AZ Switches To Trump Admin Coronavirus Model; Moves Up Reopening | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Will Humble, executive director for the Arizona Public Health Association, talks with Rachel Maddow about the abrupt change in Arizona coronavirus policy as Governor Ducey adopted a new model provided by the White House that the public isn't allowed to see and ordered an end to the state university's modelling that the state had been relying on. Aired on 05/07/2020.
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AZ Switches To Trump Admin Coronavirus Model; Moves Up Reopening | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

89 comments

  1. so now the american government is hiding its information …..I guess Chinese methods are ok…

    1. @earthzero7 The numbers wont spike because the governor will be complicit in hiding the data. The only way we’re going to know anything is when the hospitals become overrun and even then the WH will try to cover that up. We are now living in a communist regime

    1. @Seth Last Name
      Yep you are a moron! Get facts from other countries that don’t have a narcissist as a president!

    2. They will shut down one way or another. You can’t have a work force when 20% are hospitalized and 5% of the population dead.

    3. I dot see us shutting down again they will just say ware a mask if u want to ware I live there were no cases and wolf shut us down now we have a lot of cases and he,s made us go back to work time starting to think China and Trump r working together this is back lash from those tariffs thump put on them we r taking billions of dollars from China that is why china unleashed this virus that’s wat I think one hundred percent sure

    4. Let’s put it that way: If the second wave goes fast enough, you won’t be able to worry about reopening ever again.
      Trump and his GOP allies are killing the USA. It’s about time the virus kills Trump and McConnell and some of these other idiots that refuse to wear a mask to protect others.

    1. I’m from AZ, when I heard it from a friend I thought she was kidding, she’s going for a haircut on Friday.
      Hey, to each it’s own. No distancing ,are these places even sanitized? Or there combs/ scissors ? It only takes ” one ” , with no national testing , I’ll stay in

    2. Not all of us are dumb lol. My family believes in science and we also aren’t fans of dieing early.

    3. Doug’s wife owns hair salons here in Arizona, no conflict of intreste there. Lol😷✌

  2. Fauci is gone because he knows No states have passed the 1st step of 2 weeks of reducing numbers & trump doesn’t want to hear it

    1. @Problamatic195 He said we could open in “some ways”. Fauci was very clear about adhering to the White House reopening guidelines and that they need to be followed if a state is going to safely. “Though it may be “painful,” it’s critical for authorities and citizens to follow “guidelines of gradually phasing into a reopening.” Also saying that jumping the gun will likely set us back. None of the states reopening have met these guidelines.

    2. Cameron S That’s what reopen safely means. And yes some states are reopening safely. Even the poorest state is.

    3. @Problamatic195 I’m genuinely not trying to be rude, but I don’t understand why you would say that? Reopening safely mean following the previously established White House guidelines made by the CDC which is not what is happening . No state met those guidelines.

  3. So now the tRump administration is actively encouraging the spreading of a deadly killer disease.

    1. No, not anymore than the flu last year. BTW this so called pandemic hasn’t surpassed the flu. So keep your mask lefty buahahaha

    2. @Betty Rose Geez, you just guzzled that koolade eh, Betty? Suggestion: next time you feel like speaking up on current issues………don’t.

    3. @Betty Rose O.K. Betty and Alex Jones is an honest man, the national enquirer is a legitimate news organization and fox isn’t propaganda. Here’s a theory for you Betty: I theorize that you are the first person to survive a brainectomy.

    4. @15k DOW 2022 Politics aside. Cameron didn’t understand a comment you made because it didn’t make any sense and then YOU say that he talks like a child? You look like a moron.

  4. How bizarre! Trump and his maties all have googles but not face masks. Like wearing a shirt but no pants!

    1. Trump wears goggles to protect his eyes from flying objects from mask making machines, and the tan line around his eyes. As for the masks, he has no clue, but he needs to show his mouth when talking. His hands and mouth do the talking together…

  5. Right….in other words it’s a model drawn by Dump with a Sharpie!! God help the USA x

  6. The model/projection is not supporting the state’s decision to open its economy, so they abandon the model entirely. More states will be doing the same. The US’ coronavirus response is one of the worst in the world.

    1. @David Loring follow the money……that is all you gotta do to comprehend how my country has become such a failure.

    2. @Rome So sad for the average citizens. Thank god I live in New Zealand, for the 1st time I don’t envy the U.S

    3. @Monkey Business You’re being too kind…no, actually, our response is by far the worst in the world if you look at the numbers (look quick they seem to be changing!).

    4. It is the worst in the world! What is so insidious is that we are not a poor country! We should be able to supply every Americans” needs!

    5. @David Loring that’s easy to explain. In 2016 the American ‘s elected Donald Trump* as their president. Did that clear everything up for you?

  7. There are 3 kinds of lies – White lies, statistics and donald trump. Trust the model from trump administration ? 🙂

    1. Francis the Russia Gate hoax is today’s actual headline though you try your best to skew to a false narrative. Gaslight much?

  8. Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida are also suppressing figures. They’re essentially moving deck chairs on the Titanic, while trumpanzees are waiting for cocktails.

  9. Now I know why Putin loves Trump. He doesn’t need a single nuclear war head to destroy the USA

    1. @15k DOW 2022 “…you’re blue pill is toxic.”

      In the case, I think you mean “your”, and not “you’re”. Please understand, “you’re” means “you are”.

      When you call others “morons”, but screw up basic grammar, it reveals that you are both silly, and nasty.

    2. @Ash Roskell point taken and true. Would it however, if by design, be better to be truthful and explain the “herd immunity attempt” rather than hide behind plain lies or show incompetence. I agree to different ideas and ways, I’m open to it, even if they differ to mine. Being right or left is a prerogative not only to me but any individual. It should not however be tied to lies, deceit, corruption and most of all cost innocent lives or endanger mine. God bless.

    3. @15k DOW 2022 if we are adhering to the colours we will never make this country succeed. It shouldn’t matter if you are right and not left. That is your prerogative and right in a free country. Even the president should have and has the right to run his course. But should honest about it and bring the nation with you not demean, lie, distort, corrupt or destroy. I believe to help the disadvantaged, disabled, misfortuned, needy and do not ask for their race, background, origin, sexual orientation, religion or even if YOU are in need what persuasion you have. Your well being is my success and we all share this place.

    4. Ben Bosshard : Good question, to which my answer is naturally, “Yes,” but of course I would prefer honesty. As would we all, presumably? Trump’s problem is that it’s a minority medical opinion, and even those who agree that it, “could,” work, will loudly state that it is NOT worth the risk! In the same way that it’s simply NOT worth playing Russian Roulette, even if the gun you’re playing with has 25 chambers in the barrel! If it does work, (and we are about to find out) then the Donster has some paperwork from a, “medical,” source to point at, when claiming the credit. If it backfires, that same set of documents will vanish, never to be seen again. Donny just can’t risk the all but unified backlash that would come from his own (and other) scientific community, followed by the outrage of his political opposition, followed then by the outrage and urgent desire to remove him, for the sake of their own lives, from an electorate who are just on the point of getting that very opportunity in November! We are dealing with a coward, remember? . . . But, I’m glad you asked. That was the right question ✌️👍

    5. Ben Bosshard : Regarding your response to 15k DOW . . . Please keep in mind that he’s NOT here to, “persuade,” “debate,” or win any, “arguments.” That’s NOT what they pay him for. The vast majority of Donny’s Trolls (the paid ones) come here to deepen the DIVISION. It was division that got Donny into the White House and it is division that he relies upon to keep him there. Just look at this health crisis? In isolation, the nation was watching an incompetent president, failing to get unity from the healthcare services, state governments, to food factories and national security services, because they’re all privately owned industries, who don’t answer to Donny, and who are all in direct competition with each other. So, his failure to enforce a unified lockdown, or come up with a treatment, research or care plan for the people is an embarrassment, and the usual, “blaming,” of China (immediately just after grovelling with profuse thanks, btw) and his lame attempts at making the virus, somehow, Biden’s, “fault,” all fell flat, and threatened his chances of re-election. Trump’s strategy, therefore? POLITICISE THE VIRUS! Put out a set of lockdown policies, whilst encouraging your own base to, “protest,” against your OWN POLICIES! And, it works! Suddenly, the Dems are the ones who believe in science, lockdowns and PPE, while Trump’s base are protesting the lockdown, taking their guns to town halls to threaten their own elected officials, and injecting themselves with BLEACH on Donny’s orders!
      Donny must keep America DIVIDED at all costs. And that’s what Trolls like him are FOR! A, “United,” States of America is Kryptonite to the Donster. That’s the one thing he can NEVER allow, or it’s OVER for him.
      Note: in that brief moment of, “unity,” when we all seemed to be pulling together, supporting our communities, to unite against a health crisis? . . . Donny’s approval rating DROPPED 15 POINTS, to 10 below Biden! . . . Think about that? . . . The one thing all Americans crave, is the one thing Donny must NEVER allow . . .

    1. But people ARE GOING TO DIE! This is serious. How is this okay? It not a REAL combat situation. He can’t just say X number people can die. Mr.trump can’t just be reckless and LET people die for his election numbers. ~ how is he not accountable?

    2. @Lynne Allan my God you are a coward. The virus has a .04% mortality rate. Stay inside, we have work to do.

    1. you mean they lost their old power, and fell into an authoritarian “democratic” state after reforms were attempted, and have the general suspicion of europe and the rest of the world?

    1. Free from Sin yes, it’s true that he does not have absolute power, but that is what he is aiming for, and with the support of his sycophants, he is slowly chipping away at the country’s democracy. There are people of his own party that are yielding more power to him. In all my years, I have never seen another president with such unchecked abuse of power.

    2. The only model Trump knows of is that of an alternative reality where facts bend to his temper tantrums.
      The rest is like Trump: fat BS.

    3. @ierifaan pelton The first reasons I don’t like President Trump are trophy wives and prostitutes.

  10. The best way to reduce recorded death rate data is to stop collecting and distributing the data.

  11. Yes, and Rachel I have to live here in Arizona with my husband going through chemo. This is terrifying.

    1. I don’t know you but I hope everything works out ok for you and the old boy. Stay strong, stay safe.

  12. Governor Ducey is just another GOP criminal who would be arrested and put on trial for crimes against humanity in any sane country.

    1. Arizona was given money shortly after that meeting. They are literally selling lives.

  13. Trump’s bullying a national ‘opening’. As the death toll mounts, remember who’s responsible.

  14. I’d like to know whether Fauci is being denied access to the secret model, and if he’s seen it what he thinks of it.

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