Rachel Maddow looks back at the Donald Trump administration's practice of forcing the CDC to release politically motivated, unscientific Covid-19 guidance, and reports on the new leadership under the Biden administration ordering a review of past coronavirus guidance officially getting rid of the junk. (*edited for length from the original broadcast). Aired on 03/16/2021
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CDC Purges Trump Era Junk Guidance In Quest To Restore Reputation | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
The CDC needs to go back to meat packing plants and other virus incubation industries and issue orders for safe operation
Viruses don’t incubate easily. Bacteria incubates quite easily, but not viruses. Viruses are not living things, they need living things to survive. A meat packing plant would simply be like any other surface. No more dangerous than getting packages through Amazon.
@Chris Flados as i understood their comment, I thought they were just being tongue and cheek. Not necessarily talking about scientific facts. But that the meat packing places are just hotbeds for spreading the virus. My perception could be off though
And the Department of agriculture ought to look at those plants and inspect dairy operations for welfare and safety of all the dairy cattle in the country!
Regulations are necessary because too many humans, especially capitalists, are unscrupulous in their greed!
@Katherine Jones truth
@Katherine Jones – And the left are as greedy as the right in these treacherous times.
If this lead to deaths then those that died have a case against TRUMP
Absolutely!
There is a letter being sent to all Attorney’s General to hold Trump accountable for COVID deaths. Should be interesting to see if any states do this.
@Lynne Shively Nice, I will have to keep an ear and eye out for that.
half a million dead, blood on Trump AND his supporters hands
You can’t sue if your dead.. the familu _might_ try but unfortunately I doubt it will go anywhere. The only hope we have are the _multiple_ cases against him & having the DOJ make him deal with it..
When everything becomes a ‘political loyalty test,’ you’re definitely dealing with ..an anarchistic narcissist.
@Pashak de Scilly In the TV series “The Walking Dead”, Rick and his associates symbolize anarchism while Negan and the Saviors symbolize government.
“We survive. We provide security to others. We bring civilization back to this world. We are the Saviors.”
—Negan to his gang of “Saviors”
This sort of statist propaganda shouldn’t sound all too unfamiliar for anyone who really thinks about all of the verbal excrement spewed by the state and its unscrupulous agents.
@Chris Canzanese I came to the conclusion that Total Anarchy = Law of The Jungle = Purest form of Capitalism
@Chris Canzanese Your comment made no sense. My comment had typos, so what is your excuse?
@Carb Larson – I’m not in a position to make an excuse for your poor reading comprehension.
@Carl Taylor oh lol im sorry
Trump spewed so much crap on this country I’m surprised we haven’t had to nuke ourselves clean.
@TheMedia FullOfCrap Number 45 had a big heart 💖! The most nonsensical thing I ever heard. He hasn’t got a heart, just a pump to push the fat around the veins. Only just managing that! Dumb as a rock.
@keepit kawaii How many voted because they share his values and how many voted because they were desperate and he promised a check?
@oltedders Trump ideas came from a lunatic mindset under cutting the cdc using their name and putting his nuisance in was the cause for many deaths every thing he is involved in turns into it minus the s and h remember when he wanted to be the weather man during one hurricane 🌀season predicted the hurricane was going to hit some where in Alabama with his false narrative what about him telling a foreign country how to put out a fire 🔥 and oh how 🤔about hydroxychloroquine cure for covic on national TV 📺 alone with injection 💉bleach thank God he didn’t injected us with another 4yrs with his brilliant brain of disasters and look what he did to the pandemic house spreading covic Trump said it was a hoax then said it was like the flu and what he did to the Philippines after the hurricane was racist and sent out his hand picked so called company to fix the electrical grids and what he did to the capital building is unforgiving you wonder how anyone would vote for him if Obama did one third of this he would be kicked out of office because the repugs and Trump followers would be looking at this totally different this shows how corrupt and racist this country is look how they defend and protect there own
Non Americans insurrection its not the foreign terrorists who will destroy America its domestic terrorist and we know what they look 😉like the hole world no they can’t lie out of this one
@TheMedia FullOfCrap big hearted guys don’t. STEAL. from. Charity
Now, now, there are some smears and things that could happily survive “Scorched Earth” policies… Like cockroaches. Y’know, like the “Cult of the Orange-Man”.
Cleaning house after a rich kids party.
Bidens doing such a bad job. Trump will be back.
@lex samuel
45:
Had his personal attorney paying off women who knew he was of bad character to keep them quiet so he could win the election.
Had Roger Stone receive hacked e-mails from Guccifer (a Russian hacker) via WikiLeaks to help him win election.
Governed via Tweet.
Was golfing, doing laps at Nascar, and taking selfies at the Taj Mahal 2-3 months after he was briefed a deadly pandemic was bearing down.
Used Three Amigos o withhold $391 million in Congressionally appropriated funding from Ukraine — to steal the election.
Said everything was fine with COVID — so he could get re-elected because that mattered more than a few deaths.
Threatened Goergia — to overturn the election.
Ginned up a mob that laid siege to U.S. Capitol and injured 140+ police officers — to overturn the election.
Now who were you calling the disaster?
@Conservative Prodigy Fortunately, the majority of us saw how much of a disaster Trump was and voted him out
A rich kid’s party in which some of us paid the ultimate price
@Conservative Prodigy I see you have not responded to my overwhelming documentation.
God if I didn’t already loathe that past man and his surrounding administration, I do now in triplicate.
Democrats pretending that teachers needed to be vaccinated was a blatant display of them pandering to unions and not following science at all after the cdc specifically said schools could reopen and are still saying it.
@AlphaK91 – Tuskegee was a great deal worse than this and medical authorities were in the thick of it.
@AlphaK91
Oh ho ho I got me one to respond..The demons has answered the call ..I knew these were demons on here I can tell…I knew it OMG
😱😳😜🤪🧐🤨😝😛🤢🤯🤮🥴🤧👻😲🌚
@B Bodziak
You are such a hypocrite..
Don’t judge me
@Michael Parrella
Biden is confused..He is cognitively challenged…
The people needs to stop listening to him….This is absurd
Sounds like criminally negligent homicide or voluntary manslaughter.
@Mike Morgan “what other vectors of transmission we were warned about?”
those are the primary vectors of transmission. they were worried about surfaces too, and did warn about them, which led to trump asking to have doctors inject disinfectants into ppl.
@V for Wombat , Those are the primary vectors you were told about and were happy to accept. You won’t know all the issues with asepsis, or transmission thru pets until you dutifully watch The public broadcasting documentary in a year or so. Then you will accept the facts.
@Mike Morgan i know about transmission thru pets.
in any case, i seriously doubt those low event secondary infections are responsible for high numbers of infections, which is what we were speaking of.
@V for Wombat , You call it secondary because that’s what the media releases. What if there are a half dozen secondary vector of transmission. Urine and other bodily fluids are infected. Not covering your eyes leave you vulnerable, door knobs, money , countertops , ATM machines, common area keypads/ elevators etc.. when did the public get warned about cross contamination?
@Mike Morgan “What if there are a half dozen secondary vector of transmission.”
then there are a half dozen of them. primary vs secondary isn’t what the press decides, it’s what the scientists decide, based on the properties of the virus.
“when did the public get warned about cross contamination:
within a few weeks. which is why they held a press conference where the scientists showed a paper that said disinfectant kills the virus on doorknobs etc quick, and why trump then asked doctors to look into injecting that disinfectant into ppl,
which is when the press mocked him so much for being so stupid he stopped the briefings for months- a sure sign of someone competent handling the crisis.
oh, wait….
Only in dictatorships do they do this kind of crap.
“We will use up the United States and discard her like a dead corpse.”- Satanyahu.
“In order to save the planet, we have to eliminate useless eaters.”- Henry Kissinger.
@Stephen S Psychopathic, homicidal greedy little parasites who think they have the right to decide who lives and who dies. The proper solution to these maniacs is to hunt them down and hang them from every lamp post for everyone to see.
@Stephen S Why do they want to replace white people?
@Yolanda Denny Trump’s yelling fake news while the entertainment “news” programs kept repeating his and his subordinates lies fueled the insurrection. Ironic how a capitalistic company is helping take down so many of the lies. Once these people are cornered the are using the Tucker Carlson Defense (I lie so much a rational person should not believe me, I’m just entertainment).
Rachel Always nails it precisely and in few words
Almost sounds like the kind of work a guy who would change a national weather map with a sharpie would do!
Lol….
LMAO, you nearly made me choke on my drink, dammit! 😂🤣
@TheJECNova > Oops sorry. I guess I owe you a drink.
This is the kind of journalism that we need.
@Thomas Toporsh 😘🖕
@Kjell Beilman Joseph Ayala is a determinedly stupid person
@Mary Halverson BS
She speaks what needs to be heard, unlike the insane propagandists of the right wing media. Are you aware that in defense of a lawsuit, Fox ‘News’ contended that they are an entertainment channel, and have no obligation to tell the truth? The judge found in Fox’ favor, on the grounds that no-one with any sense would believe anything said by that fool Tucker Carlson. That he has no credibility whatsoever. Same goes for all of that disgusting disinformation channel – and they are less bad that the others like OANN….
@keepit kawaii are you kidding me
SOCIALIST DEMONRAT ALERT!!!
FAKE NEWS ALERT !!!
SOCIALIST DEMONRAT ALERT!!!
FAKE NEWS ALERT!!!
SOCIALIST DEMONRAT ALERT!!!
🐎💩 ALERT!!!
EFFIN DEMONRAT SHEEPLE NEED TO GO PLAY MARBLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY TOGETHER!!!
Wasn’t Redfield the guy in all the covid “briefings” who stood gazing up at T***p adoringly, as if he was the Second Coming?
Yep! Thought so.
do believe that was Mike Pence he was always standing by looking adoring
No that was Pence. Redfield just stood there looking stoic nodding his head in agreement to all Trump said.
@Yolanda Denny – look again, remember the time the Former Guy was telling us about his uncle, and how he, T***p, “understood this stuff” so well? Redfield was giving cow-eyes at his hero all through that BS. But also in the “briefings”. Pence was another worshipper, but Redfield was the one in the CDC.
@merrily beck – look again, yes, Pence, but also Redfield.
Redfield looked at Trump the way a rescue dog looks at its new owner. “I’m a good boy right? Im a good boy. Please let me stay”.
Yes, I remember that and thinking he was a fraud
You are 100% correct….Redfield was a complete lickspittle.
Agreed! I personally thought the balding “KFC LOOKING” REDFIELD LOOKED ALTERTERED via pills, booze or cannabis 🤣🤔
Trump actually once said at one of his Fuhrer rallies “they’re” meaning the Dem, “are listening to the scientists”. Well it’s only science that will get people all over the world out of this tragedy.
The families of those who died of Covid because they were misinformed and lied to about the virus should sue the Former Guy and his administration.
I agree all 570 thousand that died.their families should sue.could u imagine. Trump would be dragged under for the rest of his life
His WHOLE Administration was trash.
@Almost Toolate you and Biden is cognitivety challenged with the mind of a 2 yr old (terrible 2’s) toddler
@Anita Mendez no worries! I’m with you 💯!! Have a great rest of your week!
@Almost Toolate 😂
@Efosa Oyegun….You too. 👍🏽
@Jamtommy This is a very bad misquote.
This is good news Rachel, It looks like the CDC is back on track.
This “stuff” Trump put in the CDC , wasn’t inappropriate “stuff” it’s blatant dictatorship!!
lets still blame trump … r u people serious. maybe you should question the bill just passed with only dems supporting. only 9% of it goes to covid.
@lex samuel Your contention that only 9% of the bill supports Covid is an incorrect assertion that is being made by the Republicans. Covid related businesses, healthcare and others affected bythe pandemic are addressed. Small minds see only small things, or object just because they are not ofthe same party. Controlling the pandemic enough to begin opening the economy and restart schools has been a Republican talking point. However, now that it is being addressed by the Democratic president, they are against it. I think it is time to think of us Americans first and party second.
Disgraceful.
@lex samuel wake up, you hot had for $
He so admired Kim and Putin. He groveled for them. Don’t think he ever got his military parade.
Well done, President Biden. Another crucial step in dismantling Trumpism .
@Robert Buchwald
The old creeper can’t even play with those prop dogs without breaking his own foot.
Sad really.
#puppetpresident
@Jamtommy “Installed…by 81 million 🇺🇲 voters.”
😜
@Jamtommy Cool, Boris.
@Jamtommy
Nancy Peloski is The Puppet master and President of The USA..Nancy chose Kamala and The Whole Biden administration
@Ray Bin
Biden does not no what he is doing he is making a big mess of the country like a 2 year old toddler..
Just lock him up already I’m tired of hearing about that clown.