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Antifar
07/03/20 7:32:56 PM
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/we-need-live-it-white-house-readies-new-message-nation-n1232884
After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.

Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less conflicting, message of the pandemic next week, according to senior administration officials, after struggling to offer clear directives amid a crippling surge in cases across the country. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.

At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going away any time soon and will be around through the November election.

As a result, President Donald Trump's top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.

For nearly six months the administration offered a series of predictions and pronouncements that never came to fruition. From Trump promising that "the problem goes away in April" and predicting "packed churches all over our country" on Easter Sunday to Vice President Mike Pence's claim that "by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us" to Jared Kushner's pronouncement the country would be "really rocking again" by July because Americans were "on the other side of the medical aspect of this."

This all followed the White House's initial message in January that the virus wasn't a threat at all. Asked if he was worried about a pandemic, Trump said at the time, "It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine."

The message then morphed to the idea that the virus would be swiftly crushed by a robust federal response. "WE WILL WIN THIS WAR," Trump tweeted in March.

Soon after, the president demanded governors open up their states and said he had the authority to force them to do so. "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" and "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" and "LIBERATE VIRGINIA," he wrote on Twitter in April. Within days he decided to shift responsibility for the pandemic to the governors, saying, "The federal government will be watching them very closely and will be there to help in many different ways."

In recent weeks, the message has been that the country is back, face coverings and social distancing are optional, even as the number of coronavirus cases across the country surged.

"We have to get back to business. We have to get back to living our lives. Can't do this any longer," Trump said in an interview with Axios last month before his campaign rally in Tulsa, where almost no one socially distanced and few wore masks. "And I do believe it's safe. I do believe it's very safe." A number of Trumps own campaign staffers and Secret Service agents contracted COVID-19 in Tulsa.

Eager to move forward and reopen the economy amid a recession and a looming presidential election, the White House is now pushing acceptance.

"The virus is with us, but we need to live with it," is how one official said the administration plans to message on the pandemic.

As often is the case with plans crafted for Trump by his aides, the question hanging over this effort is whether he will stick to the script. Trump said this week that he's "all for masks," after months of resisting pressure for him to embrace face coverings. Yet in that same interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, the president said the virus will "just disappear, I hope."

That's not the message senior administration officials said they're preparing, and some of the president's allies have cringed when he's talked in the past about the virus disappearing, only to then see it further spread.

Next week administration officials plan to promote a new study they say shows promising results on therapeutics, the officials said. They wouldn't describe the study in any further detail because, they said, its disclosure would be "market-moving."

Officials also plan to emphasize high survival rates, particularly for Americans who are within certain age groups and don't have underlying conditions. The overall death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been on the decline. More than 130,000 Americans have died of the virus.

Trump is expected to be briefed by Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the most visible members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, before Monday on her assessment of new hot spots that she's visited this week, including what governors have said they need and how the new surge is affecting minority communities, officials said. Birx was in Florida, Texas and Arizona this week.

One of the officials indicated that coronavirus task force meetings and public briefings will be more frequent a shift already underway this week. Those meetings and briefings were daily for much of March and April, but they tapered off when Trump pivoted to focusing on the need to reopen the economy. Nearly 20 million Americans are now jobless and the unemployment rate remains in the double digits, despite a record drop in the past month.

Recent public briefings from the task force, so far, have taken place outside the White House complex. Members of the coronavirus task force, led by Pence, have taken questions from reporters five times in five different places, ranging from the Department of Health and Human Services to various Sun Belt coronavirus hot spots.

One official said moving the briefing locations is an attempt to minimize questions from the White House press corps. Another said it was also designed to prevent Trump from being tempted to take over the briefings.

Some of Trump's allies had lamented that he was hurting himself politically by spending sometimes two hours at the podium sparring with reporters and often veering off topic, rather than conveying a specific message about the pandemic.

In recent days, however, Trump personally asked the task force to resume briefings but decided he would not participate in them, according to three White House officials.

The change comes as multiple recent national polls show Trump trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

On Thursday, the president claimed that when Pence held a recent call with governors and asked the state executives what they might need, none of them requested federal assistance.

"Not one governor needed anything. They don't need anything. They have all the medical equipment they can have. Thank you, U.S. government," Trump said.

But as Pence has crisscrossed the country this week, visiting places with virus outbreaks such as Dallas, Phoenix and Tampa, he has been quick to note several requests from the governors of those states in real time. For example, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday expressed a desire to continue federal funding for testing sites in his state that was set at the end of June.

Pence agreed and promised to extend "that every bit as long as Texas wants us to," noting that "this is all hands on deck" during a press briefing with other members of the coronavirus task force.

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The23rdMagus
07/03/20 7:33:54 PM
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Jesus fucking Christ.

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LightningAce11
07/03/20 7:34:14 PM
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At this point I'm wondering if anybody in america does anything at all.

They scramble around, make small concessions but never accomplish anything good.
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Guide
07/03/20 7:34:35 PM
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Reminder: Trump's administration has been flipflopping for far longer than the WHO.

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Heartomaton
07/03/20 7:35:26 PM
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*Head hit desk.*

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Shablagoo
07/03/20 7:35:31 PM
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we need to just forget these guys are in charge and relinquish them of all power

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BignutzisBack
07/03/20 7:35:39 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth
07/03/20 7:36:44 PM
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Its a pandemic folks. Not exactly on humans to create a vaccine for a disease made by Mother Nature. People need to accept that this virus is here to stay & to prepare for the worst.

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Balrog0
07/03/20 7:38:43 PM
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Makes sense, could be effective

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iPhone_7
07/03/20 7:38:54 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Its a pandemic folks. Not exactly on humans to create a vaccine for a disease made by Mother Nature. People need to accept that this virus is here to stay & to prepare for the worst.
Like masks and social distancing?

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metralo
07/03/20 7:39:45 PM
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hundred of thousands dead. who cares m I rite?

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kyujo
07/03/20 7:40:26 PM
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Seems more like they want us to die with it

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tm315
07/03/20 7:48:18 PM
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Sometimes we get 100 year pandemics, just f***ing deal wit it
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dotsdfe
07/03/20 7:49:08 PM
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It's almost amusing in a really dark way how nearly every other country on Earth with a few exceptions has managed to get this under control. Other countries are reopening, and things are looking good.

The US? We floundered around for months without doing much of note, and then gave up and said "Yeah idk, guess we'll just live with this."

It would be really funny if not for the situation being so grim.

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Blue_Inigo
07/03/20 7:49:36 PM
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We're fucked

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UnfairRepresent
07/03/20 7:51:01 PM
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And they accused the Democrats of death panels
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DoctorPiranha3
07/03/20 7:51:28 PM
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That's basically what Sweden went with. But hell, even without lockdowns, Sweden managed to get through it better than US.
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CADE FOSTER
07/03/20 7:57:46 PM
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Guide posted...
Reminder: Trump's administration has been flipflopping for far longer than the WHO.
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The23rdMagus
07/03/20 8:12:45 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Its a pandemic folks. Not exactly on humans to create a vaccine for a disease made by Mother Nature.
That's generally what we do, Hoth, but you knew that.

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ScazarMeltex
07/03/20 8:15:58 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Its a pandemic folks. Not exactly on humans to create a vaccine for a disease made by Mother Nature. People need to accept that this virus is here to stay & to prepare for the worst.
Shut the fuck up.

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NinjaWarrior455
07/03/20 8:25:27 PM
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How anyone can still think America is a first world country after this year alone is a complete shock.

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Strider102
07/03/20 8:27:21 PM
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"Just live with it"

This should be our national slogan.

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legendary_zell
07/03/20 8:36:26 PM
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This country shot itself in the face in 2016 and has been trying to convince itself it's okay. Well now the self inflicted wound is getting infected. It's not okay. Elections do in fact matter and have lasting consequences. We're going to suffer a plague and an economic depression because we elected the wrong people. Fun.

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CableZL
07/03/20 8:42:26 PM
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creativerealms
07/03/20 8:42:37 PM
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"We give up."

That is the motto of the Trump administration.

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Tyranthraxus
07/03/20 8:43:12 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr3M-YgRT0s

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marthsheretoo
07/03/20 8:43:38 PM
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American exceptionalism, folks!

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CableZL
07/03/20 8:51:01 PM
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creativerealms posted...
"We give up."

That is the motto of the Trump administration.
I guess Biden was right about him surrendering.

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HaVeNII7
07/03/20 9:41:52 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
Trumpists, defend this shit
As my father would say, Well, its not Trumps fault if people are too stupid to wear a mask during a pandemic. What he does doesnt even affect anything.

I really hate how he is about Trump.

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Sewage
07/03/20 9:47:36 PM
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How is it they are just doing this now? This should have happened before we opened up. Things were cooled down a little because of the shut down, the talk about living with it needed to happen then. Maybe if Trump and his cronies gave a clear message on social distancing and masks then maybe things would be better now? Maybe if Trump encouraged his followers then, we wouldn't have old white fat people screaming about masks being communism. Hell Trump could have discreetly made a buck off of them by selling MAGA masks. This isn't going away just because we want it to, even in countries that have it under control there is still and effort to keep things safe. Europe isn't back to normal, they've opened up but they're taking the right measures to go along with opening up. Maybe if we had real leadership, someone with a concise message we wouldn't be caught with our pants around our ankles for the second time in 6 months.

Think about it. Imagine where we would be if he led by example and encouraged safe practices. The left would listen to the science and the right would listen to their idol. Instead he ignored the safety measures and let the governors handle it so he can go golfing, and now the crazy people on the right side are now convinced Trump is only saying they need to wear masks because he was forced to, which means they won't do it now even with him saying they should.

But he shot a 74 the other day, that's as good as being a leader right?
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hockeybub89
07/03/20 9:51:42 PM
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"Living with it" should mean adjusting to it, not pretending it doesn't exist.

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Tired-Insomniac
07/03/20 9:57:17 PM
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America! The best country on Earth! What are we best at, you ask?

-being fat as fuck
-being poorly educated
-having the highest prison population
-having the most personal debt
-having the most expensive healthcare that causes people to choose between death and bankruptcy
-having the worst response to a global pandemic

Did I miss anything

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Tyranthraxus
07/03/20 9:57:45 PM
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Sewage posted...


But he shot a 74 the other day, that's as good as being a leader right?

Lmao maybe after his 30 handicap.

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TheGoldenEel
07/03/20 10:00:07 PM
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...
That's basically what Sweden went with. But hell, even without lockdowns, Sweden managed to get through it better than US.
Sweden is not through it


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tremain07
07/03/20 10:14:36 PM
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Seems like Trump stands a good chance of winning again if hes not even gonna bother to try and fight this off anymore

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Annihilated
07/03/20 10:16:05 PM
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Tired-Insomniac posted...
America! The best country on Earth! What are we best at, you ask?

-being fat as fuck
-being poorly educated
-having the highest prison population
-having the most personal debt
-having the most expensive healthcare that causes people to choose between death and bankruptcy
-having the worst response to a global pandemic

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el_cheato
07/03/20 10:22:23 PM
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New Zealand has 0 cases. The EU is down to dozens a day instead of tens of thousands. This was not inevitable, it is a direct result of poor leadership.

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BigHentaiBoobie
07/03/20 10:24:02 PM
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el_cheato posted...
New Zealand has 0 cases. The EU is down to dozens a day instead of tens of thousands. This was not inevitable, it is a direct result of poor leadership.
I feel like this was inevitable.
Because Americans are fucking ridiculous.
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Antifar
07/03/20 10:24:20 PM
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tremain07 posted...
Seems like Trump stands a good chance of winning again

So are you capable of processing new information, or do you just apply this conclusion to whatever you come across?
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BruceWayneJr
07/03/20 10:26:30 PM
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Annihilated posted...
Yeah. You.

#Annihilated

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Pepys Monster
07/03/20 10:26:35 PM
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BignutzisBack posted...
Where's my 2nd stimulus check motherfuckers


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Taharqa_
07/03/20 10:31:16 PM
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Waiving the white flag. This dumbass motherfucker shouldn't be allowed to run a lemonade stand.

The Trumpist rubes will follow him off a cliff.

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Tyranthraxus
07/03/20 10:47:16 PM
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BigHentaiBoobie posted...
I feel like this was inevitable.
Because Americans are fucking ridiculous.
Americans elect politicians who think Government is incompetent to the government and then act surprised when the government is incompetent.

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Mezcla
07/03/20 10:47:46 PM
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Trump: I give up, just die.

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