Waters: Trump ‘Ignored’ Early Warnings on Coronavirus — He Has ‘Gotten Away with a Lot of Lying’

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Pam Key 29 Mar 2020

Saturday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) accused the federal government of having a late response to the coronavirus pandemic and blamed President Donald Trump for ignoring early warnings.

Waters said, “It’s just it’s a problem that we have basically because we started late in the United States of America. As you know, we had an office of pandemic affairs basically in the office of the president that was shut down, closed down, not funded by the president of the United States. That’s the kind of office that does the planning, that anticipates, that makes sure that supplies and everything that’s needed can be readily available when you have this kind of disaster. And so even though we didn’t have that kind of planning in addition to that, the early notifications I’m told were ignored.”

She added, “I know that the president has gotten away with a lot of lying about what is going to happen with the Defense Act, and he said that he was going to, first of all, invoke it. He did not. He waited until the heat was on him, and then he lied on some of the big businesses that he said he had an agreement with that he really didn’t have. So the Defense Production Act is extraordinarily important to put in place by those that can give us the supplies that we need.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/29/waters-trump-ignored-early-warnings-on-coronavirus-he-has-gotten-away-with-a-lot-of-lying/

[libertybele]

Oh mercy, we now have "Saint" Auntie Maxine!   

[mystery-ak]

Latest Dem meme.....which enables them to open Congressional hearings...soon to come..

[truth_seeker]

I need word links and video links for when Trump shut down China travel, they called him "racist."

This virus topic spent about 1/2 day in "non-partisan" mode, before the TDS returned.

 

[PeteS in CA]

As I posted in the threads about Pelosi's vile slanderous claim, I won't re-post the whole timeline here, but this post has it, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,395099.msg2169385.html#msg2169385 , nearly 4 dozen Trump Administration actions and results that show Miss Nancy is lying. I truly hope House Dems are STOOOOOO-pid enough to start a shampeachment kangavestigation of this, immediately.

[PeteS in CA]

I need word links and video links for when Trump shut down China travel, they called him "racist."

This virus topic spent about 1/2 day in "non-partisan" mode, before the TDS returned.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/partisan-democrats-trumps-response-coronavirus-liz-peek

In response to the travel ban, Schumer tweeted on Feb. 5, “The premature travel ban to and from China by the current administration is just an excuse to further his ongoing was against immigrants. There must be a check and Balance (sic) on these restrictions.”

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/12/biden-calls-trump-racist-for-stating-the-fact-that-wuhan-virus-began-in-china/

In January, Biden also criticized as xenophobic the administration’s travel ban to China as the outbreak began to worsen, although it was instrumental in preventing an outbreak in the United States much sooner.

“This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia,” Biden said during an Iowa campaign event.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/04/coronavirus-quaratine-travel-110750

"This is a virus that happened to pop up in China. But the virus doesn’t discriminate between Asian versus non-Asian,” said Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), a former emergency room physician who will preside over Congress' first hearing on the outbreak on Wednesday. “In our response we can’t create prejudices and harbor anxieties toward one population."
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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Tuesday that widespread travel bans and restrictions weren’t needed to stop the outbreak and could "have the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit." ...
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Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union has warned that the administration's measures infringe on civil rights. Any detention of travelers or citizens must be “scientifically justified and no more intrusive on civil liberties than absolutely necessary,” said Jay Stanley, an ACLU senior policy analyst.

That's what I came up with - "xenophobia", "discriminate", "prejudices", "stigma", "infringe on civil rights". Maybe some has better Google-fu than mine and come up with more/better.

[PeteS in CA]

@truth_seeker, found some more Prog outspewing about the China travel ban: https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel-restrictions/

“The United States and other countries around the world have put in place unprecedented travel restrictions in response to the virus,” said Democratic Rep. Eliot L. Engel. “These measures have not proven to improve public health outcomes, rather they tend to cause economic harm and to stoke racist and discriminatory responses to this epidemic.”

A day earlier, Democratic Rep. Ami Bera, who presided over the hearing, told Politico, “In our response we can’t create prejudices and harbor anxieties toward one population.” Bera told Politico the decision to impose travel restrictions “probably doesn’t make sense” given that the outbreak had already spread to several other countries by that point. “At this juncture, it’s going to be very hard to contain the virus,” Bera said.
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On the day Trump imposed the travel restrictions, Biden did criticize Trump for his “record of hysteria and xenophobia,” but it is unclear whether Biden was referring to Trump’s travel restrictions, or Trump’s overall qualifications to deal with the epidemic.

“We have right now a crisis with the coronavirus, emanating from China,” Biden said on Jan. 31 at a campaign event in Iowa. “A national emergency worldwide alerts. The American people need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it, that he is going to act rationally about it. In moments like this, this is where the credibility of the president is most needed, as he explains what we should and should not do. This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/trump-response-coronavirus/606610/
PETER NICHOLAS
FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Guiding Trump’s response is a hardheaded nationalism. On January 31, the administration announced strict travel bans: Most foreign nationals who’d recently been to China were barred from entering the U.S., and Americans were warned to stay clear of the country. These measures—which career public-health officials argued were needed to delay the virus’s spread—broke with guidance from the World Health Organization, which did not recommend curbs on travel or trade. The restrictions did, however, reflect the alarm coming from Trump’s base.
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But critics from WHO and elsewhere have said the bans are unnecessary and could generate a racist backlash against Chinese people. One Chinese foreign official asked of the U.S.: “Where is its empathy?”

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_806dc2c4c1df3da9fa363a4e80b933af

Eric Carter, an associate professor of geography and global health at Macalaster College who studies the politics of public health, points to what happened in West Africa during the Ebola outbreak as an example.
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Carter told CNN the past provides plenty of examples of travel restrictions stigmatizing countries and ethnicities. The response to the novel coronavirus, including recent travel restrictions, has happened more quickly than in past epidemics -- and from a public health standpoint, that could be a good thing, he says. But he notes there are also other questions to consider.

"Historically a lot of these border security measures have used public health as a pretext for discrimination. It's very easy to see how a public health rationale would be used to limit immigration for whatever reason," he says. "And I'm not saying that that's actually occurring, but it well could in this particular political climate, not just in the US, but internationally."

[truth_seeker]

Thanks for your research. I'll read in detail later

I expect there might even be somebody, from the right that got out over their skies, talking like the lefties.

 

[Fishrrman]

I have to admit I haven't read the article, nor will I.

I saw Maxine "Waters" and "a Lot of Lying" in the title, and it brought a smile to my face.

That was enough... 

[jmyrlefuller]

So did a lot of people. Especially in New York City.

I read yesterday morning that the R₀ for this disease in Seattle, where the virus first took root, was closer to 1.4 instead of the 2+ it's been estimated elsewhere, mainly because Seattle culture is already incredibly distant as it is, so it gave a false sense that the disease wasn't as contagious or virulent as originally feared.