Trump says he would mobilize military to distribute coronavirus vaccine when it's ready
Source: CBS
President Trump says he would "rapidly" mobilize the U.S. military to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it's ready, focusing first on nursing homes and the elderly most vulnerable to deadly complications from the virus. Mr. Trump made the comments during an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo.
"We're mobilizing our military and other forces but we're mobilizing our military on the basis that we do have a vaccine. You know, it's a massive job to give this vaccine. Our military is now being mobilized so at the end of the year we're going to be able to give it to a lot of people very, very rapidly," the president said.
The president said he expects a vaccine to be available by the end of this year, a very optimistic timeline given that many experts, including Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci, say it will take at least 12 to 18 months. The virus has killed more than 84,000 Americans so far, as states begin to reopen their economies. The president indicated he expects that number to continue to climb.
"We will lose over 100,000, perhaps, in this country," the president said in the interview that aired Thursday.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-vaccine-trump-mobilize-military-distribute-ready/
ashredux
(2,609 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)outasync
(41 posts)Grokenstein
(5,728 posts)And look, over 100,000 deaths will still count as "a great job," because President Trump is your favorite president and he deserves two scoops of ice cream and a gold star sticker and first pick from the toybox and to remain in power permanently because he's treated worse than Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ combined.
C Moon
(12,224 posts)outasync
(41 posts)Can not believe that the President is working for our side but someone else.
olddad65
(599 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)For anything he wants?
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)Posse Comitatus?
paleotn
(17,990 posts)Regular military....no. He's making shit up again.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,600 posts)First, vaccines. Then, crowd control. Finally, going after Trump's enemies, real or imagined.
NCDem47
(2,252 posts)And never look back. Sell, sell, sell it!
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)Maybe throw in some household disinfectants or hydroxychloroquine.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)He does not understand how things work in real life.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)He doesn't plan for anything else. He is going to try to pull some crap. I don't trust his placing the military under any sort of orders for any possible emergency purpose among the civilian population. The last thing we need is for the military to be deployed - trucks and other vehicles moving and setting up throughout the country as if he 'has control of the problem'.
He has left everything else up to the states, doesn't each state have a national guard under the leadership of each governor?
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)after so long.
And whatever gives him the idea that "the military" is better at delivering stuff, than the Post Office or Fed Ex
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)There is an existing and robust supply system from DOD to NGB. Units under NGB are primarily supplied through DOD and DA/USAF. He wants to control who gets it just like he and Kushner have controlled bulk PPE distribution.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Amazon, anyone?
Guard supplies seem to be more for floods and hurricanes, not drugs for civilian use.
Yeah, Gawd ferbid someone else places an order and it goes through.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)I used to work for the state guard's headquarters where FEMA and the state's version of the FEMA. Also, no vaccine would be released in any quantity large enough to overwhelm distribution capabilities for each state's guard commands, particularly to the point of requiring support from private businesses. Each state has medical units and emergency plan scenarios that are tested and updated/modified. NGB and state level quard units have been preparing for such missions should they get the call. Not only that, but Amazon's distribution is at or near maximum capacity. Prior to the pandemic, it used to take hours or days to receive goods that are now considered nonessential, and now those same items get scheduled out weeks into the future.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)thousands of clinics, doctor's offices, hospitals and other outlets. The distribution is often complex, and too expensive, but if the supply is there it gets delivered. Federal intervention under Trump seems to disrupt, rather than enhance, delivery with its impoundings and impediments.
Remember Trump's FEMA and it's great work in Puerto Rico? I don't blame FEMA for the screwup there-- it rests directly with Trump, and FEMA has an exclellent history of assistance. But it's a warning to watch for Trump's fat fingers in anything important, and FEMA does have a specific mission, which doesn't seem to include rapid increases in common drug delivery.
Why waste whatever resources FEMA and the Guard have that my be needed for other emergencies when the nasty ol' capitalist marketing and distribution systems have been doing just fine so far?
Yes, I know, the distribution of just lowly ol' masks has been screwed up by private operators, but the government hasn't done any better and it is getting straightened out. Even 7-11 is now selling masks, gloves, and sterilizer. Cheap.
RobinA
(9,898 posts)He would need the OK of the respective governor, I believe.
Trump: Hey Crybaby Cuomo, can I borrow your Guard.
Cuomo: Fat chance Skippy. Weve come this far without you, youre not coming around at the end and stealing the credit. And dont bother calling the boys in the other states, either.
Trump: Ill tell everybody you are blocking distribution of vaccine for political reasons. Why cant you be nice? You should be thanking me for closing the border to China.
Cuomo: Say goodnight, Skippy.
sarisataka
(18,839 posts)The laws that incorporated the Guard into the army place Federal needs over state. If Washington calls on a state's Guard units the state cannot deny them.
beastie boy
(9,509 posts)I am totally skeptical about him mobilizing the military for the purpose he is stating. Instead, I see it as Trump preparing the grounds to mobilize the military under a pretense that sound innocuous and keep it mobilized for nefarious political purposes that may never be articulated ahead of time.
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)Last thing we need are federal troops under his command at polling places and vote counting locations
All show.
"SEEEE!!! I'm DOING something!!!! Doesn't the military impress you? WHY are you so ungreatful? Ugh. You're a looser. Get to the back of the line"
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)nm
Yeehah
(4,597 posts)The imbecile emperor just loves to play with his little toy soldiers.
Maeve
(42,300 posts)Not time to test it properly before January
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Not the mention the rest of us "warriors" whose lives he's so gung-ho to risk for the sake of the almighty dollar?
There is not going to be a vaccine while he's still in office, so this vision of the military handing out vaccines is pure fantasy. Also no mention of who would PAY for this vaccine, which leads me to think the him & JarJar Neverblinks are cooking up yet another money-making scam.
Botany
(70,618 posts)"ONCE IT'S READY" ATTN Donny, We do not have the vaccine and the ones they are looking @
are nowhere near ready.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142493604 Virus whistleblower tells lawmakers US lacks vaccine plan
matt819
(10,749 posts)He's going to call out the US Space Force to mobilize to air drop the vaccine to every household in the US.
Better yet, he's going to order Amazon's drone force to deliver the vaccine to every household in the US.
No. He's going to have Tesla build 1 million electric driverless cars to deliver the vaccine to every household in the US.
Some people say there's something called the post office that delivers things. He'll have them deliver the vaccine to every household in the US, and then will destroy the post office. It'll be as if it never existed. Yeah, that's the ticket.
No, better idea. He'll mobilize UPS under the Vaccine Delivery Act that he will enact and fund without Congress to deliver the vaccine to every household in the US, but will prevent them from delivering vaccines to any other household in the 180 countries and territories that UPS delivers stuff to.
One more thing. There is no vaccine. There will be no vaccine while Trump is in office. There will no mobilization of the military. It won't happen. This regime couldn't organize a Chucky Cheese birthday party.
riversedge
(70,362 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Every county in the USA has a Public Health District Office responsible for vaccinating its citizens. No reason to turn this into a military operation. That has never been done before. Not for polio. Not for small pox, not for mumps, not for measles, not for pertussis...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive ...
ancianita
(36,166 posts)The Defense Production Act will be used to get vaccine to all his circle first.
Then it will be used to cut deals with governors and manipulate general election outcomes.
Alacritous Crier
(3,821 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)If trump said it was good. He'll weaponize its distribution. I don't trust anything under this trump criminal enterprise. He's already trying to rush them , and overlooking all precautions and safety , so no I would not trust it coming out with him still in office. There isn't enough time for him to get one out unless its done corruptly, which is what he'll try to do.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)It is all part of some liberal hoax of course.
Cha
(297,861 posts)word he days..
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