The corona virus crisis has been used non-stop by the media to bash President Trump. The facts don't matter. The latest attack is best illustrated by a new article from lefty Ezra Klein on Vox which has as it's topic sentence this lie:
60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal.
It's laughable to see Klein and the rest of the media and congressional Democrats trying to push such obvious garbage.
Let's consider it.
What's the plan? We had the guidelines to flatten the curve, in other words, to keep the hospitals from getting overwhelmed. It worked. Then we had the plan developed by the White House Task Force regarding how states should reopen so as to keep the virus from surging back. That's under way now. Then we had the plan from the White House to get sufficient testing in place. That's been achieved; we are now able to test about 11-12 million people per month even though the goal was just to get to 5 million per month. (That's a plan and a goal.) There was also the plan to get adequate PPE for the medical workers; that too has been achieved. Then there was the plan put in place to make sure no one who needed a ventilator would be denied one. Another plan brought to fruition successfully. There's also the plan to get treatments for the virus in place. That too is well underway with all manner of studies being conducted. And there's also the plan to get the vaccine ready for use by the end of the year. That plan is well underway and moving forward successfully.
Simply put, there have been a great many plans from the White House. Klein and his baseless charge looks absolutely silly to anyone who has followed what has transpired.
So what's the framework, then? Is Klein correct on that? Again the answer is a resounding NO. Early in the crisis, the President set up the Corona Virus Task Force headed by the vice president. This group has been the framework upon which all plans have been developed. The task force has performed both tirelessly and extremely well. Just look at all the plans achieved.
But Klein says there is no White House philosophy about the virus. That's a really funny charge. The philosophy has been clear. Originally, based upon the projection from the scientists that there could be 2.2 million dead from the virus if nothing was done, Trump set the philosophy as being that America would shut down the most successful economy in the world and have people stay home in order to bring down the total number of dead. Once that was accomplished, the philosophy was shifted towards opening the country in a responsible fashion so as to keep deaths and the virus from roaring back but also so as to restore America to prosperity again. Minimizing deaths and maximizing economic restoration is also the clear goal.
Look, Klein and the other members of the leftwing media and the congressional Democrats may not like the methods employed by the President. They wanted a national response directed by Washington while President Trump chose an "all America" response that brought in states, cities and private companies to each do what they could based upon local conditions and individual expertise. That's why we have 11 different groups successfully making ventilators rather than having a national plan directed inefficiently from Washington. That's also why we were able to ramp up so quickly to doing testing at the rate of 12 million per month via private labs and many testing methodologies rather than having a one-size-fits-all approach directed by DC bureaucrats. We've seen how health issues respond to DC bureaucrats. Remember the Obamacare website that cost a billion dollars but didn't work? Even today, that website still doesn't do all that it was supposed to do. In the context of the virus, an approach like the one pushed by the media/Democrat left wing complex might have meant many hundreds of thousands more deaths while Washington bureaucrats dawdled and engaged in turf battles. After all, remember the flu epidemic in Obama's early years. The Obama/Biden administration did nothing for six months as people across the country died. By the time DC was finally ready to act, the virus was already on the way out naturally.
It's rather disgusting that these left wing media types like Ezra Klein think it acceptable to just push lies and attacks and more lies. Lives are at stake here, not just the political power that motivates these groups. It seems that they care more to push their political agendas and very little about the effect that their lives have on the average American.
60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal.
It's laughable to see Klein and the rest of the media and congressional Democrats trying to push such obvious garbage.
Let's consider it.
What's the plan? We had the guidelines to flatten the curve, in other words, to keep the hospitals from getting overwhelmed. It worked. Then we had the plan developed by the White House Task Force regarding how states should reopen so as to keep the virus from surging back. That's under way now. Then we had the plan from the White House to get sufficient testing in place. That's been achieved; we are now able to test about 11-12 million people per month even though the goal was just to get to 5 million per month. (That's a plan and a goal.) There was also the plan to get adequate PPE for the medical workers; that too has been achieved. Then there was the plan put in place to make sure no one who needed a ventilator would be denied one. Another plan brought to fruition successfully. There's also the plan to get treatments for the virus in place. That too is well underway with all manner of studies being conducted. And there's also the plan to get the vaccine ready for use by the end of the year. That plan is well underway and moving forward successfully.
Simply put, there have been a great many plans from the White House. Klein and his baseless charge looks absolutely silly to anyone who has followed what has transpired.
So what's the framework, then? Is Klein correct on that? Again the answer is a resounding NO. Early in the crisis, the President set up the Corona Virus Task Force headed by the vice president. This group has been the framework upon which all plans have been developed. The task force has performed both tirelessly and extremely well. Just look at all the plans achieved.
But Klein says there is no White House philosophy about the virus. That's a really funny charge. The philosophy has been clear. Originally, based upon the projection from the scientists that there could be 2.2 million dead from the virus if nothing was done, Trump set the philosophy as being that America would shut down the most successful economy in the world and have people stay home in order to bring down the total number of dead. Once that was accomplished, the philosophy was shifted towards opening the country in a responsible fashion so as to keep deaths and the virus from roaring back but also so as to restore America to prosperity again. Minimizing deaths and maximizing economic restoration is also the clear goal.
Look, Klein and the other members of the leftwing media and the congressional Democrats may not like the methods employed by the President. They wanted a national response directed by Washington while President Trump chose an "all America" response that brought in states, cities and private companies to each do what they could based upon local conditions and individual expertise. That's why we have 11 different groups successfully making ventilators rather than having a national plan directed inefficiently from Washington. That's also why we were able to ramp up so quickly to doing testing at the rate of 12 million per month via private labs and many testing methodologies rather than having a one-size-fits-all approach directed by DC bureaucrats. We've seen how health issues respond to DC bureaucrats. Remember the Obamacare website that cost a billion dollars but didn't work? Even today, that website still doesn't do all that it was supposed to do. In the context of the virus, an approach like the one pushed by the media/Democrat left wing complex might have meant many hundreds of thousands more deaths while Washington bureaucrats dawdled and engaged in turf battles. After all, remember the flu epidemic in Obama's early years. The Obama/Biden administration did nothing for six months as people across the country died. By the time DC was finally ready to act, the virus was already on the way out naturally.
It's rather disgusting that these left wing media types like Ezra Klein think it acceptable to just push lies and attacks and more lies. Lives are at stake here, not just the political power that motivates these groups. It seems that they care more to push their political agendas and very little about the effect that their lives have on the average American.
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