Earlier today, with American COVID-19 deaths passing the 100-mark, and our trajectory looking like that of Italy, Donald Trump tried to make the case that he’s been taking this very real public health crisis seriously from the outset. Asked by a reporter why his tone was markedly different today than yesterday, and noticeably more serious, […]
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“I’ve always known this is a real — this is a pandemic,” says Donald Trump, unaware, apparently, that we can look up his past statements
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alex Azar, Anthony Fauci, China, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, H1N1, holding people responsible, International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, miracles, never forget, pandemic, PHE, PHEIC, pneumonia, post-truth, public health, public health emergency, Public Health Emergency of International Concern, rewriting history, World Heath Organization, Wuhan 110 Comments
Saying they “delayed our action plan,” Rick Snyder lays the blame for the Flint water disaster at the feet of “career civil servants” who cared more about process than people
You have to give him credit for having chutzpah. It took him a few days, but our Governor, with he help of multiple consultants and a few top flight PR firms, is attempting not just to deflect blame for what happened in Flint, but actually turn the deadly public health crisis into an anti-government parable […]
Posted in History, Michigan, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged accountability, ALEC, bureaucrat, career civil servants, checks and balances, Cher, civil service, crisis communications, Dana Milbank, Emergency Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, framing, lead, lead poisoning, public employees, public health, public health emergency, public relations, Republican framing, revisionist history, Rick Snyder, water 19 Comments