Trump’s Chief of Staff: ‘We Are Not Going to Control the Pandemic’
In a raising-the-white-flag-of-surrender moment, the White House Chief of Staff admitted on Sunday that Trump’s administration cannot “control the pandemic.”
Tapper: Why aren’t we going to get control of the pandemic?
Meadows: Because it is a contagious virus just like the flu.
Tapper: But why not make efforts to contain it?
Meadows: Well we are making efforts to contain it.
Tapper: By running all over the country and not wearing a mask? That’s what the vice president is doing.
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Meadows: Let me just say this. What we need to do is make sure that we have the proper mitigation factors, whether it’s therapies or vaccines or treatments, to make sure that people don’t die from this. But to suggest that we are going to actually quarantine all of America.
Tapper: No one’s saying that.
Trump labels himself ‘a wartime president’ combating coronavirus
They never tried in the first place.
Trump and probably Pence are now "super-spreaders"
And what I find ironic is the people most likely to get it from are those they are physically close to-- his groupies at rallies (Most of whom aren't wearing masks and often sit shoulder to shoulder).
And-- the loyal members of his White House Staff
And then those folks go home to their families...
So they are spreading the Virus-- to other Trump supporters!
As the saying goes:
There's no cure for "Stuck on Stupid".....
People like Trump ALWAYS fuck over those closest and most loyal to them. They are the easiest to abuse.
Yes.
And I've always found it ironic that trump is obsessed with lack of loyalty from his staff when it occurs-- yet he himself has zero loyalty to them!
An excellent point!
(The amazing thing is how stupid and totally gullible so many of them are).
The host asked if there would be any changes to Vice President Mike Pence’s campaign schedule following news that at least four members of his staff have tested positive for the coronavirus in the past few days.
Meadows said Pence will remain on the campaign trail, saying that because the vice president is considered “essential personnel,” he doesn’t need to quarantine. Tapper was baffled by the excuse and asked Meadows to make sense of it.
Tapper: So, CDC guidelines say that Vice President Pence should be quarantined for 14 days. Now, I understand the White House is trying to get around that by saying the vice president is an essential worker.
But, Mark, how is going all over the country? How is that campaigning? How is that essential work? It’s not like he’s helping to contain the virus. In fact, the opposite. He’s holding rallies that could be spreading the virus.
It had to be stopped when Trump first knew about it. Had proper measures been taken at that time, the picture would be vastly different today. Had he not cancelled the Pandemic Task Force that Obama had set up, maybe there would have been a proper response. What we discovered, from Trump's own words, is that he didn't ignore it, he covered it up. I find it interesting that the Trumpsters are quick to accuse China of "covering it up" but you can't even hear a pin drop when it's been exposed that Trump "covered it up".
There was a pandemic task force which tRump disbanded.
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Trump disbanded NSC pandemic unit that experts had praised
Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”
WASHINGTON -- Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”
They've been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration's decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense survived the transition from President Barack Obama to Trump in 2017.
Trump's elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see the threat of pandemics in the same way that many experts in the field did.
“One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,” Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Post.
There is also this
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geKIx8v5Zf_JAAxINXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANDMDY3Ml8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1603743740/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.seattletimes.com%2fnation-world%2ftrump-administration-closed-vaccine-safety-office-last-year-now-what%2f/RK=2/RS=W1e9j1rHvPIO8OOOT2WpRSSJl58-
Trump administration closed vaccine safety office last year; now what?
As the first coronavirus vaccines arrive in the coming year, government researchers will face a monumental challenge: monitoring the health of hundreds of millions of Americans to ensure the vaccines don’t cause harm.
Purely by chance, thousands of vaccinated people will have heart attacks, strokes and other illnesses shortly after the injections. Sorting out whether the vaccines had anything to do with their ailments will be a thorny problem, requiring a vast, coordinated effort by state and federal agencies, hospitals, drugmakers and insurers to discern patterns in a flood of data. Findings will need to be clearly communicated to a distrustful public swamped with disinformation.
What? Where is the citation for your claims?
Note that I provide a source for my claims.
You do not.
OF COURSE IT'S TRUE.
Your 'president' failed. Massively. Completely. He is a total fuck up.
Your 'president' left EVERYTHING to the states. EVERYTHING. The states have been left to their own devices from the start. No leadership from the 'president', no plan, no nothing.
Here is a little insight..................into what really happened.........
Citation?
We know where all the money went with this 'president', in his pockets.
Of course this 'president' disbanded the Pandemic Response Team.
Back up your baseless claims with facts.
Feelings are not facts.
I have backed up my claims with facts.
Of course this 'president' disbanded the Pandemic Response Team.
What exactly was their function?
What would Biden do different?
Google is your friend!
And you should do the same!
Well, you can claim claim that you know more than what has been revealed by numerous news reporters....but this isn't Fox News!
I thought you'd never ask!
(Actually I was about to answer that Q at lengths with lots of links-- yes, from reliable sources, not from FAUX NEWS) but Tesslo beat me to it. If you actually want to know the real facts (as opposed to the "alternative facts") check out her comments immediately below.
IMO, the administration, and Trump in particular have never tried to stop the virus.
A colossal failure of leadership.
MO, the administration, and Trump in particular have never tried to stop the virus.
So....why do we have several vaccines and and other therapies going through final trials?
The Democrats have done nothing to mitigate the pandemic, and by their blaming and fear mongering and their inability to lead, have made the problem much worse
Because, strange as this may seem to some people-- drug companies are commercial enterprises and seek profits!
(What are you anyway-- do you disapprove of capitalism? Are you some kind of a Socialist?)
The Democrats have done nothing to mitigate the pandemic
The Democrats are not President!!!
Greg:
There's a wise olde saying that applies here that you might want to take note of::
If you're in a hole...stop diggin'!
And if anything, they've encouraged its spread!!!
(And many of his ass-kissing followers have followed his lead-- especially leading to larger icreases in states with republican governors...why has trump done this, its seems self-defeating!?!??)
It is this 'president' who is blaming and fear mongering and unable to lead and has made the problem much worse.
This 'president' has the death of over 200,000 on his fat little hands.
Anyone remember what actually went down in the early days of the Pandemic?
KellyAnne Conway:
It is being contained.
Would kelly Anne Conway lie-- of course not!
/sarc
Larry Kudlow:
We have contained this Virus.
Rush Limbaugh:
All of this panic is just not warranted, this virus is the Coomon Cold.
"Judge" Jeanine Pirro:
Its a virus!
Like the Flu . . .
All the talk about The Corona Virus being so much more deadly doesn't reflect reality!