What do you think all of these actions amounted to? The Dems wanted total shutdown after they threatened legal action to quarantine NYC which was an extremely smart idea. The virus wasn't contained. At that point millions of people are going to get the virus unless you shut things down.
I already dealt with this. Cuomo and De Blasio's handling of the crisis were at first far from perfect and one study has indeed pointed out that many people's lives could have been saved if proper protocols were implemented a week earlier. But the reality was also that the American people might have reacted extremely negatively if drastic military(China)-like measures were enforced right from the outset. I am sure that this was an important consideration in both sides' thinking at the time when these decisions had to be made.
But, as I already pointed out, nothing prevented Trump from tackling the situation head-on in consultation with CDC, the Senate and Congressional committee's, the governors and mayors (even with international experts from other countries & WHO) and in doing so they could have come up with a coordinated effort and plan of action with all parties' buy-in. Instead this is what happened:
March 16: Governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, all Democrats, formulate the same rules for closures, saying they were forced to act because of a lack of coordination from the federal government.
"We need the federal government to do a better job," Cuomo said. "States don't have the capacity or the power to make up for the federal government. We're doing the best we can, but we need the federal government to step up." New York cases hit 950. (
ABC News)
And less than a month later on April 14:
Setting up a potential constitutional showdown between himself and the nation’s governors, President Donald Trump is claiming “total” authority over states in ordering a reopening of the country once the coronavirus pandemic shows signs of receding, even as many governors forge ahead with plans of their own.
“When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. That's the way it's got to be,” Trump claimed Monday during the White House briefing, saying there are “numerous provisions” that grant him the authority to order a state to reopen its economy.
...
The president’s assertions come after he has, for weeks, sought to shift full responsibility onto the shoulders of governors in making decisions on closures for their states, resisting calls to issue a nationwide stay-at-home order at one time by citing the Constitution’s delegation of power to the states -- the very same constitutional principle he is now insisting he can overrule. (
ABC News)
So I am afraid your repeated counter claim does not hold much water.
Fauci said:
Fauci denied that he ever heard the president “distort” the threat of the coronavirus and maintained that Trump’s presentations to the public were largely in line with discussions he’d had with medical experts. When asked whether he ever felt Trump was downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, Fauci said no..
Case closed.
Well, not quite. In Fauci's
first testimony before Congress it became apparent that even though he was keeping the president fully informed, the message from Trump and the White House to the American people conveyed a much different picture than Fauci's. And again during the
Senate hearing a month later when he sharply contrasted Trump and warned explicitly against the early reopening.
And
this is what he said about how careful he has to be when contradicting Trump, which would explain your quote.
Yes, but HIV spreads by people having sexual contact which could have easily been prevented by closing bars and clubs. Are you trolling or can you really not see how bars and clubs played a major role in the spread of HIV?
This does not add value to the topic, so I am ignoring it.
