Trump Is Unfit for This Crisis. Period.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The coronavirus is no longer just a slow-moving public health crisis that may soon turn into a rapid-moving one. It’s a crisis of transparency. It’s a crisis of government legitimacy. So it is in this spirit that we all have to say: enough.

Whose side is the Trump administration on? Based on every public appearance we’ve seen so far — whether it’s from a cabinet member or the director of the Centers for Disease Control or the president himself — the answer is clear: not the public’s. President Trump, hellbent on re-election, is focused on massaging numbers and silencing bearers of bad news. That’s what autocrats do. And it’s endangering lives.

On Saturday, The Associated Press reported that Trump overruled his own health officials, who wanted to warn older Americans and the fragile against flying on commercial airlines. Our storied C.D.C., now annexed by politicians, continues to insist that only the most floridly symptomatic patients be tested for the virus. Even that remains a challenge: Last week, it refused to test an ailing nurse in Northern California who’d treated a positive patient, prompting the head of National Nurses United to read her story aloud at a news conference.

At a Friday news conference at the C.D.C., Trump told reporters that tests for the coronavirus were now available to anyone who needed one. Yet just afterward, we heard from governor after governor and doctor after doctor that this is categorically untrue, with states in dire need of more tests. “We have no local testing available,” Dr. Walter Mills, president of the California Academy of Family Physicians, told The San Jose Mercury News.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/president-trump-is-unfit-for-this-crisis-period/ar-BB10Xxh3?ocid=hplocalnews

[PJMcK]

1. Trump Is Unfit. Period.

Sorry, but I had to fix your title.

(wink)

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. THIS!!!!

[dalton99a]

3. Unfit to clean toilets.

[lagomorph777]

6. He should be made to drink from a toilet.

Like the kids he has thrown in jail.

[Karadeniz]

7. That's what I thought!

[pat_k]

4. After blocking hospitals and other labs from testing, he now takes credit for their work

Any state or jurisdiction looking to the CDC are screwed. The CDC is not responsible for the recent increase in testing capacity.

The difference is that on Feb 29 the FDA issued an emergency use order (EUA) allowing labs across the country to move forward with testing while the FDA reviewed applications and data.

It should have been issued the SAME day HHS declared a public health crisis (Jan 31). The declaration of public health crises should also have been issued sooner. It's not like the writing wasn't clearly on the wall by mid-Jan.

DT's admin is acting as if the actions of the CDC and the admin are responsible for the recent increase in testing capacity. They aren't. Entities like the University of Washington that were posed to ramp up as soon as EUA was issued are responsible.

Unfortunately, coverage remains very spotty and many states and jurisdictions are continuing to look to the CDC -- often in vain.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213066218

[Timmygoat]

5. Don't you think

We should have had a pandemic response team, who were dedicated to these problems.
WAIT - We did!
Shame Trump did not want it because it was Obamas idea, this whole presidency has been dedicated to bringing down Obama's legacy,
rolling back the affordable care act etc.
All it has done is worsen things for Americans and made us think how great Obama is.

[Karadeniz]

8. We're getting the Puerto Rico treatment.