Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 22 March 2020

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 22 March 2020 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

March 22nd, 2020

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Governor Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin; Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Panel: Karl Rove, Donna Brazile and Marty Makary. “Power Player of the Week” segment (rerun): Lisa Marie Riggins (substitute anchor: Fox News’ John Roberts).

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor; Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md.; former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Panel: David French, Jeh Johnson, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Kristen Welker.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith; former White House adviser Gary Cohn; Richard Pollack, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association; Scott Gottlieb, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Panel:

THIS WEEK (ABC): Gaynor; Govs. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., and Whitmer; former White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert; former acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan. Panel: Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Bruce and Tom Bossert.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Gaynor; Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla. Panel: Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), Vivek Murthy, Jennifer Lee and Lanhee Chen.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf; Peter Navarro, Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy; former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon; Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.); Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson.

*NOPE = “Never Obtain the Presidency, Ever”

[kabar]

In the spring of 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged. It was detected first in the United States and spread quickly across the United States and the world. This new H1N1 virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes not previously identified in animals or people. This virus was designated as influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 virus. From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated that there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (8,868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.

[rodguy911]

I’m so glad you brought this one up. It’s obamas wuflu. Through incredible incompetence Obama did nothing. The press didn’t cover it and as luck would have it he got through it with few if any economic losses. Deaths were high and lots were hospitalized but it came and went and without the media covering it 24/7 most people didn’t even know it happened.

[norwaypinesavage]

"watch Fauci with a careful eye, but right now, he is working for the Man!"

Fauci was on Levin's show tonight for a half hour. He seemed quite reasonable, to me. He gave high praise to Trump for the prescient China travel ban where all the liberals were denigrating the ban.

The only negative thing I saw was Fauci's work record. He's been nothing but a bureaucrat his whole life, apparently never working as a real doctor.

[dfwgator]

Fauci knew what had to be done after the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. 7 years of the Obama Administration knowing what had to be done, and nothing got done.

[norwaypinesavage]

The only part of Roberts’ show I saw was the panel and I give him an absolute zero for that. With all the important stuff going on, the only thing he led the questioning on was reasons to hate President Trump. In the last 5 seconds he asked the medical doctor a medical question, and gave him only seconds to answer. In those 5 seconds the doctor praised the Trump action, surprising Roberts.

[norwaypinesavage]

"Basically, the CDC wanted to do it the way they have always done it. Typical of a bureaucracy"

Worse than that, they actually prevented other ways of doing it. When Washington State gave up on the CDC after the CDC failed to get them test kits that worked, they started doing it on their own. The CDC then ordered them to stop testing, even though they had no alternative. That added to the problems the state is now having.

[bray]

The country that has tested the most is Korea which has tested over a million and finding a death rate of under 1/2% which is slightly higher than normal flu.

[rodguy911]

And South Korea did not interfere with capitalism either.

[kabar]

The country that has tested the most is Korea which has tested over a million and finding a death rate of under 1/2% which is slightly higher than normal flu.

And South Korea did not interfere with capitalism either.

This may very well be Trump's exit strategy after the 15 day period. Now that testing capabilities have become the best in the world in terms of quality and throughput, Trump can get Americans back to work by saying we now have the ability to identify quickly who has the virus and rely on individual quarantines rather than mass lockdowns/shelter in place. We can take stricter measures to protect the elderly and those with immune deficiencies.

And add the very real possibility of finding a therapeutic to combat the virus in the infected. The six day trial that starts tomorrow in NYC will be critical in the decision process at the end of this 15 day period.

China is already back to work. Singapore and Hong Kong are also returning to normal.

[kabar]

WA seems to be coming out of the crisis in terms of new cases and deaths. Notice that WA never had statewide shelter in place. It terms of the deadly impact, one nursing home naccounted for a major share of the deaths.

CDC did not perform well. Major reforms need to be made and they must be held accountable. The US was ill-prepared for a pandemic not only in terms of material assets, but also, in the regulatory and planning realms. CDC should have been more proactive early on when the virus was first detected in China.

[palmer]

Thanks for the followup. Hopefully sanity will prevail.