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Originally Posted by xstarrider
What’s missing facts ? He’s worked as a political hack in his position for decades. His medical expertise is suspect at best, especially regarding such a specialized field as epidemiology. His work with every presidency was based on keeping funding going to certain projects he supported. He’s flip flopped and walked back , oh I am sorry. “ circled back “ so many statements it’s laughable. He disagreed with the prez because the prez tried to shutoff his money pimple and expose huff bull****.
Maybe you forgot how the good dr was hanging out at baseball games maskless during the pandemic while preaching stay at home.
Suspiciously absent from your comment is any discussion about what he said ,or the answers to yet other questions proposed.
Like I said. Here’s your tint to shine. List 5 thing Trump did wrong handling virus. And list 5 things he shoulda done instead.
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You should not have said Facts, and then injected your opinion. That isnt how it works.
Fauci is an immunologist, i think he is qualified.
He disagreed with the way trump was lying daily in his "Corona Virus Updates"
When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19
The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”
The truth: When Trump made this claim, it was too early to tell whether the virus’s spread would be dampened by warmer conditions, though public-health experts and epidemiologists were immediately skeptical of Trump’s comment. But the spring and summer have passed, and the pandemic is still raging.
When: Thursday, February 27
The claim: The outbreak would be temporary: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”
The truth: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.” He was right—the virus has not disappeared.
When: Multiple times
The claim: If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths.
The truth: More than 500000 Americans have died from COVID-19. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. But the number of people who died by suicide in 2017, for example, was roughly 47,000, nowhere near the COVID-19 numbers.
When: Wednesday, June 17
The claim: The pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.”
The truth: Trump made this claim ahead of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the country was still seeing at least 20,000 new daily cases and a second spike in infections was beginning.
When: Thursday, July 2
The claim: The pandemic is “getting under control.”
The truth: Trump’s claim came as the country’s daily cases doubled to about 50,000, a higher count than was seen at the beginning of the pandemic, and as the number continued to rise, fueled by infections in the South and the West.
When: Thursday, August 27
The claim: Trump “launched the largest national mobilization since World War II” against COVID-19, and America “developed, from scratch, the largest and most advanced testing system in the world.”
The truth: These claims are incorrect and misleading. The federal government’s coronavirus response has been roundly criticized as a failure because of flawed and delayed testing, entrenched inequality that has amplified the virus’s effects, and chaotic federal leadership that’s left much of the country’s response up to the states to handle. Trump vacillated on fully invoking the Defense Production Act in March, set off international panic when he mistakenly said he was banning all travel from European nations, and was slow to support social-distancing measures nationwide. Widespread use of the DPA was still rare in July, despite continued shortages of medical supplies
The claim: America is “rounding the corner” and “rounding the final turn” of the pandemic.
The truth: Trump made these claims before and after the country registered 200,000 coronavirus deaths. As the winter approaches, the number of coronavirus cases is increasing in almost every state; in the last week of October, cases rose faster than reported tests in 47 of the 50 states, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
When: Friday, March 6, and Monday, May 11
The claim: “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful” and “If somebody wants to be tested right now, they’ll be able to be tested.”
The truth: Trump made these two claims two months apart, but the truth was the same both times: The U.S. did not have enough testing.
He hyped Hydroxychloroquine as a cure.
He refused to wear a mask, and set a bad example.
"This is a flu, its just like the flu"
"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward in a Feb. 7 phone call.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told Woodward, according to The Post. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.” Last one was the truth, but he never told the American people that. To them...soon we will be at zero.
He should have told us the truth.
He should have told us the best chance we have is to mask up and stop the spread.
He should have had US companies to provide the PPE, that was in shortage for months and months
He should not have made it political, blaming Dems "Its their new hoax".
He should have put the power of the Fed to have one national policy.
He should have got behind and pushed testing instead of saying the numbers make him look bad.
He should have backed the CDC instead of politicizing it by installing donors into positions of power and destroying their credibility.
He should not have given the covid contracts to zero experience donors who instantly created new corps to find and sell PPE to states. Forcing states to outbid each other to get their PPE.
The states should not have had to figure it all out on their own 50 different ways.
He did support the funds to create a vaccine.
Did the virus go away when it got hot?
Did it disappear?
Was it ever under control?
Did Hydroxy save us?
Were we "rounding the corner" when trump said we were?
I was never confused about what Fauci was saying, maybe because i dont listed to FOX or right wing AM radio, those were the ones who got confused. Everyone else had no problem understanding. Mask up, stay 6 ft away, stay home if you can. Seems simple.