Introduction
At a time when the US needed a strong Surgeon General, it got absolutely something else. Jerome Adams, bald, attractive in the Navy uniform he never earned, is everything but compelling, everything but a leader, every part the person science denialist Pence needed in his war against gays in Indiana.
Did Adams take the job, knowing he doesn’t have the experience or guts to do the job so that someone much worse wouldn’t get it? We accept that as a possibility and if this is so, perhaps its time for him to resign and spill his guts. He has a big story to tell and America needs that story told while some are still alive to hear it.
When Obama era program meant to prepare the US for global pandemic were spitefully defunded by Trump and Pence, Jerome Adams was at the table, silent. Millions were saved in these cuts which have now cost the US the entirety of its economic growth since the end of World War II.
Medical war on Syria, Iran and Venezuela using sanctions, targeting the vulnerable, what does Jerome Adams think of that. We will never know.
When Pence led programs defunded health care for the poor in state after state and war was declared on ObamaCare, now touted by Trump as a last line of defense against collapse, what did “Gas passer Jerry” say? Nothing?
Jerome Adams is the chief medical officer of an administration that has replaced science with superstition in the name of “conservatism” and now, when it is long past “too fucking late,” we see his shining face peddling mindless aphorisms.
We have to be careful, as you see in the article below, as we are dealing with a black man here and criticism of anyone black is disallowed. The Daily Beast continually refers to him as “brilliant” and “accomplished,” while pointing out over and over and over what a useless lying fucking idiot he really is.
First of all, he is an “anesthesiologist.” What’s that? That’s a doctor who does a job nurses do. No, in most cases, and that’s what a “patient” of an anesthesiologist calls those he deals with…”cases.” In truth, nurses with advanced training do anesthesia and a physician, usually one that is lazy as fuck, supervises or “pimps,” the term used in the medical profession, up to 5 “Nurse Anesthetists” and gets half their pay.
Huge money here, no patients to see or talk to and a job, if you are in an operating room, of making sure the surgeon has the music he wants to hear while sitting in a tall chair.
What did we need? A pediatrician? Virologist? Perhaps we needed an old fashioned country doctor with guts and experience. We got the opposite, someone who sees his job as that of covering Donald Trumps huge fucking ass and telling Trump how brilliant he is, how fit, how healthy:
We have very very strong sources that Trump has multiple substance addictions, which Adams accidentally confirms. Trump has to have had his blood examined at some time, Adderall (Smurf diving), tends to show up.
Adams continual visibility on the bridge of the Titanic telling people that icebergs are harmless and that swimming in freezing water is fun….
Adams has confirmed, or had confirmed a month ago that the worst had passed and that “some states” had things totally under control. (March 8, CNN interview)
Adams is also partially responsible for our shortage of ventilators, choosing instead to advise Trump that prevention would be more useful than a supply of needed equipment. Of course neither were done, no prevention and no equipment either, leaving Fauci to carry the load.
Adams claim to fame was in instituting a needle exchange program in Indiana during the massive HIV outbreak there. His role was limited to mentioning to then governor Pence that it might work, something everyone else was doing as well. As the state was melting down and public health funds nearing exhaustion, Pence said he would pray on the decision and eventually allowed needle exchange. For those unaware, rural Indiana is a hell-hole of meth, oxy and heroin addicts who all love Trump and Pence and attend church regularly.
This is generally true of Red States.
As a side note, from NBC, it was pointed out in 2015 that Pence had one major shortcoming:
“Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington urged Trump on Thursday to reconsider the choice of Pence, citing his ‘lack of public health experience and record of putting ideology over science’ and his “’eadership failure during the Indiana HIV outbreak.'”
We believe Adams is a “science guy,” but that he is also spineless and willing to fabricate or outright lie, and that he is, in part, responsible for what is now America’s greatest national disaster in over 2 centuries. He is, perhaps, a bit player, but a better man would have been publicly fired and gone to congress and the press when confronted by Trump’s ignorance.
Trump is now busy with Qanon (really a former US Army general and former advisor, unnamed) hunting down 100,000 plus kids being kept prisoner by Hillary Clinton’s “rape gangs” in the sewers of New York, Baltimore and Newark. (We have read the reports)
Trump places ending this “satanic pedophile” threat as far more important than dealing with coronavirus. There is, however, no evidence whatsoever, that such a threat exists other than emails and “reports” pushing Trump toward ordering the mass arrest of all political opponents and a declaration of martial law.
Below, some history of Adams, just one player in a failed endeavor that may well kill us all.
What would someone of courage and character do? We will never know:
Has the U.S. Surgeon General Caught a Bad Case of Trumpism?
On March 8, the first time many Americans saw Adams, the 45-year-old sat for an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Adams, who holds the rank of vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and oversees 6,500 public health officers, explained the nature of coronavirus to Tapper as if he was one of his anesthesiology patients. But as Tapper pressed on to more political ground—whether the age of former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and President Donald Trump meant they should stop campaigning in person—Adams careened off message.
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