Posted on 04/03/2020 6:37:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's decision to let states chart their own responses to the coronavirus crisis rather than impose a national strategy will cost thousands of lives and is likely to result in an open-ended outbreak rolling across the country, a dozen public health experts told NBC News.
The only way to win what President Donald Trump has called a war against an "invisible enemy" is to establish a unified federal command, the experts insist - something Trump has yet to do. So far, the federal government hasn't leveraged all its authority and influence to dramatically expand testing and tracing measures, ensure a sufficient supply of crucial medical equipment or require residents of all 50 states to stay at home.
Each day that passes without such a national strategy, the experts say, will raise the ultimate U.S. death toll from COVID-19, the disease associated with the virus. Right now, there aren't enough tests and gear as states compete with one another to buy them on the open market. And there is very little ability to trace who has the virus and where it is spreading.
"This is a problem that we should be dealing with over the entire nation," said William Haseltine, a biologist famed for his work on HIV and AIDS. "This is a national problem - it needs a national response."
"The president says we are at war with the coronavirus," wrote Dr. Harvey Fineberg, president of the Institute of Medicine at Harvard University's School of Public Health. "It's a war we should fight to win."
As of now, that isn't happening, said Laurie Garrett, a public health expert and author of "The Coming Plague" and other books that warned of the growing danger posed by pandemics.
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Well, during the impeachment hoax they were demanding that he NOT be a monarch, now they want one?
CONCAST
They want Trump to set the precedent so that a future Democrat President can have the same power.
History will record the rate of illness and death as being slightly above normal for a flu season, if that. It’s highly contagious, not nearly as deadly as other strains, and has morphed into a mass hysteria event. No politician or media personality will suffer for overreacting.
Most Republican ones, too.
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Thinking the same thing. What if it was illegal for so-called news organizations to use the word experts in a headline or in a so called news article?
Completely ban the phrase experts say.
The sheeple would believe the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around it if the headline said experts say.
Pfffttttt! Wait until the lames (directed by the dnc) start raking him over the coals for wasting time sending the USNS ships to LA and NYC.
Operation “Trump’s Katrina” begins.
“unified...strategy.”
Like Communism?
Oh, bullcrap.
The old damned if you do, damned if you don’t paradox. Come down hard and say this is how’s it’s going to be and every Democrat screams Trump overreach and draconian totalitarian. If you do it the other way they scream you are not doing enough. F them.
And over 79,000 in the 2017-18 epidemic......
It seems the whiney ass Governors and Mayors in NY and CA cried wolf about the need for more hospital beds.....which are COMPLETELY LIMITED BY THE STATE!!!
6000 is 0.0017% of 350,000,000, for this the entire country is shut down and the economic consequences are incalculable
“The magazine did find one scientist whose decidedly minority views turned out to be correct. William Haseltine, then a pathologist at Harvard University, argued that the virus was fast becoming a heterosexual disease. “To think that we’re so different from people in the Congo is a nice, comfortable position, but it probably isn’t so,” Haseltine told Discover. “It’s heterosexual promiscuity. The more lovers, the better the chance of being infected.”
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/20-years-ago-in-discover-misunderstanding-aids
Unfortunately there is no competition for commiecast in my town. Can’t do satellite in my house due to trees.
Commiecast is a monopoly that shouldn’t be.
The same people who call him a dictator are now upset because he isn’t acting like one.
Where have they been? This is the fastest, mosy efficient government effort I have seen in my lifetime. The President shines at this type of problem solving.
Try to look past your ChiCom paycheck, NBC.
To sum it up - for the first three years of Trump’s first term he was another Hitler! A Dictator!. For the last year of his first term he was nowhere near enough of another Hitler! Not enough of a Dictator!
Thank God we have Trump in office, at least trying to resist the relentless drive of the Progressives to Central Planning and nationalized industries. I shudder to think of how Hillary would have taken this opportunity to completely destroy our Republic.
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