IS THIS HOW GRIFTERS RESPOND TO A PANDEMIC?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As we pass 1000 Americans dead from the pandemic, why is Donald Trump choosing now to prioritize plans to cut many of our basic environmental protections on behalf of his corporate buddies? Did Jared Kushner put a monkey wrench in negotiations to retool a GM plant to make ventilators?- is this what happens when a family of grifters takes over the White House? And with Mississippi's governor reversing all the local shelter-in-place orders and re-opening that state, are Republicans making the same sort of 'mistake' that GW Bush did when he ignored clear warnings about Osama Bin Laden?
As Britain's National Health Service begins to be inundated with a tsunami of Covid cases, and with the nation under lockdown enforced by threat of arrest, correspondent Victoria Jones gives Thom an idea of what life- and politics- are like in the UK right now.
And Thom reads from "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction" by David Enrich.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | We are now past a thousand people dead in America. |
| 0:20.0 | Expect to see that number start doubling every year. America. of places in the United States. It's going to start getting really grim really fast in New |
| 0:35.5 | Orleans across the state of Florida. This is going to be sweeping across Red State. Red |
| 0:40.3 | States are just a little behind the blue states. The blue states of the blue states. The blue states are where the big international airports are. |
| 0:46.2 | The blue states are where the virus seems to be coming into the country more than the red states because the red states tend to be low population |
| 0:54.1 | states without much economic activity. I mean that's that's that's how the |
| 0:59.1 | Republicans are able to ban boozle people. This is going to get bad, which I guess we've known all along. |
| 1:06.0 | So meanwhile, we discovered today that back in 2016 after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the Obama White House had the National Security Council. |
| 1:21.1 | Now this was back when the National Security Council had a |
| 1:23.4 | pandemic response team. Trump fired those people two years ago, but that pandemic |
| 1:31.0 | response team put together a manual that literally is called the pandemic |
| 1:36.9 | playbook. What to do if a pandemic happens? Whether it's SARS or whether it's a horrible form of influenza or |
| 1:44.3 | whether it's some ancient virus that just, you know, broke out of the ice in Antarctica |
| 1:48.4 | or whatever. It's |
| 1:53.0 | pandemic playbook. And it has questions like, quote, |
| 1:56.0 | is there sufficient personal protective equipment for health care workers who are |
| 1:59.6 | providing medical care? If the answer is yes, what are the triggers to signal exhaustion |
| 2:06.4 | of supplies or additional supplies available? If the answer is no, should |
| 2:10.4 | the Strategic National Stockpile release personal protective equipment to the states? |
| 2:15.0 | Another question, what is our level of confidence in the case detection rate? |
| 2:20.0 | Is diagnostic capacity keeping up? |
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