WH Overruled CDC Recommendation | Talking Points Memo

White House officials reportedly overruled a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that advised elderly and physically fragile Americans against flying commercial airlines amid coronavirus outbreak fears.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1295703

I think the U.S. will become a test case of just how bad this can be if handled incompetently enough.

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Do you think,maybe, Trump wants those of us who fit into what is listed above might die from the virus and that will save on medicare and medicaid.

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For Trump and his minions, politics is far more important than science and facts.

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The US turned down coronavirus test kits from the WHO. Who did it? And whose profits were they trying to protect?

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Why does he want to kill a large bloc of his voting base?

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The answer to all this is simple. Whatever Trump and the White House says, do the opposite. We all know that Trump and his toadies all LIE. They are completely incapable to telling the truth about anything.

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White House officials reportedly overruled a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control

“We’re shocked,” said no one.

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The president had to approve but every time it came up they ended up in a loop…

STAFF: “Sir, WHO wants to give us test kits”

TRUMP: “I don’t know”

STAFF: “No sir, the WHO”

Trump: “the band?”

Staff: Never mind…

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Old or young, they’re turning against him. From Public Policy Polling

Voters take the virus a lot more seriously than the president does. Only 8% of voters agree with Trump’s claim that the virus is a Democratic hoax, while 82% think the virus is real. Only 16% of Trump’s own voters agree with him that the virus is a hoax.

Trump’s handling of the coronavirus could threaten his reelection. By a 20-point margin, voters say his administration’s handling of the virus makes them less likely to vote for him this fall.

Independents say they’re less likely to vote for Trump by 32 points because of how he’s dealt with this issue. Only 37% of voters agree with Trump’s assessment that his administration is doing a“great job” dealing with the coronavirus, while 53% disagree.

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Black Swan event. We can see the effect it’s having on voting already.

And just wait till suburban Republicans get to vote for Biden in the General.

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This is criminal. Pelosi, how about some impeachment hearings for endangering the public?

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What’s on second and I Don’t Know is on third.

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I think the W.H. was worried that travel to Mar De Merde might be diminished…

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Since Judge Walton called out Barr, he should be first in line to be called subpoenaed to testify.

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The 2016 general election was a Black Swan event. Do you think that we can have two Black Swans this close together?

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Hence the declaration of a national emergency to pump billions into financial support for the hospitality industry.

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Why not? I think we already are.

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Yes. We’re going to pick up so many votes in the suburbs we might turn some around here that are on the verge all the way blue.

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I think so too. And I think it will affect all the down ballot races as well. In their deep secret places, all but the most hopeless really do know which party is competent and which is a carnival show.

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