{"id":564002,"date":"2021-06-14T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564002"},"modified":"2021-06-14T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:21:40","slug":"recently-departed-biden-covid-19-adviser-suggests-americans-didnt-sacrifice-enough-to-stop-pandemic-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recently-departed-biden-covid-19-adviser-suggests-americans-didnt-sacrifice-enough-to-stop-pandemic-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently Departed Biden COVID-19 Adviser Suggests Americans Didn\u2019t \u2018Sacrifice\u2019 Enough To Stop Pandemic Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frecently-departed-biden-covid-19-adviser-suggests-americans-didnt-sacrifice-enough-to-stop-pandemic-early%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AS-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Andy Slavitt, who stepped down from his role on President Joe Biden\u2019s COVID-19 response team last week, suggested to CBS News during a Monday interview that Americans did not \u201csacrifice\u201d enough to stop the pandemic early on.<\/p>\n<p>Slavitt made the remarks when asked by CBS News how much of the pandemic was preventable.<\/p>\n<p>Slavitt blamed politics for some of the mistakes that were made but conceded that the pandemic would have hit the U.S. \u201cno matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I also think we all need to look at one another and ask ourselves, \u2018what do we need to do better next time?&#8217;\u201d Slavitt continued. \u201cAnd in many respects, being able to sacrifice a little bit for one another to get through this and to save more lives is going to be it\u2019s going to be essential. And that\u2019s something that I think we could all have done a little bit better on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.625441696113\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden\u2019s Covid czar, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASlavitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ASlavitt<\/a>, says the pandemic wouldn\u2019t have been as bad if Americans \u201chad sacrificed a little bit\u201d more. <\/p>\n<p>Avoiding social interaction &#8220;requires a certain amount of sacrifice and change.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H6fGFv5hLi\">pic.twitter.com\/H6fGFv5hLi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1404416295634976772?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Slavitt\u2019s remarks generated a fair amount of backlash online, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.659025787966\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The pandemic wouldn&#8217;t have been as bad if public health officials had realized most people regard in-person social interaction as &#8216;essential&#8217;, are not bad people for it, and that a strategy centered around expecting them to sacrifice it for months at a time was never gonna work. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPgqfkYE8P\">https:\/\/t.co\/cPgqfkYE8P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1404498489183137794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.814285714286\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The government screwed up testing, slow-rolled vaccine approval, discouraged masks in the early days, told people to wash their groceries, and closed parks and beaches.<\/p>\n<p>But it is you, the citizen, who did it wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oUphysiMb6\">https:\/\/t.co\/oUphysiMb6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robby Soave (@robbysoave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbysoave\/status\/1404495207903662080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There was massive sacrifice by so many. This is awful. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q8WZ1EZlE5\">https:\/\/t.co\/q8WZ1EZlE5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1404595700340596736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1797752808989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pajama class that stayed home and got paid during the pandemic doesn\u2019t think the rest of Americans did enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tXhXklBZqD\">https:\/\/t.co\/tXhXklBZqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1404499301686972419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.521994134897\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">National journos had home studios constructed and they didn&#8217;t miss their millions of dollars, people like Slavitt got to go on TV and dump all over the Trump administration day in and day out, and Resistance libs got to go to their 2nd or 3rd homes.<\/p>\n<p>Must have been so hard. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2sJNx30AQa\">https:\/\/t.co\/2sJNx30AQa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1404505668552384515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.205521472393\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How about the millions of Americans who lost their jobs and their businesses?<\/p>\n<p>How about the millions of kids kept from school for a year?<\/p>\n<p>How about the elderly forced to watch their spouses die from a distance?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASlavitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ASlavitt<\/a> doesn\u2019t think they all sacrificed enough? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e5fGKxCZBy\">https:\/\/t.co\/e5fGKxCZBy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Cooper (@thejcoop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1404598421546274818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.495652173913\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andy Slavitt didn&#8217;t miss a single paycheck. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ct7WbMVcdo\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ct7WbMVcdo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1404525822241767426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1797752808989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">22 million Americans lost their job last year and Biden\u2019s COVID czar thinks Americans didn\u2019t sacrifice enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GWatm0ukc8\">https:\/\/t.co\/GWatm0ukc8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RSC (@RepublicanStudy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepublicanStudy\/status\/1404528619809087490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7547169811321\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the message from America\u2019s corporate and managerial class, which flourished during the pandemic and whose members happily worked from home while the working class suffered: \u201cmaybe you selfish poors should have suffered more.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3209EBXD62\">https:\/\/t.co\/3209EBXD62<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnddavidson\/status\/1404501517932056576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"55\">\n<p><em>CBS HOST: The book is called \u2018Preventable.\u2019 How much of this pandemic was preventable and how?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>ANDY SLAVITT, BIDEN CORONAVIRUS ADVISER: Well of course, we would have had a pandemic here in the U.S. no matter what. But look, we can count the mistakes. And I think it\u2019s important that we do if for nothing else, so we don\u2019t repeat them. We obviously had a set of technical mistakes with the testing and the PPE that we know about. But if we\u2019re honest, we also had two other types of mistakes that caused a lot of loss of life. One, were just plainly political leadership mistakes. There was a lot, we denied the virus for too long out of the Trump White House, there was too much squashing of dissent and playing on divisions. But I also think we all need to look at one another and ask ourselves, \u2018what do we need to do better next time?\u2019 And in many respects, being able to sacrifice a little bit for one another to get through this and to save more lives is going to be it\u2019s going to be essential. And that\u2019s something that I think we could all have done a little bit better on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CBS HOST: So when we look in the mirror and evaluate our own role in all this, the public, how we could have sacrificed more, as you say, and we think about the possibility of a difficult fall or winter or a difficult variant. What more needs to be done now to prepare ourselves as a public, putting aside the government and the scientific part of this, for us as the public, what\u2019s the message?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>SLAVITT: Well, there\u2019s a couple simple things. One is that all the people that for so long, live so close to the edge, that don\u2019t have a great safety net, that don\u2019t have great health insurance, but they\u2019re forced to work day in and day out to serve us, they\u2019re growing crops, they\u2019re delivering food to our warehouses, they\u2019re working in grocery stores, they\u2019re delivering food to our door, all those people are at risk all the time. And so \u2026 there\u2019s a chapter in the book called \u2018The Room Service Pandemic,\u2019 and it talks about how a lot of us had it quite okay during the pandemic and others didn\u2019t. So we should be looking at that. And then look, preventing the spread of the disease is really about a couple simple things, not breathing near one another in large spaces. That\u2019s really, that\u2019s really it if you want to be overly simple about it. And that requires a certain amount of sacrifice and change. It\u2019s a short period of time. And we, none of us can do it forever. And it\u2019s not pleasant. But when we do, we reduce the amount of spread pretty dramatically and if the variants come back in the fall, as it as they will, the people who are unvaccinated really are going to need to pay serious attention to that and consider getting vaccinated\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Slavitt, who stepped down from his role on President Joe Biden\u2019s COVID-19 response team last week, suggested to CBS News during a Monday interview that Americans did not \u201csacrifice\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280286,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AS-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Recently Departed Biden COVID-19 Adviser Suggests Americans Didn\u2019t \u2018Sacrifice\u2019 Enough To Stop Pandemic Early","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AS-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Recently Departed Biden COVID-19 Adviser Suggests Americans Didn\u2019t \u2018Sacrifice\u2019 Enough To Stop Pandemic Early","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}