bearister said:

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"I'll bet no future President will ever hang Trump's portrait in the White House. It will be impossible to shower even false praise on the most vile of men. His Presidency will be like Chernobyl. Something to be sealed off. A poison to be contained." Steve Schmidt

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AunBear89 said:

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" I wonder who was in charge of keeping people at the White House COVID-free. "

The leader of the Corona Task Force. This guy...


What could possibly go wrong?

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dimitrig said:

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AunBear89 said:

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" I wonder who was in charge of keeping people at the White House COVID-free. "

The leader of the Corona Task Force. This guy...


What could possibly go wrong?

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What motive would he have to want to kill the POTUS? There's nothing in it for him...

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bearister said:

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" The ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine has quit his post at the National Institutes of Health, charging that the Trump administration "ignores scientific expertise, overrules public health guidance and disrespects career scientists".

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Rick Arthur Bright is an American immunologist, vaccine researcher, former public health official, and whistleblower. He was the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) from 2016 to 2020.

In May 2020 he filed a whistleblower complaint, alleging that his early warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic were ignored by the Trump administration and illegally retaliated against him by ousting him from his role and demoting him to a position at the National Institutes of Health.

On October 6, 2020 Bright resigned from the government, citing Trump administration political interference with science agencies.

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bearister said:

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Why the White House coronavirus testing strategy was flawed - Axios


https://www.axios.com/white-house-outbreak-coronavirus-testing-61cc7daf-0020-40da-a71e-7aa98764ed15.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

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dimitrig said:

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"Don McNeil, a New York Times science and health reporter whose beat is "plagues and pestilences," has been one of the most essential voices on the coronavirus. Now, he's out with "A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On," about the arrival of the "medical cavalry" (runs on Page D4 of today's paper!):

Since January, when I began covering the pandemic, I have been a consistently gloomy Cassandra, reporting on the catastrophe that experts saw coming ...

Here's the key paragraph: "Events have moved faster than I thought possible. I have become cautiously optimistic. Experts are saying, with genuine confidence, that the pandemic in the United States will be over far sooner than they expected, possibly by the middle of next year."

Already the United States is faring much better than it did during the [1918 pandemic, which took] 675,000 lives. The country's population at the time was 103 million, so that toll is equivalent to 2 million dead today. ...
Operation Warp Speed the government's agreement to subsidize vaccine companies' clinical trials and manufacturing costs appears to have been working with remarkable efficiency." Axios

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The reality is that the 1918 pandemic was much more deadly than COVID-19, not that we've really done anything any better. COVID-19 does not generally kill healthy young adults like the 1918 pandemic did.

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BearNIt said:

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The current Trump policy for COVID 19 is herd immunity. This is just freakin insane and will cost thousands of lives, especially with the number of positive cases rising in certain parts of the United States. Starting to see an increase in cases coming through the ED.

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bearister said:

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Chris Christie says he was in ICU for 7 days battling Covid-19, urges Americans to wear masks


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/chris-christie-says-he-was-icu-7-days-battling-covid-n1243589

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dimitrig said:

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82gradDLSdad said:

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dimitrig said:

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bearister said:

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"Don McNeil, a New York Times science and health reporter whose beat is "plagues and pestilences," has been one of the most essential voices on the coronavirus. Now, he's out with "A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On," about the arrival of the "medical cavalry" (runs on Page D4 of today's paper!):

Since January, when I began covering the pandemic, I have been a consistently gloomy Cassandra, reporting on the catastrophe that experts saw coming ...

Here's the key paragraph: "Events have moved faster than I thought possible. I have become cautiously optimistic. Experts are saying, with genuine confidence, that the pandemic in the United States will be over far sooner than they expected, possibly by the middle of next year."

Already the United States is faring much better than it did during the [1918 pandemic, which took] 675,000 lives. The country's population at the time was 103 million, so that toll is equivalent to 2 million dead today. ...
Operation Warp Speed the government's agreement to subsidize vaccine companies' clinical trials and manufacturing costs appears to have been working with remarkable efficiency." Axios

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The reality is that the 1918 pandemic was much more deadly than COVID-19, not that we've really done anything any better. COVID-19 does not generally kill healthy young adults like the 1918 pandemic did.

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I thought I was pessimistic. 100 years of medical advancement and we have not done anything better in this pandemic? Seems impossible.

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The medicine is a lot better, but people are still the same.

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Maybe worse. We know better but still ignore best practices. We've chosen to fail.

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