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This is a real "witch hunt" against an esteemed former public servant by a partisan coalition of attorney generals who have no shame whatsoever about wasting their states' taxpayer dollars and persecuting a senior citizen!
https://www.scag.gov/about-the-office/news/attorney-general-alan-wilson-leads-coalition-of-ags-investigating-dr-anthony-fauci-s-covid-19-response/
Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)Persecuted by an ugly hate filled mob.
I am disgusted by the GOP.
hlthe2b
(113,967 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,345 posts)Skittles
(171,710 posts)wanting to help him rewrite history
DISGUSTING
yellow dahlia
(5,877 posts)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/
HereForTheParty
(915 posts)nm
LoisB
(13,028 posts)Daleuhlmann
(618 posts)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!
mdbl
(8,650 posts)womanofthehills
(10,988 posts)That is the year Obama stopped all gain of function research in US because of bio lab leaks.
NYTs 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)his entire adult life trying to cure disease; a man deserving of praise not persecution.
surfered
(13,465 posts)But it really wasnt 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)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)Without Fauci the pandemic response would have been nonexistent.
How many more lives would have been lost?
Cha
(319,074 posts)Vulture Mob can Go Fuck themselves.