Reprinted from the Associated Press (more trustworthy than piece-of-shit CNN, but still liberal media):

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DEMOCRATS SAY THE WHITE HOUSE BLOCKING CDC HEAD FROM TESTIFYING


July 17, 2020 5:53 pm


WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are criticizing the White House for blocking the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from testifying at a public hearing on safely reopening the nation’s schools.

Democrats said they invited CDC officials, including director Robert Redfield, to testify at a hearing next Thursday but were rebuffed by the White House. A committee spokesperson said the panel asked for any CDC official to testify but was rejected.

Rep. Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, called it alarming that the Trump administration would prevent CDC officials from appearing before the committee “at a time when its expertise and guidance is so critical to the health and safety of students, parents, and educators.”

The administration’s “lack of transparency does a great disservice to the many communities across the country facing difficult decisions about reopening schools this fall,” Scott said.

A White House spokesperson said Friday that Dr. Redfield has testified on Capitol Hill at least four times over the last three months. “We need our doctors focused on the pandemic response,” spokesperson Judd Deere said.
The decision to block Redfield’s testimony recalled a similar action preventing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease official, from testifying before a separate House committee earlier this year. Fauci ended up testifying the following week before the Republican-controlled Senate and appeared before a House panel last month.

“The administration’s strategy of prioritizing politics over science has had a devastating impact on our country throughout this pandemic,” Scott said. “It should not make that same mistake when it comes to reopening schools.”

President Donald Trump has pushed to reopen schools as scheduled this fall, arguing that most parents are anxious to see schools resume in-person classes. Trump says the decision to possibly avoid doing so in some areas is more motivated by politics than by legitimate fears about the pandemic.

“They think it’s going to be good for them politically, so they keep the schools closed,” Trump said at a White House discussion on school plans last week. “No way. We’re very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools.”

He has threatened to withhold federal funding from schools that refuse to reopen.



That's pretty straigntforward, about 1) the motivation of the Democrats to further damage and paaralyze our culture to ramp up the panic and hide the recovery before the Novemebr election,
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2) That all these experts, Redfield (CDC), Fauci (NIH), and Birx and so forth, haave already testified multiple times before congress. So it's not a case of suppressing anything, it's a case of Democrats trying to repeat the script.

Keep in mind, Dr Fauci and Dr. Redfield have been wrong on a number of points leading right up to the March national shutdown, and while they are doctors, they are much more politically motivated than other medical experts who could be brought before Congress.

The science says, that children under 18 have a close to zero chance of infection or death. I saw a doctor (one of the medical directors from Stanford University's medical school, Dr. Atlas) say there were about 18 deaths under the age of 18. And even under 40, the cases of death tend to invove young people who are immune compromised, with blood disorders or asthma, and/or are morbidly obese. I've seen anchors on CNN and MSNBC and other liberal networks ask medical experts: "Would you send your children back to school?", and every one of the doctors unhesitantly says "Yes, absolutely, no question" without hesitation. It's also obvious that wasn't the answer the liberal news anchors wanted to hear! It doesn't fit their liberal propaganda narrative.

Also, school-age children don't create the level of virus that they are speaders of the disease. More likely infected are their adult teachers, and only teachers over the age of 50 or so, and most teachers on average are much younger. Schools could just isolate the over-50 teachers from coming back to school.

Further, at least a dozen other school systems have re-opened in Europe, Japan, and South Korea. We have their advance examples, to learn from their mistakes or unforseen problems, how to better protect both children and teachers. It's not like Trump pushing to re-open schools is unheard of, or that we're the only nation to attempt to do so.
Ohh, the shame, THE SHAME !!
Give me a break.