President Donald Trump is facing a barrage of calls to permit potentially life-saving transition talks between his health officials and incoming President-elect Joe Biden's aides on a fast-worsening pandemic he is continuing to ignore in his obsessive effort to discredit an election that he clearly lost.
The
increasingly urgent pleas are coming from inside his administration,
the President-elect's team and independent public health experts as
Covid-19 cases rage out of control countrywide, claiming more than 1,000
US lives a day. More than 246,000 Americans
have now died from the disease, and a bitter winter lies ahead even
amid encouraging news such as Monday's announcement that a vaccine
developed by Moderna is demonstrating a high success rate in early clinical trials, the second such positive vaccine news in about a week.
But
instead of listening or mobilizing to tackle what some medical experts
warn is becoming a "humanitarian" crisis, Trump spent the weekend during
which the US passed 11 million infections amplifying lies and
misinformation about his election loss. At one point, he appeared to acknowledge Sunday in a tweet that Biden won, before backtracking with a stream of defiance on Twitter.
This came as the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that "of course it would be better if we could start working with" the Biden team that will take office on January 20.
You keep implying that Biden has some magic formula to shut off a virus.
ReplyDeletenope! - you keep implying Trump has a plan to deal with viruw, Any plan Biden has is more beneficial than the nonexistent Trump plan
ReplyDeletePlan - Pfizer and moderna vaccines have shown positive results in phase 3 trials. Nothing to do with Biden.
ReplyDeleteThat was Trump's plan - let people die until a vaccine is developed?
ReplyDeleteit is not a plan, it is reality
ReplyDeleteunless you are in a small island with a sparse population
Or unless you have a stupid loser who refuses to reveal distribution plans
ReplyDeleteTrump is looking to a final solution but skipping the stuff that has to be done in the interim.
ReplyDeleteIn a year America will be vaccinated. Europe and Canada won't be. America will be reopen while Europe and Canada will still be on semi-shutdown.
Five years from now, America will be streaking ahead while the others are still recovering.
And you know this how?
ReplyDeleteHerd immunity is only viable after a mass immunisation project.
ReplyDeleteyes that was the point. that it is absurd to be using this as a plan. But in fact he has no other plan prior to distribution of a vaccine
ReplyDeleteWarp speed for drug development /approval was trumpian.
ReplyDeleteAnd that proves that the people who died from the virus died because of his profound wisdom and planning?!
ReplyDeleteNo, they died from the virus.
ReplyDeleteUk has had 2 lockdowns , and other distancing messures, and proportionally the same number of deaths as USA.
And therefore?!
ReplyDeleteDue to Trump's superior knowledge and leadership nothing and nobody could have done better!?
Here is what biology professor writes:
ReplyDeleteNations that successfully suppressed outbreak include both small and large, both island and non-island, and both autocratic and democratic.
Sole relevant parameter for success or failure is whether government took prompt resolute action (success) or whether it did not (failure).
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Fast, strong, and sustained response by government equals success.
Slow, weak, and unsustained response by government equals failure.
Every death above 100 per million in a developed nation is the direct result of governmental negligence.
Change of subject - if someone decides to follow the Yerushalmi instead of the Bavli - is he an apikores?
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