Dr. William Shaffner Urges People To Believe Covid-Related Facts | Deadline | MSNBC

CDC advisor Dr. William Shaffner understands that many people are frustrated or do not believe in the reality of the coronavirus pandemic, but he begs people to listen to the facts, wear masks, and practice social distancing. Aired on 11/17/2020.
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  1. The “bright light” he enthusiastically mentions is dimmed and will continue to be dimmed by the mentally ill people who are filled with delusions and refuse to see the, oh so obvious…….the “president” is a very ill psychopath without a conscience and nothing is more dangerous than a human being without empathy, guilt, remorse, or decency. Nothing!!!! We The People are in grave danger until our white house is cleaned of the evil deeds and all those who continue to spread their vile and evil ways.

    1. @Gabe Dudley I don’t see anyone in this thread calling Trump, or his supporters, racist.

      But, let’s take stock of what’s happened here. You called Anna Maria a “moron” simply because she said what so many of us feel. You then proceed to call me a “pharasee” (sic, correct spelling is pharisee), a “grammer nazi” (sic, the correct spelling is grammar), and souless. You went on to insinuate that I’m a thief and a cheater. All that for the “sin” of trying to help you with some constructive criticism by pointing out that it might be a good idea, if you’re going to call someone a “moron,” that you spellcheck your post to avoid looking like a hypocrite. Better yet, it would behoove you — both in your professional and your personal lives — to tone down your rhetoric and try not to be so caustic. Anna Marie was simply relaying her feelings and, for that, you felt the need to call her a moron? Why? What did you hope to accomplish with that?

    2. @Gabe Dudley That is interesting Gabe. You detect an inflated ego and a narcissistic tendency in me, but not in Donald Trump? Do I have that right? Also, you haven’t answered my question. What did you want to accomplish by calling Anna Marie a moron?

    3. @The last farewell did i say not in trump? No, your ego made it up. The sad reality is that most people that call him that didnt even know the word before. There is a reason for everything. The man is a good actor. And there are alot of questions you havent answered me. But i guess that dont matter right? Its all about you.

    4. @Gabe Dudley I agree, you didn’t explicitely deny Trump’s narcissism. However, your response to Anna Marie implied that you support him. You now seem to acknowledge that Trump is indeed a narcissist. Ergo, you knowingly support a narcissist. Yet, you seem not to particularly be enamored of me (an apparent narcissist, if your spidey narcissist-detector sense is correct). It just seems incongruous to me. Regarding unanswered questions, you asked if I’m insulted. My answer is, no I’m not. You asked me what my point was (with respect to correcting your spelling). My point was simply that calling someone a moron, while disregarding your own spelling errors, is not a good strategy or look. I normally give the occasional typo a pass, but if you’re going to call someone a moron, you have to know that you are inviting criticism. If there is something that I’ve not answered, please let me know and I’ll accommodate. Now, could you answer my question? What did you hope to accomplish by calling Anna Marie a moron?

  2. Difficult as it is to believe, even Americans devote much of their lives to going to school.
    Do they squander every schoolday refusing to believe anything the teachers try to teach them?

    1. Most do, yes. And that is why in standardized testing of students, at all ages, from around the world, the US is consistently near the bottom of the pack when it comes to rankings of first world countries.

  3. Imagine being such a selfish t’rump supporter who says they support our medical workers yet are too selfish to wear a mask for a few weeks so that maybe one or two people around them might not have to spend Christmas in the hospital.

  4. Trump gop and Republicans- No ppp for Americans, Amy barret was more important then helping America in a pandemic, if you wanna stop the Trump virus you need to stop all the Republicans and GOP, Georgia please vote for the party of Democrats that want the democracy to continue❤️🇺🇸

  5. Trump apologists claim we’d have the same outcome with covid-19 under any other POTUS (i.e. Biden). Wrong.
    _President Elect Joe Biden_ would’ve utilized the expertise available in the pandemic response office set up by Obama to _proactively_ deal with this very situation (an office that was disbanded under trump for no reason other than petty, partisan spite).
    With a response team already in place, the federal government would’ve responded in early January, perhaps even before then, in an effort to minimize the problem *_AHEAD OF TIME, BEFORE_* it grew into a bigger crisis.

    In a Biden administration, there’d be no interference or shadow policy run by unqualified family members and their college buddies.
    Instead, public health and medical experts would be in charge. Their authority and expertise, which Biden would defer to, could’ve fast tracked mass testing and contact tracing capabilities, plus PPE and medical supply production; all of which would’ve enabled an earlier and more robust public health defense.
    This more proactive approach to containing the coronavirus would’ve also limited its damage to our economy.

    Instead, we had a so-called POTUS who held rallies, played golf, and did his “best” to hide and downplay warnings of covid-19 in an idiotic, selfish attempt to: 1) keep numbers artificially low to protect his re-election chances, 2) punish blue states who were hit first by the virus, and 3) control the stock market so that trump and his wealthy donors & grifters could sell off their stocks in time.
    Things didn’t have to get this bad, but they did. That’s on trump.

    1. @P Muller – Compared to the death rates in many other countries, the majority of those American deaths were unnecessary.

  6. I wear a mask, I social distance; because I care about the wellbeing of myself and others. Not hard to do. People do it for all of us. Don’t listen to sociopath Impeached trump.

    1. Do you know something? Reading your comment jus now really lifted me up and made me remember who we can be and not what we’re afraid of.
      I don’t know how to say it.
      But thank you. 🌷

    1. @john smith well….I don’t know….I hope not….the Londeners just sat in their basements best as the could, and waited the bombings out. 1940.

  7. The Republicans, and especially Trump, made it a political issue when health and a pandemic should be one of the few things we should be able to agree on. But that’s asking too much from a country as F’d up as this one.

  8. Every republican president has given a recession but Trump takes the cake 🤕

    When will Americans learn. . . .

    1. They won’t learn for the same psychological behaviors the good doctor just described in the beginning of this clip. It’s rampant, and a solid case for why critical thinking should be taught from grade school through college

  9. Going to be hard to convince Trump supporters that covid 19 is real and deadly , unless they contract the virus themselves.

  10. Dear friend, We must love those for whom Christ died as well as those in whom Christ lives. As a convert to Jesus Christ, Nabeel Qureshi has written books to help his readers understand the people in the religion he left. His tone is respectful, and Qureshi always displays a heart of love for his people.

    Qureshi dedicated one of his books to his sister, who has not yet put her faith in Jesus. The dedication is brief, but powerful. “I am begging God for the day that we can worship him together,” he wrote.

    We get a sense of that kind of love as we read Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. “My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief,” he said, “for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them” (Romans 9:2–3 nlt).

    Paul loved the Jewish people so much that he would have chosen separation from God if only they would accept Christ. He understood that by rejecting Jesus, his people were rejecting the one true God. This motivated him to appeal to his readers to share the good news of Jesus with everyone (10 : 14–15). Today, you may prayerfully dedicate yourself to the love of our Creator THIS VERY MOMENT by first understanding that you are a sinner in need of our Savior.

    Confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord of your life. Welcome Yahweh (Father God) through Yeshua (Jesus Christ) into your life. Receive grace by believing in Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross, His death, burial and resurrection for the sins of all mankind. You will then be justified in salvation and forever blessed with love!

    May God bless you in the Glorious name of Jesus Christ our Lord and our Savior.❤️❤️❤️

  11. I’ve been self isolating for the last few weeks here in Alberta. It is not that hard to do. When I go shopping or am around people, I put a mask on. I stay out of bars and restaurants.

    And I can talk to family and friends on the phone. Yes it is a bit inconvenient. But it is better than the alternative.

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