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Of course.
Margaret Brennan: “what is the plan? what are you going to do?”
Kevin Hassett: “so again, the Biden plan was to just kill chickens. and they spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within a perimeter where they found a sick chicken. and so you go — I just went to the grocery store. I shop for our family in part because I love to look at prices, and there were no eggs at the store yesterday. just a few. and so that happened because they killed all the chickens. so what we need to do is have better ways. biosecurity and medication and so on, to make sure so that the perimeter doesn’t have to kill the chickens. to have a better, smarter perimeter. and so having a smart perimeter is what we’re working on, and we’re finalizing the ideas about how to do that with the best scientists in government, and that’s the kind of thing that should have happened a year ago, and if it had, the egg prices would be a lot better than they are now. but the avian flu is a real thing, and by the way, it’s spread mostly by ducks and geese. think about it. they’re killing chickens to stop the spread, but chickens don’t really fly.” Oh, duh.
Hassett must have learned his 'weave' from Trump.
Tiedrich: that was so many words, just so say ‘we have no plan. we have no idea what we’re doing.’ this guy Hassett really needs to tighten things up. Donny would have simply said ‘we’re looking at it very strongly and we’ll see what happens’ and then launched into a story about a big, strong poultry farmer who called him ‘sir.’
but the honest answer would have been: “I don’t even know why I’m on your show. I’m a fucking economist, not a scientist.”
everything boils down to “we’re going to the opposite of whatever Joe Biden did, because we’re all spite-fueled grievances babies here, and fuck Joe Biden” — but here’s why you kill an entire flock when one bird gets infected.
--This virus kills chickens FAST. We’re talking 24 hours or less to wipe out an entire backyard flock of ~50 birds. Most of the time the reason the tests are run is because someone wakes up in the morning and finds half the flock dead and the rest dying. The culling is just to speed up the inevitable and contain the virus as quickly as possible.--
