Posted on 03/30/2020 6:20:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - White House health experts argued strongly with President Donald Trump to extend a stay-at-home order for Americans fighting the spread of the coronavirus so the country could start seeing the rates of infection come down, a top U.S. health official said on Monday.
“We felt that if we prematurely pulled back, we would only form an acceleration, or a rebound of something, which would have put you behind where you were before,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with CNN.
“And that’s the reason why we argued strongly with the president that he not withdraw those guidelines after 15 days, but that he extend them. And he did listen.”
Fauci said he and Dr. Deborah Birx met with Trump to discuss data showing the potential effects of relaxing mitigation efforts.
“Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said, ‘Here are the data. Take a look,’” Fauci told CNN. “He looked at them and he just shook his head and said, ‘I guess we got to do it.’”
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Rock and a hard place. Give this man strength to do the right thing Lord.
Just another Bush in the end. Didn’t he say something like that too in 2008? “I guess we gotta do it”. Weak.
Heads you lose tails we win. Fauci is a deep state shill.
the media would have gone insane if President Trump prematurely pulled the restrictions and the death rate continued to go up ... they would have been screaming that President Trump was murdering people ... Thus, the evil stream media is trying to force him to destroy our economy because they are so desperate to destroy him ...
I am sick of Fauci. This guy has a mouth on him. He needs to STFU and just do his job, and stop running to CNN and every other media outlet every day. Why Trump and Pence allow this is mind boggling.
Fauci MAKES me sick
Is Rush hosting his show today ??!!!
Fauci is a doctor.
He tries to save every life possible.
If you think Trump is another bush, WOW are you wrong.
And nothing will change your mind so I wont’ type all the differences.
I believe this whole thing has been way overblown but if a few weeks home was gonna slow it down then that’s ok.
Now it’s time to get back to business by Easter.
Trump has been a Very, Very good president.
bush was a Traitor and a POS, jut like his dad and mom an brother.
And I shed no tears when any of them die.
Fauci is a quack and loving being the center of attention, a politician by any other name.
They will just say, it did better than we even projected to destroy the economy. “There would have been 76 gazillion deaths, but by causing a depression, we only had 25,000 85 year olds die!”
I'm afraid that I'm coming to the same conclusion. The less said by this guy, the better.
Trump’s extending it was actually a brilliant move, had he ended it earlier any death afterwords would have been blamed on his “Trump holding dollars more important than lives.”
Now, a few more weeks in, governors, even Democrat governors, will be begging him to open again.
You maybe right - he may be worse. Bush never signed a $2 Trillion “rape the taxpayer for decades bill”. All over something he caused in the first place by falling for this thing. What a farce.
The President himself said that if you left the decisions completely in the hands of doctors, they’d call for shutting the country down for two years because it was medically the safest course of action.
Dr. Fauci on January 26, 2020 - Listen to his own words! Americans have nothing to worry about!! https://soundcloud.com/john-catsimatidis/dr-anthony-fauci-1-26-20?fbclid=IwAR0CiDJIsh3-ZXovl1-eBi_UjpNjMKceiLebboBU4z7BkM5DIyzj8jiBECI
Wanna bet on that? A Hilary Clinton fanatic out to do everything he can to get President Trump defeated in November?
When is the last time he actually practiced as against doing administrative work?
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