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by bill_from_tampa
2218 days ago
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Somehow withdrawing funding from the current only worldwide public health organization at the beginning of a pandemic seems ?? shortsighted. Is trump admitting that he is incapable of negotiating his desired changes in WHO functionality, that his ability to communicate and work with international players is so deficient that his only option is to take his baseball bat and baseball and go home? Or is this all a political move to attempt to shift the 'blame' for his/Trump's failings to some other boogeyman? My bet is on this option -- he failed to recognize the magnitude of the epidemic, he failed to take timely and early actions to mitigate the impact on the US economy and lives, he repeatedly minimized the size of the tsunami of death that was approaching our shores, he failed to motivate his FDA/CDC to get working PCR viral tests immediately and produce them in the amounts needed, he failed to coordinate obtaining necessary PPE supplies for the 50 states leading to a dysfunctional free-for-all where states were bidding against each other and FEMA confiscated all shipments they could find, he refused to take any responsibility for all of the above failures, he has recommended use of experimental medical treatments out of clinical trials (hydroxychloroquine), he has actively interfered with the public health necessity of transitioning the US to a "mask wearing culture" by making it a macho / political question instead of a life saving public health intervention, he has demanded that States not follow the 'reopening' metrics advanced by his own covid-19 group.... need I continue? |
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We all saw this happening in China for 2-3 months before it got here, then in Italy a month before it got here. It was all over the news. And we did nothing, as you note.
So now the line is that the WHO abetted some sort of cover-up? Does everyone have the memory of a goldfish?