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In reply to the discussion: Trump and Kushner must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)38. It's like destiny.
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Inside the White House, over much of March and early April, Kushners 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 groupworking night and day, using the encrypted platform WhatsAppemerged 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 werent rocket scienceor 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 didnt 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.
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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
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order.
Kid Berwyn
Aug 2020
#25
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones.
Nitram
Aug 2020
#17
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can
certainot
Aug 2020
#23