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UPDATED 3:43 PM PT — Wednesday, April 8, 2020
The Defense Department is planning to ramp up national response
efforts to fight the coronavirus. According to Pentagon officials, they
will activate another 10,000 National Guard troops to boost relief
operations across the nation.
Additional deployments are expected within the next two weeks.
“We’ve been accelerating at sort of more than 1,000 a day,” explained
General Joseph Lengyel. “We could easily get this up another (10,000)
or more than that in the next week or two.”
The National Guard has assisted airport screenings, food distribution
and quarantine efforts in states hit the hardest by coronavirus in
recent weeks. Military officials added the guard’s virus response force
is authorized to utilize up to 44,000 troops.
“Nearly three out of every four you see in uniform (who) are supporting
testing sites, enhancing medical capacity, or delivering critically
needed medical supplies and food are likely to be guardsmen and women,”
stated Lengyel.
This April 6, 2020 photo from the Hawaii Army National Guard shows Spc.
James Kamaka, 1st Squadron, 299th Cavalry, Hawaii National Guard
screening departing passengers at the Daniel K. Inouye International
Airport in Honolulu. HING soldiers began assisting the Airport Fire
Department with screening of arriving and departing passengers on April
6, and plan to continue to assist throughout the COVID-19 response.
(Sgt. John Schoebel/Army National Guard via AP)
So yesterday the HHS IG released a report and CNN wants you to know, “The nation’s hospitals are dealing with ‘severe’ and ‘widespread’ shortages of needed medical supplies, hampering the ability to test and respond to the coronavirus pandemic adequately and protect medical staff, according to a new report from a government inspector general.”
The report was based on stale information, almost 2 weeks old at this point and as I am sure you know, things have been moving quite rapidly as the administration tries to handle this unknown Chinese pathogen afflicting our country. BUT, never let an opportunity to go to waste, and mark my words, there’s a stable of “whistleblowers” waiting to go FULL CIARAMELLA once we can come up for air on this. No pun intended.
The report provides an accounting of the shortages faced by hospitals nationwide in trying to obtain equipment for staff and patients, including the avenues some hospitals turned to to acquire those items, like online retailers and paint stores. It also details the challenges hospitals faced in trying to keep up with testing demands and the inconsistent guidance that caused confusion.
The report is not a review of the Health and Human Service Department’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and acknowledges the pandemic is “fast-moving, as are the efforts to address it.”
The IG responsible for the report is “Christi Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general for HHS. Grimm has served in the federal government for more than two decades in both Democratic and Republican administrations.”
Now since we aren’t dilly-dallying about, with RUSSIA boogeymen and fake charges of espionage and RUSSIAN collusion but with a deadly virus killing Americans who die alone as their failing lungs are gasping for air, you would think some kind of problem would be brought to the administration’s attention immediately instead of waiting two weeks to release to the media first. If you think these resistance monsters give two shits about human life and death, you would be very wrong and this play shows you exactly what they care about which is ORANGE MAN BAD.
Guess what? The states are supposed to have a stockpile of medical necessities and the states are supposed to execute their plans on the ground not the feds. The feds suck at this kind of thing, they are slow and clumsy. But state and local officials know their state and city, know the resources and know the people and institutions that make it easier to mobilize in an emergency. Blaming the feds for the execution FUBARs is wrong. And aren’t these freaky-deaky resistance schmucks always screaming and moaning about what a fascist tyrant Trump is? Why on earth would they put him in charge of every city and state in the country? These idiots love federalism when they make their sanctuary city laws but not so much when they are actually responsible something serious, like the health and well-being of their residents.
Here’s Admiral Brett Giroir M.D., Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services responding to some of the claims in the “report.” Since he’s much more familiar with the logistics, Trump turned the response over to him. CNN left out anything Giroir said in their diary entry, even though he’s the expert.
Mr Sanders, 78, told his campaign staff about his decision on a
conference call on Wednesday. He is expected to address his supporters
online shortly.
A self-described Democratic socialist, Mr Sanders
found early success making healthcare and working-class issues a key
part of his election platform.
For a long time the front runner, he has slipped behind Mr Biden in the party's primaries in recent weeks.
Mr Sanders had pursued the presidential nomination before, losing out in 2016 to Hillary Clinton.
NEW YORK, NY—When Jeffrey Walton tested positive for COVID-19, he hoped for a speedy recovery. But since he has been treated with hydroxychloroquine, the experimental treatment President Donald Trump has been touting, he now hopes he dies quickly to help prove that Trump is an idiot.
While Trump has been giving people hope that hydroxychloroquine could save lives, his political opponents have called it false hope and claimed Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. Walton, a lifelong Democrat and progressive, had joined in calling Trump “irresponsible” and an “ignoramus” and now has an opportunity to prove it by simply dying. “It’s such an opportunity, I don’t want to pass it up,” Walton said.
Doctor Glenn Logan, Walton’s physician, says he’s been up and down. “After we gave him the hydroxychloroquine, he got really excited about the idea of dying to prove Trump is dumb, and his good mood helped his condition, and he started to improve. Because that would only help Trump, his getting healthier made him depressed, which caused his condition to deteriorate. Which made him really happy. Which helped him recover and... Well, it’s been a weird cycle.”
Dr. Logan has been warning Walton that there is a chance he could fully recover. Walton is trying to prepare himself for this -- a world where everything isn’t black and white and Trump can be right about some things -- but he insists he’d much rather die.
U.S.—As of this weekend, based on recommendations from the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, all civil libertiess have been declared nonessential. The Department of Homeland Security released a statement declaring that any human rights outlined in such documents as the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, or the Bible are nonessential and will, therefore, be disregarded amid the outbreak of COVID-19.
After the outbreak is contained, health leaders say the rights may be reinstated in small increments but have made no guarantees.
"I think we're going to come out of this whole thing having woken up to the realization that liberty has been insanely overrated and it's time to move on," said California governor Gavin Newsom, who was quick to impose the guidelines on his state. "Human rights aren't even real. Science can't prove them. They're imaginary. We need to be a culture of empiricism and evidence and toss out these old-fashioned ideas about human liberty and rights which, frankly, came straight out of the days of slavery."
The DHS issued guidance outlining exactly which human rights are nonessential. The paper simply read, "Pretty much all of them." They also set up an FAQ on their website that answers, "Nope" whenever someone asks if any individual right might be exempt.
Americans quickly and willfully accepted the changes without protest.
Article by Patricia McCarthy in "The American Thinker":
As
the therapeutic efficacy of hydroxychloroquine becomes more and more
provable, the left gets more and more hysterical. They have bet the
farm on COVID-19 as a means of preventing President Trump’s re-election
and then this old malaria drug appears on the scene. The first trial
came from China and no one should take their word for it but a doctor
there realized that every patient with lupus, even if sick, was negative
for the disease. Then a French doctor, Dr. Didier Raoult,
a world-famous microbiologist, tested the theory with more than a
thousand patients and found it 100% effective, especially when combined
with zithromax. More than six thousand doctors around
the world are using it to combat the disease with tremendous
life-saving results. Many of those doctors are using the drug as a
prophylactic and it is keeping them from getting the virus as they care
for sick patients. Dr. Mehmet Oz has been amassing information about it
and explaining it to the public on his television program. On Tuesday,
he introduced Los Angeles lupus specialist Dr. Daniel Wallace, who
has the largest number of patients with lupus in the nation who also
swears by the drug and for its safety. But this is all bad news for the
left, especially those in the media who prostitute themselves each and
every day to damage the president and so are spending every waking
moment on the air trying to scare people about its use, all because it
was Trump who introduced it as a possible cure. They believe it is
their job to tell us how and what to think and they want us to think
Trump is responsible not just for the virus, but for pushing a dangerous
drug as well. But it works. Ask Karen Whitsett,
a Democratic Michigan State representative. It saved her life and she
has thanked the president for mentioning it, stating she would not have
known about it otherwise. She better watch her back now of course; she
is very likely a target of the left-media now. Inexplicably, New
York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still banning it outside of a hospital when,
if widely distributed, it may well keep people out of the hospital.
America’s favorite gnome, Dr. Anthony Fauci was late in the game to warn the public about COVID-19. He was downplaying the risk in late January. He was wrong about AIDS early in his career. He
may be an expert, but he is not the only expert. Like many so-called
experts, such people often have a very narrow view blinkered by the
narrow focus of their specialty. Expertise can be overrated. It
is very likely that the president and the millions of us who watch the
daily briefings are getting mighty tired of Dr. Fauci’s predictions,
projections and prescriptions, like “this shutdown may last for eighteen
months!” Such a policy would be the end of America. Does Fauci
care? Apparently not; not his wheelhouse. Same goes for Dr. Deborah
Birx and the odious Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel; he would love to see the
collapse of the United States. These people are experts in their field
and are clearly totally ignorant of basic economics. There are other
doctors out there, many more experts to consult, and now would be a good
time for some second and third opinions: Dr. Stephen Smith, Dr.
William Grace, Dr. Ramin Oskui, Dr. Bill Morice and the aforemenetioned
Dr. Daniel Wallace, to name a few. Fauci is something of a lightweight
compared to these doctors. Fauci is also known as a “patent
man.” Because hydroxychloroquine is an old and inexpensive drug, no one
is going to get rich selling it.
Bill Bennett and Seth Leibsohn list some basic numbers in their column at RCP: “In
any given month in America, we lose about 54,000 Americans to heart
disease; 50,000 to cancer; 14,000 to asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema;
12,000 to stroke; 10,000 to Alzheimer’s; 7,000 to diabetes; 5,600 to
drug overdoses; and 4,700 to influenza and pneumonia. Since February, in
America, coronavirus: 9,500…Those deaths give us over 157,000 deaths a
month.” No one will be seeing those numbers on CNN or MSNBC anytime
soon. Revealing that 157k people die in this country every month would
spoil their faux hysteria. They simply cannot abide the fact that a
drug Trump mentioned early on has proven to be a near cure. They have
to condemn it, pretend it is not a viable treatment that is
working. But you can bet if they come down with COVID-19, they will all
beg for it. John Berman went after Peter Navarro so
hard, so rudely, on this issue he made an utter fool of himself. He
revealed his desperation as does every other CNN “presenter” all day
long. Like the rest of the left, they are all in on blaming Trump for
every bad thing that happens anywhere. But Bookworm has it right when
she notes that since whatever he does he will be charged with one crime
or another by the media, he has the freedom to act, to act on his own
instincts. The press thinks they’ve boxed him in but they have in fact
set him free. At this point, as one can see from the daily briefings,
they are just noise, annoying and rather foolish. They hate Trump, want
to see him defeated, and don’t mind using sick and dead people, the
more the better, to take him down. They, our press and electronic media
hacks, are barely a notch above the criminal class and the public knows
it. How could they not? Their blatant lack of character, ethics or
integrity is on display each and every day.
America
has a long tradition of an adversarial press, beginning in the
revolutionary era. Beyond that, President Lincoln was savaged by his
opponents, those who wanted slavery preserved. But no president in
modern times has had to endure the incessant viciousness that Donald
Trump has and he has put up with it with more grace than they
deserve. He bites back and often rightfully humiliates them for their
perfidy, but they never learn. They come back the next day and do it
all over again. They fear Trump’s leadership throughout this pandemic
so frantically they are rooting for the failure of hydroxychloroquine
and so for more deaths. Christopher Hitchens perhaps had the media in
mind when he wrote: “A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested
when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to
try and make some of it adhere to his target.”
Comrades, the Los Angeles Ministry of Coronavirus Compliance has raised the standard, be prepared…. First they released 1,700 inmates. Then the LA Sheriff shut down all the gun stores, saying they were not essential services. Then Mayor Garcetti announced he was shutting down water & electricity for anyone who attempts to defy the stay at home edicts.
Today it is announced…. Beginning April 10th, and extending until the directive is lifted, covering your face is mandatory in the Los Angeles, California Directorate. Any citizen refusing to comply will be denied services:
Mercury News – Cloth face coverings will need to be worn at grocery and drug stores, construction sites, taxis and other essential businesses under a new order going into effect Friday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
“If you’re shopping for groceries, if you’re picking up your prescription or if you’re visiting any other essential business you will need to cover your face,” Garcetti said during a daily briefing on Tuesday, April 7.
“And if you’re not covering your face by Friday morning,” the mayor said, “an essential business can refuse you service.”
Article by Joseph Epstein in "The National Review":
A meditation for the plague
Depend upon
it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it
concentrates his mind wonderfully,” wrote Samuel Johnson, whose mind,
without fear of hanging, was concentrated on death throughout his life.
Johnson concentrated on death with, in a word, “terror.” He thought,
mistakenly, that he was not a good enough Christian, and that nothing
pleasing awaited after his demise. None of us is to be hanged in a
fortnight, either, but, these days, with the plague of the coronavirus
upon the land, all our minds are concentrated on death. Turn on the
television or radio, national or local, and one discovers that the dread
virus is topics 1 through 896. News of the increased number of people
who have the virus, the numbers of those who, locally, nationally, and
internationally, have died from it, is inescapable.
Two of Pascal’s best-known passages come into play in connection with
the coronavirus. The first has it that “all of humanity’s problems stem
from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” The second speaks
to the human condition: “Imagine a number of men in chains, all under
sentence of death, some of whom each day are butchered in the sight of
others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their
fellows, and looking at each other with grief and despair await their
turn. This is an image of the human condition.” The coronavirus has
forced almost all of us, either in enforced or self-imposed quarantine,
to sit quietly in our room, and the news of the continuing deaths it is
causing — of the obscure and the celebrated — concentrates our minds on
Pascal’s dark human condition.
Montaigne, whom one does not think of as a dark writer, felt one
couldn’t think too often or too much about death, especially one’s own.
He wrote about death in three separate essays — “On Fear,” “Why We
Should Not Be Deemed Happy Until after Our Death,” and “To Philosophize
Is to Learn How to Die” — and his general point was that we should
accustom ourselves to the idea of death, of our own death specifically,
in order “to educate and train [our souls] for their encounter with that
adversary, death.” Doing so, we would thereby fight free of the fear of
death, so that when it does arrive “it will bear no new warning for
[us]. As far as we possibly can we must have our boots on, ready to go.”
Montaigne wished to die tending his cabbages, but, alas, he was instead
the victim, at 59, in 1592, of quinsy, a disease of the throat that can
be painful and that, in his case, rendered him speechless at the close
of his life.
“So it has come at last, the distinguished thing,” uttered Henry
James of death on his own deathbed. Far from clear is what is
distinguished about it, death, that most democratic of events, “an old
joke,” as Turgenev once referred to it, “that comes to each of us
afresh.” Yet if not death generally, then some deaths do seem more
distinguished than others. Surely there are good and bad deaths, and sad
because unnecessary deaths. A good death for men, most would agree, is
one on the battlefield in a war fought for an important cause. The
classic good death is thought to be that of Socrates, his principles
intact, calmly drinking hemlock in the company of friends. For a woman a
good death might be one in which she dies for her children or to stave
off the death of others, a death marked by selflessness. A good death is
often thought an easeful death, one unaccompanied by pain or mess. A
death in one’s sleep at home at an advanced age is for most of us the
very model of a good death.
Perhaps the most famous easeful death was that of the philosopher David Hume — famous because James Boswell recorded it in his Life of Johnson.
Hume “was quite different from the plump figure which he used to
present,” Boswell wrote. “He seemed to be placid and even cheerful. He
said he was just approaching to his end.” When Boswell asked him “if the
thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness,” Hume answered:
Not in the least, “no more than the thought that he had never been, as
Lucretius observes.”
Boswell reported Hume’s calm in the face of death
to Samuel Johnson, who retorted: “He lied. He had a vanity in being
thought easy. It is more probable that he lied than that so very
improbable a thing should be as a man not afraid of death; of going into
an unknown state and not being uneasy at leaving all that he knew.”
Sad deaths sometimes seem to constitute the preponderance of deaths.
Sad is a death that comes about through malfeasance, foolish
misbehavior, accident. Sad it seems to die too soon because of heavy
smoking, obesity, drugs, careless driving. (I write “too soon,” but then
Balzac, in Cousin Pons, notes that “death always comes too
soon.”) A too-early death, in which one is deprived by a large measure
of the full share of one’s days, is inherently sad. Too early is any
death that falls well below the life expectancy of the day. One thinks
of Anton Chekhov, George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, all of whom died
in their forties.
In literature, Tolstoy did death best, whether it was the suicide of
Anna Karenina, the prolonged dying of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky after the
Battle of Austerlitz in War and Peace, or the insignificant (to
all but him) death of Ivan Ilych Golovin in “The Death of Ivan Ilych.”
Tolstoy writes: “Besides considerations as to the possible transfers and
promotions likely to result from Ivan Ilych’s death, the mere fact of
the death of a near acquaintance aroused, as usual, in all who heard of
it the complacent feeling that ‘it is he who is dead and not I.’ . . .
Each one thought or felt, ‘Well, he’s dead, but I’m alive.’” Ivan Ilych
himself cannot confront his fate directly, and for a long stretch he
refers to death as “It”: “He would go into his study, lie down, and
again be alone with It: face to face with It. And nothing could be done
with It, except to look at it and shudder.” As for perhaps the most
famous death in English literature, in Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop, Oscar Wilde remarked that “one must have a heart of stone not to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.”
Which brings us back to death by coronavirus — surely one that, by
the nature of its accidental, its almost haphazard quality, would be sad
indeed. There is no avoiding this blasted virus — “Kung Flu,” an
acquaintance of mine calls it — either on the news, on the streets, or
in one’s consciousness. Because of it we are advised to avoid social
gatherings, eating and drinking in public places, discretionary travel.
We are instructed to make up for the time ordinarily spent in these
pleasant pursuits by washing our hands throughout the day for no less
than 20 seconds each time and the rest of the time trying to remember
not to touch our faces. In grocery shops, on the otherwise empty
streets, most people one encounters are wearing face masks and blue
rubber gloves. If the coronavirus continues for an appreciable time, the
man or woman who invents a full-body condom will make a fortune.
The news is utterly dominated by talk of the coronavirus, with only
the weather report offering relief. Owing to the virus, sports, that
opiate of us male masses, have been eliminated. On every news show,
physicians are called in to tell us what to do to elude the virus, what
we need to worry and not worry about. Two different friends sent me
advice, via YouTube, given by a youngish, overweight M.D. with a
ponytail, on how to unpack my groceries safely, which, as he
demonstrated, can easily be done if you have, say, 40 or so minutes to
give to the project and perhaps an extra quart of disinfectant on hand
to do it properly.
In the British Spectator, Theodore Dalrymple, apropos of the coronavirus, makes the distinction between genuine danger and the frisson
of danger, the latter being available to us through horror movies,
roller coasters, thrillers, the former being true terror, and concludes
that the coronavirus entails genuine fear. “A mixture of definite
statistics — the absolute or cumulative number of deaths day by day, for
example — and projections of present trends indefinitely into the
future, together with unknown quantities such as the true rate of
mortality and an absence of any sense of proportion,” he writes,
“promotes obedience and a trust in authority as the only shield we
have.” What we are afraid of, of course, is an all but arbitrary death
by germ. “Seven thousand old people have died in Italy, 13,800,000 have
not,” Dalrymple writes, “but the 7,000 are infinitely more real to us
than the 13,800,000, and further deaths, even at a slowing rate, can
only reinforce our fears.” None of us wants to die for no better reason
than that we came too close to a stranger carrying the virus or put our
hand on an infected counter or package, or an index finger on an
elevator button. To do so, not to put too fine a point on it, would be
unreasonable.
How would Epicurus (341–270 c.e.), that most reasonable of
philosophers, have confronted the coronavirus? Epicurus, contra
Montaigne, instructs us to get our minds off death. Not to worry, he
advises. After death comes oblivion, in which you will be returned to
the state you existed in before you were a child. As for rewards or
punishment in the afterlife, perish the thought, for if there is no God
or gods, then worrying about His or their judgment is a waste of time.
The same goes for pain. Two possibilities here, either it will go away
or it will worsen and you will die, upon which benign oblivion will
follow. Hey, no problem! Yet why do I see Epicurus, were he alive today,
washing his hands yet one more time and checking for his face mask
before leaving the house? The man was a philosopher, true, but he was no
damn fool.
Last night on Fox News, Tucker Carlson outlined a disconnect between dire national health models that predicted mass deaths and a reality not close to predictions.
As Carlson notes there are few professionals explaining why there is such a significant difference. Additionally, if we have shut down our economy based on models that were incorrect, well, when are we going to re-open our economy? Lots of questions… and unfortunately no-one seems to be allowed to ask them.
In the final analysis this crisis is going to come down to a very tribal set of decisions about when to re-engage the operations of U.S. society. Additionally, what changes and rules will be instituted as a result of some areas wanting to re-open, while others demand the continuance of an extended shut-down.
Red states -vs- Blue states. Urban -vs- Rural. Tribalism making the rules for those within specific geographic boundaries. That part of post COVID-19 panic is inherently predictable.
However, the disparity will need to be reconciled; and for that solution the Administrative State will likely demand the application of science as a solution. We can already hear these arguments within the discussions. Totalitarianism always shifts the discussion to science when disconcerting conversations are unavoidable. [See the Fabians]
The solution will be a COVID-19 vaccine; and to re-enter a full society everyone will be expected to get vaccinated to secure all other members of society. However, given the pesky issues with liberty, a mandated vaccine protocol will probably not pass muster.
Therefore those who wish to have unrestricted access to the entire country will be those who accept the vaccine. Those who do not accept the vaccine will have less choices.
Again, the solution returns to this outlook.
If you accept the vaccine, the state will register your compliance. Or not; it will be your choice. However, your access to society will also be based on your decision.
That’s what is coming at the end of this…
Choose wisely.
If you wish to cross between boundary zones you will need to carry a “vaccination passport” as outlined by State Advisory Minister Bill Gates.
There is no cause for alarm.
All of the best citizens will be doing it.
Your vaccination passport will allow you free travel throughout the U.S.
U.S. reports 1,264 coronavirus deaths in over 24 hours.
Meanwhile in China, where the pandemic broke out, not a single new coronavirus death was reported.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert,
said on Monday he was "cautiously optimistic" that the worst
projections could be avoided "if we keep our foot on the accelerator" —
referring to social distancing policies in force throughout much of the
country.
. . . and articles such as the one on NBCNews.com
that do not mention that the Chinese government may not be a reliable
and trustworthy source for information — and in fact uses state-run
media as the source of conditions in Wuhan . . . it becomes difficult to
believe that the editorial judgment of NBC News is not being shaped in
any way by the parent company Comcast’s significant investment in and
ties to China. From the company’s largest and most expensive theme park they’ve ever built, Universal Beijing Resort, to Universal Pictures access to Chinese moviegoers, Comcast has enormous incentives to stay on the good side of the government in Beijing.
On February 27th, China’s consul general Huang Ping visited Comcast corporate headquarters in Philadelphia.
He sai:, “We hope that Comcast continues its efforts to cooperate with
China, enhance people-to-people exchanges, and contribute to the
Sino-U.S. relations based on coordination, cooperation, and stability.”
Part of the key to doing business in China, he said, is to avoid talking politics.
“You don’t start talking about the
leadership in China. You would be crazy to bring up Hong Kong, Taiwan,”
he said. “You would never start talking that way. You just focus on what
you are trying to do.”
Anatomy of a Smear – Administrative State Agents Coordinating with Media Resistance Operatives
♦ Step One – Health and Human Services Inspector General Christi Grimm compiled what’s called a “pulse survey” of hospital administrators over a period of March 23-27. Grimm’s report was titled “Hospital Experiences Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
♦ Step Two – Instead of delivering her survey to the coronavirus task force members, including Assistant Secretary for HHS Admiral Brett Giroir, Ms. Grimm gave preliminary and incomplete results of her survey to allied members of the resistance media. This decision clearly outlines the motives and intentions of HHS IG Christi Grimm as an ally of the deep administrative state.
♦ Step Three – The current president of the White House Correspondents Association, ABC News Jonathan Karl, coordinates questions from the press pool based on Ms. Grimm’s incomplete and leaked report. This is the set-up to create the narrative by ambushing the Trump administration with questions. Some within the press pool could see the set-up taking place. It also appears that Dr. Fauci was aware of the objective. WATCH:
Watch the video all the way through. It’s important to have a full understanding:
ADMIRAL GIROIR – That inspector general report was done here — 23rd and 24th — during our ramp-up period, quite a long time ago. There was clearly — and it’s hard to interpret the report because it mixes up all kinds of things — but clearly, there was complaints by some hospitals of a backlog. Probably had sent out tests.
And that is true. There were several days of backlog at some of the major labs that have been taken care of. We know now that the ACLA labs now have a 24- to 48-hour turnaround.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: They do.
ADMIRAL GIROIR: They’re doing well over 100,000 tests a day. We now have the Abbott machine; that’s point of care. That’s 18,000 of those instruments throughout the country. The Cepheid machine is now all across the country with a 45-minute turnaround on.
So we have worked directly with many of the hospitals that have their own laboratory-derived tests. Some of those really, quite frankly, didn’t understand the regulatory freedom they have to use other different kinds of instruments or different kinds of reagents.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: They do now.
ADMIRAL GIROIR: So — like they do now. Like they do now. And I’m on the phone with them all the time to make sure that everything is clear. We have a 24-hour call number. But that’s what it was there for.
And I don’t know the inspector general. I don’t know that person. I tell you one thing I have a problem with: If there was such a problem that she knew about or he knew about on March 23rd and 24th, why did I find out about the test from them on the —
THE PRESIDENT: He’s the one in charge.
ADMIRAL GIROIR: — on the news media at 8 o’clock this morning?
If there was a problem, I think you’re ethically obliged to tell me where that is so we can interact with it like I do every single day.
But that’s a discussion for the future. I think testing is really in a good position right now, and I’d be happy to expand on some of the really good tests that are coming up. (read more)
It seems quite clear that multiple people, inside multiple agencies, with interests to protect the administrative state and maintain the bloated bureaucratic influence of big government, are aligned in common cause….
So it’s the prospect of gaining tens of dollars – not saving American lives — that’s the motivation behind Trump’s support for hydroxychloroquine? Good work, team!
In their never-ending quest to prove they’re nothing but a bunch of lunatic conspiracy theorists, the New York Times is reporting that President Trump is pushing hydroxychloroquine because he has a financial stake in one of the companies that manufactures it.
Yup, President Trump wants patients with Wuhan virus to have access to hydroxychloroquine because he stands to make tens of dollars off of it.
The New York Times really blew the lid off this one, didn’t they?!
They actually want you to believe that it’s the prospect of gaining tens of dollars – not saving American lives — that’s the motivation behind President Trump’s support of hospitals using hydroxychloroquine on Wuhan patients.
According to MarketWatch, President Trump’s personal stake in this one pharmaceutical company is, at the most, $1,485 and at the least, $99.00.
I’m thinking that’s pocket change to President Trump.
He probably loses more money between the couch cushions than he has invested in Sanofi.
To believe that he stands to see much of a gain is comical.
Plus, as MarketWatch points out:
Another point worth making is how little the malaria drug means to Sanofi’s bottom line. In 2019, what the company calls Plaquenil wasn’t even broken out by name in the company’s financial accounts, while 33 other medications were.
That is hardly surprising as the drug has been around since the 1950s and is available generically.
Generic for seventy years. I mean come on!
I can tell you pharmacies around here don’t carry the brand name Plaquenil. Why should they order that when generic versions of hydroxychloroquine sulfate are so plentiful and cheap?
What kind of a nitwit would believe that Trump is going to all this trouble for a personal stake of less than fifteen hundred dollars in a company that makes the brand name Plaquenil?
Two manufacturers of the generic — Novartis and Teva — are donating millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine in the fight against the Wuhan virus. Novartis is donating one hundred and thirty million doses — Teva another ten million doses.
In other words, there’s no windfall coming Trump’s way. Not even tens of dollars.
You would have to be a quarter-wit to think Trump is doing this for the money.
But that isn’t stopping the New York Times, is it?
See, this is what I mean when I say that the news media has created a mythical Trump Monster. Their mythical version of Trump bears no resemblance to the real man.
Sweet merciful Zeus! The real Donald Trump donates his Presidential salary every quarter. That’s more than a million bucks he’s donated back to the Federal Treasury so far this term.
But they actually want us to believe that this same man who is donating his salary is hawking hydroxychloroquine for pocket change?
It’s laughable.
And yet.
The slack-jawed, Trump-deranged nitwits of the Resistance😁 are falling for it. You should read the replies to Kyle Griffin’s tweet. These guys are gobbling this up like a half-starved hyena going after a carcass.
Then again, the Resistance😂 will fall for every stupid hit piece that comes over the transom. Anything to feed their Trump-hating addiction.
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