Trump & Dr. Redfield (CDC) Take Different Paths
Safe Place to Contain Virus and Hide CDC Guidelines
REMINDER:
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on her first day in position
said while standing at the White House press podium to the media and the public in answer to a reporter from The AP: “I will never lie to you.” Oops …
Short clip is here
Her lie (see more below) comes on top of the COVID-19
pandemic and now on roadblock to CDC public efforts in fighting it.
Q & A: Who do elected, appointed, and
Federal employees in serve? Logically they swear to support the public – that
is all Americans, but in this case not so much so as this AP story clearly
shows. It is a very worrisome and troubling story. The highlights follow:
GAINESVILLE,
FL (The AP) —
The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control
experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the
highest levels of the White House, according to internal government emails
obtained by The Associated Press.
The files
also show that after the AP reported that the guidance document had
been buried, the Trump administration ordered key parts of it to be
fast-tracked for approval.
The trove of emails show the nation's top publichealth experts at the CDC spending weeks
working on guidance to help the country deal with a public health emergency,
only to see their work quashed by political appointees with little explanation.
The
document, titled “Guidance for Implementing the Opening Up America Again
Framework,” was researched and written to help faith leaders, business owners,
educators, state, and local officials as they begin to reopen. It included
detailed “decision trees,” or flow charts aimed at helping local leaders
navigate the difficult decision of whether to reopen or remain closed.
McEnany
based on this blatant lie should be fired – or she should immediately resign: She said on Friday
(May 8) that the documents had not been approved by CDC Director Robert
Redfield. (Really big lie) …
The new emails show clearly that Redfield cleared
the guidance.
This new CDC guidance — a mix of advice already
released along with newer information — had been approved and promoted by the
highest levels of its leadership, including Redfield.
Despite this, the
administration shelved it on April 30.
As early as
April 10, Redfield, who is also a member of the White House coronavirus task
force, shared via email the guidance and decision trees with President Trump's inner circle, including: son-in-law Jared Kushner, top adviser
Kellyanne Conway, and Joseph Grogan, assistant to the president for domestic
policy.
Also included were Dr. Deborah Birx, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and other task
force members. Three days later, CDC’s upper management sent the more than
60-page report with attached flow charts to the White House OMB, a step usually
taken only when agencies are seeking final White House approval for documents
they have already cleared.
The 17-page
version later released by The AP and other news outlets was only part of the
actual document submitted by the CDC, and targeted specific facilities like
bars and restaurants.
The AP obtained a copy of the full document. That
version is a more universal series of phased guidelines, “Steps for All Americans in Every Community,” geared to advising
communities as a whole on testing, contact tracing and other fundamental
infection control measures.
Full
story continues here with many up’s and down’s.
My 2 cents: Why would McEnany flat out lie? Where did
Kushner, Conway, and Grogan stand on approving this – none of them have any medical
experience – not one iota?
Why would the guidance, approved by CDC, be shelved
and apparently not for public disclosure and use in this horrible crisis? These
are serious public health policy questions.
To more or less hide them from a sick, dying, and
desperate public is beyond the scope of any imagination except for one reason:
Trump wants 100%, absolute, one-man control and credit
for everything good; not the bad – he blames others for the bad.
No matter the results, Trump will spin the bad, ugly,
and nasty into what he says is good, excellent, or the “best every” to show and
say that he is the best in history, regardless of the facts and truth.
Trump does not give a damn about anything except
himself to gain credit and kudos and daily praise and fluffing about everything.
The man is pathetic and incorrigible
In reality everything he touches turns to sh*t and
that is a matter public record and history and this story shows that clearly.
Clearly Trump is behind the order to shelve the CDC guidelines based on sound,
rational, and logical science, but we all know that from Trump on down most of
the GOP line, they hate science.
Captures Him to a Trump “T”
It’s hard to write anything about this pitiful man.
But now history knows and so do more and more Americans and most of the world just how inept Trump truly is serving as president.
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