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Kid Berwyn

(14,907 posts)
38. It's like destiny.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 08:37 PM
Aug 2020


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Inside the White House, over much of March and early April, Kushner’s handpicked group of young business associates, which included a former college roommate, teamed up with several top experts from the diagnostic-testing industry. Together, they hammered out the outline of a national testing strategy. The group—working night and day, using the encrypted platform WhatsApp—emerged with a detailed plan obtained by Vanity Fair.

Rather than have states fight each other for scarce diagnostic tests and limited lab capacity, the plan would have set up a system of national oversight and coordination to surge supplies, allocate test kits, lift regulatory and contractual roadblocks, and establish a widespread virus surveillance system by the fall, to help pinpoint subsequent outbreaks.

The solutions it proposed weren’t rocket science—or even comparable to the dauntingly complex undertaking of developing a new vaccine. Any national plan to address testing deficits would likely be more on the level of “replicating UPS for an industry,” said Dr. Mike Pellini, the managing partner of Section 32, a technology and health care venture capital fund. “Imagine if UPS or FedEx didn’t have infrastructure to connect all the dots. It would be complete chaos.”

The plan crafted at the White House, then, set out to connect the dots. Some of those who worked on the plan were told that it would be presented to President Trump and likely announced in the Rose Garden in early April. “I was beyond optimistic,” said one participant. “My understanding was that the final document would make its way to the president over that weekend” and would result in a “significant announcement.”

But no nationally coordinated testing strategy was ever announced. The plan, according to the participant, “just went poof into thin air.”

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air#intcid=recommendations_vf-trending-legacy_24c7d9c5-f64f-4ca2-aab9-2bc7a9762cbd_popular4-1

Trump, too, is destined for the chain gang.
Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Thanks, dalton99a! Jared turned to Facebook for expertise... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #10
Reactivate the Independent Prosecutor law and prosecute them all, Nuremberg tribunals for all Fiendish Thingy Aug 2020 #2
Yes! We do not know who is embedded in the gov't now and it will take major investigators to root Hestia Aug 2020 #11
Independent being the operative term. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
There's one additional point that would need to be addressed... JHB Aug 2020 #33
+1000,000!! ancianita Aug 2020 #26
Depraved indifference. blm Aug 2020 #3
Blueprints Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #20
We need media willing to call this what it is. blm Aug 2020 #21
+100 Duppers Aug 2020 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2020 #40
Genoside came to my mind. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #29
+1. dchill Aug 2020 #32
THIS! Zoonart Aug 2020 #4
No kidding. From this to the bounties Trump should be lead away underpants Aug 2020 #6
Yes. Zoonart Aug 2020 #7
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #25
That was part of my take when I read it the other night underpants Aug 2020 #5
"Politically Advantageous" Depravity merits prosecution to the fullest. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #35
Master of incompetence underpants Aug 2020 #42
Lock them up! malaise Aug 2020 #8
It's like destiny. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #38
This is a kakistocracy on steroids malaise Aug 2020 #39
Absolute thieves. Plus, they're incompetent. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #41
Agreed. We will never regain standing in the world as a nation if we allow crickets Aug 2020 #9
We had a plan. Dump did the opposite. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #43
At The Hague? 2naSalit Aug 2020 #12
Dump must be held to account for all of it. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #44
I've been saying we need a new Nuremburg CanonRay Aug 2020 #13
I misread "prosecuted" as a much harsher word. Works for me. niyad Aug 2020 #15
Genocide. It's genocide. CaptainTruth Aug 2020 #16
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones. Nitram Aug 2020 #17
This one is simple. They need to be in jail.!!!! ashredux Aug 2020 #18
kick miyazaki Aug 2020 #19
I agree to the fullest. NNadir Aug 2020 #22
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can certainot Aug 2020 #23
And conservative voters are complicit with it. They are sick. ffr Aug 2020 #24
My former BFF of 36 years is a MAGAt whose father was an official at the Nuremberg trials. Go figure OMGWTF Aug 2020 #31
Negligent Genocide RealityBasedNewYorkr Aug 2020 #27
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2020 #28
Indeed they must. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #30
Kushner torpedoed the plan because Trump told him to do it Lasher Aug 2020 #36
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #37
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