Posted on 04/08/2020 6:04:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates appeared on Fox News Sunday in which he reiterated his 2018 statement that the world should be “preparing for a pandemic in the same serious way it prepares for war.” Gates, whose foundation -- the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -- has invested heavily in global health, suggested staging simulations, war games, and preparedness exercises to simulate how diseases could spread and to identify the best response. The concluding analysis, as per the mainstream media (and certain social/online communications), is that the Trump administration has done exactly the opposite.
Among the evidence to prove their argument has been Trump’s cutting funding for the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention and its infectious disease research. For fiscal year 2020, Trump proposed cutting the CDC budget by US $1.3 billion, nearly 20% below the 2019 level. This is a complete falsehood.
While it is true that among the president’s budget proposals was one to reduce funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Congress never enacted those cuts. Some Democrats, such as former Vice President Joe Biden went so far as to say at a CNN townhall on February 26 that Trump “tried to defund the CDC.” Again, President Trump proposed reducing the CDC budget -- some years by double-digit percentages -- not completely defunding it. Incidentally, Democrats, including Biden, have since dropped the qualifier “tried” from their claims, saying that Trump had reduced the CDC funding. On ABC’s “This Week” on March 1, Biden said: “They’ve cut the funding for the CDC.”
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I call it ‘fake news’ when they remove such qualifiers! The MSM is shameless in their slanting ability here!
FYI: remember the old bureaucrat / ‘deep state’ trick of asking for budget increases and then crying crocodile tears when the increase is scaled back because it is then labeled a BUDGET CUT!
Reminds me of the W Bush playbook. Anything and everything was “Bush’s Fault”.
Seems to be the Libtards standard response to everything.
JUST WATCHED 25 MINUTES OF MSNBC THIS MORNING WITH MIKA. WHAT A NEGATIVE NEWS SYSTEM. MSNBC MUST STAND FOR’ MOSTLY SCAM AND NEGATIVE BROADCASTING COMPANY. TO LISTEN TO THE GUEST REPORTS AND OTHERS YOU WOULD THINK PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR COVID 19 BEING HERE IN THE USA. WHAT A NEGATIVE GROUP OF PEOPLE.
I remember that.
Didn’t read this but whatever the new attempt is it will eventually get filled with Russia Russia
Honestly if CDC is so valuable, why the hell am I still trapped at home? Its the FDA that appears to be calling the shots for vaccines only to find out that hydroxychloquine and zinc are just as good at curing this crap then a vaccine. All the CDC does is identify a contagent and waits until it kills people to say “We have a pandemic!”
But the CDC is right on top of Climate Change
https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/default.htm
CDC’s Climate and Health Program is excited to celebrate 10 years of supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial public health agencies as they prepare for specific health impacts of a changing climate. CDC is proud of the collaborative work states, cities, territories, and tribes are doing to develop and implement adaptation plans to protect at-risk populations and locations.
Right.
It’s too bad, but with most Americans: “Wealth, celebrity and success = absolute, final and infallible opinions”.
Never mind that there is a total absence of proved and documented fact in anything these people say.
CDC has chosen to allow death WITH COVID to equal death FROM COVID. But they are not equal, and this needs to be corrected immediately.
Accuracy is not only possible, it is necessary if we are to restore confidence.
Apparently there are too few of us who do remember the daily mantra of “It’s Bush’s Fault”.
The RATs certainly have not forgotten, though.
Bump
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