The United States has very poor contact tracing. Had Herman Cain been in Scandinavia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan or South Korea... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...cing-australia-other-nations-covid19/12761748 They would have been able to determine if the indoor rally was the event that Herman Cain had become infected. Not for any liability reason considering everybody there signed that waver prior to entering the indoor rally to release the organizers from liability. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03518-4 This is the reason why the United States is a poor source of proof about indoor Covid spread in comparison to the above mentioned countries. In Asia, there was a famous infection event at a restaurant. They were able to contact trace to the location within a few days and then determine the direction of the air flow (air condition) within the restaurant to be able to contact other infected individuals that were asymptomatic (they didn't know they were infected)...high risk to public safety. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2020/12/11/korean-restaurant-coronavirus-airflow-study/ Just as ironic, the only countries doing current research / studies on indoor and outdoor Covid spread are countries outside of the United States. By the way, not discussed...other individuals in that pic refused to be Covid tested after Herman Cain became ill from Covid. Thus, its possible that someone there near Herman Cain was asymptomatic and didn't even know they were contagious. Another possibility, someone in Herman Cain's personal environment was asymptomatic and had infected Cain...we will never know because contact tracing in the United States is just crappy and/or people just do not want to co-operate with Public Health officials trying to do contact tracing as in the case of Herman Cain's death. wrbtrader
Bullshit. I even made posts stating the GOP was lying about their hispanic outreach bullshit because even a larger majority of Hispanic Americans were polled and said they too were against illegal immigration. Why do all you people like to pretend conservatives are monolithic and agree with 100 percent Trump and 100 percent the party. I despise the establishment in both parties. Most libertarians and conservatives do. When many on the left realize the democrats are not there to serve them either, maybe we can run the establishment into the Chesapeake.
The Trump administration officials forced the CDC to change reports outlining COVID cases and deaths among young Americans -- to support Trump's election blitz to re-open schools. Trump officials celebrated efforts to change CDC reports on coronavirus, emails show Many of the Trump officials who clashed with government scientists had little or no previous experience in combating infectious disease. https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/trump-administration-cdc-coronavirus-reports-20210409.html Trump appointees in the Health and Human Services department last year privately touted their efforts to block or alter scientists’ reports on the coronavirus to more closely align with then-President Donald Trump’s more optimistic messages about the outbreak, according to newly released documents from congressional investigators. The documents provide further insight into how senior Trump officials approached last year's explosion of coronavirus cases in the United States. Even as career government scientists worked to combat the virus, a cadre of Trump appointees were attempting to blunt the scientists' messages, edit their findings and equip the president with an alternate set of talking points. Then-science adviser Paul Alexander wrote to then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo on Sept. 9, 2020, touting two examples of where he said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had bowed to his pressure and changed language in their reports, according to an email obtained by the House's select subcommittee on the coronavirus outbreak. Pointing to one change — where CDC leaders allegedly changed the opening sentence of a report about spread of the virus among younger people after Alexander pressured them — Alexander wrote to Caputo, calling it a “small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!” In the same email, Alexander touted another example of a change to a weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that he said the agency made in response to his demands. The weekly Morbidity and Mortality Reports, which offer public updates on scientists' findings, had been considered sacrosanct for decades and untouchable by political appointees in the past. Two days later, Alexander appealed to then-White House adviser Scott Atlas to help him dispute a coming CDC report on coronavirus-related deaths among young Americans. "Can you help me craft an op-ed," Alexander wrote to Atlas on Sept. 11, alleging the CDC report was "timed for the election" and an attempt to keep schools closed even as Trump pushed to reopen them. "Let us advise the President and get permission to preempt this please for it will run for the weekend so we need to blunt the edge as it is misleading." Alexander and other officials also strategized on how to help Trump argue to reopen the economy in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, despite scientists' warnings about the potential risks. "I know the President wants us to enumerate the economic cost of not reopening. We need solid estimates to be able to say something like: 50,000 more cancer deaths! 40,000 more heart attacks! 25,000 more suicides!" Caputo wrote to Alexander on May 16, 2020, in an email obtained by the subcommittee. "You need to take ownership of these numbers. This is singularly important to what you and I want to achieve," Caputo added in a follow-up email, urging Alexander to compile additional data on the consequences of virus-related shutdowns. Atlas, Alexander and Caputo did not immediately respond to request for comment.
But will DeSantis ball washers have any shame when it's discovered he followed in his daddy's footsteps, or will they demand we stop talking about it like they are now about Trump?
What does it matter? Its not like the lockdown fascists have outperformed. CA got so tired of lockdown bullshit without and discernable benefit relative to many other states that Gavin Newsom is worried about losing his job in a recall. And we are the big lib state and people loved the guy at first.
Ex-White House aide reveals 'inside story' of what happened when Trump claimed injecting disinfectant could cure COVID-19 https://www.businessinsider.com/cov...p-touting-injecting-disinfectants-cure-2021-4 Trump famously touted injecting disinfectant as a cure for COVID-19 during a press briefing. Olivia Troye, a former aide, said that the White House Coronavirus Task Force was "in shock." The task force then had to discuss how to mitigate people actually ingesting bleach, Troye said. (More at above url) Of course there are the after effects... Florida family indicted for selling bleach as ‘miracle’ COVID-19 cure https://nypost.com/2021/04/23/florida-family-indicted-for-selling-bleach-as-miracle-covid-19-cure/