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Irish_Dem

(81,266 posts)
1. A doctor who spent his entire career working to keep Americans safe and healthy.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 09:32 PM
Feb 2025

Persecuted by an ugly hate filled mob.

I am disgusted by the GOP.

yellow dahlia

(5,877 posts)
5. This is deflection from the culpability of the grifter.
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:02 PM
Feb 2025

Most people know that The Grifter eliminated the Pandemic Response Team last time he occupied the Oval Office. It has been estimated that 100's of thousands more lives were lost (than would have been) because of the country's poor response.

However, some may not know the following. In the early parts of Grifter 1.0, he removed approximately 30 CDC personnel from Wuhan China. He has an aversion to bureaucracy, and he doesn't understand it anything, so he eliminated vital scientists.

We often help other countries set up their own CDC - like infrastructure. We have CDC personnel stationed all over the world, for a reason. It provides us the ability for surveillance and rapid action. I have always believed, if those CDC employees (who had the credentials to address a virus outbreak) had remained in China, we might have been able to contain the Coronavirus outbreak.

Over 7 million people died worldwide due to Covid 19. We will never know exactly how many more died, as a result of the actions (and inactions) of the Grifter. Imagine if our CDC personnel could have stopped it from leaving China. I think about it often, and it makes me so so sad....and so angry.

Here is a link to an article about the removal of CDC personnel during Grifter 1.0.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/

 

Daleuhlmann

(618 posts)
8. Yes, but These Kooks Are Looking for State Charges They Think They Can Bring Against Fauci
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:18 PM
Feb 2025

Their bootlicking fealty to Trump knows no bounds! It's like Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson now forming a committee to continue to investigate Biden and his family, as if the U. S. House hadn't already wasted enough time and taxpayers' money on its own fruitless fishing expedition!

womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
14. Biden pardoned him all the way back to 2014
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 11:49 PM
Feb 2025

That is the year Obama stopped all gain of function research in US because of bio lab leaks.

NYT’s Oct 17, 2014 “White House to Cut Funding for Risky Biological Study”

“By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
Oct. 17, 2014
Prompted by controversy over dangerous research and recent laboratory accidents, the White House announced Friday that it would temporarily halt all new funding for experiments that seek to study certain infectious agents by making them more dangerous.

It also encouraged scientists involved in such research on the influenza, SARS and MERS viruses to voluntarily pause their work while its risks were reassessed.

Opponents of this type of research, called gain of function — for example, attempts to create a more contagious version of the lethal H5N1 avian influenza to learn which mutations made it that way — were elated.

“Brilliant!” said Peter Hale, the executive director of the Foundation for Vaccine Research, which opposes such experiments. “The government has finally seen the light. This is what we have all been waiting for and campaigning for. I shall sleep better tonight.” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/trump-agenda-2025.html



LoisB

(13,028 posts)
9. Without Dr. Fauci, how many more of us would have died from Covid? A man who spent
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:21 PM
Feb 2025

his entire adult life trying to cure disease; a man deserving of praise not persecution.

surfered

(13,465 posts)
11. Their mad because Fauci would not say the virus came from a Chinese bio weapons lab,
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:36 PM
Feb 2025

But it really wasn’t worse than the flu and Trump deserves credit for getting them a vaccine that they refused to take.

Please try to keep up.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
15. WHAT???????????????
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 12:13 AM
Feb 2025

What planet were you on?????????

It really wasn't worse than the flu???????????????????? 1.2 MILLION DEATHS, plus more that weren't counted in Red States...

Deserves credit for getting them a vaccine????????????? And then telling his trumphumpers not to get it???????????

boonecreek

(1,509 posts)
12. WTAF?
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 10:48 PM
Feb 2025

Without Fauci the pandemic response would have been nonexistent.
How many more lives would have been lost?

Cha

(319,074 posts)
13. I think Pres Biden Pardoned Dr Fauci! So the Rabid mad
Tue Feb 25, 2025, 11:23 PM
Feb 2025

Vulture Mob can Go Fuck themselves.

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