WHEN ELEPHANTS DANCE THE MICE GET CRUSHED
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As the World Health Organization certifies COVID-19 as a pandemic, what is America doing- or not doing to get ready? Is Trump delaying testing using internationally available test kits so an American company can corner the U.S. market for corona virus testing? As Washington State struggles to deal with an outbreak, why can't they get the support from Medicare they need to set up isolation units? When we know we could likely lose many of elderly and vulnerable, why can't we get out in front of this? And as the White House classifies all conversations about COVID-19, is the truth what is really being rationed?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:17.5 | Bunch going on that you know you all need to know about. |
| 0:20.5 | Two major outbreaks going on right now, one in Washington State and one in New York, |
| 0:25.4 | New Rochelle, New York. |
| 0:27.7 | And both states have declared states of emergency, as have a number of other ones. The World Health Organization now has officially certified the coronavirus. |
| 0:37.0 | Two days ago, CNN started calling it a pandemic. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm saying that, you know, it basically meets the definition. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, the World Health Organization Chief Dr. that you know it basically meets the definition well the world health |
| 0:43.5 | organization chief Dr Tedros ad honam gabrasus says the number of cases outside |
| 0:49.9 | China has increased 13-fold over the past two weeks. He's deeply concerned by |
| 0:55.1 | alarming levels of inaction over the virus that I think he's talking to you |
| 1:00.6 | Donald Trump and the World Health Organization has now |
| 1:04.5 | officially declared that this is a pandemic a global pandemic and he said |
| 1:10.0 | governments must strike a fine balance between protecting health, minimizing |
| 1:13.2 | disruption, and respecting human life. We're in this together to do the right things |
| 1:17.9 | with calm and protect the citizens of the world. It is doable. He said several countries have demonstrated |
| 1:24.2 | that this virus can be suppressed and controlled. The challenge for many countries |
| 1:28.9 | who are now dealing with large clusters or community transmission is not whether they can do the same, it's |
| 1:34.6 | whether they will. And again talking to you Trump and Pence. Meanwhile, when |
| 1:41.2 | Dr Anthony Fauchy was speaking before the House Oversight Committee, |
| 1:46.7 | and this was a hearing on the virus and one of the Democrats said, |
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