It wasn’t a billboard it was just an effort on the part of myself and my team to quantify what we were learning from the epidemiologists. Well, it started out actually as a website.
Just explain what went into this billboard.ĮUGENE JARECKI: Sure. We will also link to his piece in The Washington Post, “Trump’s covid-19 inaction killed Americans.
He created the Trump Death Clock billboard that was unveiled in New York City’s Times Square Friday morning. Well, for more, we’re joined by Eugene Jarecki, award-winning documentary filmmaker, author, activist. It wasn’t until March 16th that Trump reversed his previously dismissive stance and announced new guidelines. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then.ĪMY GOODMAN: Reports show President Trump ignored warnings from advisers and experts as early as January about the need for urgent mitigation measures against the spread of the virus. I mean, obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. ANTHONY FAUCI: Obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Fauci is now one of three members of the task force who have entered self-quarantine after possible exposure to the virus by one of several people who have just tested positive at the White House - among them, Vice President Pence’s press secretary, though Vice President Pence says he will be coming to the White House today. Anthony Fauci has said the virus would have been mitigated, and lives would have been saved, if social distancing guidelines had been implemented earlier. White House Coronavirus Task Force adviser Dr. It was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who writes in The Washington Post that, quote, “it is time for the establishment of a national 'death clock' to measure the cost in human lives of President Trump and his team’s reckless handling of the coronavirus pandemic,” unquote. The 56-foot sign keeps tally of lives lost to government inaction. As the death toll from COVID-19 in the United States surpasses 80,000 - higher than any other country in the world - an unusual new billboard called the Trump Death Clock has been unveiled in New York City’s Times Square. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The Quarantine Report.
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