FactCheck: Democrats’ Misleading Coronavirus Claims
The CDC’s operating budgets, not adjusted for inflation, show the CDC funding has gone up a bit under Trump.
The Trust for America’s Health 2019 report on funding of the public health system includes a chart on CDC funding adjusted for inflation, and that shows a small overall decrease, of $460 million from fiscal 2016 to 2019, or $170 million from fiscal 2017 to 2019. (See Figure 2.) However, that chart notes that a comparison with 2019 funding requires accounting for a transfer of CDC funds to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. After making that adjustment, and another for one-time laboratory funding that boosted the 2018 budget, the report says the CDC had “flat funding in inflation-adjusted dollars” from 2018 to 2019.
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The 2020 CDC operating plan shows an increase from 2019 of 7%, adjusted for inflation, according to the Trust for America’s Health.
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Overall, the group’s report says there has been a “chronic underfunding” of the public health system in the U.S.,
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but that began before Trump took office and has continued.
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FactCheck: Trump and the ‘New Hoax’
Then the president, who often dismissed special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as a hoax, continued, “They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything. They tried it over and over. They’d been doing it since you got in. It’s all turning. They lost. It’s all turning. Think of it. Think of it. Think of it. And this is their new hoax.” Not the virus.
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
It doesn't matter how well-funded the CDC is when he visits and basically admits he doesn't care about COVID-19:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QF4TihwFT4
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Whackadoodle (19)
5 years ago
This was March 6 when many people weren’t that concerned. We had the first death Feb. 29, seven days prior. It was going to be no worse than the flu where up to 80,000 died in 2017. I wasn’t concerned believing the same. Hindsight is so wonderful while playing Monday Morning Quarterback.
Things started rapidly changing by March 11 when it was declared a pandemic...it seemed to be hour by hour. We still were somewhat complacent believing a real bad flu was coming. Up until around the 15th we thought it was mostly hyperbole. By March 18 we knew something worse than the flu was coming. We started paying attention.
As far as Trump not knowing people died from the flu...I was embarrassed for him. He should have checked with his advisors before making such an ignorant statement!
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
The dems were concerned on March 6, but he was saying they were engaging in a hoax.
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Whackadoodle (19)
5 years ago
“The dems were concerned on March 6,”
I don’t think the dems were any more concerned than the rest of America. We all had a rude awakening by March 15, which btw is The Ides of March.
de Blasio (a Democrat)on Jan.26
“What we do know, to date, is that only through prolonged exposure can someone contract this virus. It is not a situation as with some other diseases where a single contact would be enough.”
This was the first of many times that city officials unknowingly shared information about the coronavirus that was not accurate, and they encouraged city residents to continue activities that probably continued the spread of the virus. With New York City now the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, the decisions and statements by city officials from late January to early March have an unnerving sense of whistling past the graveyard, with well-meaning but bad advice exacerbating the coming deluge.
“The de Blasio administration is prepared for the likelihood of the novel coronavirus in New York City,” Dr. Raul Perea-Henze, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, said on January 24. “We urge all New Yorkers to continue to pursue their everyday activities and routines, but to remain aware of the facts about coronavirus. Those with a travel history should see a doctor at the first sign of any flu-like symptoms.”
He also was reluctant to close schools.
Feb. 27
Coronavirus concerns: Speaker Pelosi tours San Francisco's Chinatown to show it's safe
She invited people to come and shop.
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
We all had a rude awakening by March 15, which btw is The Ides of March.
March 15!? Oh hell no. It was declared an emergency on March 13, and I'd say the majority of us were worried by around March 8 or so.
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Whackadoodle (19)
5 years ago
March 11 was the pandemic declaration. Just talking to people no one was really that concerned. Mostly a European problem. It was still the flu to us. I checked the flu statistics. No big thing compared to the flu. If the politicians were saying go about your business, but stay home if sick, we weren’t worried. I think we started paying more attention with the run on toilet paper, the panic buying. Why toilet paper?
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
Dude where the heck are you getting your dates from?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-novel-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-outbreak/
March 11 was when I called my dad who works at Disney to find out what they were doing regarding hand sanitizer. Turns out they'd heavily stepped up its usage on March 8. Luckily he had begun his week vacation, after which he's been furloughed.
Hell, even going to the grocery store between March 10-12 you could see a couple people wearing masks. By March 11 my mom was looking into ways to sew her own masks since getting them was so difficult.
My parents are generally politically neutral. They don't even know the political difference between MSNBC and Fox News.
My best guess is that the circle of people you live around are on the Fox News side of things. There's no way else I can think of that it would be a "rude awakening" by March 15. The dates just don't add up to the reality of the US. Perhaps you don't live in the US? I really don't know.
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5 years ago
We all had a rude awakening by March 15, which btw is The Ides of March.
The only one who had a rude awakening by March 15 was T-rump and 'Fox & Friends'.
Democrats were on top of this back in February. T-rumptards called it a hoax.
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