Senator
Tom Cotton was a voice crying in the wilderness:
On January 22, one day before the Chinese government began a quarantine of Wuhan to contain the spread of the virus, the Arkansas senator sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar encouraging the Trump administration to consider banning travel between China and the United States and warning that the Communist regime could be covering up how dangerous the disease really was. That same day, he amplified his warnings on Twitter and in an appearance on the radio program of Fox + Friends host Brian Kilmeade.
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When the first classified briefing on the virus was held in the Senate on January 24, only 14 senators reportedly showed up.
Cotton’s public and private warnings became more urgent that last week of January. In a January 28 letter to the secretaries of state, health and human services, and homeland security, he noted that “no amount of screening [at airports] will identify a contagious-but-asymptomatic person afflicted with the coronavirus” and called for an immediate evacuation of Americans in China and a ban on all commercial flights between China and the United States.
Cotton first spoke to President Trump about the virus the next day. The Arkansas Gazette reported that he missed nearly three hours of the impeachment trial while he was discussing the matter with Trump-administration officials. The outbreak was “the biggest and the most important story in the world,” he said in a Senate hearing that week.
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. . . On January 31, the president announced a ban on entry to foreign travelers who had been in China in the previous two weeks, while allowing Americans and permanent residents to continue to travel back and forth between the two countries. The measure was not as stringent as Cotton’s call for a ban on all commercial flights, but Cotton points out that the president “did not have many advisers encouraging him to shut down travel.” Advisers who were supportive tended to be national-security aides, he adds, while “most of his economic and public-health advisers were ambivalent at best about the travel ban.”
“I commend the president greatly for ultimately making the right decision contrary to what the so-called experts were telling him,” he says.
Meanwhile, what were most of the other Senators distracted by? Well, you know.
Wokest? I don't really think of Cotton as an SJW. Or are you playing with the term, so "woke" is now a good, sensible thing?
ReplyDelete9 days (Jan. 22nd to Jan. 31st) isn't bad, really, though sooner would have been better.
I wonder why the public health advisors were ambivalent about the travel ban.
Woke means awakened. It's a derivative of "we are the reality based community, you are just fantasy based religious faith things of the last century".
ReplyDeleteBecause the word "awaken" is not something owned by the spiritual, religious, national, SJW, Leftist, Socialist, fascist, or New Age groups. It's just a word that means awaken from sleep.
or in other words, Awaken from the Matrix. So Q anon uses it but SJW uses it as well, the concepts are similar to Plato's Cave metaphysics wise.
The public health advisors had never seen a gene engineered corona virus of this virulence in terms of its spread.
Impeachment? What's that. Maybe we should have Schiff investigate Trump's conduct. I wonder if there are any whistleblowers out there....
ReplyDeleteI believe I read this morning that Speaker Pelosi just approved a "House Select Committee on Coronavirus" with subpoena powers. We'll have our second impeachment by November, I'd guess.
ReplyDeleteYes, a bitterly ironic twist on "woke," as in, not asleep at the switch.
ReplyDeleteWe'll have our second impeachment by November, I'd guess.
ReplyDeleteMost likely the last attempt at coup de tat, with the most recent one being Corona whatever bio weapon (although it was not a Chinese bio weapon haha).
I find it strange that the "bio weapon" theory has no longer been talked about here or elsewhere. How easily the main sewer media regains and recaptures the imagination of humanity. Deep Thought Control there.
As someone that refused to believe in the "China wuhan bio weapon" theory, I find it even more interesting how easily it died out.
But by the end of the year, America won't know who will be the President. It will get... dire, but don't worry. That's part of the Divine Plan too. Elections may even be suspended temporarily. But that's a good thing. They didn't mean much anyways.