Posted on 04/12/2020 4:35:12 PM PDT by nwrep
Over the coming weeks the conservative media will be pushing back hard to correct the lies from the MSM. As per usual, the brain dead low info crowd (usual suspects) will still believe everything the MSM say. I feel confident the people who were going to vote for Trump before all this will not be fooled.
What bugs me is why is this the federal government’s job? Each state can decide what to do with federal advice. A national order or guideline was not needed.
Great response.
Wrong.
I don’t watch MSM.
Mistake defined:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mistake
Statements aren’t “mistakes.” Not a single one of these things is an action.
However, each item stated was correct at the time and validated by his staff and others.
China lied, the WHO and CDC didn’t spend time validating or preventing what apparently wasn’t happening in their own eyes. Trump acted off our country’s experts.
So, give us things he did that were wrong at those times. A mistake requires choosing poorly from options. He had only one option from his experts and he took it.
For another example: It is not a mistake to drive your car to work and get randomly shot to death. That is a accident of fate that cannot be predicted or chosen from.
Social distancing is actually not a good idea. We need to develop natural immunity in the healthy population, or this thing returns next winter.
Sounds like Fauci is an out-of-control activist undermining the Administration's response to a crisis.
Well played!
I think those were statements to calm the markets. Fauci as late as February 29th was saying there was no problem. Do you think a President Bush, Clinton, Obama, Romney or McCain would have closed down the country in February? Think about it. Close down the country? It has never been done before. During one of his press conferences afterwards I remember Trump even talking about how unbelievable it all was.
That’s what several biologists have been saying, herd immunity.
Agreed, something is brewing with Fauci
Trump going to reopen country/economy soon & shut Napoleon Jr. up.
“That’s what several biologists have been saying, herd immunity.”
The permanent kind of immunity, caused by being exposed.
Not the kind which is temporary and includes injected neurotoxic adjuvants and other fun such stuff.
Your post is great. My only point of mild disagreement, is that had he accepted it earlier and we got lockdowns etc when there were a handful of cases in later Feb, before the DJIA took a dive, he'd have been called a worrymonger and racist because this was all part of his China hate etc.
Now, leadership means making a call regardless of the press, internal and external. There are tons of people and business leaders who'd have howled at half of the measures we have now being taken around Feb 17. And, in reality, if these measures WERE taken early and stopped what we see now, on the good side we likely wouldn't have the medical and economic carnage we have now. However, since we aren't clairvoyant we'd never have seen this saga we have now, and he'd likely have lost a lot of business support -"he killed the economy and we had less deaths than Iceland" they'd say.
This is a bit of a damned if you do, damned if you don't type of saga. He shut off travel to China in late Jan and he was called names; now they say he should have done it sooner and he's called names (by the same people). I'm willing to cut him a little slack on that point. But he clearly was a Flubro in Jan and Feb - and to be fair, so we're lots of people and so were the data - let's be hones, kids. His words are his words and ya gotta own your own words. We don't grant Neville Chamberline take-backsies.
I do not disagree
I don’t believe Trump was wrong initially that this is not something that should freak us out. Only after the left got ahold of it as an agenda driven wedge, did it turn into ‘something’. This virus is NOT a threat to us; it is the satan following freaks in our gov or who are counseling our gov, that are bad.
Second, Trump is dependent on people counseling him; he can’t do everything. His one fault, IMO, in this, is allowing lefties to be placed in a position of power to counsel him. I think Pence is who keeps recommending these bad apples. I know for a fact he plugged fauci.
Maybe Mark Meadows will bring a breath of fresh air into the equation.
this whole thing is out of control
“Social distancing is actually not a good idea. We need to develop natural immunity in the healthy population, or this thing returns next winter.”
completely agree. social distancing is also KILLING our economy. No business can operate with it. We need to shun this mindset in a big, bold way.
Amen!
Killing a few million seniors to get herd immunity may seem like a good idea to those who are not in the “senior herd”
UK tried that at first and changed after about two weeks. It now looks like their infection to death rate will be 300% of the US rate.
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