According to CNN, the Centers got Disease Control was ”blindsided” when Trump announced today that he was dispatching teams fron the CDC to help schools reopen safely. He didn’t mention sending money to equip schools to reopen safely.
CDC blindsided by Trump’s statement it could deploy teams to schools this fall
Leaders at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were blindsided this week when President Donald Trump announced that the agency could deploy teams to assist schools with safely reopening in the fall, a senior CDC official told CNN.
“My administration also stands ready to deploy CDC teams to support schools that are opening and schools that need help in safety and in order to safely reopen,” Trump said on Tuesday during a briefing.
The announcement left CDC officials scrambling this week to train-up staff to be able to deploy if they are called upon, the senior official said.
Trumps comments are the latest example of a breakdown in communication between the public health agency and the White House.
Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, the CDC Task Force regularly learned about assignments during presidential briefings, finding out in real time along with the public, a senior official said.
The CDC official added that the agency is expected to come up with a vaccine plan for schools in at least four states by October, even though there is no realistic expectation that a vaccine would be ready by then.
Trump’s comments were made on Thursday amid the White House’s release of eight new recommendations for US schools as they prepare to reopen.
The recommendations include ensuring that students and staff “understand the symptoms of COVID-19” and require “all students, teachers and staff to self-assess their health every morning before coming to school.” The recommendations also encourage the use of masks, but do not require students, teachers or staff to wear them. They also “require students, teachers and staff to socially distance around high-risk individuals,” however it’s unclear how schools will go about doing that.
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Yes, Trump REALLY is going to do this, and Superman is also going to fly in an kill the virus because Trump had a secret meeting with him, and oh, Wonder Woman is also stepping in to resist the virus with her wrist bands and invisible airplane. Trump said so. Trump also had a cabinet meeting with the Blue Fairy and Aladdin, and they both volunteered to help out as well with magic and glitter.
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The the bat signal can be seen nightly over the CDC building in the Atlanta sky
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Hilarious, Robert!!!!
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Here is the link to the CNN article. This will also take you to a good video of the school-opening chaos in multiple locations, all engineered from a distance byTrump and his supporters.
This chaos has also been planned to distract attention from Trump’s other, and daily attacks on major institutions and his use of “the whole of government” to win the election.
See also Mercedes Schneider’s keen observations about how schools are being enlisted in a huge experiment that will give us “missing data” on how the virus spreads among school-age children and with what consequences.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/cdc-trump-deployment-announcement/index.html
and for Mercedes: https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/how-high-is-the-infection-rate-of-covid-19-in-kids-open-the-schools-to-find-out/
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cash through chaos: think of all the money, then think where the money will ultimately end up
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The politically influential members of the Council for National Policy (2014 membership list published by the SPLC) set up the group to act as public policy advisors. They are among the GOP backers who will enable Trump’s re-election. Members listed (partial)- DeVos, the Mercers, Foster Freiss, Leonard Leo, Norquist, Rick Santorum, a former Ohio Speaker of the House and Secretary of State, the head of the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy, a Maine Corps Judge Advocate, Herman Cain, J. Peter Grace and
Jesse Helms (the preceding 3 now deceased), a managing director of Bain Capital, Linda Bean of L.L. Bean, Jay Sekulow, the infamous Josh Duggar, Kellyanne Conway, executives of the NRA, Knights of Columbus, Heritage Foundation (Koch), Bradley Foundation (Koch) and Daily Caller.
In the Public Interest described Charles Koch as the man behind the attack on the USPS. DeVos is behind the reopening of schools.
The Council has been described as an umbrella organization and networking group for ant-abortion and anti-gay conservative activists. Critics allege the Council has overlapping memberships among groups like Opus Dei and the NRA.
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I think Herman Cain is no longer a member of this group. If anyone who reads this is in Twitter, I urge you to go to Sarah Cooper’s Twitter feed and find her tweet when she discovered that Herman Cain was still tweeting two weeks after he died. The comments are hilarious.
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Tweeting From on High
Tweeting from on high
We hear ole Herman Cain
Always with us nigh
A lingering of pain
Amazing though it seems
Our thoughts can linger on
Endure the ages seen
Long after we are gone
So each of us needs strive
Lest legacy indict
To leave the world with live
Ideas that lead to light
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. . . another example of Trump’s magical thinking. He can just think something, and VOILA! it’s done. I wonder when everyone will realize that his magic wand was manufactured at “Election Central.” CBK
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Trump just says any crap, counting on the fact that Fox News will run a story about this new example of his great leadership. Another con in the long, long, long, long, long, long , long, long history of cons from this criminal.
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I did the numbers.
In February 2020, Forbes reported that the CDC had 10,600 employees.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/02/29/10600-cdc-employees-earn-11-billion-annually/#1010914324da
Education Data.org reports that there are 130,930 elementary and secondary schools in the United States,
https://educationdata.org/number-of-public-schools/
Does anyone reading this comment think Trump even thought of checking to see if there were enough people working for the CDC to form that many teams and how many does it take to have a team?
“According to Wittenberg, while the research on optimal team numbers is ‘not conclusive, it does tend to fall into the five to 12 range, though some say five to nine is best, and the number six has come up a few times.’ But having a good team depends on more than optimal size, Wittenberg adds.”
Let’s go with FIVE, the smallest number quoted above. All the CDC has to do is hire enough people to bring their number up to 654,650 or more.
Does anyone reading this comment think Trump would be willing to increase the CDC’s budget to afford to hire, train, and transport all of those teams to every public school in the United States and would they be ready before the 1st day of school?
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President to deploy…
Treasury Department to help local banks count money
Department of Transportation to show subway riders how to Mind the Gap and how to put on a seat belt.
Job Corps to… “Did anyone tell Ivanka there’s already a department for this?”
Geological Survey (USGS) to Park Service to explain how to fill pot holes
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to help state governments, you know, deregulate alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives
Office of Housing to develop “how to Redline” pamphlets
Office of Civil Rights to assist museums with displays
…
What a dolt.
Now he is going to send the CDC to assist.
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It seems the White House left out Number 9.
“Understand the symptoms of Shambolism. All should self-assess the
shambolic DIN, of the debate, centered on who is right, in the world we
think we know, by defining who is wrong…
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