Posted on 04/29/2022 6:51:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
Trump White House officials in May 2020 removed public health advice urging churches to consider virtual religious services as the coronavirus spread, delivering a messaging change sought by the president’s supporters, according to emails from former top officials released by a House panel on Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent its planned public health guidance for religious communities to the White House on May 21, 2020, seeking approval to publish it. The agency had days earlier released reports saying that the virus had killed three and infected dozens at church events in Arkansas and infected 87 percent of attendees at a choir practice in Washington state, and health experts had warned that houses of worship had become hot spots for virus transmission.
But Trump officials wrote that they were frustrated by “problematic” advice the CDC had already posted, such as recommendations that houses of worship consider conducting virtual or drive-in religious services, according to emails released Friday by the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis.
“This removes all the tele-church suggestions, though personally I will say that if I was old and vulnerable (I do feel old and vulnerable), drive through services would sound welcome,” May Davis Mailman, a White House lawyer, wrote to colleagues on May 21, attaching her own scrubbed version of the CDC’s guidance to her email.
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Sounds as if the Trump administration was actually concerned with the First Amendment.
Scott Atlas.
Any book from Fauci, Birx or Redfield about the Trump pandemic response will be trash.
Unless Scott Atlas confirms it, it didn’t happen.
That was the right thing to do - and complete propaganda from the Post.
So basically Trump thought the Constitution should take precedence over the health-care bureaucracy, which believed (along with many in Congress and all of the Left in Congress) that a pandemic was the perfect excuse to suspend the Constitution in its entirety and permanently.
Yet another reason why Trump was the right man for the right job. The cheat had to have been massive. History will be kind to PDJT. My memory, thoughts and prayers will be kind to him.
Good. The CDC “Center for Disinformation Commies” needs serious pruning.
That’s a good thing. The problem is that the churches….Catholic or Protestant…didn’t follow through.
For me, one of the worst things was the betrayal by the Christian churches.
A tiny handful of Catholic bishops and priests didn’t knuckle under, and an equally small handful of Evangelical Protestant churches held fast. They are actually are the model for us all. These churches suffered and some of their people had severe financial penalties.
The moral of the story is never give in to unjust authority, which of course is what Our Lord told us millennia ago.
Our (Baptist) church closed its doors — for two weeks. Figured freedom to worship was more important than some government agency’s nonsense. And we sang loudly.
Good for him.
History will be kind, Only if we get to write it.
As it stands, I do not believe we will.
Is this illegal or are the far lefties just whining and moaning again? Damn crybabies.
They say this like it was a bad thing...
Of ALL THE EVIL THINGS Fed.gov and the states have done over the last 2 years, this may one one of the worst things:
FORCED CLOSING OF CHURCHES, and scaring church leaders into closing them by telling LIES like COVID would kill MILLIONS. I want these government officials tried and in prison, if not HANGED, for the evils they have done under the guise of “COVID-19”.
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