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Post by cliffs on May 1, 2020 23:57:04 GMT
The White House has blocked Dr. Anthony Fauci from testifying about the response to the coronavirus crisis before the House Appropriations Committee, a spokesman for the committee told NBC News on Friday.
“The Appropriations Committee sought Dr. Anthony Fauci as a witness at next week’s Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee hearing on COVID-19 response. We have been informed by an administration official that the White House has blocked Dr. Fauci from testifying,” the spokesperson, Evan Hollander, said.
He'd been asked to appear on May 6.
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Post by karma4u on May 4, 2020 21:42:46 GMT
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Post by cliffs on May 5, 2020 10:44:31 GMT
Waiting for him to say he said this back in January.
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Post by cliffs on May 12, 2020 18:16:53 GMT
I cannot believe this f***ing admin and the republican s in DC. This is just plain old fucked up. Even with PROOF that is existed, they flat out LIE.
With more than 80,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump are trying to deflect blame to former President Barack Obama.
In a dialogue with Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, live-streamed by the Trump campaign on Monday evening, McConnell said that Obama’s team, which exited office over three years ago,“did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like [the coronavirus pandemic].”
Politico reported in March that the Obama National Security Council left its successors a document titled “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.” It warned of potential problems like shortages in personal protective equipment that have plagued the nation’s response. The Trump administration neglected to implement its recommendations.
“We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored,” tweeted Ron Klain, who oversaw the Ebola response under Obama and now advises presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished. And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%.”
“The maddening thing is Obama left them a WH office for pandemics, a literal playbook, a cabinet-level exercise, and a global infrastructure to deal with ‘something like this,’” tweeted former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes.
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Post by LKeet6 on May 13, 2020 14:33:06 GMT
"New coronavirus hotspots are emerging in Republican heartland communities across multiple states, contradicting Donald Trump’s claims that infection rates are declining across the nation.
At a fraught press briefing on Monday, the president declared: “All throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly.”
Yet county-specific figures show a surge in infection rates in towns and rural communities in red states such as Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and North and South Dakota, according to data tracking by the New York Times."
People can talk about more abstract/obscure ideas like "trump's words and policies are dividing the nation," but he's literally killing people now.
And yes, obviously I wouldn't say that over on the other forum and yes, there are multiple reasons why different states are experiencing outbreaks at different times, but his attitude and words are 100% making people not take this seriously enough, which is going to cause more people to die...
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Post by boffo on May 13, 2020 21:11:14 GMT
Just imagine what'll happen if things reopen but then the expected second wave hits in say September or October, as in a month or two before the election. Anyone think he'd be willing to even slightly slow down the economy at that point in time?
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Post by karma4u on May 16, 2020 0:16:44 GMT
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Post by LKeet6 on May 16, 2020 10:55:33 GMT
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Post by karma4u on Jun 7, 2020 20:54:05 GMT
Over the past two centuries, Canada and the United States were closely aligned. The two countries stood shoulder to shoulder during World War II and the Iran hostage crisis (popularized in the film Argo.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Canada assisted when U.S. airspace was abruptly closed, by putting a mothballed airport in Gander, N.L., into service. And 10,000 citizens of Gander volunteered to house and feed more than 7,000 inbound passengers who couldn’t get to the U.S. This act of international friendship was celebrated in the popular Broadway musical Come From Away.
READ MORE: Coronavirus: ‘Stronger measures’ coming to Canada-U.S. border screening, Trudeau says
But differences have begun to emerge between the two countries. Canada was first to legalize same-sex marriage, 10 years before the United States. The country has a lower drinking age than the U.S. and an open and welcoming immigration policy. The Canadian single-payer national health insurance plan, available free and universally, reflects a stark difference from the U.S. approach to health insurance.
These changes have placed Canada on a more socially inclusive trajectory than its southern neighbour.
Now, a further difference has emerged: Popular opinion in Canada has soured on the U.S. approach to mitigating the coronavirus.
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Post by cliffs on Jul 4, 2020 12:19:15 GMT
'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus
WASHINGTON — After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.
Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less conflicting, message of the pandemic next week, according to senior administration officials, after struggling to offer clear directives amid a crippling surge in cases across the country. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.
At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going anywhere any time soon — and will be around through the November election.
As a result, President Donald Trump's top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.
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Post by LKeet6 on Jul 4, 2020 13:04:55 GMT
Can't believe the manipulation of numbers and narrative going on over on the other forum. No matter how high the number goes, just won't accept it. Fucking unbelievable.
If you'd said 130k and millions upon millions of infected during the early weeks of this, they'd have ridiculed and mocked it. Well, they did...
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Post by cliffs on Jul 4, 2020 13:35:14 GMT
That is why I stay away from posting numbers directly. I show articles that have numbers but since there are too many different people saying way too many things about the numbers...I use common sense....if there are still people dying every day in my state and getting infected in my state...then I social distance and wear a mask when around others. Only time I wash my hands is after I am out and about. Have had the grandkids over for a visit finally and life is good.
Happy 4th to my fellow Americans and hang in there all you others....democracy is alive and well in the USA and come Nov. you shall see how much it is.
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Post by LKeet6 on Jul 4, 2020 13:49:40 GMT
Kind of agree. Well, mostly agree!
But, there are some numbers you can not say are "opinion."
160+ thousand extra people are dead! Whichever way you slice it, however you want to manipulate numbers and statements to form a narrative, that's a fact.
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Post by karma4u on Jul 6, 2020 22:03:09 GMT
Wonder if others will follow..
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Monday he will not attend the Republican National Convention next month in Florida due to coronavirus concerns.
"I’m not going to go. And I’m not going to go because of the virus situation," Grassley, 86, said on a conference call with Iowa reporters Monday morning, according to The Des Moines Register.
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Post by karma4u on Oct 28, 2020 22:36:18 GMT
In a taped interview on April 18, Kushner told legendary journalist Bob Woodward that Trump was "getting the country back from the doctors" in what he called a "negotiated settlement." Kushner also proclaimed that the US was moving swiftly through the "panic phase" and "pain phase" of the pandemic and that the country was at the "beginning of the comeback phase."
"That doesn't mean there's not still a lot of pain and there won't be pain for a while, but that basically was, we've now put out rules to get back to work," Kushner said. "Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors."
The statement reflected a political strategy. Instead of following the health experts' advice, Trump and Kushner were focused on what would help the President on Election Day. By their calculations, Trump would be the "open-up president."
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