As long as Birx and Fauci are still on the job....

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President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force is in the early stages of winding down, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The meetings in the Situation Room of the White House have been shorter, and the task force no longer meets every day, according to the two people. Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci are still expected to be at the White House daily, but other members of the task force may be present less frequently. However, two separate sources familiar with the matter noted that the task force met Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...-task-force-n1200686

They are discussing it, as one might expect. We don't need a permanent task force.

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
We don't need a permanent task force.

Trump announced that the Coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...ll-continue-n1201141

There are still a ton of unknowns.

I think we need a task force because we should be planning for what to do depend on what vaccines and/or treatments do or don't come on the horizon. And what we find out about immunity.

I don't think we need daily updates. Even at the state level (I follow NY and IL) i think we can easily go to every other day. edit: At the federal level, even less often.

Many experts are predicting a second wave. If history is an indicator, it should arrive in September or October. It will likely be much worse than the first.

So we have the summer to get ready: stockpile fresh PPE, build more ventilators, learn everything we can about the virus and the various symptoms (covid toes, blood clots and strokes, inflammation of blood vessels, etc.), and ensure the world's food, medicine, and energy supplies are as stable as possible.

This is not the time to disband the task force.

I don't have anything nice to say.

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Originally posted by Axtremus:

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
We don't need a permanent task force.

Trump announced that the Coronavirus task force will continue indefinitely:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...ll-continue-n1201141

Whiplash, anyone? He must've read his polls.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...e-speaking-japanese/

“If Trump ran the Manhattan Project ...”

“One can imagine how things might have gone if Donald Trump had been the president who received Einstein’s letter: After two months, he would have congratulated himself for a “phenomenal job,” wound down his atomic task force and left the whole nuclear thing to the states.


Texas would compete with Florida for uranium, while New Jersey and Ohio bid up plutonium prices.

New York, making bombs, wouldn’t be in touch with Washington state, which would be retrofitting the B-29 without specs.


Robert Oppenheimer, complaining about the lack of coordination, would be demoted and denied whistleblower protection.


The bombs wouldn’t work properly in tests, the bombers would take off without enough fuel, Trump would blame the governor of Michigan — and we’d all be speaking Japanese.
...”