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Trump WOEFULLY UNPREPARED for Next Pandemic…AGAIN!!

2024/11/25
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Key Insights

Why is Donald Trump considered woefully unprepared for a potential new pandemic?

Trump's proposed appointment of RFK Jr. to lead HHS is criticized due to RFK Jr.'s belief that infectious diseases like H1N1 are hoaxes, indicating a lack of serious approach to public health.

What are the key concerns regarding RFK Jr.'s potential leadership at HHS?

RFK Jr. has publicly claimed that pandemics like H1N1 are fabricated by pharmaceutical companies for profit, suggesting he might halt research on infectious diseases for eight years, which is alarming given current global health threats.

How does the current situation with avian flu compare to previous pandemic responses?

The H5N1 bird flu virus has spread to nearly 500 herds in 15 states, and there are concerns about its potential to mutate and cause a human pandemic, similar to the H1N1 outbreak. This highlights the need for a robust public health response.

What is the significance of Jerome Adams's warning about the current public health situation?

Jerome Adams, Trump's former Surgeon General, warns that without a strong infectious disease response plan, the new administration could face public health crises for four years, citing rising cases of whooping cough and measles, and the potential for H5N1 to become a pandemic.

What are the potential consequences of Marjorie Taylor Greene's stance on public health agencies?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has called for Dr. Fauci to be criminally prosecuted and aims to cut funding from agencies like the CDC, which could severely undermine public health infrastructure and response capabilities during a pandemic.

How does the current avian flu situation in the U.S. compare to previous outbreaks?

California has reported an H5 case in a dairy farm worker, bringing the state's total to 29 human cases and the national total to 55 since the beginning of the year. This mirrors the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak under Trump's administration.

What are the main concerns about the H5N1 virus mutating?

The primary concerns are its potential to adapt to human cells better, leading to efficient human-to-human transmission, and the possibility of it merging with other flu strains to create a super virus.

Why is it crucial to maintain functional public health agencies?

Functional agencies are essential for monitoring and responding to potential pandemics, educating the public, and ensuring a coordinated effort to protect public health, which is critical for the well-being of communities and the country.

Chapters

The chapter discusses the potential threat of a new pandemic and how Donald Trump's choices, such as appointing RFK Jr. to lead HHS, indicate his unpreparedness.
  • Egg prices are rising due to avian flu and corporate greed.
  • Trump wants to appoint RFK Jr., who believes infectious diseases are hoaxes, to lead HHS.
  • RFK Jr. has criticized the FDA and claimed H1N1 was fabricated by pharmaceutical companies.

Shownotes Transcript

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CNN says this time it's avian flu and the holidays. Well, CNN, this particular kind of strand of constant outbreaks of avian flu, it's been going on for many, many years, and President Biden has been handling it responsibly.

In turn, the MAGA Republicans and the media would attack the Biden administration, blame them for the egg prices going up, without actually going to the root cause, avian flu and corporate greed, whereby the corporations would use avian flu and inflation as pretext to price gouge.

Well, now Donald Trump wants to put RFK Jr., who believes that like most infectious diseases are all hoaxes, he called H1N1 a hoax. Trump wants to put RFK Jr. in charge of HHS. I want to talk about this because, yes, a lot of time is being spent on the fact that

Donald Trump is appointing sexual predators to his cabinet. People like Matt Gaetz, who are credibly accused of child sex trafficking. Pete Hegseth, who paid hush money payments for covering up allegations of sexual assault. We've seen that police report. RFK Jr., allegations against him for sexually assaulting a nanny. But these people are grossly unqualified and with a

a potential new pandemic

You can't have these people in leadership positions. I know Gates is gone, but you can't have RFK leading HHS. And of course, Donald Trump's going to try to do whatever he thinks can make himself and his greedy corporate friends more money, even if that means killing us. So here's what Republicans against Trump write. They go, look, this H5N1 bird flu virus, that's what this particular virus is called,

It's been detected in retail sample raw milk in California. State health officials confirmed on Sunday. The New York Times reported that the virus has spread to nearly 500 herds in 15 states. And meanwhile, you have Trump's HHS head, RFK Jr. He says he drinks raw milk. He

He criticized the FDA over its aggressive suppression of raw milk. But let me just show you what RFK is on video saying. And this is going to come out in his confirmation hearing on Russian TV. RFK Jr. claimed that the swine flu, H1N1, which killed 284,000 people, I think it's more like 545,000 people in the world, never happened.

And he says it was fabricated by pharmaceutical companies so they could make money. I guess the part of what I just said that needs more attention. So he's on Russian TV right now saying H1N1 was a fabrication by corporations to make more money. That's what he said. Here, play this clip of him. The World Health Organization said,

That's really a misnomer. The World Health Organization is even more captured than CDC is. The World Health Organization gets half of its budget from industry. It is absolutely controlled from top to bottom by the pharmaceutical companies and particularly the vaccine makers who

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is sounding the alarm. Here's what Trump's former surgeon general is saying. Whooping cough cases are up five times this year. 100,000 global measles deaths, mostly in kids. H5N1 steamrolling towards pandemic status. Egg prices skyrocketing. The new administration had better have a strong infectious disease response plan

to ensure public health and that vaccine confidence stays high, or they'll be distracted with outbreaks for four years, this time instead of one. So let's take a look at this strong infectious disease program

Dr. Adams knows what he's doing there. I mean, he's directly calling out this clip right here, and frankly, all of the statements made by RFK Jr., where RFK Jr. said during his campaign that he would stop research on drug development and infectious disease for eight years, an eight-year moratorium on researching infectious diseases. Here, play this clip.

I'm going to go to NIH my first week. I'm going to call all the division heads and I'm going to call all the bureau chiefs. And I'm going to say, we're going to give drug development and infectious disease a break, a little break, a little bit of a break for about eight years. And we're going to study drugs.

Chronic disease. Here is RFK Jr. also pushing his conspiracy theory that the quarantine was used to install 5G cell phone networks and claimed digital currency is the beginning of slavery. Here, play this clip. I'm going to say one more thing. They haven't done a very good job about protecting public health, but they've done a very good job

at using the quarantine to bring 5G into all of our communities and to shift us all to begin the process of shifting us all to a digital currency which is the beginning of slavery because if they control your bank account they control your behavior and we all see these advertisements on television saying 5G is coming to your community it's going to be a great thing for all of you

It's gonna change your lives, it's gonna make all of your lives so much better. And it's very convincing, I have to say. 'Cause I look at those ads and I think, "That's great, I can hardly wait till it gets here." And then, because I'm gonna be able to download a video game in six seconds instead of 16 seconds. And is that why they're spending $5 trillion on 5G? No.

The reason is for surveillance and data harvesting. It's not for you and me. It's for Bill Gates. It's for Jeffrey Zuckerberg. It's for Bezos and all of the other billionaires. And so, yes, it is important that we reflect on Donald Trump's lies that he's going to bring egg prices down. It's also quite convenient that corporate media is now trying to give it some nuance. Egg prices going up because...

The avian flu, well, maybe Biden was dealing with it in a responsible way while bringing overall inflation down, and we could have reported on what was happening accurately, as we were doing here on the Midas Touch Network.

Let's take a look here. The CDC is confirming this H5N1 in a California child as Hawaii details testing results. Take a look at this report right here. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. I mean, you have to ask yourself, is the CDC even going to exist?

under Trump with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy running what they call the Doge Agency and Marjorie Taylor Greene leading the Doge Agency in the House of Representatives. I mean, she's called for Dr. Fauci to be criminally prosecuted and she's going to be the one in charge of taking away money from agencies like the CDC.

So let me just show you two clips here. Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement on Dr. Fauci. Play this clip. Do you think that's appropriate? Do the American people deserve to be abused like that, Mr. Fauci? Because you're not doctor. You're Mr. Fauci in my few minutes. No, I don't need your answer. I want to talk about this right here. Mr. Fauci, I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time, Mr. Raskin. And a lady will suspend.

Mr. Chairman, just in terms of the rules of decorum, are we allowed to deny that a doctor is a doctor just because we don't want him to be a doctor? Yes, because in my time, that man does not deserve to have a license. As a matter of fact, it should be revoked and he belongs in prison. The gentlelady should recognize the doctor as a doctor. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, is this what we have become?

Is this what we have devolved into? And here's Marjorie Taylor Greene from this weekend saying that America is spoiled. We're spoiled people for having these agencies here play this clip. You see, America has been really spoiled for a long time, but the federal government has been the worst abusers of the Americans, harder and tax dollars and the American people's trust.

And so our subcommittee has a lot of work to do and we'll be lining up these important hearings. And most importantly, any program grant recipient, federal agency, they're going to have to come and tell us why they deserve the American People's Trust and are allowed to spend their money. So going back right here to

this article. Again, California's announcing an H5 case in a dairy farm worker. The new development lift the state's total of 29 human cases of H5 avian flu and the national total since the first of the year to 55. I mean, remember when Donald, remember when those were the numbers with COVID and Trump said like a miracle, it was all going to go away.

versus how the Biden administration and the Obama administration dealt with pandemics and how they took it seriously. I want to share with you this clip right here of an actual doctor to remind people about H1N1, how these avian flu strands, what happens is they can merge

with human flu strands and kind of mutate and form these H1N1, H5N1 kind of mutations. And so here's this doctor's video I want to share with you right now just to remind you. Play this clip.

I know with diseases we get really scared when it becomes, you know, at first it's animal to human and then it somehow it becomes human to human or if it cross contaminates or gene swaps with some other virus and becomes kind of a super virus. Are you watching those possibilities?

Absolutely. I mean, you really hit the nail on the head here. Those are two of the biggest concerns that we have. So one is human to human transmission. With H5N1, we have not seen historically over decades that there has ever been efficient human to human transmission. There have been some outbreaks where antibody studies suggested there could have been some transmission to other people, but generally we have not seen that.

What we know is that there are certain mutations that if the virus gets those mutations, it can better infect human cells and it can stabilize itself where we could see transmission between people. So we are watching that. I will point out that the case of the teenager in British Columbia, there were mutations detected that suggested that virus had adapted to infect humans better. So that's one issue. Yes. So then what? So the point of all of this and sharing this with you is

to reflect on the importance of a government that works and functions so that you take these videos and educate people in your family circle and friends and just let people know. We have to understand that there is a role for things that function and not breaking everything down and ripping everything apart.

and like owning the libs and owning this one and screaming and shouting. Like we have to be responsible adults. We owe it to our children and grandchildren and people in our life and communities and country and the world. Hit subscribe, let's get to 4 million together. Thanks for watching. - Real quick, Medijas changed their algorithm to suppress political content. Please follow our Instagram @MidasTouch right now as we head towards 400,000 followers so you don't miss a beat.