Two Top
Virus Task Force Medical Experts
(Not the
faces of support or agreement)
Introduction to the following post: Trump’s niece, Mary in her new “Tell-All book” tells us who Donald J. Trump is from her up close and personal relationship
growing up around him, and in her professional medical opinion as well. The story
below proves she is spot on, 100% correct.
From ABC news: This continuing and depressing story about
how Trump is and has handled this virus pandemic, one that is growing as
experts predicted it would, and that Trump either ignored, denied, or followed
his own daily mood swings. The headline:
“Rift
grows between Trump and health experts amid coronavirus surge”
As Trump threatens to cut funding to
schools that don't reopen in the fall and continues to host mega-rallies as cases
increase, there appears to be a growing rift between the White House and its
top health advisers.
For example,
Trump has taken his criticism of the government's top expert on infectious
diseases and the CDC into the public forum in his massive push to reopen the
country.
Now, despite
response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx. asking Americans in “hot spot zones to
avoid indoor gatherings and reduce them to 10 people or fewer,” Trump out of
arrogant spite (I guess) on Friday (July 10) delivered campaign remarks and
attended a home fundraiser in FL – just as cases there rise, and only one day
after they state saw a record death toll.
Trump, again
as before, seeks to downplay the danger in states like AZ, CA, FL, and TX (** With a new CDC announcement see below) struggling to control outbreaks, which he called “embers while
openly disputing coronavirus task force officials.”
** The CDC Predicts Deaths Will
Soar in 12 States (July 10, 2020): The nationwide death toll is rising again, and the CDC just released its
new list of where fatalities will rise in this announcement: “This week's
national ensemble forecast predicts that there will likely be between 140,000
and 160,000 total reported COVID-19 deaths by August 1st.”
Those state-level ensemble forecasts suggest that the
number of new deaths over the next four weeks will rise in the following
states: AZ, AL, FL, ID, MT, ND, NV, OH, SC,
TN, TX, and WV.
In a series
of interviews this week, Trump questioned the expertise of Dr. Anthony Fauci,
the director of the National Institutes of Health for more than three decades
and a prominent member of the White House coronavirus task force, who
continually polls higher in favorability than the president, saying: “Dr. Fauci
is a nice man, but he's made a lot of mistakes” (Trump told Sean Hannity on
Fox News Thursday night (July 9), insisting Fauci was against his travel ban on
China and wrong on face masks.
Trump then
added: “A lot of them said don't wear a mask, don't wear a masks. Now they are
saying wear a mask. A lot of mistakes were made, a lot of mistakes.”
Trump used
the same criticisms in an interview Tuesday (July 7), when directly asked about
Fauci's assessment one day earlier when he was asked about the country being “knee
deep in the first wave of the virus.”
Trump told Greta Van Susteen on “Full Court Press:” “Well, I
think we are in a good place, so I disagree with him.”
Facts Trump skips: For instance, when Fauci testified
before House lawmakers in March as the pandemic took off and said: he supported Trump's travel bans on China and Europe, calling the case for
that “pretty compelling.”
The decision
to advise against wearing masks, until an official CDC recommendation in April,
was due largely to a nationwide shortage, officials said.
But, Fauci
is not the only expert under fire from Trump. Throughout the week, Trump has
also criticized guidelines from the CDC on reopening schools calling them “very
tough & expensive” and he characterized the decision to reopen schools as a
political one, even as coronavirus cases surge across the country.
Trump, as we hear all over GOP/Right-wing Talk Radio and elsewhere, even in the Rose
Garden said: “It is politics. They, the Democrats don't want to open because they
think it will help them on November 3rd. I think it's going to hurt them
November 3rd.”
My 2 cents: With that last statement by Trump, he once
again implies and nearly directly says that Democrats are unfeeling, uncaring,
and don’t give a damn about life or limb in this pandemic just as long as they
can win an election?
That is insane, yet that kind of talk spreads as fast
as the virus in GOP circles. It is spreading like wildfire across all right-wing
media outlets and in print.
Trump sells it – is base buys it and then shares with
like-minded others to make it sound like Democrats are un-American, disloyal,
and unpatriotic – don’t believe me, just listen, watch, and read and you will see
and hear what I mean, and that, my friends is 100% utter BS and totally false.
If there are any nasty, ugly, raw, and misguided
politics in play right now at work here, sir, it is coming from you and your side
who are afraid of losing the power you now enjoy in office, but know this, all
that will change in November.
So, Mr. Trump, when you are looking for reasons and causes for our
national turmoil outside of this horrible pandemic, try peering in the nearest
mirror. There you will clearly see the reflection of the real source of the awful
state of affairs across the nation.
Thanks for stopping by.
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