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Biden’s CDC: following DeSantis on Covid
Other questions about the timing arise from the fact that this morning American Federation of Teachers Union President Randi Weingarten, who has been facing public backlash for her stances on school closures, suddenly came out and declared that schools must reopen in the fall of 2021. Dr Anthony Fauci echoed this sentiment during a cable news interview. This is a stunning reversal that suggests perhaps administration internal polling is playing a part. The further out we get from January 20, the harder it becomes to blame Biden’s stalled agenda and economic recovery on his predecessor.
The Biden administration was heading into a weekend full of Sunday shows poised to talk about the administration’s current struggles. Now those programs will undoubtedly adjust their calculus to talk about the end of the pandemic, as the administration attempts to take a victory lap, one that several states like Florida and Texas have been taking since August of last year.
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were photographed smiling victoriously outside the White House, both maskless for the first time. But Biden, Fauci and Weingarten aren’t following the science: they are following Ron DeSantis — and presumably some disastrous internal polling.
https://spectator.us/topic/wait-pand...ver-cdc-masks/
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Good piece from The Spectator.
Someone should tell Fauci and the CDC that many parts of the country haven’t waited for the CDC to follow the—whatever it is they’re following, and that they ditched the talisman and moved on.
The writer suggests internal polling was a factor along with Team Biden being in dire of need of something positive to put into the weekend news cycle. Anyone paying attention can see that Biden has simply picked up where Trump left off with the vaccines and the CDC was bordering on irrelevancy in parts of the country.
Hence, the sudden change.
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Hey, guess what, the country was going to open up fully eventually. DUH. Desantis's timing sucked, he opened up everything too early and a result, Florida was a shit show especially last summer. DeSantis has nothing to be proud of. I have a feeling he has more to worry about than the pandemic at this point. I don't really think that being in the bottom half of states for cases per million is a crowning achievement, do you?
The one thing DeSantis did right was to protect seniors. That's it. He was wrong on everything else.
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asshole... you are just a liberal asswipe spewing lies againOriginally Posted by Concart
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You're a Biden level idiot
War=Peace (05-14-2021)
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The whole thing was/is poisonous political farce.
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The nice thing about Florida opening up is now they can get tourists that act the way the tourists did at the Capitol on Jan 6th.
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Wildly incompetent liberal asswipe/hole spewing lies, please!
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no doubt the Biden adm needed to get some good news out there after the jobs report, defacto open borders, inflation, colonial pipeline and the drubbing given to Fauci by Rand Paul
it's just magic the CDC reversed itself after saying "masks were needed indoors" 2 weeks ago
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None of that is accurate, the Biden Administration has been riding a wave since it took office, and with summer approaching and Covid fading it will continue to enjoy the approval. Unlike the previous Administration it isn’t in any hurry to run to Twitter to boast about anything it can even if it wasn’t true
And Rand Paul regurgitating debunked conspiracies to get his time on Fox isn’t “drubbing,” it’s dishonesty, and what he shoveled out Fauci returned
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They're pulling out all the stops to smear DeSantis.
Rebekah Jones, a former dashboard manager at the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), has single-handedly managed to convince millions of Americans that Governor Ron DeSantis has been fudging the state’s COVID-19 data.
When I write “single-handedly,” I mean it, for Jones is not one of the people who have advanced this conspiracy theory but rather is the person who has advanced this conspiracy theory.
It has been repeated by others, sure: by partisans across the Internet, by unscrupulous Florida DEMOCRATS such as Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, and on television, by MSNBC in particular. But it flows from a single place: Rebekah Jones.
Jones’s central claim is nothing less dramatic than that she has uncovered a massive conspiracy in the third most populous state in the nation, and that, having done so, she has been ruthlessly persecuted by the governor and his “Gestapo.”
Specifically, Jones claims that, while she was working at the FDOH last year, she was instructed by her superiors to alter the “raw” data so that Florida’s COVID response would look better, and that, having refused, she was fired.
Were this charge true, it would reflect one of the most breathtaking political scandals in all of American history.
But it’s not true.
Indeed, it’s nonsense from start to finish.
Jones isn’t a martyr; she’s a myth-peddler.
She isn’t a scientist; she’s a fabulist. She’s not a whistle-blower; she’s a good old-fashioned confidence trickster.
And, like any confidence trickster, she understands her marks better than they understand themselves.
On Twitter, on cable news, in Cosmopolitan, and beyond, Jones knows exactly which buttons to push in order to rally the gullible and get out her message.
Since she first made her claims a little under a year ago, Jones has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through multiple GoFundMe accounts (and, once she realized that she was losing a percentage to credit-card fees, through paper checks); she has become a darling of the online Left; and, by pointing to her own, privately run dashboard, which shows numbers that make Florida’s COVID response look worse than it has been, she has caused millions of people to believe quite sincerely that the state’s many successes during the pandemic have been built atop fraud.
Much of the national attention that Jones has received is the result of her insisting that, having learned about her “whistle-blowing,” Governor DeSantis used his “Gestapo” and “raided” her house, putting her children in danger.
But this, too, is a ridiculous lie.
Late last year, the police did indeed execute a search warrant on Jones.
But they did so because a data breach at the FDOH—in which the personal information of 19,000 employees was stolen—was traced back to the IPv6 address that Comcast had assigned to Jones’s house.
Governor DeSantis had nothing to do with it.
Jones now claims that she was “terrified” by the police’s visit.
But even this seems to be highly questionable.
Not only did she prepare for the visit by creating a made-for-the-cameras sign that read “Biden hire me!”—hardly the instantaneous work of someone who is surprised that the cops are at the door—but she subsequently spread a host of extraordinary claims about the conduct of the police that, after festering online for a while and spawning a swiftly dropped lawsuit from Jones, were flatly disproven by the release of the body-camera footage.
As the Tampa Bay Times recently noted, despite Jones’s having “claimed on Twitter that the agents ‘pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids,’” the bodycam video “does not appear to show police pointing their guns at anyone in the house.”
On the contrary: It shows the police waiting outside patiently for 22 minutes; it shows them trying to minimize the disruption to her children by encouraging her to come and talk to them at the door; and it shows them repeatedly calling Jones to find out why she wasn’t cooperating.
After the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) released the footage, a spokesman confirmed what anyone who watches it can see: that at no point during the search did the agents point their guns at anyone in the house.
They did, however, find enough of what they were looking for in Jones’s home for a judge, Nina Ashenafi Richardson, to sign a warrant for her arrest.
In January, Jones turned herself in. She is currently awaiting trial.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt/
Oderint dum metuant
Polls?
Poor Anchovies.
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If you call this ‘riding a wave’ I don’t even want to know what it’s going to be like when things head south lol.
The *only thing* Biden can boast about at this point is Covid and one has to basically rewrite the history of the past 7-8 months to do that. He signaled that when he told the bald faced lie about the Trump administration ‘not having a plan in place’ when Biden was installed in January.
That’s it. Pretty much everything else is headed for the crapper. The jobs report fail, by itself, would tarnish most administrations for a whole quarter, but Biden has an army of activists/journalists on his side massaging the facts and the narrative.
Which of course renders the polls worthless. The writer was likely dead on with the bad internal polling.
Put simply, Biden needed a win and using Covid as a political tool is hardly past democrats. It’s the way they roll these days.
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