Posted on 05/04/2020 7:19:29 AM PDT by hapnHal
We now know that it was Dr. Tony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx who persuaded President Trump to kill the economy and force Americans into a lockdown… And we also know they did this based on wildly inaccurate models and predictions.
Back in March the two doctors went into the Oval Office and urged President Trump to lock down the economy or 2.2 million Americans would die.
Of course, their original mortality predictions were 33 times what has occurred and yet they have not altered their lock down recommendations to date.
In interviews to date the two doctors have been given softball questions. Their expertise is respected despite the fact that over 30 million Americans have lost their jobs and livelihoods thanks to these doctors and their faulty models.
15 Questions (read)
1.) Did you believe WHO Director Tedros when he claimed the coronavirus mortality rate was 3.4% on March 3rd? Do you believe it was appropriate for him to compare this mortality rate with that of the flu which has an estimated mortality rate of 0.1%? Did you know at the time that the comparison was completely inaccurate? Did you know the flu mortality rate includes millions of Americans who have had the flu but are not tested? Why did you not highlight this error in the WHO’s reporting?
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Trump should read and ponder these questions as well! Why he still trusts these two incompetents is beyond me! They were wrong about EVERYTHING, and Trump still defers to them! WTF!?
I remember when these demons gave as their excuse for surreptitiously violating our rights that we couldn’t risk overwhelming hospitals. Only fools believed them.
The dimwitted Karen is still out there pushing BS.
Her voixe cracking, her beady eyes staring, she keeps monotonously repeating her crap over and over.
Just another Made Girl trying to beat the Proles over the head.
Trump needs to ditch the *itch
Trump has a big heart, but he is not seeing the tens of millions of destroyed lives. I can’t absolve his role in the economic collapse anymore. He could stop it NOW.
If only Trump knew somebody who was important, like a mayor or governor or maybe even just a notary public - anyone who could possibly have any influence at all on national policy.
Trump has a big heart, but he is not seeing the tens of millions of destroyed lives. I can’t absolve his role in the economic collapse anymore. He could stop it NOW.
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I always wondered why he never invited a few “regular Americans” who lost jobs and businesses to this bogus shutdown as guests at one of his Coronavirus Task Force Briefings to tell America how this shutdown has destroyed their lives!
Most of these useless briefings revolved around these “experts” all congratulating each other on their awesomeness! Whenever Trump had anything positive to say, Birx and Fauci threw cold water on it with almost no response from Trump.
My question is: “Will Trump cave to the next demand for an economic shutdown of America?” I’m not encouraged that he’ll say no.
I remember the wildly inaccurate projections of the Death Rate, back in the beginning. They said at the time, the rate they were projecting took into account all the ‘social distancing with lockdown’ that must occur. Now they are saying the SoCal distancing and lockdown must continue indefinitely.
Why don’t we let The People decide if they want to ‘tempt fate’ and go back to normal in their own lives? Let business owners decide if they want to re-open? Let people decide if they want to return to their jobs, or stay hidden away until the Coronavirus Pandemic subsides? This overwhelming Government reaction is just conditioning our younger generations to accept the Government controlling their lives.
Whatever happened to America’s fiercely self-reliant attitude? I fear it is gone with the wind........
What does Trump say to the 5 million college grads of 2020 with $100G of debt and NO job prospects? Words ring hollow.
*SoCal*=social
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I am beginning to doubt PDJT's ability to pick good people to work for him. Sessions, Wray, Cohen, Fauci, Birx, and more? And his unwillingness to tell them that they are fired!
>>Now they are saying the SoCal distancing and lockdown must continue indefinitely.
If we need to do this to avert 60,000 deaths then we’ll have to do it EVERY flu season because even with a flu vaccine that’s typically how many people die.
“I am beginning to doubt PDJT’s ability to pick good people to work for him. Sessions, Wray, Cohen, Fauci, Birx, and more? And his unwillingness to tell them that they are fired!”
A legitimate concern. The key to running a large organization is picking the right people to head departments who then can pick the right people to make things happen. Sadly, Trump picked Chris Christie during the campaign to manage the transition. On election day, when key appointments should already have been selected and vetted, nothing had been done. Instead of announcing cabinet heads over the next week, Trump was scrambling to find people. Hence the appointment of Reince Priebus as chief of staff, Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, James Mattis as Secretary of Defense, Jeff Sessions as Attorney General and others who quickly failed him.
During the 2016 campaign Trump often bragged about all the outstanding executives he knew and would bring to Washington from the private sector. He mentioned Carl Icahn many times at his big rallies. Yet when push came to shove, he brought in Rex Tillerson, who he did not know and offered one of the most critical jobs after one meeting. During Tillerson’s reign as CEO of Exxon the company had been struggling. He also brought in 80 year old Wilbur Ross as Secretary of Commerce, who had previous loaned him money and was the poster child for outsourcing US jobs. The “amazing” Carl Icahn did not take a key job and quietly walked away from his advisory role a few months into the administration.
Remember the brief tenure of Anthony Scaramucci, the Wall Street executive, who lasted less than 2 weeks as White House Communications Director, arguably one of the most critical roles of any administration? Not only did the hire not make sense given Scaramucci’s personality, the abrupt firing damaged the administration at a critical time. Now Scaramucci seems intent on bringing Trump down.
Much of the lost momentum of the first term has been due to abysmal hiring decisions by Trump. He often appears to be isolated and alone in the fight because he has not been able to attract, vet, and build a superstar team underneath him. This is his failure, and his alone.
Trump has a big heart, but he is not seeing the tens of millions of destroyed lives. I can’t absolve his role in the economic collapse anymore. He could stop it NOW.
I think he made decisions based on what the experts were telling him 2 months ago and even a month ago. The experts have been very wrong about this virus because they use a one-size fits all model. We are all elderly and infirm. We are all New York City.
The data is clear. There is no justification to keep the entire nation locked down. Keeping our elderly citizens and those who are vulnerable to this virus isolated remains necessary.
It is past time to open things back up. Will there be some hotspots and more deaths? Yes. However, we now have the ability to treat this illness with a high degree of success. We now have increased access to testing. We are going to have to face this moment eventually so why continue to crater the economy? Why continue to destroy our healthcare system?
The media/democrats are going to crucify Trump no matter what he does. They will blame him for every death a month ago, two months ago, or a month from now.
I am no longer following his logic. He criticizes Kemp for opening Georgia back up? What am I missing here?
Fauci is the epitome of a bureaucrat. Follows orders as from Obama and sent $3.7.mm to Wuhan Lab, illegals per 2014l law. No congressional approval! Dr. Birx I believe is smart and good hearted. Like most Doctors she doesn’t have a clue about economics etc.
He is afraid to admit that Soros pal Fauci duped him.
Yep!! Hilliary is behind this also!
Trump is a one man band. That’s not a bad thing. My FIL was like that. He owned his company and had built it over the course of 50+ years. He had people work for him, but HE OWNED the company. His name was on the door and he made all the decisions. He allowed his kids to be part of the company, but never gave them much power. When he died we closed up shop. Nobody really had any knowledge of the workings of the company anyway. I think that has been how Trump has run his company. It was the way Perot ran his and Jobs ran his. They don’t bring in good people and delegate. They may consult experts from time to time, mostly people they’ve known for years and trust, but the buck always stops on their desk. They run the company on their gut. You can run a company that way up to a certain size. It’s hard to run a country like that.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Worst case mortality predictions of 2.2 million were based on PJDT doing nothing to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
But PDJT acted with a national emergency which is why much less people than worst case prediction have died.
Hotter weather will hopefully make SARS-CoV-2 disappear with the flu.
Otherwise, virus remains extremely contagious which is why most people are still under some kind of lockdown so virus is thinned out.
With all due respect to PDJT and is Coronavirus team, regardless of their best late-night efforts, testing and vaccines are basically too late for our instant-gratification culture in my non-medical opinion.
On the brighter side, looking forward to PDJT rebuilding FDA, CDC, also medical support and drug manufacturing industries like he has rebuilt military so another pandemic won’t kick us in the teeth.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping COVID-19 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.
No he can’t.
He can’t unilaterally do it. Fact is, he’d have to challenge the Governors in court for overstepping their powers.
Then he could do it, if he won.
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