Coronavirus Whistleblower Warns of "Darkest Winter in Modern History" if Response Isn't Improved

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-whistleblower-warns-of-darkest-winter-in-modern-history-if-response-isnt-improved.html

Posted on Wed, May 13th, 2020 by Darragh Roche
Coronavirus Whistleblower Warns of “Darkest Winter in Modern History” if Response Isn’t Improved


A whistleblower has warned that the effects of Coronavirus this winter will be devastating unless the country is better prepared. His testimony to Congress has been released.

Dr. Rick Bright claims he was fired as head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority because he opposed the widespread use of hydroxyhcloroquine.

President Donald Trump and his allies pushed the untested Coronavirus treatment. Bright will testify before Congress on Thursday and CNN obtained his prepared testimony.

“Our window of opportunity is closing,” Bright will say.

“If we fail to develop a national coordinated response, based in science, I fear the pandemic will get far worse and be prolonged, causing unprecedented illness and fatalities.”

“Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be darkest winter in modern history,” he will say.

Bright will tell the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s health subcommittee that he was ousted from his position because he opposed the use of an hydroxychloroquine.

He will say he “resisted efforts to promote and enable broad access to an unproven drug, chloroquine, to the American people without transparent information on the potential health risks.”

“As I reflect on the past few months of this outbreak, it is painfully clear that we were not as prepared as we should have been,” Bright’s written testimony says.

“We missed early warning signals and we forgot important pages from our pandemic playbook.”

“The virus is out there, it’s everywhere. We need to be able to find it, to isolate it and to stop it from infecting more people,” Bright will tell Congress.

“We need tests that are accurate, rapid, easy to use, low cost, and available to everyone who needs them.”

[Squinch]

1. Good candidate for Joe's cabinet.

[zentrum]

2. The less T believes he will...

.....win, the less he will do to protect the country. He wants the dark winter to fall on Biden, if Biden wins.

Dems need to sound the alarm asap and set the frame for this before it unfolds.

[PNW-Dem]

4. and complaining about the deficit/debt

It's interesting how the Tea Party (ies) got quiet after tRump got "elected". The Republicans/tRump ran up record debt in record time. If Biden gets into office, that's all we will hear from them.

[Rural_Progressive]

18. Since Joe won't start until near the end of January

the dark winter will already be in full swing and Biden will end up looking like a savior when spring emerges in a month or two.

As usual, it would just be another crappy strategy from the orange menace.

[zentrum]

20. Hope you're right because

.....Biden may have to issue a whole new round of quarantine after Covid has surged. It's a terrible set of options all around.

[BarbD]

3. Wish I could stand in front of Trump with my mask on and ask him

Why are you killing us?

[OMGWTF]

5. I'm guessing Putin forgives some of Trump's debt for every 10,000 Americans he murders.

[panfluteman]

17. Bingo! Touche!

[Butterflylady]

6. He'd laugh in your face and lie.

[NEOBuckeye]

9. Do you honestly believe he gives a damn?

It’s glaringly obvious that he couldn’t care less about anyone but himself.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. He'd say, why ask such a nasty question...

[pandr32]

7. Trump doesn't care

He is using the pandemic as an opportunity to plunder supplies for profit.
He is using the pandemic to further chaos and division for his political purposes.
He is using the pandemic to demonize scientists.
He is using the pandemic to test 'loyalty'.
He is using the pandemic to reward and punish states based on his own criteria.
He is using the pandemic to cause further hardship to minorities.
He is using the pandemic to suppress proper demonstrations against him.
He is using the pandemic to fire up white supremacists and provide them cover.
He is using the pandemic to punish our allies.
He is using the pandemic to further his own interests.
He is using the pandemic to manipulate the media and provide free campaigning.
He is using the pandemic to further erode democracy.
He is using the pandemic to consolidate power.
And on and on.

Most of all, though. It would not be beneath Trump to use the pandemic as an excuse to postpone the November election if polling tells him he cannot win. I imagine the Senate would remain as it is as well.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. Excellent post

[pandr32]

14. Thanks

[DemoTex]

8. The winter of our discontent ..

.. on steroids.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Chilling

A focused, disciplined, relentless response is needed. You know Trump will do anything but.

[shockey80]

11. We will not have a federal response to this pandemic in place until this time next year.

Think about that.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. IF a dem is elected. Drumpf re-elected there ain't gonna be no plan except to control and extract $.

[Shanti Mama]

15. Thank you, Dr. Bright.

You have the courage of your convictions and I admire your integrity.
We are all in your debt.
So sad this is the exception, not the rule.

[SergeStorms]

19. Bright is getting the evangelicals...

all aroused with this apocalyptic talk. They'll really want Trump to sit on his hands now (like he hasn't been? ), what with the 'rapture' right around the corner and all.

[Renew Deal]

21. Great. First Coronavirus, now White Walkers?

The Long Night is coming.

[colsohlibgal]

22. Could Have Been Different

If we had a normal competent President , like HRC,we would be in a far better place now. That President would have not done away with Obama’s Pandemic team, would have heeded and read the warnings from late 2019.

The only silver lining to our situation is that Twitler is toast, don’t think he could cheat enough to beat Biden.

I Hope Twitler wind up in Prison where he belongs. God knows what level of tax cheat he is for one thing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

23. Over 80,000 preventable deaths and counting, because Morons Are Governing America.