“I firmly believe that we will manage this task if all citizens see it as their task,” Merkel said. “This is serious. Take it seriously.” 19/https://carnegieeurope.eu/2020/03/24/why-merkel-s-coronavirus-address-matters-pub-81357 …
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So, as hard as many of us all tried to stop the virus early on, we never got to the place were we had a truly, national response, a shutdown strong enough, with policies in place to cushion its impact like Denmark and others put into effect. 20/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ …
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So, no,
@Yascha_Mounk we were not on the cusp of something incredible, not through any fault of our own, as ordinary Americans, but because of the folly, ignorance, malign narcissism of our leaders, who worked against us at every step. Full stop. 21/2 replies 79 retweets 348 likesShow this thread -
Even China where a totalitarian government can force a severe shutdown is seeing a resurgence of cases in some spots, our piecemeal, too little, too late response set us up for this sustained plateau of infections, deaths. 22/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/world/coronavirus-usa-world.html …
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Now I want to talk about us in public health, to us in public health. I am not interested in setting us up as heroes, but here I think
@Yascha_Mounk gets it wrong too. 23/2 replies 14 retweets 104 likesShow this thread -
So, many of us sounded the alarm about
@CDCDirector back around the time of his appointment. 24/https://www.poz.com/article/amid-criticism-hiv-researcher-robert-redfield-named-director-cdc …1 reply 38 retweets 183 likesShow this thread -
We knew then and we knew this winter that this man wouldn't rise to a challenge, he didn't have the experience or skills, had questionable judgment, but more importantly was too beholden to the
@WhiteHouse and@VP to ever tell them bad news. 25/3 replies 32 retweets 212 likesShow this thread -
We heard a few times from the talented line staff at
@CDCgov, people like@DrNancyM_CDC, but the entire agency was sidelined early on. 26/https://www.cjr.org/analysis/cdc-pandemic-transparency-comment-access.php …2 replies 30 retweets 173 likesShow this thread -
And yes, the rollout of
#COVID19 testing in the US was as disaster aided by the bungling at the@US_FDA. 27/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/03/coronavirus-cdc-test-kits-public-health-labs/?arc404=true …1 reply 30 retweets 155 likesShow this thread -
Should people of good conscience have resigned during this period, scientists at
@CDCgov@NIH? "I know, but what do you want me to do? I mean, seriously Jon, let’s get real, what do you want me to do?" 28/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/i-m-going-keep-pushing-anthony-fauci-tries-make-white-house-listen-facts-pandemic …4 replies 18 retweets 136 likesShow this thread
I feel for the longtime professionals at the CDC. I even understand why in a crisis you might think you have to abase yourself in order to try to get @realDonaldTrump to do the right thing and thereby save lives. I don’t know what the right answer is.
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