavirus outbreak, but members of the media were not allowed to record video or audio.
The administration ― which only last week vowed to be “ aggressively transparent ” with the public about the spread of the virus that has now killed nine people in the U.S. ― only allowed still photographs to be taken, CNN’s Jim Acosta and other journalists in attendance tweeted.
“I asked Pence why the Coronavirus briefing is off camera today. He said he believes the briefing will be back on cam tomorrow,” Acosta later posted, noting “the closest thing to an explanation we got” was “when Pence said Trump was on camera a bunch today.”
Obama-era White House chief photographer Pete Souza said he “can’t ever remember a time when a VP or POTUS spoke in the White House press briefing room and video/audio was prohibited.”
“It’s like they’re imploding,” added Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
The Trump administration’s coronavirus response has been widely criticized as disorganized and slow. Trump himself has repeatedly sought to downplay the risks, sometimes with outright falsehoods .
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OMG you mean to tell me that the press/media is going to have to revert to the days of taking notes and compiling a story from said notes.........like they used to. The sheer horror. /s
Allows Trump to claim they are lying then, and his cult followers will of course believe him.
I'm not sure it matters. Some of his followers in here repeatedly deny that he's said or done things that ARE on video. Truth doesn't interest them in the least.
one suggested pen and paper above..., yea for a group as you stated, that don't believe the audio or video proof, are now going to believe 'interpreted' notes ?
What a FCKN DISASTER this administration is, was, and always will be !
Thanx Trumpsters
Most Trump supporters will excuse anything he does, hence the accuracy of the "I could shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue" statement.
The biggest concern that most Americans have concerning the coronavirus is obviously that they want to watch the play by play of the committee meetings (sarcasm for those unable to identify it)- but for me I just they or someone they are providing money and guidance too comes up with the treatment protocol and a vaccine.
I think you meant
but for me I just hope they or someone they are providing money and guidance to,
comes up with the treatment protocol and a vaccine.
( glad to see you returned for a visit )
This administration is the worst administration since this country was founded.
I didn't lose any sleep over it.
why would you
Only to most hard core liberal lefties who still cannot get over the idea that their side lost the last presidential election!
Yeah, funny how those "hard core conservative righties" could not get over the last administration for the whole eight years.
Hell, there are a handful here who haven't recovered from ODS yet.
That's not a good sign...
Triggering Backlash ? Oh you mean Whining.
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Exactly. What else are they going to do?
I read that after the meeting he was spreading mistruths again while giving a speech somewhere.
I swear, he spends more time just speaking to crowds than anyone I can think of.
Then he was telling them he wants a vaccine just in time for the election. Tells me all I need to know right there. That is all he cares about.
That's what you read into that? LMAO.............
Everyone, including the pundits on here say it's going to take a year to year and a half to develop and safely and adequately test. Trump is letting them know that that is an unacceptable time frame and wants some extra effort put in. Even at that, by the time it's developed, the threat, for this year at least hopefully, will be gone and we/they will be able to use it the next breakout. This year will be in the rearview mirror.............................
So him saying he wants it done by election time means nothing?
Talk about brushing aside things he says...
Right because as we all know, short cuts in developing and testing drugs is a great idea. /s
Didn't say that but that doesn't mean I disagree totally with what you are stating. It means he wants it done as quickly and accurately as humanly possible. They have $3billion for research and development and for $3B there had better not be the old adage of "A job will take as long as the time allotted for it". That goes out the door with the funding.
Read it again and let me know what you come up with.
No one said anything about taking shortcuts. We are spending OUR money ($3B) to get to the bottom of this and Mr. Trump wants no dilly dallying in the process. And, as stated, if the vaccine takes as long as the pundits are saying, it isn't going to do much good for this outbreak but will be ready, hopefully, for the next. China, the origination of the outbreak, is already seeing reductions in cases every day.
That comment makes no sense whatsoever. We've been over and over and over the reasons for dismantling and it doesn't make two shits difference in where we are now. This is a new, and tougher it seems, virus to crack. I really don't think any more prep would have sped it up any quantifiable amount. It still took the world by surprise and former full team in place or not, it couldn't and wouldn't be stopped. The administration started action in January with the travel ban which probably saved many the discomfort and possibility of succumbing to the disease while in the back ground, things were starting to come together.
Another note. Many don't like the US being the world police. They should take care of themselves. So now we are the world's hospital and research center? Yes, we should do our best to help all people but, how much money and resources do you suppose other infected countries are spending parallel to ours? Or are they doing what they can waiting for big brother to come up with the solution?
How so? This was a rapid flare up of a previously unknown virus that caught everyone by surprise.
Now, go ahead and expound on that HUGE difference. I'll wait.
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That's ironic because Trump and Azar only asked for $2.5 billion. Oh and neither Azar or any of the Pharma companies said anything about a need for federal funding to develop a vaccine. Azar told Congress that the Administration has no intention of ensuring that the vaccine will be affordable for all.
Yet we will be spending OUR money and now it sure as hell looks like we are going to be paying TWICE for the vaccine, once to develop it and again to actually have it administered.
So no provable HUGE difference it is then. Your post has nothing to do with what we were discussing.
Thank you again.........for nothing.
The total package approved by and yet to be signed by Mr. Trump, he will, is $8B $3B of which is for research and development. How are we going to pay twice? If they find one, it's effectively over and the creating and stocking plan for the next outbreak can begin. If they go over $3B there better be some accountability.
But yet, here it is....................
It pays to keep up..................................
It was a new strain FFS. Starting from scratch was imminent. You can't develop something for something when you don't know what that something is going to be. It is NOT a HUGE difference.
That's true. Apparently, some people don't even show symptoms. For the people that show mild or no symptoms, they won't even get checked out. This means our estimates of the true mortality rate for this virus could be significantly exaggerated.
However, while you could go to work, that doesn't mean you should go to work.
The American people are funding that 3 Billion and unless the vaccine is free, they'll [we] will be paying for it TWICE.
Well 300 million will cover about 10 million doses so that will cover less than 20% of those uninsured. That doesn't take into account those who are underinsured whose plans won't cover the vaccine.
BTW, from your link:
So again, the federal government [WE] are paying for the developing the vaccine and then again for the actual vaccine in the commercial market.
Every company I have ever worked for asked us to keep our asses home if we were sick, especially during flu season. I've sent sick people home and told them not to come back until their they stopped coughing and/or sneezing.
Trump is a moron.
All this does is pay, up front, for the R&D into the vaccine. It is no different than paying high prices for proprietary drugs of any kind. The R&D costs are added to the pricing structure of the drug. Thus, a tiny pill for RA, while actual relative pennies to produce, a person pays $15 a pill for. THAT is why we still have to pay for the "production" of the drug. In my business, we charge for R&D and even a prototype of the product and make the customer pay for costs incurred so that the time, effort, and money we spent is covered should they decide to go to a cheaper supplier (basically and manufacturing "generic" of the original).
And I am sure that there will be those not covered who wish to have it. That is what the $300M is for. All they are doing is greasing the "we don't know what it's going to cost" wheel.......................
Must be nice! That is certainly not every company out there. I've had bosses that were absolutely disgusted at the idea of someone staying home sick.
I had a boss once whose statement was always "You can come to work and accomplish a little or you can stay home and accomplish nothing."
I remember a boss who was like "if you want to work, then you come to work." By that, he meant, "if you want to keep this job, you better show up, because on the day that you don't, I'll give your job to someone else."
They DO have a pretty good idea of what production and dosage will cost. The CDC has a price list online for the Influenza vaccine. That vaccine is tailored to the 'best guess' of the virus on a year to year basis. It's around $1.50 per dose to the CDC and up to $3.00 to the 'private sector'. Pretty sure that the cost includes R&D and production. Yet the 'private sector' CHARGES $30 to $50 per shot. There is no reason to believe that a CORVID-19 vaccine would 'cost' any more.
BTW, the House had a hearing yesterday and were told that the R&D has already been done on a SARS vaccine, that can be readily adapted for trials on CORVID-19. For a month, the researcher has been BEGGING the CDC, HHS or a PARMA company to fast track funding for it. No takers.
Then IMHO they were idiots. If you work in close groups, it just means the whole crew gets sick and the whole project gets shut down. One guy coughing in a truck and all 5 of us are down for the count. Oh and having sick sales people turns off clients.
I have never been a throw away employee so I have never worked for a prick like that.
So, it's unusual, but unless it becomes a regular thing, there seems little point in making a big deal out of it. It doesn't sound like there was anything there that absolutely needed to be recorded.
If there is no video, Trump and his lackeys can deny that xyz was said. With video, there is less room for denial (although they still try).