Posted on 04/03/2020 8:42:35 AM PDT by lasereye
As predictions of the coronavirus’ impact have grown more dire, the media have sought to portray the administration as out of touch with early warnings from medical experts. A closer look at the public statements of those very same experts during the early weeks of the outbreak reveals that the administration’s initial reassurances were largely aligned with the assessments of the medical community.
Today Anthony Fauci is held up by the media as a national hero and the only reason to listen to a White House coronavirus briefing. Yet, rewind the clock back to January and his public statements essentially mirrored those of the administration.
On Jan. 21, he emphasized that it was unclear whether the virus could spread from person to person: “Is it a continual spread? Is it sustained? We're not quite sure yet.” A University of Minnesota expert offered that “this is one of those inflection moments in outbreak history where we have enough information to be very concerned, but not enough information to say this is going to be an international crisis.”
A day later, Dr. David Heymann, the former head of WHO’s response to SARS, offered that, unlike SARS, the coronavirus “looks like it doesn’t transmit through the air very easily and probably transmits through close contact”.
The same day, Fauci emphasized that other coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS could not sustain person-to-person spread like the flu and that such viruses “maybe never will.” WHO noted that no person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 had been reported outside of China and that all the deaths had been limited to that country. . . . For its part, the CDC issued a press release on Jan. 24 asserting that “the immediate risk of this new virus to the American public is believed to be low”.
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Thanks lasereye.
“For its part, the CDC issued a press release on Jan. 24 asserting that “the immediate risk of this new virus to the American public is believed to be low”.
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The “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” or CDC, should be renamed “Centers for Playing Games with Germs.” One, I doubt they could be so arrogant and conceited working under such a name. Two, they would be less likely to spend our tax dollars on social warrior issues like”obesity” and “gun control,” while leaving the nation open to a culture-killing pandemic. What were they thinking? What were they doing?
Gun control is an entirely different issue. There is no diseases that can be caught from a gun.
Here is a January WHO and Chiba missive that says it doesn’t transmit between people.
It is why I don’t trust Fauci
“It is why I don’t trust Fauci.”
He’s not up to the job.
“or CDC, should be renamed “Centers for Playing Games with Germs.”
or, CDC “Centers for Dumb Climatology”.
Obesity has a serious effect on health. We have a Department of Human Health and Services. Talk to them. If the Centers for Disease Control had stuck to bacterial, virus and amoebic diseases— their job — obesity would not be a factor contributing to this foreseeable and actually foreseen virus plague. First things first.
If you want to say obesity is a health issue, I agree. If you want to say obesity should be the job of the CDC instead of communicable or contagious diseases, you will need to seek support somewhere else.
The CDC is a failed enterprise that needs to be completely dismantled and a new organization with a new name and new personnel needs to be stood up in another location
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