The White House is considering winding down the coronavirus task force in the coming weeks.

[suegeo]

Source: New York Times

The White House is considering winding down the coronavirus task force in the coming weeks.

Trump administration officials are telling members and staff of the coronavirus task force that the White House plans to wind down the operation in coming weeks despite growing evidence that the crisis is raging on, Maggie Haberman reports.

It is not clear whether any other group might replace the task force. But its gradual demise, which officials said might never be formally announced, would only intensify the questions about whether the administration is adequately organized to address the complex, life-and-death decisions related to the virus and giving adequate voice to scientists and public health experts in making policy.

On Edit: It's Maggie Haberman, so take it with a grain of salt. Isn't her mom a public relations person for Putin's Puppet? Maggie seems shady



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-updates.html#link-717676f7

[TygrBright]

1. Actually, this may be a good thing. It's messing shit up pretty good as is. n/t

[Iliyah]

2. Good . . .

what information do they have - none.

Now release Dr. Fauci and let him inform the USA.

[Lonestarblue]

21. Trump may well fire Dr. Fauci as part of winding down the task force.

If that happens, he will be cut out of government information and will shortly be silenced. I think Trump knows that he has no idea how to address the virus so he will now focus on the economy, aided by Republican governors. Those same governors are likely to either stop reporting cases or to deliberately under report them so we will have no way of knowing just how bad the spread is. Trump and his fans will be hiding everything they can.

[Submariner]

26. Yup it started already

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article242050696.html

Florida blocks COVID-19 information from public as Gov. Ron DeSantis touts transparency

[hibbing]

3. And the Trumpers cheer n/t

[DBoon]

4. Leave the disinformation to QAnon

They are much better at it

[global1]

5. Just Like Trump.....

Out of sight - out of mind. He thinks if they disband the task force - this virus will just go away.

One way to not deal with the reality.

[McKim]

6. Not Getting More Voters with These Science Nerds

He’s not getting more votes with these Science nerds so he is pulling the plug on Science, Tracking, Reasearch, Remedies, the WHO and Vaccines. We are fucked!!!!!

[musclecar6]

7. Of Course

Why keep it running cause the Orange Lunatic know-it-all doesn’t listen to anyone anyway as he cons and lies his way thru anything to do with the virus.

[Mr.Bill]

8. The country would be better off

if they wound down everything the white house is doing.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Do they think they can pull the wool over states' and the news media and the public's eyes?

Seriously, thousands per week will die for the rest of the summer and prob the year. Now it's thousands per day. The public will ignore this? The funerals, the grieving. Your friends and family and neighbors? No one will notice????

[turbinetree]

10. Oh yippie................. time to move on......outta sight ....outta mind game........

nothing over here............just a bunch of deaths being caused by one asshole ego of stupid, and heaven forbid if they have a task force exposing one's stupidity before an election ............got it.............mum's the word.............

[BComplex]

11. Boy! Is that ever going to backfire!

Keep screwing yourself, Mr. tRump, by screwing the nation and showing you don't have a clue what to do.

YOU ARE NOT, AND NEVER HAVE BEEN, AND NEVER WILL BE A LEADER!!! YOU ARE A LOSER!!

It only makes the election of Joe Biden more certain, and that is a good thing!!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. Is this the same task force that he simply appointed people to

without bothering to even tell them they were on it, let alone asking them if they wanted to be on it?

[ancianita]

13. Oh YEAH. LET IT JUST WASH OVER THE COUNTRY!

“You know, I had people say, ‘No, no, it’s good. You keep — you do this and that.’ Now those people are really agreeing with me. And that includes medicine and other things, you know,” he said....

Trump also rejected a model from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first reported by The New York Times suggesting that U.S. deaths will grow on a daily basis to 3,000 by the beginning of June.

“I know nothing about it. I don’t know anything about it. Nobody told me that. I think it’s — I think it’s false, I think it’s fake news.”

FUCK TRUMP AND THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE HE RODE IN ON!

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. *Which* coronavirus task force?

The Trump administration still has no clear plan for ending the coronavirus crisis, but it does have many task forces.

There is the official task force led by Vice President Pence that meets daily and is supposed to oversee the government’s sprawling response to the pandemic that has cratered the economy and, as of Saturday, killed more than 20,000 in the United States alone. There is the “Opening Our Country Council,” an economic task force announced Friday that is focused on reopening portions of the economy as quickly as possible. There is the group that reports directly to President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, a cadre dismissively dubbed “the shadow task force” that helps Kushner with his roving list of virus troubleshooting.

And there is also the “doctors group,” a previously unreported offshoot of the original task force that huddles daily to discuss medical and public health issues, created in part to push back against demands that the health experts view as too reckless.

In theory, the task forces are all working toward the same goal: defeating the novel coronavirus and getting the nation back to work — and life — as quickly as possible. But the reality is far more complicated: a bureaucratic nesting doll of groups with frequently competing aims and agendas.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-task-forces-coronavirus-pandemic/2020/04/11/5cc5a30c-7a77-11ea-a130-df573469f094_story.html

[RGTIndy]

15. Mission Accomplished!

[RandySF]

16. It's official. He's leaving us to die.

[EarthFirst]

17. So would that leave some availability in Dr. Fauci's schedule?

Maybe a few hours to answer a few questions with HHS-Education Subcommittee?

[NotHardly]

18. Might as well, not like they've done shit anyway. Preening for the camera does not count.

[stillcool]

19. That reminds me...if a tree

falls in the forest, but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[jpak]

20. Insanity

Dereliction of Duty

[onetexan]

23. yes. However, the disinformation and lies spread were far worse so best to leave it to Andrew Cuomo

other Dems governors & Biden camp to spread truth, as that will actually do people good & slow the virus.

[ancianita]

22. Quitter In Chief, Denier In Chief, Liar In Chief, Loser In Chief, Killer In Chief, Failure In Chief.

[iluvtennis]

24. the trump shitshow should end. Bring back the daily conf calls from the CDC doctors and scientists.

I want to hear from the experts, not dumbass trump and his cronies.

[Roc2020]

25. of course. Trump desperately wants another issue to talk about

but it won't work. this is one subject all his tweeting yelling stomping threatening and bullying he does will not hide and covid 19 will not go away or disappear.

[ancianita]

27. Please wind it own. The National Governors Association can make FAR better use of these experts.

The NGA People's Task Force.