Day 1151 Katie Porter and the CDC man
Friday March 13, 2020
233 Days until the election on November 3rd
313 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
Congresswoman Katie Porter asked a question of the man heading up the CDC. He tried to avoid answering the question. She reclaimed her time and asked again. He deflected. She reclaimed her time and asked again. He gave an answer. She said no good enough and asked again. Finally, he said Yes.
Wow. But wait. There’s more.
Not only had she told his office she was going to ask him this question she gave him the answer! And yet, he seemed to not know what she was talking about. He didn’t seem to know the law. The law that pertained to him as head of the CDC.
This didn’t seem to be a case of trying to avoid answering. This seemed to be a case of avoiding because he had no idea if what she was talking about. Yet, she and two of her fellow Congresspeople had sent them a letter a week before. She had told his staff the day before and reminded them the night before. Yet, he seemed totally unprepared for the question. She even told him the answer in the hearing, and yet he tried to deflect.
Moving on. In an interview with the science reporter for The New York Times, he outlined the steps China went to in order to break the cycle of contamination. Apparently, one of the worst places to get contaminated is if someone goes home with it. Therefore, self-quarantine at home doesn’t work. In order to break the spread of the virus China was checking the temperature of everyone coming into a building, any building, if you had a temperature you went to a special treatment center to get checked. You didn’t go to a hospital waiting room or your doctor’s office because that would just cause everyone there to get it. In these special facilities you went through several tests to determine if you had the virus. If you had it you went to a special facility for treatment.
What are we doing? Basically nothing. The president won’t even declare a state of emergency so funds can be released to let agencies and governments deal with this.
The stock market went down over 10% yesterday, that on top of several other drops in the preceding days. The Fed pumped one and a half trillion into the market, which put things on hold for a moment and then it started to go down again, like nothing happened. This after Trump’s Oval Office speech the night before to reassure the country.
Some say he seemed to have trouble reading the teleprompter. I disagree. I think that is giving him too much credit. I think, and I’ve thought this for a long time, he has trouble reading – period. He’s not stupid. Just uneducated, incurious, and unable to read.
while the white men look at their pencils
233 Days until the election on November 3rd
313 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021
PS Got this in the mail the other day. Seems she’s the only person willing to tell the president the truth. No wonder he doesn’t want to meet with her.
