“Proper mitigation factors” – Digby's Hullabaloo

The misery of life in an iron lung – why polio vaccination is STILL a must. | Well, This Is What I Think — “What we need to do is make sure we have the proper mitigation factors to make sure people don’t die.” White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows

The Trump White House is not even trying to contain the coronavirus pandemic. This is beyond belief. Beyond irresponsible. It is inhuman.

MEADOWS: We're not going to control the pandemic

TAPPER: Why not?

M: Because it's a contagious virus

T: Why not make efforts to contain it?

M: What we need to do is make sure we have the proper mitigation factors to make sure people don't die pic.twitter.com/0DYgk4rB3T
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 25, 2020

Mark Meadows says Americans should follow CDC guidelines, but in the context of making a case that masks don't really work. Completely incoherent. pic.twitter.com/mL5JcRhCNZ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 25, 2020

Tapper to Mark Meadows: "Just yesterday, President Trump said 'we are rounding the corner & it's going away.' Mark, it's not going away even in the WH! But beyond that, the US reported 83,000 new cases on Friday and Saturday. That's the 2 highest days of the entire pandemic." pic.twitter.com/gCXUB2I2xh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 25, 2020

Don’t imagine the response if a Democrat took this approach. Imagine if Dwight Eisenhower did. Even then, he had to fight a Texan leading his own Department of Health, Education and Welfare who “disputed suggestions that the distribution should be regulated or managed by the federal government or that it should be compulsory.” In her view, that was a “back door to socialized medicine.” Eisenhower prevailed. Oveta Culp Hobby resigned.

While it waits for an effective vaccine, the Trump administration finds it acceptable that you get the coronavirus and don’t die.

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