This is not from The Onion:
Kurt Kloss, a doctor and the father-in-law of Jared Kushner's brother, Josh, on Wednesday posted in a Facebook group for physicians called EM Docs, asking for its nearly 22,000 members to brainstorm measures to stop the coronavirus outbreak [...]
"I have direct channel to person now in charge at White House," Kloss reportedly wrote, adding: "If you were in charge of Federal response to the Pandemic what would your recommendation be. Please only serious responses."
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In a statement to Politico, an unnamed White House official said Kushner "is, of course involved in the coronavirus response, but he is not in charge of coronavirus research."
Kloss reportedly wrote that he sent 12 recommendations to Kushner on Thursday morning.
"Jared is reading now," he said.
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I really am lost for words here. The White House has access to the precise experts who have trained all their lives for this, the people who have faced epidemics first hand all over the world and seen what does and doesn’t work… and yet they ask a random Facebook group for their ideas. I am not disparaging any doctors who may be in that group, but pandemic response is a particular specialty; you would not ask a bunch of dentists how to perform heart surgery.
Think about it. How would Kushner be able to judge whether any of the advice given from random, anonymous people on the internet are actually effective in reality or not? This is astonishing on so many levels. If they don’t already have every expert on the subject matter collected in a big room or on speed dial as of weeks ago, they have so massively failed at this.