Posted on 04/12/2020 5:50:28 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
“Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”
A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Donald Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.
“You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools,” he wrote to the group, which called itself “Red Dawn,” an inside joke based on the 1984 movie about a band of Americans trying to save the country after a foreign invasion. “Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”
His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the Cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.
The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.
Even after Trump took his first concrete action at the end of January — limiting travel from China — public health often had to compete with economic and political considerations in internal debates, slowing the path toward belated decisions to seek more money from Congress, obtain necessary supplies, address shortfalls in testing and ultimately move to keep much of the nation at home.
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Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes
Six reporters including Maggie Haberman to write a rambling narrative that 'TRUMP KNEW AND DID NOTHING!'
These are the same people who called Trump a RACIST when he issued the travel ban to China..yeah all these geniuses think they could have done better AFTER the fact..just imagine what would have happened had Trump closed the country down in mid February, with only two cases in the country(Chicago woman who had come back from China who gave it to her hubby) really, you shut down the country for 2 freakin cases come on
“The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.”
Still is.
This is their strategy.
I really really enjoy the fact that they've made it possible to ignore any tripe that they print.
I recall dems having debates Oct., Nov. and Dec. Not one mention of this virus from ANY dem. All they do is criticize and say what should have been done weeks ago. Tell you what Maxine. Tell us NOW what we should do so that in 2 weeks you cannot say that Trump did it wrong.
Wow...Desperados Gang joining forces.
Reminds me of cornered rats.
Funny how publications focused on finance and economics have been infested by leftist rat a-holes.
Six writers who could have given a poop about this so long as impeachment was going on. Six writers who fully supported removing the President from office at the time we most needed leadership stability.
But hey, Trump was warmed or something. By people who had theories. Never minding the same people probably hedged their bets and offered contradicting scenarios and warnings just to make sure that they were on the right side of the issue.
The latest impeachment scam takes form.
Just what I am sure the American people wanted to hear right now.
L O L
Desperate much?
this is exactly the problem with fauci spouting off to the libtard media with his smarter-than-you commentary about how he wanted to do this and that but there was pushback and couldn’t do all those wonderful things earlier like this ridiculous shutdown.
now the media is going to come out in force stating exactly that; things could’ve been done earlier, tony said so, and trump wouldn’t do it.
“Trump focused on other issues”
You mean like, the impeachment hoax? That other issue?
“Dr. Carter Mecher”
“Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”
I’ve learned take “experts” with a grain of salt when they issue opinions outside their expertise. Smart at something doesn’t mean smart at everything. And I don’t even know how smart this fellow is in his own field. What’s his record in predicting outcomes, coming up with optimal solutions?
Or is he just someone with the title “Doctor” whose words can be used against Trump. Credentials enough for so-called journalists these days, it seems.
In Feb, they were asking people to come hang out in china town with them so not to appear racist. That is what they were doing. Plus they were eating bat entrail dim sum.
I have a cousin who is a nurse in a VA hospital in Tennessee. He said (a few days ago) that they had TWO (2) Covid 19 patients in the entire hospital, and both were recovering well, despite being elderly and not in great health to start with.
More media BS. Not that I expect anything else from them, especially the likes of Sanger and Haberman.
SEVEN authors.
I will simply stand by and laugh when justice is finally delivered to these leftist traitors. Maybe I’ll buy popcorn.
I am sick of leftist treason. Justice is overdue.
Michael Shear’s page on WikiPedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Shear
“Michael D. Shear is an American deuche bag who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times.[1] He previously worked at The Washington Post, where he was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that covered the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. He regularly appears on CNN and MSNBC.[2][3]”
LOL! Someone’s been messing around-it will be fixed shortly.
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