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Without mass testing, contact tracing, and protective equipment for health workers all in critically short supply the presidents plan could be disastrous
by Ed Pilkington and Dominic Rushe in New York
On Thursday evening, Donald Trump took to the dais in the White House press briefing room and declared that he was leading America in a historic battle against the invisible enemy that amounted to the greatest national mobilisation since world war two.
Warming to his theme, the US president said the country was now ready to move to the next phase in the war against coronavirus. It was time, he said, to open up. America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open.
Unveiling new guidelines for the loosening of the lockdown, he committed his administration to a science-based reopening. We are starting our life again, we are starting rejuvenation of our economy again, in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion.
Beyond the cloistered confines of the White House an alternative interpretation of events was gathering force. On a day in which the US suffered its highest death toll from Covid-19, with a total of more than 680,000 confirmed cases and 34,000 deaths, public health experts were scrutinising the presidents new guidelines and coming to rather different conclusions.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/18/operation-reopen-america-are-we-about-to-witness-a-second-historic-failure-of-leadership-from-trump
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On Thursday he effected a 180-degree about-turn and passed the buck to the 50 states. You are going to call your own shots, he told governors on a call on Thursday.
Trumps sudden switch to offloading federal responsibility to the 50 states has prompted questions about his motive. Current and former senior officials in the Trump administration told the Washington Post that he wanted to shield himself from blame should there be new outbreaks after states reopen.
This is how he always supposedly wins in his narcissistic mind of being a sociopath liar, he passes the responsibility onto someone else.....................he is a abject failure and he takes no responsibility in his chicken shit demeanor............and always passes that failure unto someone else's shoulder....................FUCK HIM.......................
Ron Klain:
This isnt a plan, its barely a powerpoint, spluttered Ron Klain on Twitter. Klain, the US governments Ebola tsar during the last health crisis to test the White House, in 2014, said the proposals contained no provision to ramp up testing, no standard on levels of disease before opening, no protections for workers or customers.
doc03
(35,300 posts)turbinetree
(24,685 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)Trump has FAILED in EVERY-single-THING hes done. This is no different!
Freddie
(9,257 posts)If your workplace is now open you cant collect unemployment. And if you refuse to work because of unsafe conditions, you can be fired. Its all about controlling the peons again.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)The lawyers are gearing up
pandr32
(11,562 posts)DT claimed we had passed "peak" last week but deaths are still on the rise.
No testing means no tracking and no tracing.
It is negligent homicide.
DT is psychopathic. He is also determined to scoop another term. He really doesn't care about the people--only his own power and opportunity to self-enrich at our expense.
He has had three years to learn our Constitution and how our government functions. Instead, he has shoved his gangster methods on us all and obviously has no intention of fulfilling his oath or respecting our laws. They are inconvenient and troublesome.
Without forcing the country to get back to work DT will have no way to claim a recovery in time for re-election. We can assume Russia is on board to help with hacking and interference to keep DT in office but he still needs cover. This makes for a very dangerous situation for the rest of us.
Batten down the hatches. We are in for a very rough ride.
tanyev
(42,523 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)with this. They could give a damn less about the people because this Pandemic is hitting the people of Color the hardest and those same people do not vote for them.
As one Ex Republican Party Chairman said,the Party has taken off their Hoods and hang on,it will get ugly from here on.