Posted on 04/12/2020 10:02:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
South Korea announced its first coronavirus cases around the same time the U.S. did, back in January. Yet, two months later and the U.S. has 50 times more cases and almost 100 times more fatalities. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has suggested that that discrepancy is because the U.S. did not act quickly enough on its mitigation efforts.
"i think that we acted late, Jake," he told CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday's "State of the Union."
He added that we "did not test adequately," and it allowed the virus to circulate in communities across the country.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Tapper that Gupta's assessment was "unfair."
"You know it isn't as simple as that, Jake, I'm sorry," Fauci responded.
It's unfair to compare us to South Korea, Fauci explained, because they were able to completely shut everything down, a move that the U.S. "may not have been able to do." There were several factors to consider.
"I don't think you can say we are where we are because of one factor," Fauci said. "It's very complicated, Jake."
Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force member, conceded that "obviously" if they had started the mitigation process and social distancing earlier, lives could have been spared. But, the doctor refused to get into hypotheticals. What goes into those kinds of decisions, he argued, is "complicated."
"There was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then," Fauci recalled.
Yet, Dr. Fauci expressed his cautious optimism that America could be turning the tide soon, as the rate of hospializations are beginning to level in hotspots like New York City. Once we get the capability to test in real time, he noted, we can begin a "gradual, rolling reentry" to normal life.
Dr. Anthony Fauci expresses “hopeful... cautious optimism” as signs emerge that the coronavirus curve may have begun to flatten. https://t.co/Y3z65Z1EFy pic.twitter.com/YUfyXKPLdz— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 12, 2020
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta
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I hate that asshole. They run CNN commercials about 50 times during every Rush hour with this dipshit lecturing us all how we should lead our lives.
Within WikiLeaks' HRC email files, there are letters from Fauci to Hillary Clinton through her aid/lawyer Cheryl Mills: “rarely does a speech bring me to tears”?… “please tell her I love her more than ever”?… “please tell her that we all love her”… “Please tell her that we all love her and are very proud to know her.”
slimy Dr. Fauxci..
Yep. Annoying as hell.
Vice President Pence forbade anyone on the task force from appearing on CNN.
Member of said task force appears on CNN.
Pence MUST fire insubordinate member. Now.
If POTUS Trump issued a Nationwide Quarantine back in January he would have been labeled a Dictator, Hitler and Tyrant.
Well had Fauci finished studying SARS (a corona virus) instead of spending money elsewhere.... And if Fauci’s group hadn’t screwed up the tests at first....
Gupta vs Fauci.
If nothing else, hopefully 2020 will be the year that ended the “argument from authority” fallacy, or at the very least, put it to bed for the next decade or so.
The CDC completely dropped the ball on testing. It was almost criminal what they did. And prevented others from doing their own.
Because of the CDC, we were flying blind for a month, while other countries got a handle on the threat via real data. Trump and Fauci had to basically guess. All they had were models from overseas. And they were horribly wrong.
So other than the travel bans, we overreacted. Had no choice, really. But now we need a serious correction.
Worth the read:
https://reason.com/2020/04/08/how-the-cdc-and-the-fda-wrecked-the-economy/
South Korea is a small country with limited points of entry.
The US is a huge country with innumerable points of entry.
Case closed.
Fauci in a Feb 17 article telling us we had nothing to worry about - can’t post source, but read the top article on this goggle search. Money ‘graphs near the end:
Next question
If all 50 governors received the same information what do 8 of them know that the other 42 do not?
Trump acted too quickly and not fast enough. Orange Man Bad.
Do they fail to have a (D) after their names?
This morning Fox was all over the story from NY Times saying Trump was lying when he said he didn’t see the memo from Navarro. They sounded exactly like CNN.
Aaaaand the scorpion Trump was riding stings him.
Who knew.
Bureacrat backstabber, nothing more.
Quarantine NYC & Washington State and release the rest of the country from Federal quarantines.
Leave this up to local authorities, NOT state governors (who may or may not be running for President/VP)
If Fauci is so brilliant then why as the head of Infectious Diseases, didn’t he:
1. Make sure the CDC could perform massive numbers of testing during a pandemic?
2. Make sure each State had the proper amount of gloves, masks, ventilators, and PPE in emergency stockpiles?
Fauci is a Monday Morning Quarterback who can only figure out the winning method when the final score is known.
Fauci is but one of the many ‘unuseful idiots’ that President Trump has to deal with on a daily basis.
Fauci thinks he has the power to run the USA, but fails to realize that Trump only keeps him around to show the American Public how corrupt and incompetent the government bureaucracy really is.
KEEP DRAINING THE SWAMP.
That being said, timing is everything in politics and now is not the right time to pull the plug on Fauci.
Isn’t it hilarious how the same people who back in January and February were screaming about Trump being a RACIST for stopping flights from China and saying that this virus was no worse than the flu and if you get it “Eh its no big deal” now think they are SO smart in what they would have done differently..everyone becomes a genius AFTER the fact isnt that adorable
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