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For a little cross posting. Especially read the last bit. These people are inhuman.
Acting Homeland Security secretary: “We are not going to test our way out of this”
From CNN’s Geneva Sands
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf speaks during a press briefing at the White House on April 1. Alex Brandon/AP
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, a member of the White House coronavirus taskforce, emphasized the need for mitigation to combat the pandemic in the US.
Wolf, speaking to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee on Wednesday, said he wanted to “emphasize some very basic things, and that is mitigation works, so we’re not going to test our way out of this." He added that washing your hands, not touching your face and ensuring social distancing are key.
Wolf said the department is urging the preservation of personal protection equipment so that doctors hospitals and nursing homes can make them last longer than that one time.
“Instead of having that gown or that mask or this glove, being a 70 cent pair of gloves, we need them to be a $100 pair of gloves and we need those facilities to start treating those gloves or those masks or those respirators much, much differently,” Wolf said.
An internal memorandum written by U.S. officials and addressed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warns that cutting funding to the World Health Organization, as President Donald Trump said he would do Tuesday, would erode America’s global standing, threaten U.S. lives and hobble global efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
The memo, which was prepared before Trump’s Rose Garden announcement, was written by officials within the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and includes a detailed list of how U.S. funding to the WHO helps countries in the Middle East control the pandemic.
Toadglans doesn’t give a damn.
None of this matters to Toadglans.
He’s not interested in solving problems.
He’s interested in blaming others for these problems.
That is his entire pResiduncy in a nutshell.
Trump: "But is there a downside?"
We don’t care about no stinkin’ standing we want all these shitholes and Europe to fear us.
These deep-staters just never give up on the being-smart-and-experienced thing, do they?
The only way that people like this learn is to force them to perform the work at their own peril. Force the jerk to be radiation-worker certified in a radioactive environment or a pandemic first-responder against Ebola or COVID-19, and he would understand why he doesn’t reuse PPE.
The miners that worked beneath Chernobyl to halt the disaster knew they were sacrificing their lives because they had no PPE. Dirty/failing PPE is useless. Wolf is an ignorant tool who apparently doesn’t mind wasting other people’s lives.
Claire McCaskill said earlier that he can’t cut funding, because it’s already been appropriated.
Trump is holding out for not just the absolute lead in corpses but the per capita crown.
USA USA USA!
Addressed to the denier at the State Department, Mike Pomposity?
Heh. That fat head must not have allowed the words to penetrate.
Pompy don’t care. He is too busy lecturing world leaders on the Rapture.
Pausing funding to the organization, the memo said, “will impact over $50 million in U.S. assistance planned to help host governments address urgent needs and risks undermining the U.S. narrative of a long-standing health leader, ceding ground to the (People’s Republic of China).”
Yes, and didn’t I read that the Trumpies were going to accuse Joe Biden of being too friendly to China?
Uh huh. Projection.
I just feel like screaming… about 10 times a day. But it’s like driving by a collision, it’s so hard to not keep looking, even though it constantly makes me sick to my stomach.
I’m making a big ol’ cake filled with revenge and ice cream and storing it in the freezer to dish out in the near future.
Yup
It really got amped , because Gary Locke (a Chinese American) was in that ad.
https://twitter.com/infinite_scream/status/1250536530839580672
https://twitter.com/infinite_scream/status/1250534127348199425
https://twitter.com/infinite_scream/status/1250531204820013058
Cathartic.
That’s only three! But that’s okay… it gets the point across.
…erode America’s global standing, threaten U.S. lives and hobble global efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Recall Trump’s comments in 9/11?
”40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest — and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest,” Trump said in the WWOR interview. “And now it’s the tallest.”
Trump’s gut reaction to the horror of 9/11 is very telling!
Trump floated the idea of herd immunity despite the forecast of more than 1M American deaths…
As for global standing…Trump only cares about his strong man standing with the dictators and murderers!
Trump does NOT give any effing sh*t about anything in these trying and troubling times…except what is good for Trump!
