Well, isn’t this a hilarious slice of irony?
Apparently, just after the U.S. government declared H1N1 a public health emergency, Obama picked up his putter and hit the golf course.
Mr. Obama added, “We want to ensure that in the worst-case scenario, we can manage the situation appropriately.”
The president’s comments came at the end of a weeklong balancing act in which his public words and actions were carefully measured to summon a sense of urgency without setting off a panic. It was no coincidence, his aides said, that he played golf the day his administration declared a national emergency. And there were behind-the-scenes worries about whether he would be ridiculed for using a presidential news conference to urge people to wash their hands. [New York Times [1]]
Good grief.
Can you imagine the sheer outrage if Trump were to go golfing at all during the COVID-19 pandemic?
He’d be put on a spit and roasted alive by the media.
But, of course, Obama somehow gets a pass on that and how poorly his administration handled the swine flu outbreak.
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President Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, allowing hospitals and local governments to speedily set up alternate sites for treatment and triage procedures if needed to handle any surge of patients, the White House said on Saturday.
The declaration came as thousands of people lined up in cities across the country to receive vaccinations, and as federal officials acknowledged that their ambitious vaccination program has gotten off to a slow start. Only 16 million doses of the vaccine were available now, and about 30 million were expected by the end of the month. Some states have requested 10 times the amount they have been allotted.
Flu activity virtually all of it the swine flu is now widespread in 46 states, a level that federal officials say equals the peak of a typical winter flu season. Millions of people in the United States have had swine flu, known as H1N1, either in the first wave in the spring or the current wave.
Although there has been no exact count, officials said the H1N1 virus has killed more than 1,000 Americans and hospitalized over 20,000. The emergency declaration, which Mr. Obama signed Friday night, has to do only with hospital treatment, not with the vaccine. Government officials emphasized that Mr. Obama’s declaration was largely an administrative move that did not signify any unanticipated worsening of the outbreak of the H1N1 flu nationwide. Nor, they said, did it have anything to do with the reports of vaccine shortages. [New York Times [3]]
This is yet another example of the extreme bias in the media’s reporting on Trump’s handling of coronavirus pandemic.
Seriously, how can you compare a president who has been two steps ahead every moment of this outbreak, while another went golfing when H1N1 became a national emergency?
H/T PJ Media [4]
This piece was written by Sophie O’Hara on March 23, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com [5] and is used by permission.
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