Trump to launch second pandemic task force, one that does away with irritating medical experts

[LiberalArkie]

Trump's Mike Pence-led pandemic task force may still be a bungling mess with no clear objectives, still-murky powers, and a continued inability to put together any coherent message that can last longer than it takes Trump to wander back to the podium, but now it's getting a spin-off. CNN reports that Trump is "preparing to announce" a second coronavirus task force, this one devoted to "reopening the nation's economy."

If you're wondering whether that's good news or bad news: This is Team Trump. It's bad news. Though we're not yet even at the pandemic's peak, Team Trump is getting together a team to speed the "reopening" of the economy that would assemble not pandemic experts, but economic officials and advisers. Freed from having to deal with the irritating facts and figures spouted by pandemic experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the new task force would devote themselves to the goal shared by forever-catastrophically wrong Trump advisers like Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro to put everyone back to work and see what happens.

Other than the major gaping hole in this new "task force"—the seeming lack of any voice who might tell them which of their proposals are medically insane—there are two other reasons to be especially alarmed here.

The first is that it's fairly clear that the task force's mandate is to start reopening things next month, whether that is advisable or not. Trump has signaled, repeatedly, that he believes we are on the home stretch of a pandemic that experts warn will likely be with us for at least another year, and he is bent on declaring victory, then campaigning on the same. By separating out Trump's economic voices from the medical experts, Team Trump can give those advisers a weight equal to government pandemic voices—with, perhaps, double the daily rally time for Trump.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. So we now have 4 hours of bee ess, lies and whining?

[BComplex]

2. I encourage boycotting any business that is non-essential that re-opens because of his greed.

And we have to keep pressuring groceries, fast-food chains and pharmacies to protect the employees that are working there with masks and gloves. We want to be protected from THEM, as well as them being protected from US.