How did you interpret Mark Meadows statement that the US is "not going to control" the pandemic?

[Poiuyt]

It could mean, "Hey, we tried, but failed. We are unable to control the pandemic." Or it could mean, "We don't think it's our responsibility to control the pandemic. We're going to discontinue our efforts."

[beachbumbob]

1. it means trump NEVER had the intention of safeguarding people, only profits

and why all the comments from the start was to ignore the Covid

[soothsayer]

3. As I recall, Drumpf's very first response, at the first task force briefing

...in addition to closing the barn door after the horse had left (China travel restrictions), was to pump money into the stock market.

So, yeah.

[Claustrum]

2. I think it's the same line of thinking as Trump.

It is going away so why would we have to "control" it.

COVID is the last thing they want to talk about. So Trump only mock the word COVID but never talk about any details about it.

[LisaL]

8. Trump might say it's going away but I really doubt he believes it.

NT

[Claustrum]

10. I don't think he believes it either. But that's the PR lines he and his people have to follow

especially in public or facing the press.

[dv421]

4. I took it as...

Grandma has to take a dirt nap so my billionaire buddies can get richer. Like all republican plans.

[Poiuyt]

9. A dirt nap!

Good one!

[Hotler]

5. We can't figure out how to steal or make a buck off of......

protecting the American people so, we decided to move on.

[LisaL]

6. Attempts to control means lockdowns, quarantines, and so on.

He is saying they won't do anything of the sort.

[Sherman A1]

7. A statement of fact

That they are failures and never had any intention of doing the hard work necessary to protect the nation.

[PTWB]

11. They've failed to manage it so horrifically that it has become unmanageable.

Unfortunately I agree. They’ve politicized the measures needed to control the spread.

[Hoyt]

12. Honestly, think he meant that there is no way to completely control the spread of CV19.

That is true. BUT, there were -- and still are -- ways to minimize it's impact while we wait for effective treatments and a vaccine. trump's acting as if it would self-correct, masks weren't necessary, etc., killed a lot of people.

I don't really think he was saying they are purposely taking steps not to control it. However, if it blows back on trump's failed efforts and GOPers on election day, I don't care. They deserve it.

[LisaL]

14. I beg to differ.

I don't think they want to do anything to control it at this point. They want to go for herd immunity. If everyone were to get sick, whoever survives will emerge immune (of course we don't even know how long one is immune after being infected with covid).

[Hoyt]

15. The only thing they can do at this point is require masks and shutdown all unnecessary gatherings.

They don't have the guts to do that because their base are ignorant white wingers.

Meadows is right, as long as they don't want to force their ignorant base to isolate, there is not much than can be done to control CV19. Even if we get super tough, the virus is going to spread, just not as fast.

In any event, trump's Admin totally mismanaged the virus, expectations, and what is necessary to minimize the impact.

[Poiuyt]

20. The only thing they can do at this point is require masks and shutdown all unnecessary gatherings.

That would go a long way to control the pandemic!

[chriscan64]

13. So you can't fail at something you're not doing?

There were things in their control that they could have to done to control it like make mask wearing okay for trump supporters who would have gone whichever way he did. They could have made sure the Cares Act included more funds for small businesses to maintain their payrolls to lessen the blow of a longer shutdown that reduced the spread and less funds for rich grifters. Anything that is the opposite of what they did would have worked.

The numbers are going to continue upward as we approach the election. I see the Meadows statement as "vote for us anyway."

[The Magistrate]

16. A Confession Of Impotence, Sir, At Best

When the present regime decided early to campaign against standard public health measures, largely on the ground that it was at the time mostly city folks and minorities affected, they sealed the fate of millions. Their campaign was successful enough with the red-hat maggots who slurp up their garbage that now any reversal, to instituting sound and sane and non-political policies, would turn their Gadarene swine against them as well.

[Hugin]

17. This is pretty much SOP with the elite...

They've been doing it since at least The Bhopal disaster

Deepwater Horizon, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Chernobyl, the nuke plant in Japan, and on and on and on.

They blow through the inadequate fail safes and scramble around looking extremely busy reacting to the crisis (mainly for the media and the PR they've hired). Ultimately, failing and messing up huge swaths of the fricking Commons. Then, they shrug and say we tried and we couldn't overcome an act of God. Fiddle around awhile more until the next shiny thing diverts public attention and then go right back to doing the raping and pillaging exactly the way they were before. It's become Standard Operating Procedure. Very predictable. Rise. Repeat. Until all of the money is theirs and we're all dead.

Also, very Trumpian.

I think they do it deliberately now to foul something up so bad that any additional foulage goes unnoticed. Diametrically the opposite of 'conservation'. I suppose that's why outside of the US this group is called the Neo-Liberals.

[sarcasmo]

18. Herd Immunity. This administration if given a chance will kill over 2 million Americans.

[My Pet Orangutan]

19. Let it rip.

We don't have an answer. Let it rip.

[ooky]

21. "Our leader is incapable of making a plan,

so we have no plan, except to let the Covid keep running wild killing Americans until a cure or vaccine is provided to us by the scientific/medical community (for which our leader will then take credit)."

[Thomas Hurt]

22. all people in the US are expendable.

[tinrobot]

23. I view it as a statement of intent. They don't plan to control it.

He said the quiet part out loud.

[Mike 03]

24. My interpretation: "This administration will take no active measures whatsoever

to tamp down on the spread of COVID-19. We will let nature takes its course."

[Initech]

25. We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!

[bdamomma]

26. They totally

disdain the American people, time to turn the table.

Let's cull them!!!!!!

[Volaris]

27. It means that meadows at least, knows full well that their party are all dipshit, illiterate,

Fuckhead selfish assholes that have no intention of doing a damn thing to help the rest of us, and never did. Trump included.

[not_the_one]

28. He didn't want to control the pandemic because he was going to USE it to delay the election.

He thought he would be able to declare martial law BECAUSE of the pandemic, take over as our authoritarian leader, like his idols around the world, and become our very own fuhrer. He would be given time to arrange to make HUGE money off of the vaccine, then ride in and save the day.

To delay doing anything, back in January, he said that it would be gone in a few weeks, down to zero cases. And promptly did NOTHING.

The turd, one who, once he takes a serious stand, NEVER goes back on his word, or admit any kind of defeat, doubled down on doing nothing.

It turns out his gambit didn't play out like he thought it would.

And here we are.

The possible silver lining? The end (possibly) of him, the republicans, the white supremacists, the fundigelicals. The only villains left to deal with would be the corporate vulture capitalists.

The spectre of racism will take a few more generations to eliminate. But forcing those already mentioned back under their rocks, will be a good start on the racism.

[Demsrule86]

29. We don't care how many Americans we kill with stupid herd immunity...the Street will be fine.

They never tried to control it anyway.