In testimony seen as a contrast to Pres. Trump’s emphasis on a speedy reopening, Dr. Fauci told the Senate “you are calling upon people to perform essential services you have the moral responsibility” to ensure they are protected, adding, “that is just me speaking as a physician and as a human being.” In this report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber cites that testimony and the mounting evidence of how the pandemic is taking the toughest toll on poor and minorities, and interviews Demos’ Heather McGhee, who discusses how essential workers are “on the front lines of a war that nobody has signed up for,” and argues that the U.S. response and systemic inequality has made race and class a preexisting condition in the relief effort. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 5/12/2020.
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Confronting Trump, Dr. Fauci Invokes Moral Stakes Of Reopening During Pandemic | MSNBC
Responsibility is not something republicans can get behind. Everything is someone else’s fault. For some reason…
Mike Dunigan 😂😂😂
Love to Dr. Fauci…..
@silverpairaducks Trump is evil. Fixed it for you.
@LINDA Krysiak That’s what I tell your momma but it don’t work..
@J M M Is he? Well, then I’ll take the seemingly repentant evil over unleashing ISIS, or the party that consistently breeds and supports honest-to God Communists and baby-killers.
@SAW Gunner – That would actually be the Republican Party. Because it was under Bush43 that the roots of ISIS were planted. Republicans and Communists both like the color red; therefore, they are one and the same. And red states have higher mortality rates, higher poverty rates, higher dropout rates, and lower educational standards than do blue states.
@Lana2k6 Yup, Islam was totally peaceful before. And its color is green, so it’s also good for the environment.
Trump said testing and treatment for covid would be free
No cure no vaccine, sorry
@SAW Gunner It was actually someone from the CDC that said it, after Rep. Katie Porter forced him to answer the question directly. Here’s an article about it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/03/12/politics/katie-porter-cdc-coronavirus-testing-white-board/index.html , but I recommend watching the footage. It’s great to watch a politician flat-out refuse to take a non-answer to such an important question.
@Marcos Marin Really? What a miracle. The first protein coat to never have a chemical bonding agent capable of ripping it apart.
Would you consider coming in for testing with a brain like that?
@SAW Gunner yup just like “Medicare for All”.. FREE? and all Tuitions will be FREE.. where on earth would that money come from? It HAS to come from somewhere. Besides, President Trump wants us to get what we all need but he gets conflicting information too from NIH, CDC etc..I’d hate to have his job right now.
Judith Smith 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
What will the wealthy do when there is no one left to serve them?
Guess they’ll have to put in more gates in that wall
They will then turn on each othet! That’s what BEAST DO.
They’ll move onto the upper-middle class.
Yes, or buy the things they make that give them their millions or billions.
If a person at meat plant is positive…..how do we know it won’t be transmitted on meat itself???
Give Trump administration eat
COOK IT!
There’s actually a huge potential for bacteria and viruses in meat just generally, cooking it properly is sufficient, no worries.
Because that’s not even close to how this virus works. It can’t exist outside a host for more than 48 hours, and most likely not after being steam-sanitized, cooked, frozen, and then put on a refrigerated truck or train that will take hours to go to a warehouse, which in turn will use local trucks to deliver the meat to a grocery store.
@SAW Gunner
Cooking meat is always a good idea. Freezing will do nothing, in the laboratory viruses are kept refrigerated for long periods and survive quite happily.
Wash your hands. Wash your hands.
Pretty soon: “Dr Fauci? I really didn’t know him that well”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyd5oYQlvus&list=PLqQpWeavtX4kVCLGwZKIULAV1zPs_3TPb&index=21&t=0s&ab_channel=JohnEHoover
how about living wage, …
You make your own bed ! You can be as lazy as socialist and dream a good paycheck. You can flip burgers for peanut or get a skilled trade and make real cash but you soyboys dont want to break a finger nail. Thats the problem with you morons today !! You Just sit at home and twirl your hair buns !
Your fellow Americans don’t want you to have one, even the ones just as poor as you. They’ve been fed the lie that it’s perfectly fine that wages have been stagnant for decades, even though CEO pay keeps rising. There can be no change when the people who need it the most are convinced they don’t deserve more and won’t fight.
@Tim Erwinthe majority of poor people today are young. They are lazy they are on dope they live in tents they are just failures in life. Never learned a skill never cared to learn. This is mostly the millenials. They are useless today !
@Tim Erwin Here is one of our problems today !
Democrats turning Cities into Cesspools and crime ridden for decades of democratic rule many since the 1800s. Lazy young lowlife Democrats living in the drug infested streets around the country !
Democrats selling dope on every street corner in the big city’s creating the opiod crisis
The Democrats destroying history, destroying everything they can including our rights ! Democrats on shooting sprees 24/7
Lib-tards puking, defecating and p@ssing in the streets and sidewalks polluting the LA river. And they are worried about 1 straw found in a turtle’s nose. Fish choking on dirty syringes by democrats promoted by democrats. Now Mammals are dying in Demonrat sewage. God help us ! How much do they tax you over there ?
The top 10 most drug use cities are also run by democrats mayors and police cheifs !
Would you have a business in a run down crime infested city run by all lib t”rds ?
Here is what’s going on in America. Take this trash out ! Wake up people ! As if 140 years of Slavery, Racism and Jim Crow laws until the 70s wasnt enough ! 192 years of this brainless corrupt trash !! The Demonrat party was created in 1828
The 30 most dangerous rural cities are run by Democrat mayors and police cheifs And it keeps going and going there is not enough room here
Wilmington DE
Canton Ohio
Rocky Mount NC,
N. Little Rock AR,
Daytona Beach Fl,
Homestead Fl,
Warner Robin’s GA,
Anniston AL,
Blytheville AR,
Douglas GA,
Henderson NC,
Humble TX,
Branson MO.
East Pointe GA,
Gullup NM,
bellmead TX,
College Park GA,
Lumberton NC,
Emeryville CA,
Camden County NJ
Portland OR.
Crowley LA
Stockton CA
Bessemer AL
West Memphis TN
Berkely CA
South Bend IN
Open borders, Sancuary cities, witch hunts and blatant corruption
Myrtle beach (R) Mayor, (R) Police cheif
Pensacola, (R) mayor, (D) Police Cheif,
Tukwilla WA (R) mayor, (D) Police Cheif
Just a few of the most dangerous major Cities run by ALL democrat Mayors and Police Cheifs.
San Bernardino
Detroit,
St.Louis,
Baltimore,
Pitsburg PA
Memphis,
Oakland,
LA,
San Fran,
Salt Lake City
Chicago
Milwaukee,
Atlanta,
Springfield IL
Washington DC
Beamont TX
Kansas City MO
Ft. Lauderdale FL
Minneapolis MN
Richmond NY
Buffalo NY
Richmond VA
Denver,
You will find in most all dangerous cities they are run by Democrats that have no sense of operations, hiring, mis management etc. This has been going on for decades, then we have the liberal media causing anxiety in the Democrats already brainless brainwashed fragile minds.
@#j G Holy crap.
Great summary , Ari.. May I say this: all republicans who ‘break ranks’ from quietly shielding the Trump will become heroes and help themselves get re-elected. They will gain such media attention as never before. An equalizing force of groups of brave republicans shall gain traction so Trump’s pathetic and deranged voice gets drowned out by a huge herd of legislators and then the public. THAT is how it can happen and heal America from the viral and VILE Trump.Remember the famous quote:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Attributed to Edmund Burke, including by John F Kennedy in a speech in 1961. and its earliest form was by John Stuart Mill, who said in 1867: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
Well said
It time to remove all Republican up for reelection our country has a dark cloud over it
No one can ever again call themselves pro-life if they put the economy ahead of people’s lives.
@Victoria Olive 👄Then make the one percenter’s and big corporations pay their fair share of taxes!!! Require the stock market to repay it’s $3T bailout!!!
@JOWNZ88 – democrats want to see people die or lose their homes in order to win an election
@nand nicarrabla No one can make you work! So if someone goes back to work you suppose just maybe it was worth the risk for a pay check to them?
@Bud Fudlacker 👄How do you know 98% of people survived?!! We haven’t had the truth about those infected or those who have died from day one!! Thanx, A-Dotard Tweetler!!!
@Rene Curry Well lets shut everything down to be safe, no food, no hospital, no anything! We will just eat grass and hope to stay healthy!
Somebody forgot to read and comprehend the largest study made to date. See below.
If everyone had went home and stayed the first day about 5 weeks it would have been gone. Now just letting more people out to keep spreading it. All cause one df.
@Jody Ellis , yeah, as said by the previous comment: that’s not how it works. Educate yourself.
And watch early news about stay at home orders: it always has been about not overwhelming the healthcare system.
Jody Ellis… your ignorance is amazing. Who would have put the toilet paper back on the shelves? Who would have made sure the powerplants continued to produce power for your home? Who would have put the fuel in their cars for the commute to work? “The magical horn of plenty”. Now go back to your basement, while real men and women handle the Adult decisions.
@Christmas Lore I am educated. Is a bacterial virus they work that way. Viral virus don’t like AIDS.
@JOWNZ88 Im glad your there to lead the way. I will stay home and see how you do. This thing is just starting.
@Christmas Lore I didn’t mean bacterial. It’s air born. If it was bacterial antibiotics would work. But I didn’t want to argue about it. Good luck with it what ever it is.
We wouldn’t be in this predicament if we had someone else for president other than donald dump.
who would be better??? smh not true.
@upuu He couldn’t do anything else. The Democrats kept blocking him in Congress. They’re still doing it.
Not that I think he or the government could have done much about such a stealthy virus in the first place. But you’re gonna go ahead and pin all of this on the Executive Branch? More than that, you’re going to say it’s the worst failure ever? On what grounds? I can think of plenty of more lethal failures, including a couple of world wars.
@Eddy Hanson nope, not untill jan 29, and it was light restrictions…..
@SAW Gunner You are so full of BS, and I can tell you never read the Pandemic playbook- you have no clue what is in it. Democrats nor Republicans can block the actions (even if they wanted to).
Try reading it first- we were supposed to be neck deep in China WHILE the pandemic was flaring up in China. Why there was last an American CDC virologist in China was July is inexcusable. And why we weren’t investigating W.H.O reports, and vetting info coming out of a ^communist* country is flabbergasting in.
The playbook specifically references the need to do so.. and references China specifically!
So, just to give you a chance to show people how you are not full of BS- please do specifically state which actions they took in the pandemic playbook that the democrats stopped? I’m waiting…
SAW Gunner The world wars were American responses to threats abroad, with an eventual victory. During WW2, an average of 220 American servicemen died every day. The coronavirus has killed between 1000-2500 Americans EVERY SINGLE DAY since early April. WW2 and this event don’t even compare to each other. Why didn’t Trump use the defense production act to start manufacturing tests, masks, and other equipment late January? He had already been warned multiple times by the intelligence community and the CDC, but he didn’t take action because he didn’t want to tank the stock market. At the same time, GOP senators Burr and Loeffler sold off their stocks after receiving an intelligence briefing that the virus was coming. He knew, failed to take action, and because of that, we have the 32% of all Coronavirus cases in the world while only making up 4% of the world population. Everyone was raising alarms but he would rather have sacrificed his overwhelmingly senior voting based so the Dow Jones wouldn’t tank.
We LOVE YOU Dr Fauci…. Thank you for everything you’ve done for the American people. 🥰🥰🥰
Yes, Fauci my hero.
https://youtu.be/mEeqHxg6eoI
-But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid ALL TRUMPIDIOTS.
UNFORTUNATELY THIS CONFIRMS THE STATEMENT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN . THAT HUMAN STUPIDITY IS INFINITE
@#j G i wonder why cant all countries become one like think about it. No one would need to suffer because of those other governments or civil Wars. Why couldnt the human race be together since the beginning and not divided.
@#j G That is a horrible generalization, Democrats are also some of the more educated people in this world, the more kind, humane people. Its a shame that Republicans are so full of hate towards their fellow Americans. At the end of the day, Republicans or Democrats we are all Americans! We should be worried about our country instead of fueling hate and racism.
wallace Brown And Human stupidity becomes more infinite everyday.
@Mike Davis- do you really believe that or are you just frustrated that the democrats are doing a really shtty job and Trump will win
@patricia casillas The democrats should of been abolish 50 years ago for joining the team of slavery that killed and caused over 200 mil black deaths as many died in sinking ships still in chains. I say they got one up on hitler no question !
Thank you, Dr. Fauci, for bringing to light how the poor are severely mistreated in America, despite us claiming how good everyone has it here. Many “essential workers” are terrified of working right now, but as usual, all the bigwigs care about is the almighty dollar. These workers, some who are getting paid less than people on unemployment, are literally being asked to go to work and die, or quit and get no unemployment check and die. What a dystopian nightmare! Do people not care, or do they think this is acceptable?
Just goes back to the old adage that if republicans didn’t have selective ethics they’d have no ethics at all…
The amount of people who would jump of a cliff because T said so is just amazing ,What has happened to you people
Many tyrants like to purge society, for their own pockets, and power. This is something most people can’t see. Get him out now! This is not an autocratic country
Amen — the difference between Democrats and Republicans is clear: Republicans care about money, Democrats care about people.