By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 16, 2020
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“Operation Warp Speed, that means big and it means fast,” President Donald Trump said in a Friday press briefing, remarking on how the initiative would accelerate the development and diagnostics of COVID-19 breakthrough therapies, and would be “unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.”Hold on, Mr. President, before Dr. Anthony Fauci, who shows up standing behind you in all camera shots wearing a ginormous mask, that radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh described as “one of the biggest masks I have ever seen in my life time” and who described Dr. Deborah Birx as “the scarf lady wearing a scarf that came down to her knees”, fly the President’s Task Force straight over the cuckoo’s nest. Though Fauci was the only person other than the president always in yesterday’s camera shots, both he and Birx could have been human billboards for something called ‘The United Vaccine Front’.
“The president said the initiative will bring together the efforts of federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). (Fox News)Since when have the efforts of federal agencies not been together? They’ve certainly been canoodling together on the current coronavirus shutdown. Is the President’s Task Force hoping that the masses will forget that Fauci and Birx started off their response to the Coronavirus pushing mitigation and a necessary 15-day shut down to “lessen the curve”? Now two months later it’s stay closed until the vaccine is ready, with ominous hints that life in America may never return to normal. Will the ‘initiative’ called ‘Operation Warp Speed’ leave American society as helpless test rabbits in creepy ‘scientist’ Bill Gates’ laboratories?
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“U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the Department of Defense would deliver a vaccine “at scale” by the end of the year, while the president remarked that providing larger vaccine quantities to areas in higher need of them would “make sense.” (Fox News)As for Fauci and Birx, why should the masses trust scientists who have yet to come up with a cure for the common cold?
“Previous optimistic projections by White House health officials for when a COVID-19 vaccine may be available have been between 12-18 months. When asked by a reporter on why this initiative would supposedly take less time, the president did not provide specifics. (Fox News)Is that because he doesn’t have them?
“While remdesivir, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been used to treat COVID-19 patients in hospitals and health settings, there are studies still underway exploring their supposed efficacy and potential side effects. “On April 24, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against the used of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 treatment outside of a hospital setting or clinical trial, as the drugs had been linked to serious “heart-related adverse events” and death in patients with COVID-19. “As of May 15, more than 1.4 million people in the U.S. had been confirmed to have COVID-19. There had been more than 86,000 deaths and 246,000 recoveries, according to Johns Hopkins’ data.
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