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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'We need to live with it': White House readies new message for the nation on coronavirus
Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less conflicting, message of the pandemic next week, according to senior administration officials, after struggling to offer clear directives amid a crippling surge in cases across the country. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.
At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going away any time soon and will be around through the November election.
As a result, President Donald Trump's top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.
For nearly six months the administration offered a series of predictions and pronouncements that never came to fruition. From Trump promising that "the problem goes away in April" and predicting "packed churches all over our country" on Easter Sunday to Vice President Mike Pence's claim that "by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us" to Jared Kushner's pronouncement the country would be "really rocking again" by July because Americans were "on the other side of the medical aspect of this."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/we-need-to-live-with-it-white-house-readies-new-message-for-the-nation-on-coronavirus/ar-BB16j7Mm?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
edhopper
(33,556 posts)"Well, not all of us, a lot of us will die. But the rest will live with it."
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)...through discipline? And now through contact tracing and robust testing while carefully reopening?
Theyre not going to try to replicate that?
Just gonna give up?
Great.
Bad Thoughts
(2,522 posts)That needs to be the headline.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The administration tried the Hail Mary of hydroxychloroquine, and when that didn't work, Trump lost interest in doing his job. I'd surmise that someone had to tell Trump several times that he couldn't sue the virus or force it to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and at that point, Trump was totally out of ideas. If he tried something that the experts were advising, he would look weak. Right now he's crossing his fingers, hoping the virus will just go away. That's not going to work, so he'll fall back to lying about how great a job he did against the virus, and how wonderful his economy is. Meanwhile thousands more get sick each day and 40 million Americans are out of work. Live with it.
dweller
(23,625 posts)he's just declaring himself bankrupt .. again
✌🏼
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)CincyDem
(6,347 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)You catch it, MF45, then live with it.
Beartracks
(12,806 posts)lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)Is America great again yet?
OrlandoDem2
(2,065 posts)RockRaven
(14,958 posts)The only reason the US hasn't is a failure of leadership and competence, and outright sabotage, from largely Republican political officials.
The Republicans/conservatives in the US are CHOOSING to fail, and claiming it is inevitable.
Hekate
(90,627 posts)Lepers walking the streets ringing a bell and calling out Unclean! ?
lettucebe
(2,336 posts)Chainfire
(17,526 posts)When, about two weeks from now, when the death numbers start rolling in, people are not going to need the government to shut them down and keep them at home. The economy will follow. The sad thing is it didn't have to be this way.
It is rightly said that a nation gets the government it deserves, this is what we deserve for putting a clown in the Oval Office and leaving a Fascist majority in the Senate.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Lock him up.
(6,925 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)"You'll die and thank me for it"
"And call me, sir"
stopbush
(24,395 posts)1. Shutting down the country to 90+% compliance, as they did in Europe
2. Mandating wearing masks in public in all 50 states, with significant penalties for noncompliance
3. Trillion$ more in relief money to average Americans so they can shelter in place
4. Extended unemployment benefits, no questions asked
Shutting down and sheltering in place will be hard enough. The government is going to have to spend the trillions necessary to mitigate tRumps fuck up.