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Dr. Birx says she wishes the US lockdown looked more like Italy's where the public faced stringent restrictions on movement
dailymail ^ | 08/17/2020 | Maxine Shen

Posted on 08/18/2020 8:38:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said that she wished Americans had been forced into a total lockdown the way Italy was early in the pandemic.

Speaking with the media Monday, Dr. Birx said: 'I wish that when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy.'

Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte imposed a nationwide quarantine on March 9, closing all non-essential businesses. The quarantine did not begin to loosen until the middle of April, with 'Phase 2' re-opening beginning in early May, although travel restrictions were still in effect.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: birx; coronavirus; italy; lockdown; us
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1 posted on 08/18/2020 8:38:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about NO you witch.


2 posted on 08/18/2020 8:39:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, I wish it looked more like Sweden’s. But opinions vary.


3 posted on 08/18/2020 8:40:02 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Step aside, Fraulein!


4 posted on 08/18/2020 8:40:36 AM PDT by alstewartfan (One day he just washed up on the shores of his regrets. May his soul rest in peace. Al S.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Make these retards stop...


5 posted on 08/18/2020 8:40:49 AM PDT by Professional
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I wish she looked more like she did in her 20s, but none of us are getting what we wish.


6 posted on 08/18/2020 8:41:22 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe she needs to put the blame on Fauci who in early Feb said the US doesn’t need to worry it will have little effect. Maybe she needs to site several Dem Reps who were encouraging Chinese festival to go on during early covid in Feb and March.Maybe she needs rake Fauci over the coals for saying masks aren’t needed.


7 posted on 08/18/2020 8:41:40 AM PDT by Engedi (SCOTU)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Italy COVID deaths per million - 585.79
U.S. COVID deaths per million - 520.06


8 posted on 08/18/2020 8:41:45 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Professional

Let her try it first and tell us how it went.


9 posted on 08/18/2020 8:42:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If wishes were fishes, they would still swim away and play.


10 posted on 08/18/2020 8:42:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: ChicagoConservative27
1. Italy has a well-documented history of being very comfortable with totalitarian governments.

2. Any government official who comes out and publicly calls for a shutdown of even a single business should be forced to surrender all forms of compensation -- including salary and benefits -- for the entire duration of the shutdown. This country has no business accepting this sh!t where people who live at the taxpayers' expense impose these haphazard restrictions while they don't stand to lose a damn thing under these government edicts.

11 posted on 08/18/2020 8:42:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Yes, well maybe New York City should have done that In March - but its leaders were too busy calling Trump a racist and resisted even shutting down the disease-ridden subway system.
12 posted on 08/18/2020 8:43:02 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fauci and Birx are doing their best to undermine the President, quite shameful.


13 posted on 08/18/2020 8:43:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We are free and we are going to stay that way.


14 posted on 08/18/2020 8:44:27 AM PDT by spincaster (T)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

....I used to have a lot of respect for her, but no longer....she said very recently that we should all be wearing masks, indoors AND outdoors, which is a crock..
I am no physician (I don’t even play one on teevee...) but
wearing a mask outdoors seems absurd...there is almost always some level of breeze blowing, and wearing a face diaper would seem to be unnecessary.... as far as a total lockdown is concerned, our economy is just now struggling to get back to some sort of normalcy...a total lockdown would have ruined it months ago.....


15 posted on 08/18/2020 8:44:28 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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I also wish America looked like it did in the 50s.


16 posted on 08/18/2020 8:45:09 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: lee martell

Funny, I frequently speak with a girl who lives in Italy. She has yet to mention the “Strict Restrictions on Movement”. I also seem to recall that when this scam first started the media was showing the stores in Italy with no food. My fried also failed to mention this to me.
I last saw her in March, she flew from NJ to Paris, then to Rome and was able to rent a car and drive to her town. I seem to think there were “Strict Restrictions” in place at that time also.


17 posted on 08/18/2020 8:47:16 AM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: 1Old Pro

WE need to begin hearing a lot more from the newly appointed DR Atlas. Atlas is easily as credentialed as the fascist Fauci and is against most all of what the fascist has recommended.


18 posted on 08/18/2020 8:47:21 AM PDT by billyboy15
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And this creature is given a DC platform to speak from.

Who is running USA? Are there any USAians in DC?

The asylum of our era.


19 posted on 08/18/2020 8:48:06 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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WE need to begin hearing a lot more from the newly appointed DR Atlas

Agreed

20 posted on 08/18/2020 8:49:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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