Dr. Hilary Fairbrother, associate prof. of Emergency Medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston, says the politicization of public health in the United States has led to “uncontrolled disease spread” during the pandemic.
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ER Doctor’s Plea: ‘Stop Going To Politicians For News About Science' | MSNBC
A statement so obvious, it’s a wonder it had to be said. _“Don’t go to professional liars for the truth.”_
@Demeter ! once again you avoid tackling the topic I raised, because you know it’s true and Cuomo is just a bad leader who unnecessarily killed thousands.
You burying your head in the sand and ignoring that fact just highlights your own blind stupidity.
Trump has nothing to do with what actions Cuomo took that killed thousands of people, you are only trying to deflect away from the facts that I presented you with.
New York State leads the world in death’s per million for COVID19, FACT, reason for that, poor management by Governor Cuomo. FACT.
Deal with it Junior 😉
Alan aka FANG — Are you serious? You’re blaming a governor who has SAVED the State of New York? A governor who took immediate action to control the pandemic in a state that is now SAFELY reopening?
1) Your dear leader from the start claimed this was either a hoax or that it was contained or that only 15 people had it or that it would go away “magically” by April.
2) His toothless “shutdown” of flights from China let in tens of thousands of people, many of whom continued to transmit the virus into the US well after we knew China was the epicenter.
3) His failed policies on the lack of a nationwide shutdown or lack of nationwide mandate of mask-wearing and his endless propaganda that has been parroted nearly word for word by Republican governors in states that are now reeling from a surge in cases.
4) His disgusting statement that he said to his people to, “slow the testing down” is bordering on actual criminal negligence.
5) Combine that with the fact that he went against state guidelines and the mandates of health officials when he held a rally in Oklahoma with 6000 people herded together with no masks, along with his church gathering in Arizona that did the same, literally putting tens of thousands of lives of the residents of each state in danger.
But PLEASE, do go on about Cuomo. Or better yet, tell me how it was actually “bu..bu..but Crooked Hillary!” and “Obummer” who caused this.
Republicans have no case here, so you resort to utter nonsense backed up by nothing.
Lies have no chance against the truth. I would love to see you respond to these facts, but I know you’ll throw another nonsensical whataboutism into the mix ignoring all reasoning.
@Diana Hulstine how is its trumps fault you loser? Cuomo has full control over the emergency response of his state…
@Demeter ! Massachusetts is headed the same direction as NY. Most of the northeast handled this properly which is why we’re reopening
@cj p you trump humpers are the losers
It was totally mismanaged from day1
Douglas Lucas by the time stopped flights from Wuhan the virus had already arrived in America, while he tried his first line of defence(ignoring it) it got a good foothold, his second line of defence(calling it names) gave it time to mass spread, by then America was the epicentre of covid19 and now with his complete lack of knowledge of this virus Americans look to social media for advice, so come on Dougy what’s the solution that will keep all Americans happy and safe, I don’t think continuing to apportion blame will fix America’s overburdened health system
Douglas Lucas~ 🙄
OUR GREAT COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE NEVER CLOSED DOWN OVER A FLU LIBERTY
@Chabiram Seepersad All the experts said that in the USA 2 Million people were going to die. All the experts were completely wrong. Received information on Sweden’s conavirus response which was to shut down nothing but told people to treat conavirus same as flu. Wash hands , don’t shake hands and keep distance from others. The Head epidemiologist in Sweden stated that the WHO expert didn’t know how to interpret clinical data correctly. Trump States infection rates up due to increased testing. The head of Sweden’s conavirus response stated the exact same thing and that experts and others who don’t understand that are not interpreting the data correctly and that the response in the USA to quarentene was a big mistake. If course swedes are very intelligent, educated and civilized people and racial diversity doesn’t create problems for them since everyone is White. He stated that in the USA Mexicans and BLACKS make up higher percentage per capita than whites and that alone, of course would change the overall response since apparently some groups are less responsible than others. I. Sure you can find the European news if you look. BBC and italian news networks are some of my news sources. Good luck in your quest for answers and truth
Truth is all that matters in the end..
@Paul Reveres Horse LIBERTY you’d rather millions die instead of thousands? Yeah you’re about half as smart as Paul Revere’s horse
1st in the 🌎 in infection and death 1st in the 🌎 paying for healthcare does any of that sound good TRUMP AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAS FAILED
He always said he wanted us to be “first”. Guess he made his wish come true. 🙁
Seriously when did politicians become a credible source
@Major Smith Right. This is why Fox is banned in many countries around the Globe and can only air as Fox Entertainment, in many others.
Jody O’Dell
well according to BSNBC the Democrats are credible. There side is the only side you hear.
@Abel W fox traitor trump and Trump’s inbred cult
@Shellie Wolske trump is too busy tweeting and golfing.
@Alex Hamilton because trump is a horrible president. Its just the truth. They report on it. If Obama was as horrible as Trump the media would of reported it the same way. Bush wasn’t a good president, he was a bad president but the media didn’t report on Bush the same way because there wasn’t daily B.S and corruption with Bush the way there is with Trump. I mean Trump literally tweeted out this morning a video where a man yells “White Power!”. What do you want from the media??! They report it
Jon Stewart once said, “if u get your news or medical advice from social media, u are probably stupid”
Says a beta who got his news from a comedy show..
@cj p haha i see that your defending your choice to get your medical advice from Trump and associates… can’t fix stupid!!
@cj p Someone who tells everyone they’re an Alpha probably isn’t…..
@cj p I love it when betas call OTHERS betas
@E Garza and how do you explain there was water contaminated with covid19 in early march in barcelona.
The fact that Governor Abbott and the CEO’s of Texas’ hospitals are no longer releasing their data re: ICU bed capacity and other vital information is terrifying.
If you live in a red state: please please please listen to the medical experts and doctors. Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Social distance.
Your politicians don’t care about what happens to you. But as a fellow American and a devout Christian: *I DO* — and I don’t want any more of our people to needlessly get sick and die, regardless of political affiliation.
Please. Take care of yourselves.
I , too live in a red state and Trust me when I say the Governors do not care about the welfare of the people. They are more interested in reopening the states in an unsafe way. We have 108 active covid cases in our nursing homes and they are set to reopen on July 1st! People will die needlessly if this happens. These people living in the nursing homes do not have a voice. My brother in law is a charge nurse at one and he is deeply concerned about reopening the nursing facility that he is at . Merely doing temperature checks upon entering is NOT ENOUGH! ! Our country and the Trump administration is becoming an embarrassment to the ( we the )American people. Other countries now want to keep us out. 😫😲
TN Legislature just passed a resolution condemning media’s response to covid 19 as overly sensationalized. (Fox 17 Nashville)The Legislature then convened, and they went off to their vacation homes in the mountains, as TN case count rocketed to 40,000.
@Peachy Keen God.. .
@Juanita Cooper Blue states are the worst as far as I can see. I’m sure they will be asking for federal aid for everything they let happen to their communities.
Teresa Harr-Pena You can’t see too far, seems to be the reds who are not adhering to the protection policies and causing the virus spikes! Are you unable to comprehend a simple fact?
Thats what I’ve been screaming wish people would’ve been like that with climate change too
@cj p yeah because semi-literate alpha idiots like you really have a clue, right?
I feel the same way about campaign finance reform and the military industrial complex.
Charles Allan – It’s always the same playbook. Create your own false narrative, repeat it frequently enough, & a critical weight of people will believe the lies. It’s worked for the worst monsters in history. Hilter, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot &, dare I say it, Jefferson Davis. Many Confederate soldiers didn’t think they were fighting for slavery, but when you read the letters between Southern leaders before succession, that was the principal issue.
@cj p your mother should be punished in public for unleashing a inbred virus like you into civil society.🤡
@cj p get out of here and go back to your cave, knuckle-dragger
Trump is like a snowflake:
white, fragile and hopefully gone by spring.
more like a turd in the kitchen, it smells but no one wants to clean it up!
Don’t forget special…very special…
Blue this November
Ha!
Onpoint!!!
Ted Cruz and Gregory Wayne…that is how Texas went wrong….
And don’t forget about Dan Patrick…and, of course, Abbott.
More like listening to Greg Abbott. Even though we opened up, many people refused to wear masks or keep 6 ft away in public, so now we’re reaping what were sowing.
They make Joel Osteen look good
You morons… Texas is ranked 41st in deaths per capita despite being the 2nd largest state… While you morons praise Cuomo sitting on the state with 1/3rd of all Corona cases and deaths..
Compare Trumps handling of this pandemic with Angela Merkels and it’s like amateur versus pro.
@Eco Geek major smith is majorly stupid. his comments show he hasn’t opened a book, especially a history book, in some time.
@StillGoing The US has 9 times the population of Canada. Our new cases yesterday was 218 compared to 40,540 for the US. If the US handled COVID 19 like Trudeau/Canada the US should have only 1,962 (218 * 9 = 1,962) new cases yesterday. It’s not like Trudeau did a great job. Canada left Long Term Care residents vulnerable in Ontario and Quebec. If we did look after LTC facilities we would look more like Australia. In my province of 5 million people we had 10 cases yesterday. Our test positive rate in Canada is .8% compared to 6.5% in the US and 23.2% in Arizona. Trudeau did ensure that as many people as possible had money in their accounts to pay bills, cover expenses and buy food during the lock down. Canada did not have long waits for testing or long waits at food lines.
@Major Smith “the Democrat party DID fight to preserve slavery, ”
yasa yada yada, and lincoln was a marxist.
we know, we know…..
Enjoy the Trump Landslide Victory ✌
Major Smith Oh you’re still reading THOSE history books. Been awhile since you did any viable research, eh? 😂
It is so sad and terriying tha a doctor has to tell the public: ‘Stop going to politicians for news about science’. You don’t go to the butcher and ask how to knit!
With others words she’s a liberal trying to bring Trump down.
I feel very sorry for Heath professionals, the stupidly of people put their lives at risk. I wouldn’t blame them if they walked away from the job.
@cj p another know-it-all, asking all the wrong questions. How about you focus on what we DO KNOW, and quit pursuing silly gotcha-questions? Masks and social distancing work. It is spread in the air through particles when people breath. 130,000 Americans ARE DEAD!!! How much more of a f**king map must be drawn for you??????
Oh you should see. I’ve got beefy sweaters!
@cj p so we should listen to you, let me guess you know more than virologist?
Just remember Trump party politicians speak pure BS ..who’s priorities are ‘The Money..Me and my money..The greatness of the Dear Leader and that’s it. Listen to the adults and try to stay safe.
Like what?
Its funny ..i travel thru the south , mid west and central states and east coast…i see tons of ppl not following the rules , no mask and no distancing…seems like yall created a time bomb
The Trump phenomenon… they would rather hear his lies than the truth. Force the truth and you are the enemy
Similar to the Hitler phenomenon. Ivanka herself once said that a lesson she learned from her father was “Perception is more important than reality”.
Who is “they” you moron?
ABC, CBS, msnbc, cnn, vox, tyt, vice, Hollywood actors, music icons, sports players, every late night talk show, Google, Twitter, Facebook and the cast of the avengers all told you to vote hillary.
You idiots are pro establishment puppets… Trump wasn’t supposed to win.
cj p , OP is right. They would rather hear lies than truth, with “they” being Trump’s rally-goers and followers.
Trump said : “ I’m not a shipping clerk” , “I take no responsibility “ , “it’s the states responsibility “, “ the federal government is backup”, “ the federal supplies are for us (federal government “. Now he says he has the ultimate responsibility for opening the country! What? This guy is getting people killed who didn’t need to die.
Andrew_Owens okay boomer.
d bc 😒
@d bc for what? Trying to incite a race war?
@Andrew_Owens I see whatcha did there ! Well played
Eco Geek yeah because you know the truth your double checking everything there saying
Politicians spew sophistry for a living. Don’t trust politicians
Has you eat fake msnbc.
Joy Reid flat out lied last night claiming obamas fbi didn’t use the nsa to spy on trump campaigns.
See how trolls watch both sides, while you betas live in a bubble.
I blame Trump 100 per cent for his mixed messages about masks and Covid 19. He has been a complete failure
Hey, blame the Trumpublican senate who handed in an empty acquittal. Patriots Impeached, Cowards Acquitted
Dale keep up with your brainwashing appointments lol You Snowflakes are truly comical. Enjoy the Trump Landslide Victory ✌
@anthony beles Anthony keep up with your brainwashing appointments I see they are doing wonders for you and Enjoy the Trump Landslide Victory ✌
Andiamo 18 Compelling. Does the brainwashing involve “mixed messages” because that’s all we’ve seen. Case in point: after the Tulsa rally, the White House explained Donald’s infamous comment that he wanted to reduce testing as “tongue in cheek”. Donald the very next day contradicted this glib gaslighting by saying “I wasn’t kidding. I don’t kid.” What part of this is not mixed messages as the original poster indicated? I know, facts, right?
Not to mention the constant downplaying of the virus will lulled citizens and governors alike into a false sense of security!
He still hasn’t realised his words have consequences! When he said ‘the virus will go away in April, like a mircale’ many of his uneducated supporters probably believed him. Probably thought the virus was no big deal.
When you’re that powerful and you just say things which are fake news, it damages peoples lives. Trump doesn’t get that though.
You should be able to trust that when there is a national emergency like a pandemic, your government will be a credible source of what to do. That is part of what our taxes are for. That we can’t now is not common sense but proof that our leadership is failing us.
You’ll be the first to die when “government” shows you its TRUE intentions. Do you REALLY think government should be trusted with ANYTHING? Really?
Americans should refuse to pay taxes and sue the government for the financial damage they have caused with their ignorance!
I praying 🙏 trump loses Texas vote
Trumpists are praying to the same “god”.
Texas, Florida, ND, Georgia, and other Red states are lying about their death rates.
Florida’s not lying about their death rates. The death rate is skyrocketing.
No, dem states have just over inflated their numbers.
Tennessee stopped reporting today.
They’re not lying. Death rate is low right now b.c cases start to spike just this past week, you have to wait minimum two weeks of hospitalization then that is when death rate starts to spike.