Vice President Pence and Secretary Azar Add Key Administration Officials to the Coronavirus Task Force

whitehouse.gov ^ | February 27, 2020 | White House

[ransomnote]

Today, Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced the addition of the following individuals to the President’s Coronavirus Task Force:

Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury

Dr. Jerome Adams, Surgeon General of the United States

Larry Kudlow, Director of the National Economic Council

Earlier today, the Vice President announced the addition of White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx to the task force. Additional members can be found here.

 

[SteelCowboy]

Yay bureaucrats! People with medical expertise should be running the show, not economics clowns.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Surgeon General IS a doctor.

And the most severe impact on this country will likely be economic.

[Trump.Deplorable]

And the most severe impact on this country will likely be economic.

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Why did you think the Red Chinese released it in the first place?

This was no accident

It was designed to take down Trump

Commies will kill people to take power, even their own people.

The democrats are complacent

[DannyTN]

1. Block travel from any country with more than 100 cases.
2. Get the testing impasse resolved.
3. Fast track virus testing
4. RAMP us production of supplies and drugs at Double Trump Speed.
5. Get plan in place for overflow patient facilities.
6. Plans to quarantine cities.
7. Plans to reduce transmissions.
8. Monitor hospitals for spikes in pneumonia

   Just curious, this is a coronavirus of the same family as some of the common colds. If we all caught a coronavirus version of the common cold, would it give us some immunity to the Novel Coronavirus?

[SteelCowboy]

If the focus is on preserving economics, the most severe impact will be in lives, if the focus is on lives, the impact will be economic. They borrow a trillion a year in fake money, they should borrow a trillion more and save some lives. The borders should be sealed. And maybe they should actually test people in the US. What are we up to now? maybe 500 tests in the entire country? South Korea has tested like 25,000. This is appalling.

[livius]

The main impact of this is not going to be medical, but economic. The US is able to handle what is essentially similar to a bad outbreak of the flu, and the population will cooperate voluntarily (basically in sanitation, such as wiping down surfaces, using hand sanitizer, etc. while the outbreak lasts).

But the real problem is not going to come from the US, but from the fact that we have been getting our goods from worst (but economically powerful) country in the world, that is, China. We even get our pharmaceuticals manufactured there!

So they will have a massive slowdown, everybody they supply will have a slowdown (they also have raw materials that they ship), and a global economy that has been built to rely on a slave-state whose slaves are too sick to work is going to have major problems.

The best thing Trump can do is get economic advisers in there.

My personal suggestion: Bring back production to the US, Canada and Mexico (now that we have a great trade pact), and make North America Great Again!

[bitt]

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[1Old Pro]

They should do a daily email brief and a weekly presser to calm down the Dems and media.

[Jane Long]

Thank you for explaining basic facts to the ignorant.

[Jane Long]

My personal suggestion: Bring back production to the US, Canada and Mexico (now that we have a great trade pact), and make North America Great Again!

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YES...exactly what many of us have been SCREAMING, on the CV threads. Especially our Rx meds and med supplies.

I saw an interview, last night on Lou Dobbs, with Rosemary Gibson...she has been sounding the alarm for YEARS about how we’ve sold our most precious production...our MEDICINES and MEDICAL SUPPLIES, to China!

She projected that it would take several months - a year to get factories up and running, to begin producing these items, here.

[SteelCowboy]

I think your medical assessment is unrealistically optimistic and you aren’t factoring in a lot of variables. Yes we have better hygiene, yes we are a less densely populated country. But China can order people to stay locked in their homes, America can’t. Millions of American workers get zero sick time. On top of those people who are forced to go to work, our entire culture is built around being “tough” and going to work when sick. Americans go to work with the flu, and norovirus. Americans are PROUD of themselves for going to work while vomiting. The attitude of “It’s just a bad flu, for some people” is precisely what will facilitate its greater spread.

[livius]

Trump has got to get this going now.

In terms of pharmaceuticals, I think we could gear up faster - but you have to realize the pharmaceutical industry has been under major attack here so they haven’t invested a lot in this country. But it’s probably a much nimbler industry in terms of production and could get up and running faster.

Also, why aren’t we buying our on-line purchases in furniture, hardware, home decoration, etc. from companies in the US? We can certainly make this stuff, and we used to do so, but then we outsourced it to lower-priced but shoddy Chinese manufacturers. Actually, even IKEA, which I used to buy and assemble (I’m good at assembly!) and which was produced in Sweden and other near-by or “supervised” countries, was high-quality...and then they started getting a lot of stuff manufactured in China. Holes aren’t drilled straight, the steel is old-style, and I’ve pretty much stopped buying it. I check the label to see where it’s been made, because Chinese-made stuff is garbage.

[Jane Long]

Profits.

All boils down to pure profits and paybacks that CONGRESS has likely been enjoying ever since our meds/supplies and just about everything else got farmed out, to China.

The problem with a LOT of ‘Made in America’ items, is that COMPONENTS to make them, come from....China :(

I think this is a golden opportunity for Trump to take this ‘crisis’ and Make Things Great, in America, Again.

Prices will have to go up, at least in the short term, but...guess what? We’ll know where our Rx meds and medical supply chains are coming from.

[livius]

I wrote to my Senator today and told him to ask Trump to do this.

[Jane Long]

Great idea!!

I will write mine, as well.

I think POTUS/GOP will get the hint :)

The DoNothingDems will try to obstruct, but when it comes to Rx meds, for Americans, how in the h3ll can they not want to fix this mess - that THEY helped to create?