Posted on 02/28/2020 8:33:21 PM PST by karpov
In a clear sign that they’re not truly worried about the COVID-19 threat, many Democrats are using it as another club to hit President Trump — facts be damned.
At Tuesday’s debate, Mike Bloomberg smugly asserted, “There’s nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing.” Trump, he claimed, has “defunded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, so we don’t have the organization we need.”
Joe Biden chimed in: “He cut the funding for the entire effort.”
It’s a lie that can only sow fear: The CDC budget is higher than when Trump took office. Same for the National Institutes of Health. And top career officials from both have been working with the White House for weeks to direct the US response.
Elizabeth Warren, meanwhile, insisted the administration “is absolutely bumbling the response to coronavirus” — with no details, because she can’t point to any Team Trump mistakes, unless she wants to complain about the COVID-19 travel bans.
“The administration has no plan to deal with the coronavirus,” Chuck Schumer thundered on the Senate floor. Not true.
As The Associated Press reports, “The public-health system has a playbook to follow for pandemic preparation — regardless of who’s president or whether specific instructions are coming from the White House. Those plans were put into place in anticipation of another flu pandemic, but are designed to work for any respiratory-borne disease.”
The AP also quotes John Auerbach, president of the nonpartisan Trust for America’s Health: “The CDC’s response has been excellent, as it has been in the past.” Auerbach also notes that CDC’s top scientific ranks have remained stable during the past three years.
The AP’s headline, by the way: “AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness.”
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Maybe down the road, the filthy RATS may need Trump’s help....they may ask for his help....they may not get the answer they want....
If only we had a functioning 4th estate that would stand up and call these termites out.
There’s conjecture that the CDC test kits were sabaatoged so that wouldn’t work. Wouldn’t put it past “The Deep State”.
A pox on the RAT party ...
I’m beginning to hate Democrat Politicians as much as they hate Americans.
DNC is a Dooms Day Cult.
“...A pox on the RAT party .....”
Agree. They’re AINOs: American In Name Only.
Democrats’ disgraceful dissembling increases every kind of threat there is.
DemonRats ARE a disease! A mental, spiritual, social disease.
Pocahontas doesn’t just lie about her ancestry for personal benefit. She lies just to stay in practice.
Basturds. If it takes a million Americans drowning in there own fluids, that's a small price to pay to get orange man bad out of the White House.Bring Out Your DeadBy ANY means necessary!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
If only.... but don’t get me started.
‘Face
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Part of this is about dims trying to put a dim in charge so they can get at some of that 8.5 billion dollars?
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