CDC blindsided by Trump's statement it could deploy teams to schools this fall

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/cdc-trump-deployment-announcement/index.html

[Iliyah]

1. Secret police to schools now? . . ..

[KS Toronado]

20. No secret police,no anything, just another big lie to distract from all his wrongdoings.

[pandr32]

25. +1

[hlthe2b]

2. "latest example of breakdown in communication"-- no, latest example of total lying BS from Trump

Call a spade a spade, CNN

[Eugene]

3. ...and anybody who wants a test can get a test.

When Trump talks out of his ass, there are no communications to break down.

[SheltieLover]

4. Just more lies

CDC staff wouldn't walk into petri dish schools without hazmat suits! P😳

[Hugin]

5. This other guy moved imaginary Armies around from the safety of his bunker.

I can probably say that much without running afoul of Godwin's Law.

[Laelth]

6. Government by whim and by Twitter

It’s not a good model.

-Laelth

[bluedigger]

7. About a 100,000 schools in the US, under 11,000 CDC employees.

Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

[QED]

8. By all means. Show me how to sanitize 14 tables in 5 minutes

and answer parent emails, set up for the next class, have a pee, and fill my coffee cup.

[Botany]

9. "Trump's statement it (the CDC) could deploy teams to schools"

"Trump's statement it could deploy teams to schools"

To do what exactly?

Jesus fucking God make this shit stop.

[mercuryblues]

10. There are over

130,000 schools in the US, trump couldn't even be bothered to keep 130 people from contracting Covid. Sure he's going to keep schools safe.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Aren't most schools already open? So a bit late?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

22. Most schools aren't open at this point.

At least not the K-12 public schools. I'm pretty sure that most that are open are teaching remotely, or are not having every student come every day. And those that have opened to in-person teaching already needed to quarantine people because of positive Covid-19 tests.

Id due time they will all shut back down. Oh, and at least one school district in Arizona has had to cancel opening plans because of a teacher walk-out. I expect that will happen in a lot more places.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Wouldn't this be under the county board of health?

[Maribelle]

13. As usual, Trump is a day late and a dollar short

School districts could have properly used CDC assistance when they were working overtime to establish future opening strategies, when their governors dumped it on them. By now, their plans are comprehensively compete and approved. I don't believe they need or want Trump's campaign pomposity.

[ananda]

14. Geezus!

He really is out to kill and harm as many people as possible.

The death cult marches on.

Can you believe that people from the CDC would actually go
into the schools like that?

Words fail.

[displacedtexan]

15. That's not a "breakdown in communication." It never is.

That's just another one of Trump's spur of the moment lies designed to make himself look engaged and benevolent. And we all know he's neither.

[Thekaspervote]

16. So he's drawn the agency down to a skeleton crew and then says that kind of shit? Really??

[ashredux]

17. Trump just makes it up as he goes, there is no planning

[tavernier]

18. Blah Blah Blah

[TryLogic]

19. At the risk of sounding a little paranoid, it appears Trump is looking for opportunities to get his

"teams" saturated into neighborhoods all over the country. That sounds like a control tactic.

[DallasNE]

21. This Shows That There Is Still No Plan In Place For How To Best Proceed

It is all still being done by the seat of the pants. Somebody asks a question that Trump is unprepared for and he blurts this stuff out. Just like ingesting disinfectants as a treatment option for CV-45.

First obvious question is how many schools are in need of this support. That tells you how much scaling up you need to do. What areas of support are most in need. That tells you how you need to structure your support. Etc., etc. And all of this should already be part of the planning document everybody is working from but if that were the case nobody would be blindsided by this. Operating by blindside is a failure of management and leadership. Ironically, this was probably all spelled out in the documents Trump inherited from Obama but that he choose to throw away.

[iluvtennis]

27. + agree. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. I don't understand how it is that Trump could possibly do something like this,

deploy teams from the CDC.

The CDC should scramble to train staff for this nonsense, but politely tell him that's not what they're there for.

[NewJeffCT]

24. Kind of hard to do since

Team Trump declined to hire 100s of positions at CDC

[iluvtennis]

26. If it was a PLAN to deploy CDC teams to schools why wan't this PLAN communicated to the

American public. trump's orange ass is on TV nearly everyday and there hasn't been one word about this.

I call BS.

[appalachiablue]

28. Troops, not teams is the idea IMO

[Kali]

29. the breakdown is between drumpf's "brain" and his anusmouth

[keithbvadu2]

30. Like Trump sent infected staffers and secret service to prepare Tulsa and other rallies?