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Tone of WH briefing is somber today

The message: it’s up to you as the individual & community to get mitigation right

It’s up governors. States. Municipalities.
It’s up to commanding officers.
To companies.

They pass responsibility down

But we know who is actually responsible
Birx now saying states are “confused” about testing because there are different corporate providers, it’s all proprietary, so stuff isn’t getting used and they are “trying to figure it out”

This is exactly why there needs to be a coordinated federal response, not “figure it out”
The president just said if we had done nothing — as he originally wanted BTW, and keeps inquiring about — 2.2 million Americans would have died — “death all over” — so in comparison, 100k-200k isn’t so bad.

Uhhhhhh
“Death all over,” says the president, would have made it pretty hard to keep going.

... guess which scientist had to brief him on that?
“100,000 is a very low number,” the president wants you to believe. Anything less than that, he says, makes him a miracle worker.

Way to manage expectations.
“You can use a scarf. A lot of people have scarves.” 🧣
POTUS refuses to defer tariff payments for 90 days because he still believes the China is paying the tariffs I nstead of American importers. Which is of course, total complete utter bullshit.
The WH has removed even more seats from the briefing room. But the frantic OAN clown still has a chair.

this is of course exactly what POTUS said he would do, take out seats and limited it more to people he liked, but of course he won’t be held accountable for any of that
POTUS is asked about his Putin call, and oil prices. “Yes,” he says, “it was probably about that.” 🙄

He goes on to describe the pending environmental catastrophe of aging tankers full of oil idling on the seas, tho he doesn’t get that’s what he said
He does not mention that w agreed to accept propaganda “aid” from Russia. Nor is he asked about it.
I just wanna point out that zero treatments for the virus are useful/effective enough if there is not testing. Otherwise you’re waiting for people to be too sick for the drugs to be most effective. Testing is mandatory in every successful possibility until there is a vaccine
Wait. I’m sorry. There’s what, like a dozen journalist left in the briefing room? And there are two — TWO — from OAN?

What? (Could be wrong re affiliations but don’t think so)
“Nobody cares about [impeachment] now, because they’re all thinking about the virus — and that’s ok with me,” says POTUS

He then debunks McConnell’s myth that impeachment disrupted his virus response. Would have done it all the same, he says.
The president complains that there are never ending questions from the journalists.

“But it’s ok, I don’t have anything else to do.”

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