C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Within days of Donald Trump entering the Oval Office, he decreed by executive order that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization. He ordered the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services to stop communicating with the public and other scientific organizations. And he withdrew the security protecting Dr. Anthony Fauci, the retired federal infectious disease expert.
Why would Trump issue these reckless orders, which appear ill-timed and foolish as the H5N1 virus — bird flu — begins to spread across the nation? Having already killed millions of chickens, this disease appears now to have killed at least one American male — and could soon mutate into a form transmitted from human to human.
To anyone who remembers how Trump mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic during his final year in office, his actions during the first week of his second term are deeply ominous. The U.S. death toll was the highest in the world, with over a million Americans struck down by the virus, despite the fact that we had access to vaccines before many other countries.
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Politics dictated Trump's actions from the very beginning, when he downplayed the pandemic threat and pretended that coronavirus would disappear before Easter. He discouraged testing, again because he wanted to minimize the threat. Listening to extremist advisers, he promoted quack cures, scoffed at effective health measures like masking, and undermined trust in public health authorities. His statements and actions resulted in countless unnecessary fatalities — ironically concentrated among his own Republican supporters.”
Trump is as unfit to be president now as he was in his first term.
Why would Trump issue these reckless orders, which appear ill-timed and foolish as the H5N1 virus — bird flu — begins to spread across the nation? Having already killed millions of chickens, this disease appears now to have killed at least one American male — and could soon mutate into a form transmitted from human to human.
To anyone who remembers how Trump mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic during his final year in office, his actions during the first week of his second term are deeply ominous. The U.S. death toll was the highest in the world, with over a million Americans struck down by the virus, despite the fact that we had access to vaccines before many other countries.
[…]
Politics dictated Trump's actions from the very beginning, when he downplayed the pandemic threat and pretended that coronavirus would disappear before Easter. He discouraged testing, again because he wanted to minimize the threat. Listening to extremist advisers, he promoted quack cures, scoffed at effective health measures like masking, and undermined trust in public health authorities. His statements and actions resulted in countless unnecessary fatalities — ironically concentrated among his own Republican supporters.”
Why Did Trump Silence Public Health Officials Again?, by Joe Conason
Within days of Donald Trump entering the Oval Office, he decreed by executive order that the United States will withdraw from the World Health Organization. He ordered the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the...
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Trump is as unfit to be president now as he was in his first term.
