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First they gutted public health spending. Then they dismantled the pandemic response unit. Then they antagonized China with a fruitless trade war and a move to pull key public health staff out of China. Then they pulled the plug on a study that looked at the transmission of diseases from bats to humans.* Then they ignored the virus for ten long weeks while Trump held huge, crowded campaign rallies and repeatedly lied about its severity.
Then they demanded that states re-open their economies long before it was safe to re-open. Now, as daily deaths skyrocket, the U.S. has totals that eclipse the numbers in third world countries with no resources and no public health infrastructure: over 150,000 DEAD and 4.4 million infected. As this exhaustive, fully-sourced timeline proves with devastating lethality, they couldn't have done worse.
But it didn’t have to be this way. Had the Trump administration heeded advice from the outgoing Obama administration, or kept a competent disaster management team in place, or acted aggressively from the moment they were notified of the virus on January 3, or used World Health Organization test kits, or recommended social distancing sooner, or maintained consistent and transparent messaging, or leveraged the formidable resources of the federal government early and often, or put public health ahead of campaign concerns, or formed anything resembling a coherent national response, or had even a modicum of concern for the human impact of their decisions, we would be in a radically better situation, as seen in Germany, South Korea, and every other developed country, all of whom have a fraction of the deaths and infections the U.S. has experienced.
Good night folks.... I'm so damn tired....... besides, tomorrow is another day. The way Trump's handling this, I may never get out of this trench.
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