"We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores." - Joe Biden, 10/25/19
This is what I mean when I say, it's wrong to say that Trump did nothing to stop the pandemic. We would be better off now if he had done nothing. He actually actively encouraged it. You've seen my recent post on how he destroyed the government office that was created specifically to evaluate the safety of vaccines. Obama created a pandemic response team and Trump dismantled it--for no reason whatsoever other than it was something that Obama created.
Trump's culpability is beyond question at this point. All that remains now is to fire him, like you would fire the worker who drove a forklift into a propane tank and blew up the factory. (And when confronted, said that China did it, not him.)
If Clinton won there would have been 0 deaths, 100 percent sure cause I am a brain dead liberal.
Originally posted by: Molly
If Clinton won there would have been 0 deaths, 100 percent sure cause I am a brain dead liberal.
There would have been fewer deaths, possibly far fewer, due to the fact that the pandemic response team would have been intact and Clinton would have listened to the scientists.
If you don't comprehend that, then you are indeed brain-dead.
Originally posted by: Molly
If Clinton won there would have been 0 deaths, 100 percent sure cause I am a brain dead liberal.
No, all 200,000+ lives would not have been saved by a Clinton presidency. But if we had at the beginning moved aggressively to produce enough PPE for medical workers, engaged in aggressive testing and contact tracing, instituted targeted shut-downs, and if we had all worn masks, obviously tens of thousands of lives would have been saved.
I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Oh, even Molly knows that. But she feels compelled to bleat Trumper nonsense as a show of fealty to the Orange One.
Trump's incompetence and selfishness have killed tens of thousands of people. We'll never know how many of those could have been saved if we'd had a decent person as President.
And abortion will continue to kill thousands and thousands into the foreseeable future! We do have a cure for abortion however.
Originally posted by: rdwoodpecker
And abortion will continue to kill thousands and thousands into the foreseeable future! We do have a cure for abortion however.
Yes. Thousands of zygotes.
Originally posted by: rdwoodpecker
And abortion will continue to kill thousands and thousands into the foreseeable future! We do have a cure for abortion however.
Abortion has never killed a human being. An abortion not being available has killed thousands of women.
No, a fetus is not a human being.
Here is what the biden team and advisors were saying from Jan thru March
Statements reviewed by Fox News, however, show that several members of Biden's advisory committee haven't been consistent on the issue, and in many cases they downplayed the threat of the pandemic -- underscoring how fraught political attacks over the coronavirus can be.
"Joe Biden’s hand selected experts downplayed the threat of the coronavirus, compared it to the flu, said it would go away with warm weather, praised China’s transparency, and opposed President Trump’s travel restrictions on China and Europe,"
Democratic health expert Zeke Emanuel
"People recognized that this is a serious public health problem requiring serious attention and that it could become a much more serious health issue," Emanuel said after his return. "But, at the moment, most people are thinking that there may be a bit of an overreaction by many, maybe even our own country. If you look at the numbers dispassionately, there are just over 1,000 cases outside of China. Half of them are on that cruise ship in Japan. So, considering the world's population of more than 7 billion people, that’s not a lot."
In January, Emanuel admonished Americans, saying in an interview with CNBC: "Everyone in America should take a very big breath, slow down, and stop panicking and being hysterical. We are having a little too much histrionics on this.”
Emanuel also advised Americans against wearing protective masks, saying that "wearing the mask is going to -- not prevent you from getting the virus.
Within hours of President Trump's decision to restrict travel from China on Jan. 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic.
Lisa Monaco served as the former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Obama. On Feb. 7, she wrote an op-ed downplaying the lethality of coronavirus.
“The good news thus far is that the coronavirus appears to be less lethal than its viral cousin SARS was in 2002 and far less lethal than Ebola was in 2014," Monaco wrote
On March 12, speaking to CNN, Monaco sharply criticized the travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration on China. "It's not the best thing they can do right now to contain this virus," she said.
On Feb. 17, top infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, who advises Trump's coronavirus task force, announced that the risk of coronavirus infection in the U.S. is "miniscule."
Fauci also told USA Today that people shouldn't wear masks unless they are contagious.
On March 9, Fauci remarked that going to campaign rallies may not be a bad idea:
