The major players at the network originally held brainstorming efforts to see if they could somehow tweak the numbers or to spin the poll to somehow make Trump look bad. According to these multiple sources close to the situation, the management was upset that the droves of critical medical professionals whom they generally anonymously quote did not respond to the questionnaire. They were doubly upset when they found that this was due to the fact that they don't actually exist.
One executive was said to be especially upset by the fact that several people has already written stories focused on the expected poor numbers for the task force. According to one mid level manager who was at the meeting the executive in question went on a tear and demanded "What are we supposed to do with all these damning stories about Trump when we don't have the right F-ing survey results to go with them"?
Eventually the decision was made to sit on the results and engage a different pollster who might be able to better track down the nonexistent anonymous medical professionals that are so critical of the task force or otherwise come up with a better way of finding the desired negative outcome.
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Major network won't publish survey of medical professionals praising US response to Covid-19
Multiple sources have confirmed
MULTIPLE ANONYMOUS SOURCES LIL SCHITTY!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! GOD YOU ARE A FAILING ASSHOLE!!!!!
A chic her calling herself Annonymous complaining about Annonymous sources.
Too Cray cray
CBS has results of a poll. But didn't report on it. The news media are a major prpblemvto the country.
So now Ch is reduced to just making s++t up.
I actually clicked on the blue headline at the top because I wanted to link to the article itself. Got nothing.
Then I noticed the name at the bottom.
Gaegan Toddard.
Must be the disaffected cousin of Taegan Goddard who, I hear, is a White Supremacist Neo Nazi Aryan Nationalist supporter of Trump.
Democrats fret as Joe Biden becomes ‘irrelevant’ in coronavirus crisis
By Jon Levine
March 28, 2020 | 3:17pm NY Post
Wait! False information above.
I just discovered that Gaegan Toddard is only a pseudonym for someone who is not at all related to T. Goddard, and is NOT a White Supremacist Neo Nazi Aryan Nationalist supporter of Trump at all, although he IS a supporter of Trump.
His real, birth certificate name is Andreyez Ratatosky and his place of birth is listed as Moscow.
It is rumored that he and Moscow Mitch are friends.
Anonymous Myballs said...
CBS has results of a poll. But didn't report on it.
ANOTHER PILE OF HORSE SHIT!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
...who, I hear, is a White Supremacist Neo Nazi Aryan Nationalist supporter of Trump.
yeah, but he ain't no pederast, pederast.
Yeah? Neither am I, Rattypoo.
But you ARE a lying racistic xenophobic White Supremacist homophobic NeoNazi Aryan Nationalist Islamaphobic supporter of Trump.
And yet I do not wish that you would die. Just repent and change.
Confirmed coronavirus cases reach 1 million worldwide
Yahoo News
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe reached one million on Thursday, according to tracking by Johns Hopkins University.
There have been more than 50,000 reported deaths from the virus so far, including thousands in the United States, China, Iran and large numbers in such European countries as Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom. Roughly half of the world’s population has been in some kind of lockdown or settle-in-place order to limit movement and the spread of the pandemic, including all of India’s 1.3 billion people.
I left out sexist.
Confirmed coronavirus cases reach 1 million worldwide
Guarantee you it's far more than that because China and Russia are not reporting true numbers.
It is, double that number, China, Russia and N. Korea are all lying , they don't value life as we Do.
All human life.
James is all of a sudden very pro-life.
I also left out moronic.
James said he doesn't call people Names.
Trump held his China Virus Update.
Did Slow Joe do his?
Not the first James lied.
Rush makes a good point. Companies stopped making medical devices like respirators because of the medical device tax from obamacare. Remember that?
Bernie ain't going anywhere. As the DNC pushes back the Convention to late August and Biden refuses to agree to 3 debates with President Trump.
""This is the Beginning of the End of the Pandemic" - Dr. Stephen Smith Announces Hydroxy-Choloroquine Study that is "Game Changer" in Battle Against Coronavirus"
Yep.....the fish stinks from the head down!!!!!
global pandemic. (AFP/Getty Images)
Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.
The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts, said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program.
On Wednesday, USAID granted an emergency extension to the program, issuing $2.26 million over the next six months to send experts who will help foreign labs squelch the pandemic. But program leaders say the funding will do little to further the initiative's original mission.
“Look at the name: Our efforts were to predict this before it happens. That’s the part of the program that was exciting — and that’s the part I’m worried about,” Daszak said.
“It's absolutely critical that we don’t drop the idea of a large-scale, proactive, predictive program that tries to catch pandemics before they happen. Cutting a program that could in any way reduce the risk of things like COVID-19 happening again is, by any measure, shortsighted," he added.
POTUS.....
PIECE OF TOTALLY USELESS SHIT.......works for me for trump!!!!!
It was a 5 year Grant that ran out. Sorry to spoil the spin with facts.
And trump did nothing another inconvenient fact you fucking idiot!!!!!
So only 10 days after the first confirmed case in the U.S., Trump halted all flights from China. The press criticized and called him racist. Now they admit he was right.
Then he says he is hopeful of the treatment drug hydroxychloroquine. The media criticized again. And now again, they admit he was right.
We might make faster progress if the biased news media would stop being an obstacle.
So only 10 days after the first confirmed case in the U.S., Trump halted all flights from China
That sure was ineffective asshole!!!!!! The media did criticize him and a idiot from AZ died listening to him....As to hope....the media never criticized the potential treatment, only that trump was out of order giving false hope which BTW....now a national shortage of the drug.....god you are a dumb fuck....the media is not an obstacle to science trump eliminating science people is!!!!...only in your midget mind!!!!!
Ineffective my ass. It's being universally praised.
We don't call you dopey for nothing.
Deaths reported in the USA each day according to the
WorldOmeter website
Yesterday the total number of reported deaths in our country was
968, meaning that the curve became a little less steep (an increase of
only 81 being better than the previous two days' increases of 339 and 210).
It is still too early, however, to tell whether this may represent the
beginning of a flattening of the curve because the total number of cases
reported went from 26,473 the day before to 29,874 yesterday, an
increase of 3,401. Still, we may hope.
April
02 6,070 --968
01 5,102 --1,049
March
31 4,053 --912
30 3,156 --573
29 2,583 --363
28 2,220 --525
27 1,695 --400
26 1,295 --268
25 1,027 --247
24 780 --225
23 555 --141
22 414 --113
21 301 -- 46
20 255 -- 49
19 206 -- 56
18 150 -- 40
17 110 -- 23
16 87 --18
15 69 --12
14 57 --9
13 48 --7
12 41 --3
11 38 --8
10 30 --4
9 26 --4
8 22 --3
7 19 --4
6 15 --3
5 12 --1
4 11 --2
3 9 --3
2 6 --5
1 1 --0
Feb 29 --1
April 3, 2020 at 8:29 AM
23 Nations have issued directives stopping trade of items that their Nation needs first.
Trump Sows Uncertainty and Casts Blame
April 2, 2020 at 9:34 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 163 Comments
“In the three weeks since declaring the novel coronavirus outbreak a national emergency, President Trump has delivered a dizzying array of rhetorical contortions, sowed confusion and repeatedly sought to cast blame on others,” the Washington Post reports.
“History has never known a crisis response as strong as his own, Trump says — yet the self-described wartime president claims he is merely backup. He has faulted governors for acting too slowly and, as he did Thursday, has accused overwhelmed state and hospital officials of complaining too much and of hoarding supplies.”
“America is winning its war with the coronavirus, the president says — yet the death toll rises still, and in the best-case scenario more Americans will die than in the wars in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.”
“The economy is the strongest ever and will rebound in no time, he says — yet stock markets have cratered and in the past two weeks a record 10 million people filed for unemployment insurance.”
The tone change of Jamestown Death Cult is poll tested by the DMV.
That is the reason she post "Hope".
DON'T READ ANY OF THIS. IT'S TOO DEPRESSING.
Trump Ended Pandemic Early-Warning Program
April 3, 2020 at 6:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
Los Angeles Times: “Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.”
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Fauci Calls for Nationwide Lockdown
April 2, 2020 at 11:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 158 Comments
Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended on that all states across the U.S. implement stay-at-home orders, Axios reports.
“The recommendation stands in contrast to President Trump’s calls for ‘flexibility.’ Nearly 40 states have issued stay-at-home orders to promote social distancing as a way to combat the novel coronavirus — but the orders vary in strictness and duration.”
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Trump Falsely Says Plane Passengers Are Tested
April 2, 2020 at 11:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 136 Comments
President Trump falsely claimed that airplane and train passengers are being given “very strong tests” for the coronavirus both before departure and after arrival, CNN reports.
Said Trump: “They’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”
DITTO
Most Disapprove of Trump’s Handling of Crisis
April 3, 2020 at 6:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 86 Comments
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds a majority of Americans, 54%, disapprove of President Trump’s handling of the response to the coronavirus, while 43% approve.
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A ‘S**t Sandwich’ In Florida
April 3, 2020 at 6:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 74 Comments
Politico: “Already anxious about Trump’s chances in the nation’s biggest swing state, Republicans now are dealing with thousands of unemployed workers unable to navigate the Florida system to apply for help. And the blowback is directed straight at Trump’s top allies in the state, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott.”
“Privately, Republicans admit that the $77.9 million system that is now failing Florida workers is doing exactly what Scott designed it to do — lower the state’s reported number of jobless claims after the great recession.”
Said one DeSantis adviser: “It’s a shit sandwich, and it was designed that way by Scott. It wasn’t about saving money. It was about making it harder for people to get benefits or keep benefits so that the unemployment numbers were low to give the governor something to brag about.”
IF TRUMP LOSES FLORIDA, HE LOSES THE PRESIDENCY
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Legal Battle Underway That Could Decide Election
April 3, 2020 at 6:38 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Comments
“President Trump’s political operation is launching a multimillion-dollar legal campaign aimed at blocking Democrats from drastically changing voting rules in response to the coronavirus outbreak,” Politico reports.
“In the past several weeks, the reelection campaign and the RNC have helped to oversee maneuvering in a handful of battleground states with an eye toward stopping some Democratic efforts to alter voting laws, and to bolster Trump. The mobilization is being closely coordinated with Republicans at the state and local levels.”
“The Trump campaign and RNC are actively engaged in litigation in Wisconsin, where the parties are at loggerheads over an array of issues including voter identification, and in New Mexico, where the battle involves vote-by-mail. The skirmishing has also spread across key states like Pennsylvania and Georgia, where the well-organized Trump apparatus has fought over changes that could sway the outcome of the election.”
REPUBLICANS DESPERATELY WANT TO SUPPRESS VOTING
DON'T READ ANY OF THIS EITHER
Jobs Report Show Start of Labor Market Collapse
April 3, 2020 at 8:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 139 Comments
“Employers shed 701,000 jobs in March, the start of a labor-market collapse that could push the U.S. unemployment rate to record highs,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Key takeaway: “The data doesn’t yet fully reflect the millions of unemployment-insurance claims individuals filed in the last two weeks of March due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
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Trump Says States Need to ‘Work Out’ Competing Bids
April 3, 2020 at 8:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 80 Comments
“President Trump on Thursday said states need to work out competing bids for medical equipment among themselves, and continued to blame states for failing to stockpile medical equipment like ventilators. Governors are sounding the alarm that they are bidding against themselves, as well as the federal government, for much-needed medical equipment and supplies,” CBS News reports.
Said Trump: “Well they have that, and they have to work that out.”
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Experts Say We’re Underestimating Length of Disruption
April 3, 2020 at 8:11 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 114 Comments
“Public health experts are increasingly worried that Americans are underestimating how long the coronavirus pandemic will disrupt everyday life in the country, warning that the Trump administration’s timelines are offering many a false sense of comfort,” STAT reports.
Meanwhile, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds 44% of Americans they think they will be able to resume their regular routine by June 1.
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Lawmakers Worry About Stimulus Rollout
April 3, 2020 at 7:05 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 82 Comments
Axios: “Congress passed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill to help struggling Americans and businesses hit hard by the coronavirus. Now, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle worry the agencies responsible for delivering the aid may not be ready for the task.”
“Some fear a repeat of what happened with the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act in 2013 when the site crashed due to tremendous demand.”
4 post promptly scrolled.
James, again if you write in conversation form I might read it.
Senator Charles E. Schumer
United States Senator
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Senator Schumer:
Thank you for your Democrat public relations letter and incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.
As you are aware, Vice President Pence is in charge of the Task Force. By almost all accounts, he has done a spectacular job.
The Defense Production Act (DPA) has been consistently used by my team and me for the purchase of billions of dollars’ worth of equipment, medical supplies, ventilators, and other related items. It has been powerful leverage, so powerful that companies generally do whatever we are asking, without even a formal notice. They know something is coming, and that’s all they need to know.
A “senior military officer” is in charge of purchasing, distributing, etc. His name is Rear Admiral John Polowczyk. He is working 24 hours a day, and is highly respected by everyone. If you remember, my team gave you this information, but for public relations purposes, you choose to ignore it.
We have given New York many things, including hospitals, medical centers, medical supplies, record numbers of ventilators, and more. You should have had New York much better prepared than you did, and as Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx said yesterday, New York was very late in its fight against the virus. As you are aware, the Federal Government is merely a back-up for state governments. Unfortunately, your state needed far more of a back-up than most others.
If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New York, then New York would not have been so completely unprepared for the “invisible enemy.” No wonder AOC and others are thinking about running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.
Fortunately, we have been working with your state and city governments, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill DeBlasio, to get the job done. You have been missing in action, except when it comes to the “press.” While you have stated that you don’t like Andrew Cuomo, you ought to start working alongside him for the good of all New Yorkers.
I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call. Or, in the alternative, call Rear Admiral Polowczyk.
Sincerely yours,
Donald J. Trump
James , During the Democrat Debates, how many times did the Moderators ask questions any Canidate about China Virus?
Which Canidate(s) brought it up on stage?
Y'ALL BETTER BE EVEN MORE SURE YOU DO NOT READ THIS:
Trump Is Working to RAISE Gas Prices
April 3, 2020 at 10:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 38 Comments
President Trump on Twitter:
“Just spoke to my friend MBS (Crown Prince) of Saudi Arabia, who spoke with President Putin of Russia, & I expect & hope that they will be cutting back approximately 10 Million Barrels, and maybe substantially more which, if it happens, will be GREAT for the oil & gas industry!”
Restricting supply will INCREASE PRICES FOR CONSUMERS.
Just yesterday, Trump celebrated the decline in gas prices as like a massive tax cut:
“Now, gasoline’s gonna be 99 cents a gallon and less, you know that. That’s already starting, it’s popping up — 99 cents. So that’s like giving a massive tax cut to people of our country.”
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WELL, THAT DIDN'T LAST LONG. FAR MORE IMPORTANT TO TRUMP ARE HIS RICH SUPPORTERS WHO ABOVE ALL ELSE KOWTOW TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES.
So Trump brags about decreasing oil prices for us consumers and then does what he can to INCREASE them.
So the climate will keep getting worse
and right now when so many Americans are suffering,
gas prices rise.
Any post I see with taegan goddard, I skip over it.
I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call. Or, in the alternative, call Rear Admiral Polowczyk.
Sincerely yours,
Donald J. Trump
this was epic. schumer has always been a complete fucking asshole. and trump is treating him like one.
heh.
Any post I see with taegan goddard, I skip over it.
goddard and the pederast are too stupid to realize that foreign oil over-production is hurting our domestic oil production and in turn out domestic oil WORKERS.
it's these workers who are now unemployed that trump is trying to protect.
dumb fucks like goddard and the pederast keep bringing more stupid even though we're all stocked up around here.
Myballs said...
Any post I see with taegan goddard, I skip over it.
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Well, Balls, I guess you don't want to see what, among others, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Axios, Fox News, CNN, ABC News/Ipsos polling, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and Trump on Twitter are saying.
As for me, whenever I came across something from a news or opinion source I disagree with, I pay attention. I want to know what those who do not agree with me are thinking so that I may be better informed. I consider that to be part of my duty as a thinking American citizen and voter.
Reverend...
Listening to the opinions of others does not make you better informed. In fact, it likely means you are "misinformed" since 9 out of 10 media sources are spinning the reality not reporting it and 10 out of 10 political opinion writers are spinning.
I will give you props for actually looking at the numbers yourself. While I prefer the CDC numbers over worldometers (simply because the CDC is only including the official reports from the states where worldometer includes additional less official results) at least you are looking at the numbers.
You can also learn about what the task force is doing by watching the task force briefings.
If you want ridiculous spin about what they are doing, then read opinions about it so you can live in a fantasy world as to what you might want to believe is happening.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Ineffective my ass. It's being universally praised.
BWAAAAAAAA!!!!!! By you maybe!!!!! God you really are stupid!!!!
Well then post those other sources. I am not going to read goddard's take on them.
As for me, whenever I came across something from a news or opinion source I disagree with, I pay attention.
i was particularly impressed with how you promoted MSDNC asshat joe scarborough to epidemiologist, pederast.
Myballs said...
Any post I see with taegan goddard, I skip over it."
You are not alone.
Jamestown Death Cult is not conversational, that requires independent thought and reasoning.
If anyone is living in a right wing fantasy world, Ch, it's you. You are bound to know better, but you still tow the Trump line.
As for watching task force briefings, I do.
My 101 year old father in NC who, although a registered Democrat, probably voted Republican for every President since Eisenhower,* literally thinks Trump is crazy.
He too watches those briefings and says, "Why doesn't he just shut up and let his experts talk? He rambles on and on and brags incessantly and says stupid things."
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*I'm not totally sure about whether Dad did or didn't vote for Trump. If he did, I know he regrets it now.
Balls says:
I am not going to read goddard's take on them.
_________
That's just BS. So often what Goddard posts is nothing but their own take/opinion/statement(s).
Listening to the opinions of others does not make you better informed.
IOW's in Lil Schitty world.....you can only learn something from where???? You, Trump? Fox, ????? Sad Lil Schitty, that is how you learn ......from others with differing views......which you limit to one side.....and defend trump no matter how fucking stupid he is.....!!!
Biden Leads In New National Polls
April 3, 2020 at 10:23 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 305 Comments
Two new national polls:
Grinnell College/Selzer: Biden 47%, Trump 43%
The Economist/YouGov: Biden 46%, Trump 42%
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Whose "take" is that?
*As for watching task force briefings, I do.*
Do you watch Biden's Daily?
Now I understand why ballz is as fucked up as I thought....he listens and worships the dictates of the deaf asshole, Rush !!!!
Conservative talk-radio host and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Rush Limbaugh on Thursday floated the theory that deaths from coronavirus have been inflated so that governments could further “the policies they have put in place.”
Citing the latest record-breaking unemployment claims numbers at the top of his radio show, Limbaugh groused that the 10 million jobless claims filed over the past two weeks aren’t “enough for people like Bill Gates” and others who “want to shut down the entire country.”
After referencing recent White House modeling projecting between 100,000 and 240,000 U.S. deaths if the country adheres to current social-distancing guidelines, the right-wing talker then cited an article written by a pathologist to bolster the claim that governments could be fudging their numbers.
And think he just got a big medal from trump.....whatta fucking joke!!!!!!
Do you watch Biden's Daily?
BIDEN AIN'T POTUS YOU DUMB FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!! DO YOU FUCK GOATS DAILY?????
California and NY Govenors have been giving everything they have asked for.
Do you watch Biden's Daily?
the chic going by the moniker here is ragging
Her answer was "No".
The Biden stunt failed
IOW's in Lil Schitty world.....you can only learn something from where????
Looking things up yourself, or in the case of the covid-19 actually listening to the epidemiologists like Dr Fauci and Dr Birx...
rather than listen to political writers who are now "experts" on infectious disease a few weeks after being "experts" on the economy or "experts" on foreign policy, etc... etc... Bloggers like Taegan Goddard are quite literally experts on absolutely nothing.
You can certain read someone else's opinion and take it with a grain of salt. But if I want to know certain things I go to the source and look them up. I don't rely on someone else to look it up for me and then provide me their spin.
It just takes more work to be better informed.
BIDEN AIN'T POTUS YOU DUMB FUCKING IDIOT!!!!!!
Good thing too...
No real reason to take anything this clown says seriously.
And yet, everything says by taegan Goddard. So he plagerizes comments from others, unattributed. And this is your justification?? Oh my.
Alky calls the President's daily briefing a waste of time and a "dog and pony show".
They are a complete waste of time.....plus he adds NOTHING!!!!!!!!! All he is doing is trying to act important as he sees the handwriting on the wall is not good for his future!!!!
Looking things up yourself, or in the case of the covid-19
You should take your own advice loser.....You do a lot of preaching expecting others to listen to you....but, when I vet the BS you post all I find is opinions.....BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
As I suspected....the dumb ass Gov of Ga is an Ag graduate of UGA!!!!!!!! Sad how low the quality of that top ranked school graduates are!!!!
this was epic. schumer has always been a complete fucking asshole. and trump is treating him like one.
heh.
It was an epic take down. Schumer is still putting the fire on his ass out.
Biden has “been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue for the past four decades.”
- Robert Gates
https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/01/robert-gates-makes-a-damning-case-against-joe-biden-as-commander-in-chief/
WELL, LOOKS LIKE WE SHOULDN'T BE BLAMING POOR OLE TRUMP SO MUCH. LOOKS LIKE FAUCI AND WHO AND CH'S MUCH PRAISED CDC WERE WRONG TOO
From RealClearPolitics (not Goddard!)
Virus Experts' Early Statements Belie 'Prescient' Portrayal (CAPITALS ADDED BY JAMES)
As predictions of the coronavirus’ impact have grown more dire and the White House has BELATEDLY acknowledged the pathogen’s repercussions on the nation, the media have increasingly sought to portray the administration as out of touch with early warnings from medical experts about the coming storm. A closer look at the public statements of THOSE VERY SAME EXPERTS during the early weeks of the outbreak reveals that the administration’s initial reassurances were largely aligned with the assessments of the medical community.
Today Anthony Fauci is held up by the media as a national hero of the pandemic response and the only reason to listen to a White House coronavirus briefing. Yet, rewind the clock back to January and his public statements essentially mirrored those of the administration.
On Jan. 21, he emphasized that it was unclear whether the virus could spread from person to person: “Is it a continual spread? Is it sustained? We're not quite sure yet.” A University of Minnesota expert offered that “this is one of those inflection moments in outbreak history where we have enough information to be very concerned, but not enough information to say this is going to be an international crisis.”
CAUTIOUS? YES. BUT WRONG!
In a Jan. 23 Journal of the American Medical Association podcast, Dr. Fauci repeatedly downplayed the virus’ potential impact on the U.S., noting that all five cases here were travelers from China. He also noted that due to limited testing in China, the number of infections was likely much higher than official counts, meaning that the death rate of the virus was likely much lower than feared.
WRONG.
Asked whether the U.S. might contemplate city-wide shutdowns like those China was enacting at the time, Fauci replied, “There's no chance in the world that we could do that to Chicago or to New York or to San Francisco, but they're doing it. So, let's see what happens.”
SO WRONG!
Most importantly, he added that it was still quite possible the Chinese could get control of the outbreak and prevent it from becoming a global issue, and that even if there were more cases in the U.S., “the CDC, as usual, is on top of things.”
WRONG.
A day later, Dr. David Heymann, the former head of WHO’s response to SARS, offered that, unlike SARS, the coronavirus “looks like it doesn’t transmit through the air very easily and probably transmits through close contact,” in contrast with recent guidance that it can spread simply through breathing.
WRONG.
The same day, Fauci emphasized that other coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS could not sustain person-to-person spread like the flu and that such viruses “maybe never will.” For its part, WHO noted that no person-to-person transmission of COVID-19 had been reported outside of China and that all of the deaths had been limited to that country.
WRONG.
Fauci also took care to praise the Chinese government for “being quite transparent” and said he was “impressed” with officials’ cooperation.
?
For its part, the CDC issued a press release on Jan. 24 asserting that “the immediate risk of this new virus to the American public is believed to be low” and instead asking that the public refrain from traveling to China and focus on the seasonal flu rather than the minimal risk of the coronavirus.
SIMPLY WRONG
At a congressional briefing that same day, in response to multiple questions about whether the CDC needed additional funding to combat the disease, Director Robert Redfield reassured senators that it had all of the funds it needed.
VERY WRONG!
At the same time, some lawmakers began to break ranks with the medical community. Florida Sen. Rick Scott argued that despite the medical community’s calm reassurances that the risk was minimal, the White House should preemptively declare a public health emergency on the grounds that the information from China was likely incomplete and masked the true global threat of the disease.
RIGHT!
But two days later, Fauci again minimized the virus’ impact and portrayed it as a Chinese issue, asserting that “it’s a very, very low risk to the United States. … It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about. Because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in [from China].”
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
But the following day, Jan. 27, Fauci was criticizing the lack of Chinese transparency, pointing in particular to new information that asymptotic individuals could be spreading the virus. Despite this, he continued to cite airport screening of travelers from China as the primary defense against it spreading to the U.S.
STILL WRONG.
On Jan. 28, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar repeated the assessment of the nation’s medical leadership that “the risk to any individual American is extremely low.”
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
The CDC also pushed back on reports from China that persons without symptoms could be spreading the disease, saying it had not been able to verify them. Fauci went a step further, claiming that “in all the history of respiratory viruses, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks. An epidemic is not driven by asymptomatic carriers.” Unfortunately, such guidance is coming under increasing scrutiny and may have helped the pandemic spread throughout the globe.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Even as WHO and the U.S. declared public health emergencies, Fauci repeated in a Jan. 31 White House briefing that “we still have a low risk to the American public,” which was echoed minutes later by Azar: “I want to stress: The risk of infection for Americans remains low.”
OH SO VERY, VERY, VERY WRONG!
Taking its cue from these medical experts, media reports of the time likewise minimized the dangers of the virus as “trivial” in comparison to flu, which claims tens of thousands of lives each year.
TRAGICALLY WRONG!
NOW THAT COST LIVES!!!
Weeks later, Fauci was still downplaying the risks, saying on Feb. 18 that the “hypothetical danger of coronavirus” to America was “just minuscule” compared to the “real and present danger” of the seasonal flu.
STILL WRONG! STILL!
Days later he finally changed his views and, in the process, was on his way to becoming a media star (WHICH HE OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T FULLY DESERVE, THOUGH HE DID FINALLY STAND UP TO TRUMP!
EVEN THEN, HE HAD A HARD TIME CONVINCING PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WHAT HE FINALLY REALIZED WAS RIGHT!!!!.
I realize that will not be pleasant reading for some of you.
Anonymous, does your husband know you spend your day here?
The New York Times.
"The 1,000-Bed Comfort Was Supposed to Aid New York. It Has 20 Patients."
Yes James I had to waste my time and effort to scroll pass your nonsense garbage.
LOL It wasn't garbage and it wasn't from Goddard.
But be sure NOT to read this:
Fauci and others showed surprising ignorance of what to expect.
AND YET
Two Top Trump Officials Said Pandemic Worried Them Last Year
April 3, 2020 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 47 Comments
“Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, UNDERCUTTING President Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an UNFORESEEN problem,” CNN reports.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Tim Morrison, then a special assistant to the President and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense on the National Security Council, made the comments at the BioDefense Summit IN APRIL 2019.”
CHT pigeon holed James.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Tim Morrison, then a special assistant to the President and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense on the National Security Council, made the comments at the BioDefense Summit IN APRIL 2019.”
Hey stupid old man CHINA lied you fucking imbecile. The human race has been worried since the 1918 Spanish Flu
You’re FUCKING dumb
"Stupid old man" Cali nailed it.
CHINA lied you fucking imbecile.
and our scumbag media rewarded them and protected them for it.
@ Caliphool:
I may be an 'old man' but I'm smart enough to know THIS was shortsighted on the part of the Trump administration:
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Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China AND OTHER COUNTRIES to detect and respond to such a threat.
The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts, said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program.
On Wednesday, USAID granted an emergency extension to the program, issuing $2.26 million over the next six months to send experts who will help foreign labs squelch the pandemic. But program leaders say the funding will do little to further the initiative's original mission.
“Look at the name: Our efforts were to predict this BEFORE it happens. That’s the part of the program that was exciting — and that’s the part I’m worried about,” Daszak said.
“It's absolutely critical that we don’t drop the idea of a large-scale, proactive, predictive program that tries to catch pandemics before they happen. Cutting a program that could in any way reduce the risk of things like COVID-19 happening again is, by any measure, shortsighted," he added.
Stupid old man, so YOU think CHINA would have allowed these people anywhere near Wuhan?? The same country that has lied to the WORLD SINCE DAY 1???
You’re fucking dumber than I give you credit for
No one except self-serving dictators will be able to erase that from the history books of our country and the world.
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This bears repeating:
Two Top Trump Officials Said Pandemic Worried Them LAST YEAR“Two top administration officials last year listed the threat of a pandemic as an issue that greatly worried them, UNDERCUTTING President Trump’s repeated claims that the coronavirus pandemic was an UNFORESEEN problem,” CNN reports.
“Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Tim Morrison, then a special assistant to the President and senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense on the National Security Council, made the comments at the BioDefense Summit IN APRIL 2019.”
God Damn you are stupid
china is asshoe!!!
https://youtu.be/L3tnH4FGbd0
pederast is asshoe!
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
God Damn you are stupid
YES YOU ARE LOSER ALONG WITH YOUR UGA GOV!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!
BTW....Why no comment on Jared saying National Supply is not for the States.....Paula applauds at the genius!!!!!!
Does our Menstal Cramp still stand by his post of last week that this won't be so bad based on his NYPost opinion piece or is he getting concerned about his own well being in the Fl hot spot????????
It’s so cute how desperately you desire my attention, fatman
BWAAAAAAAA!!!!! So man tit lover Paula thinks I want his attention......LOLOLOL
Go away and pat yourself on your wonderful back since no one else will.....God your shit stinks just like trumps!!!!!!!! I can't help your gov...is dumber than you!!!!!!!!
Blogger anonymous said...
As I suspected....the dumb ass Gov of Ga is an Ag graduate of UGA!!!!!!!! Sad how low the quality of that top ranked school graduates are!!!!
April 3, 2020 at 12:14 PM
You’ve been wanting it all day, fatman. You have no life as an obese elderly “man”, you’re right in wheelhouse
Wow fucking dumbass loser.....that really hurt....You must feel real manly now.....!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
So speaks the AA in bookkeeping from FDU.
So speaks the AA in bookkeeping from FDU.
And note no denial, to the fact the fat fuck has no life and has tried to troll all day
I win!!!
Wow fucking dumbass UGA graduate.....your blows are sinking to the level of your zero intellect....very impressive and I be you feel that testosterone flowing in your menial brain.....BTW....I am retired and you are still trolling for income in your loser state!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I hate to tell you, I trolled you good today!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!
Whatever gets you through the day, tubby
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