Trump: Wind down task force because we can't stay 'closed for the next 5 years'
Source: American Independent
By Dan Desai Martin -May 5, 2020 6:01 PM
Donald Trump is prioritizing the U.S. economy over American lives.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump defended the idea of winding down the White House coronavirus task force because he is eager to reopen the American economy.
"We can't keep our country closed for the next five years," Trump said in response to reports that the task force may dissolve this month. "You can say there might be a recurrence, and there might be. And most doctors or some doctors say that it will happen, and it'll be a flame and we're gonna put the flame out."
Trump and many Republicans around the country have pushed to reopen many parts of the economy even as experts warn that such a decision will likely result in more coronavirus cases and a higher death toll.
A new model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimates 135,000 deaths in the country through the beginning of August, the New York Times reported on Monday.
Read more: https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-economy-death-toll-covid-19/
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)WHO ARE THESE HORRIBLE LIBS CALLING FOR CLOSING THE COUNTRY FOR FIVE YEARS?
That, DU, was
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Has anyone said we need to stay closed that long? Or is this just another thing he made up and pulled out of his ass on the spot?
sop
(10,171 posts)maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)No one said that; he's being a dick, because that's what "Real Americans" like: cruelty.
ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)First, I thought it was a hoax.
Then, I thought it was going to go away in the warm weather.
Then, there was a miracle drug.
Then, there was a warp speed vaccine team.
Now, it will be 5 years.
He's a horrible liar.
Botany
(70,502 posts)COVID-19 cases could surge in fall, last 2 years, University of Minnesota report says
The pandemic could last up to two years, according to nationally renowned epidemiologist
Michael Osterholm and a team of researchers.
https://www.startribune.com/covid-19-cases-could-surge-in-fall-last-2-years-u-report-predicts/570130602/
This shit could go on for sometime until we get a vaccine and treatments.
Osterholm is on record as saying we could get a 70% world wide infection rate.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)So, there's a lot to pull out.
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)Yep. That's what all his opponents want -- to stay locked down for five years... or a decade... or maybe a century.
brooklynite
(94,532 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)And, oh, yes! Air quotes on the word "thinking"! Not sure anything he does rises to the level of rational thought.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Dude can't keep his nonsense straight.
The cult never notices.
Initech
(100,068 posts)So much for "compassionate conservatism". Guess we're on our own.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)because Pope Pence and Mnuchin were likely overruling anything the people who knew their business came up with, and Big Dummy and his nitwit son in law trying to micromanage the lot.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)There is no such thing. Conservatives are the opposite of compassionate. They get off on torture and punishment and cruelty toward any living thing, except themselves, of course.
ProfessorGAC
(65,013 posts)So, warp speed means the vaccine will take longer than most vaccines in the last 30 years.
Got it!
An odd definition of warp speed.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)but wasn't willing to sacrifice his own sorry ass in the Vietnam War. I never thought I could hate someone as much as I hate him.
so right. He is such a selfish, self centered person I have ever seen. Like you I hate him so much.
I'm the third one in this sub-thread to say, yep, I hate him so much too.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)He should be locked up, with nothing to hear his ravings but a padded cell wall.
ashredux
(2,605 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,149 posts)Businesses open on 40% of normal traffic won't stay open long. Costs will exceed revenues.
sop
(10,171 posts)rurallib
(62,411 posts)permanent ass kissing, fawning and worshipping?
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)...to order the CDC to stop providing updates in number of cases and deaths. Just pretend it doesn't exist. And, if people die, so what? They die from lots of other things, too, but you have to keep on with normalcy, right?
Harry Walpurgisnacht
(78 posts)Beginning next January, you'll be closed, and probably for more than five years!
AllaN01Bear
(18,193 posts)Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Last edited Wed May 6, 2020, 07:34 AM - Edit history (1)
I cannot stand the juvenile debate tactic that conservatives love to use of throwing out extremes like Trump just did with the "we can't be closed for five years" comment.
This is pure gaslighting from Trump. In his magical thinking, he believes that if we do away with the task force, then people will believe the pandemic is over. Sadly, he may be absolutely correct about that one. It's appalling and slightly amusing that he acts like any flare up of virus cases will be snuffed out like a flame. Um, Donnie, we haven't "snuffed out" shit! We're still dealing with the first one!
area51
(11,908 posts)Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)In fact, having an expert task force is essential for opening the economy the best possible way to ensure it stays open rather than collapses by letting the pandemic get even more out of control.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,311 posts)He can't bear the thought of not going to his rallies (designed to rally his enthusiasm, not his supporters'). He's had enough, cooped up in a huge mansion with hundreds of people in it, and with anyone he wants on the end of a phone. The average American is quite willing to do what it takes to keep the death toll down, but President Short-Attention-Span needs to pretend he's doing something, after everyone in the world at him playing doctor, and that means shutting something down, even if that something has the purpose of saving lives.
Initech
(100,068 posts)I'm too lazy to do any presidenting, so you guys are left to your own devices.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)Just like they did the first time. Any self respecting reporter shouldve followed up with how will it be different this time around?
And geez weve literally been closed not even 2 months and he jumps to 5 years like anyone has suggested that. Another follow up couldve been do we really need to close that long given youve said the vaccine will be ready in 6 months?
cp
(6,626 posts)This is one of my new handy phrases. Also it's true.
FreeState
(10,572 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)so we can go on back to the important business of praising Trump. Next he will order all government agencies to stop tracking and reporting Covid-19 cases. No one needs to worry about it, so no one needs to know those numbers.
He will, however, call for a new task force . . . to investigate Joe Biden.
(I was gonna put the sarcasm notice on here, but I can't tell the difference between sarcasm, satire, and reality anymore.)
raccoon
(31,110 posts)Just because its an inconvenience to you.
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Like the one that was supposed to find evidence of Democratic cheating in 2016, it was assembled to make it LOOK like he was doing something while, in fact, simply wasting someone else's time and our money.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Why...I just don't see any evidence of CV anymore. Coming soon...much watch TV.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,585 posts)His "task force" was a three month long joke, as was putting his idiot son-in-law in charge of distributing PPEs and ventilators. And the daily "briefings" were nothing but a rally in a different venue, giving him a chance to insult reporters to their faces rather than via tweets.
He is not just a pathetic president, he a piss-poor excuse for a human being. Every breath he takes is a waste of oxygen.