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Pushing disinformation again... //
Did you catch that? They’re paying social media influencers to promote Democrats/Democratic issues. So that person whom a young person may be following for fashion is now going to be covertly pushing Democrats. //
Translation: we’re paying them to be covert propagandists for us and trick people that they aren’t obvious political stooges.
Matt Whitlock
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Very interesting -- Democrat groups are now paying non-political social media "influencers" to attack Republicans online, hoping it looks more organic.
Makes you wonder how much online conversation you see is real and genuine.
The full story.
Expect to see more of this. //
on Wednesday evening following the publication of this report, the Defense Department provided a statement from Col. R. Shane Day, Director of the NCMI.” The statement read:
As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters. However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists. //
I agree 100% that leaders must react quickly in the face of a threat. But I have a question for all of the:? What possible motive would President Trump or any other administration officials have to cover this up? They know that Trump is not afraid to confront China. He has done so numerous times. Why would he try to cover up something he had nothing to do with? There is no conceivable reason. Of course they would have acted if they had knowledge in November or even in December that a “cataclysmic event” was coming.
President Trump is not afraid to act. Go ask Qassem Soleimani if you need any proof. //
Streiff also provides a timeline of the crisis. It starts on December 10, when Wei Guixian, one of the earliest known coronavirus patients, starts feeling ill. Additionally, he includes a timeline of the Trump Administration’s response. I highly recommend it.
The "paper of record" just intentionally misleading people. //
Trip Gabriel
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There are at most 200k ventilators in the US. One million are expected to be needed. Experts say the Trump administration approach - let states fend for themselves in the market rather than a central authority step in - will doom people to die. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/health/ventilators-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare … //
Alex Berenson
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@AlexBerenson
2/ The number comes from a March 19 SCCM paper:
"[One estimate is that 1/2 of] ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support. Such projections are gross estimates."
More importantly: this is everyone who may need ventilation OVER THE COURSE OF THE EPIDEMIC...
In fact, the paper states explicitly "that U.S. hospitals could absorb a maximum of 26,000 to 56,000 additional ventilators at the peak of a national pandemic, as safe use of ventilators requires trained personnel."
In other words, whatever happens with COVID, if we built a million new ventilators, 950,000 would be furniture.
Added bonus: the paper reports the US already has far more critical care beds per-capita than other nations: 35 per 100,000, compared to 12 in Italy, 7 in the UK...
Final point: the paper concludes the real bottleneck is in trained staff and "priority should focus not only on increasing [ventilators]... but on growing the number of trained professionals."
But I guess bashing the WH for not nationalizing ventilator production is more fun.
The answer is sadly disturbing. //
It’s a dark day in news media when once-giants in their field — who had remained giants as outlets around them folded to political bias — begin to bow to Chinese interests over the interests of the American people. But the good news, per Benson’s Twitter post above, is it looks like the American people are noticing.
Along with his effort to fill the federal judiciary, something else President Trump needs to do is get the federal bureaucracy under control. Along with eliminating as many federal bureaucracy positions as possible, he also needs to get behind Senate efforts to eliminate the practice known as “burrowing.” Burrowing is where political appointees of one administration, towards the end of their term, get their status changed from political appointee to full-time career civil servant. The objective of this is to put civil servants who are almost unfireable, into positions where they can impede a subsequent administration.
The Obama administration did this to great effect. Much of the resistance to President Trump’s efforts to fulfill his campaign promises is due to Obama holdovers who, at best, drag their feet and, at worst, openly defy his orders. //
Both the House and the Senate have passed different versions of a bill to prevent this practice. However, neither bill goes far enough. President Trump should get behind such a bill, but the prohibition on a Presidential political appointee taking a career Civil Service position, should extend for as long as the President who appointed him is in office and for 180 days thereafter.