Dr. Scott Gottlieb defends widespread initial lockdowns: 'We didn't really know where the hot spots were'

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'We were flying blind in February and March. We take for granted how much capacity we have right now to do testing and interventions,' Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday.

. "We're going to have these rolling outbreaks throughout the country, and we're going to have to take targeted action."

"We were flying blind in February and March. We take for granted how much capacity we have right now to do testing and interventions," Gottlieb said. "We did not have that in February and March when we were going through this." "The White House and governors did not shut down the NBA," Gottlieb said, referencing the basketball league's decision to

 

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Knew he was full of shot from GO!!! He works for a drug company. Of course he wants panic and fear. Everyone so far has been a joke. Starting with not wearing masks in beginning. Lol. Crisis always. Always always start high and work down. This was opposite. GYFOH douche.

Lol we’re defending it now

Unfortunately, NOW that we are gathering the data, via more testing, the American public has gown weary and complacent. This will make even targeted lockdowns quite difficult to accomplish 😞

Can’t believe I trusted this guy in the beginning who was doing nothing but spreading panic that harmed us all and lined his pocket.

Just ask Dr.Fauci.

He is irrelevant. Complete joke. His advice literally killed thousands in NY.

Does anyone want hear from this hack?

But now they know almost no deaths in persons 65 with no pre exisisting conditions. Time to LIBERATE AMERICA and shelter the vulnerable.

Initial lockdown!

Crimes against humanity! Millions of lives DESTROYED for nothing! Protect and quarantine the elderly, immune compromised, sick. What you've done to CHILDREN during this is unconscionable and you want to continue the abuse in the Fall. FRAUDS!

Funny you never mentioned this at the time....faulty models, wildly inaccurate projections, media driven hysteria. Almost as if there was an underlying mission here.

Fraud

Oh yeah he can fuck off too

Traitor.

Yes we did. NY, you know the city that kept their mass transit open and forced nursing homes to admit positive patients.

Hahaha

'We didn't really know where the hot spots were' Yeah you did. China Town, where you told people to meet up and party and get infected to fight Trump's racism. And nursing homes. Where you intentionally exposed helpless elderly people to inflate the death toll to blame Trump.

Love how he is acting like a hot spot couldve popped up anywhere. I wonder what the correlation is to airports with the most incoming intl flights?

ScottGottliebMD It was already going 2-3 months in Asia!! What did we not know We knew it was hard to get (almost impossible outside). We knew 99.5% survived. We knew it disproportionately effected elderly/unhealthy. We knew lockdowns were unnecessary.

zero science zero accountability zero credibility

Why didn't he lock down the Riots?

They have no clue

He’s a guy on pharma boards. Who gave him a platform? Chinese funded media, that’s who.

'We didn't really know' is exactly why we shouldn't have locked down.

GO TO PRISON LYING SC*M

They’ll never admit it was all purposefully overblown to make us afraid. Experts can kiss my rear.

We are over lockdown after the mass riots and looting. Shutdown is flat out idiotic

I should update this but, while everyone’s death totals are up, the rankings are still similar. Lockdowns. Made. No. Net. Improvements.

Lol any idiot in the country knew.

You knew.

A Doctor.....one who has experience with treating patients or one who spent his,life sucking on taxpayers and feeding ASSUMPTIONS into MODELS

1. All airports were hot spots.

Right. Because the US population moves around like nomadic shepherds. Just say the three little words that will release you from this historic blunder: “We were wrong.”

HOW SAD AMERICA: OUR LEADERS LIED TO US, AND WE LET THEM! Surely We Are Not Going To Be Men Who Cower Back And Are Lost, But Men Who Maintain Their Faith Until The Salvation Of Their Souls Is Complete! Hebrews 10:39 (Phillips NT) Please RT

Easy to say that. So far the models were wrong.

There is no scientific basis for lockdowns. Scott should show a peer reviewed study that he relied on for lockdowns. Sweden did not lock down because they had a cool head. The people like Scott and Fauci all have kept their paychecks. Meanwhile they put 40 million out of work

This is Iraq weapons of mass destruction X100. Don’t let these experts or politicians tell you that their strategy won the war.

Am I the only one that is utterly repulsed by the term “lockdown”. It’s a Chinese invented human and civil rights medieval abuse. I hope that one day govt. and health officials are tried in court.

I admit, I overreacted too at first.

Anyone sufficiently skeptical and intelligent knew Gottlieb was fear mongering out of self importance and was part of the problem. No walk backs now homie.

at least it won't happen again

Dangerous frauds.

Scotty just wants his vaccine $...who can blame him for destroying millions of lives?

They would know where the hots spots were if they had the necessary testing .In the end, the inept Federal response to COVID necessitated nationwide shutdowns

Bullcrap

How do we know anything with a lack of testing? COVID19 COVID19Pandemic

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