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Trump’s Chief of Staff: ‘We Are Not Going to Control the Pandemic’

  

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By:  krishna  •  4 years ago  •  44 comments

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.”


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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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Krishna
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1  author  Krishna    4 years ago

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.

 
 
 
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Krishna
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1.1.1  author  Krishna  replied to  Ozzwald @1.1    4 years ago

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Thrawn 31
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2  Thrawn 31    4 years ago

They never tried in the first place. 

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1  author  Krishna  replied to  Thrawn 31 @2    4 years ago
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!

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1.1  author  Krishna  replied to  Krishna @2.1    4 years ago
And what I find ironic is the people most likely to get it from are those they are physicallymclose 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".....

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
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2.1.2  Thrawn 31  replied to  Krishna @2.1    4 years ago

People like Trump ALWAYS fuck over those closest and most loyal to them. They are the easiest to abuse. 

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1.3  author  Krishna  replied to  Thrawn 31 @2.1.2    4 years ago
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!

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1.4  author  Krishna  replied to  Thrawn 31 @2.1.2    4 years ago
People like Trump ALWAYS fuck over those closest and most loyal to them. They are the easiest to abuse. 

An excellent point!

(The amazing thing is how stupid and totally gullible so many of them are).

 
 
 
Krishna
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3  author  Krishna    4 years ago

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.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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3.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Krishna @3    4 years ago

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".  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.2  Tessylo  replied to    4 years ago

There was a pandemic task force which tRump disbanded.  

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KLfS7evpZf_t8AdxlXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANDMDY3Ml8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1603743583/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fabcnews.go.com%2fPolitics%2fwireStory%2ftrump-disbanded-nsc-pandemic-unit-experts-praised-69594177/RK=2/RS=CI8G.HBuBtsqDM4Frhli0AOxXT0-

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.”

By   DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press
March 14, 2020, 11:48 AM

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.

“It would be nice if the office was still there,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, told Congress this week. “I wouldn't necessarily characterize it as a mistake (to eliminate the unit). I would say we worked very well with that office.”

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.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.3  Tessylo  replied to  Tessylo @3.1.2    4 years ago

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?

Oct. 23, 2020 at 5:54 pm   Updated Oct. 23, 2020 at 7:20 pm
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The New York Times

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.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.5  Tessylo  replied to    4 years ago

What?   Where is the citation for your claims?

Note that I provide a source for my claims.

You do not.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.7  Tessylo  replied to    4 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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3.1.8  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to    4 years ago

Here is a little insight..................into what really happened.........

Tim Morrison, a former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the NSC, wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post  that he "inherited a strong and skilled staff in the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate" when he joined in July 2018.

"This team of national experts together drafted the National Biodefense Strategy of 2018 and an accompanying national security presidential memorandum to implement it; an executive order to modernize influenza vaccines; and coordinated the United States’ response to the Ebola epidemic in Congo, which was ultimately defeated in 2020," he wrote.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.10  Tessylo  replied to    4 years ago

Citation?

We know where all the money went with this 'president', in his pockets.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.11  Tessylo  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @3.1.8    4 years ago

Of course this 'president' disbanded the Pandemic Response Team.  

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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3.1.12  Greg Jones  replied to  Tessylo @3.1.7    4 years ago

Back up your baseless claims with facts.

Feelings are not facts.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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3.1.13  Tessylo  replied to  Greg Jones @3.1.12    4 years ago

I have backed up my claims with facts.  

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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3.1.14  Greg Jones  replied to  Tessylo @3.1.11    4 years ago

Of course this 'president' disbanded the Pandemic Response Team.  

What exactly was their function?

What would Biden do different?

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.15  author  Krishna  replied to    4 years ago
What pandemic task force?

Google is your friend! :-)

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.16  author  Krishna  replied to  Greg Jones @3.1.12    4 years ago
Back up your baseless claims with facts.

And you should do the same!

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.17  author  Krishna  replied to    4 years ago
You provided a news story doesn't make it true.My assessment was made

Well, you can claim claim that you know more than what has been revealed by numerous news reporters....but this isn't Fox News!

 
 
 
Krishna
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3.1.18  author  Krishna  replied to    4 years ago
What pandemic task force?

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.

 
 
 
Kavika
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4  Kavika     4 years ago

IMO, the administration, and Trump in particular have never tried to stop the virus.

A colossal failure of leadership. 

 

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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4.2  Greg Jones  replied to  Kavika @4    4 years ago

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

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.2.1  author  Krishna  replied to  Greg Jones @4.2    4 years ago
why do we have several vaccines and and other therapies going through final trials?

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?)

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.2.2  author  Krishna  replied to  Greg Jones @4.2    4 years ago

The Democrats have done nothing to mitigate the pandemic

The Democrats are not President!!!

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.2.3  author  Krishna  replied to  Greg Jones @4.2    4 years ago
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?

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'!

 
 
 
Krishna
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4.3  author  Krishna  replied to  Kavika @4    4 years ago
IMO, the administration, and Trump in particular have never tried to stop the virus.

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!?!??)

 
 
 
Tessylo
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5  Tessylo    4 years ago

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.  

 
 
 
Krishna
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6  author  Krishna    4 years ago

Anyone remember what actually went down in the early days of the Pandemic?

 
 
 
Krishna
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7  author  Krishna    4 years ago

KellyAnne Conway:

It is being contained.

 
 
 
Krishna
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7.1  author  Krishna  replied to  Krishna @7    4 years ago
KellyAnne Conway: It is being contained.

Would kelly Anne Conway lie-- of course not!

/sarc

 
 
 
Krishna
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8  author  Krishna    4 years ago

Larry Kudlow:

We have contained this Virus.

 
 
 
Krishna
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9  author  Krishna    4 years ago

Rush Limbaugh:

All of this panic is just not warranted, this virus is the Coomon Cold.

 
 
 
Krishna
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10  author  Krishna    4 years ago

"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!

 
 

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