The White House on Thursday directed the government’s health officials and scientists to clear all coronavirus statements and public appearance with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, according to several officials familiar with the new approach.Because medical and scientific information has to be spun politically.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of the country’s leading experts on viruses and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance.
Because a Wingnut politician who applies his political bent to responses to health emergencies is the best guy for the job.
Keep in mind that Pence is a clown who denied that smoking was harmful, thinks that condoms don't deter STDs, thinks evolution is a fraud and he thinks praying cures being gay. About the only good thing that one can say about Pence's knowledge of science is that he might not be a Flat-Earther. But don't be shocked if he is.
This is the guy who is in charge of American response to the Trump Flu?
We are so screwed, people.
Missed in all the political correctness, tucked away behind all the pomp and circumstance, literally should be shouted from the rooftops: Pestilence is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This guy believes this is one of the signs and portents in the heavens heralding Jesus floating down out of the sky on a flying rainbow unicorn with thousands of angels on rainbow unicorns to rescue his kind and carry them all off to paradise.
ReplyDeleteThis guy thinks the world is flat, 6000 years old and it's ok to have sex with children.
Just wait, he’s following the Chinese playbook. Next will be local lockdowns, followed by serious movement restrictions, for a “public health emergency”. The real goal, suppress Democratic campaigning while he flys around freely, “rallying” the country. If he can spin it long enough, the November elections get “delayed” because of the virus.
ReplyDeleteHopefully his rallies will become plague vectors.
ReplyDeleteNot only did Fergus dissolve the pandemic response program instituted by the Obama administration, but last year he defunded the Bush era PREDICT program, instituted in the wake of the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, which for ten years studied diseases that pass from animals to humans.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/zoonotic-disease-research-program-shut-down-66641
Seems like that would be kinda useful about now, along with all of those scientists they ran out of the USDA.
-Doug in Oakland