'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus

[RandySF]

Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less conflicting, message of the pandemic next week, according to senior administration officials, after struggling to offer clear directives amid a crippling surge in cases across the country. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.

At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going away any time soon — and will be around through the November election.

As a result, President Donald Trump's top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.

For nearly six months the administration offered a series of predictions and pronouncements that never came to fruition. From Trump promising that "the problem goes away in April" and predicting "packed churches all over our country" on Easter Sunday to Vice President Mike Pence's claim that "by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us" to Jared Kushner's pronouncement the country would be "really rocking again" by July because Americans were "on the other side of the medical aspect of this."



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-need-to-live-with-it-white-house-readies-new-message-for-the-nation-on-coronavirus/ar-BB16j7Mm?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[edhopper]

1. They added:

"Well, not all of us, a lot of us will die. But the rest will live with it."

[soothsayer]

2. So they didn't notice that ny, nj, ct got it massively under control

...through discipline? And now through contact tracing and robust testing while carefully reopening?

They’re not going to try to replicate that?

Just gonna give up?

Great.

[Bad Thoughts]

3. Trump surrenders ... again

That needs to be the headline.

[gratuitous]

4. Trump gives up, throws in the towel

The administration tried the Hail Mary of hydroxychloroquine, and when that didn't work, Trump lost interest in doing his job. I'd surmise that someone had to tell Trump several times that he couldn't sue the virus or force it to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and at that point, Trump was totally out of ideas. If he tried something that the experts were advising, he would look weak. Right now he's crossing his fingers, hoping the virus will just go away. That's not going to work, so he'll fall back to lying about how great a job he did against the virus, and how wonderful his economy is. Meanwhile thousands more get sick each day and 40 million Americans are out of work. Live with it.

[dweller]

10. so basically

he's just declaring himself bankrupt .. again

✌🏼

[sarcasmo]

18. Trump quits on everything, if a deal is made he will Resign in October.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. I hope if I die vengeance is done.

[CincyDem]

6. They finally figured out how to leverage this into a voter suppression tool. n/t

[denem]

7. Leadership starts at the top.

You catch it, MF45, then live with it.

[Beartracks]

8. But we don't need to live with Republicans. Vote them all out. n/t

[lpbk2713]

9. "We officially give up. You folks are on your own."

Is America great again yet?

[OrlandoDem2]

11. They don't have to just live with it in Europe.

[RockRaven]

12. Dozens of other industrialized countries have gotten it under control.

The only reason the US hasn't is a failure of leadership and competence, and outright sabotage, from largely Republican political officials.

The Republicans/conservatives in the US are CHOOSING to fail, and claiming it is inevitable.

[Hekate]

13. So they're planning to normalize these deaths like school shootings are normalized. What next?...

Lepers walking the streets ringing a bell and calling out “Unclean!” ?

[lettucebe]

14. So all in for the let the weakest die for the sake of the economy argument?

[Chainfire]

22. Only it won't work that way

When, about two weeks from now, when the death numbers start rolling in, people are not going to need the government to shut them down and keep them at home. The economy will follow. The sad thing is it didn't have to be this way.

It is rightly said that a nation gets the government it deserves, this is what we deserve for putting a clown in the Oval Office and leaving a Fascist majority in the Senate.

[beachbumbob]

15. "I'm incompetent, live with outcome"

[Lock him up.]

16. Imagine the next 4-months ads...

Link to tweet

Republican's Healthcare plan: If you get Covid-19, die quickly.

[C_U_L8R]

17. "Shut up and accept your virus"

"You'll die and thank me for it"

"And call me, sir"

[stopbush]

19. Just living with it SHOULD mean:

1. Shutting down the country to 90+% compliance, as they did in Europe

2. Mandating wearing masks in public in all 50 states, with significant penalties for noncompliance

3. Trillion$ more in relief money to average Americans so they can shelter in place

4. Extended unemployment benefits, no questions asked

Shutting down and sheltering in place will be hard enough. The government is going to have to spend the trillions necessary to mitigate tRump’s fuck up.

[EleanorR]

20. If it's a good enough plan for mother russia, it's good enough for trump

Link to tweet

[tinrobot]

21. Live and Let Die.