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posted ago by Keiichi81 ago by Keiichi81 +187 / -0

Remember a couple weeks ago when the fake news was going around claiming that Trump was "muzzling" Dr Fauci, and Fauci had to come out and say that he was not and never had been "muzzled" by the President?

I think it's time Trump actually does it, or at least gives this guy a stern talking to about dropping insane "worst case scenario" "if the entire country was New York City and we weren't taking any measures to combat the virus" death toll projection numbers.

The media has been parroting his "200,000 might die" figure all goddamn evening and morning as if it's in any way actually a likely scenario.

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Industry4 18 points ago +20 / -2

Why? Let him talk.This President believes in full disclosure. Muzzling anyone at this point would be a total disaster. Fauci is making a guess. We will find out in a few weeks if he is right or not.

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GernBlanston1 10 points ago +12 / -2

It has been a few weeks a few weeks ago! This shit is weak. Let's get back to work!

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BitcoinTrump -1 points ago +1 / -2

Gotta look at the numbers...of course we want to go back to work but if we were to right now I think it could be disastrous, not to mention poor optics.

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VoterIDMatters 4 points ago +6 / -2

Fuck optics

Bills To Pay

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Dialectic 2 points ago +2 / -0

Poetry

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misterLahey 5 points ago +5 / -0

Remember, kids, we're perpetually "just two weeks away" from a total disaster. Better continue to cheer government payouts, Fed manipulation, hyperinflationary policies, and suspension of civil liberties! Because WE'RE JUST TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!!

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Dialectic 2 points ago +2 / -0

You don't know whats coming. 14 days. It's not the flu. REEEEEEEE

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misterLahey 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think I first heard the "WE'RE TWO WEEKS AWAY" trope on Friday, 13 June. This was from an IC swamp dweller who also swore that "CASES ARE GONNA SPIKE AND HOSPITALS AROUND HERE WILL BE OVERWHELMED" during the week of 23 June. I think he's still muttering about "WE'RE TWO WEEKS AWAY."
Oh, and before he was an epidemiologist this month, he was a Constitutional scholar last month, and a Russian foreign studies scholar the month before. So many experts LOL.

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RussianBot2 4 points ago +5 / -1

yes, and we will spend these weeks locked in our homes, going bananas and ruining the economy

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sneedwt 9 points ago +10 / -1

No, it's actually good....Dr. Fauci is doing what Dr's do, give you the range or all the possibilities..When they prescribe a drug, don't they go over the possible side effects? It's the press that is concentrating on the worst case of what he says and blowing it out of proportion...The more Trump keeps him on and points out that it's the worst case, that Dr. Fauci is an expert and he listens to the experts but makes the decisions, the more he will be proven right in the end. Dr. Fauci gives the the possible ranges, the press runs around like chicken little, and Trump will be proven to be the voice of reason.

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IncredibleMrE1 5 points ago +8 / -3

Fauci is a Hillary sycophant.

Enough said.

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Whoopies_tds 2 points ago +3 / -1

So was Dr Epstein who blew the whistle on Google.

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its_three_oclock 0 points ago +1 / -1

So was Dr Epstein who blew the whistle on Google.

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Whoopies_tds 0 points ago +1 / -1

So was Dr Epstein who blew the whistle on Google.

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Whoopies_tds -1 points ago +1 / -2

So was Dr Epstein who blew the whistle on Google.

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Scuffers 4 points ago +7 / -3

Dr Fauci is clearly a tosser, but Trump is kind of stuck with him.

that said, when all this is over, the CDC/FDA et.all need to be cleared out, maybe a new cabinet position should be created to oversea, vet and manage them to made sure you get real people not political arsehats.

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dairy_air 4 points ago +4 / -0

Fauci is CIA. In fact this whole shit show is CIA shit

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nero2003 4 points ago +5 / -1

Ok, so think about this. Let's say 20,000 die. Then we all get to say "hey, the media made up MORE shit." It works in our favor.

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Schiffblower 4 points ago +6 / -2

The girl dr said 200,000 in best case scenario. I think we all need to turn these people off and enjoy our families/pets/home life until the medication is 100% approved for use even when people have mild symptoms

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SkitShowPhrenia 3 points ago +4 / -1

Dr. Doom, how much doom would a doom Doc doom if a doom doc doomed doomed doomed?!

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Staatssicherheit 2 points ago +3 / -1

Fauci is also saying 2,000,000 would have died if we didn't do anything. You want to muzzle Fauci because he is projecting a death toll that you strongly disagree with as 200,000 dead is a horrifying amount for someone who believed this was no worse than the seasonal flu.

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nuhbin 2 points ago +3 / -1

alternatively consider this: he lets the doctors be science-y and warn us of worst cases, while behind the scenes we are distributing drugs that will severely lower the numbers from the doctors predictions

it would be the best way to strategically set himself up for a public perception win without acting inappropriately in his current task of trying to save lives

if Hilary were president they'd be conditioning us to accept milions of deaths so that when it was only a couple hundred thousand we would think they did a great job

right now we are on track for a couple hundred thousand deaths (if we are slightly unlucky) but could reduce that to something like 20000 if we could get these drugs out very quickly to every hotspot and start using them immediately

the only unknown/worry for me is how much of these malaria meds we have available, since they don't seem to want to talk about that

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misterLahey 2 points ago +2 / -0

If somehow the 200,000 deaths could all be New Yorkers, I'll happily cheer this on.

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ThePowerOfPrayer 2 points ago +2 / -0

Username checks out.

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Smurfection 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't think anyone should be muzzled. Trump knows what he's doing.

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leahcim 1 point ago +1 / -0

You got to let him say it. I hate to talk about these deaths in a political manner, but if does approach 200k, Trump's admin has been saying that so people are more prepared. If it doesn't? Trump's admin will take credit for beating those numbers.

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BlackJack1776 1 point ago +1 / -0

I perfer straight talk thats painfully honest, over comfortable lies that make me feel better.

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BitcoinTrump 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'd rather wait and then if he is wrong it will look bad for him.

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OneOfMany_MAGA 0 points ago +1 / -1

Well, 2,500 Americans have died related to the virus as of now. A bad flu season might take 65,000 lives as we had for example in 2018.

I hope it ends up being much less, and that treatment regimens end up having a great impact. But if we barely bat an eye over a flu season that takes over 60,000 American lives, is 200k really that surprising for the China flu?

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MondayCoupleIsDead 0 points ago +1 / -1

And when it ends with a death toll FAR lower than 200,000 that will only help President Trump. So let the little guy talk.

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lmao 0 points ago +1 / -1

You are in panic because of things the media is lying about? You must be new.

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Barbs -2 points ago +2 / -4

Lol. 200K is the worst case of our new “best case” scenario. Without all of our current mitigation efforts that figure could be 2.2 million. Yes, millions of people. With our current plan the models show we can expect 100K to 200K deaths, so Dr. Fauci was completely accurate.

So before you call to muzzle the doc, you might want to make sure you know what you’re talking about.

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ripturntle -9 points ago +3 / -12

It's far too late now, plus I think people are getting sick of the fear mongering anyways so let him blather on.