Trump's Deadly Search for a Scapegoat

[Demovictory9]

Trump’s Deadly Search for a Scapegoat
If the president had listened to the World Health Organization, American lives would have been saved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/coronavirus-trump-world-health-organization-who.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Thousands of Americans would be alive today if President Trump had spent more time listening to the World Health Organization instead of trying to destroy it.

Trump’s announcement that he is halting American funding for the W.H.O. just as the world is facing a raging pandemic is a dangerous attempt to find a scapegoat for his own failings. It is like taking away a fire department’s trucks in the middle of a blaze.

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The W.H.O. tweeted its first warning about the coronavirus on Jan. 4 and then rang alarm bells, culminating at the end of that month when it declared a “public health emergency of international concern.” It developed an effective diagnostic test that is used in dozens of countries, while the United States still cannot manage adequate testing.

In late January and in February, the W.H.O. issued increasingly urgent warnings about the coronavirus. Trump ignored them, instead insisting that it was “totally under control,” predicted the number of infections would drop, declared that “it’s going to disappear” and consistently downplayed the virus while talking up the stock market.

Trump’s passivity — even as the W.H.O. and his own advisers warned him of the risks — squandered the chance to acquire more personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses. His likening of Covid-19 to the flu led people to join public gatherings like Mardi Gras and Florida spring break, and that is one reason the United States has had 80 deaths per million inhabitants from Covid-19, compared withttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/opinion/coronavirus-trump-world-health-organization-who.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepageh four per million in South Korea and fewer than one per million in Taiwan.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Reminiscent of Shrub scrambling to find a reason to invade Iraq...

the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[rusty quoin]

2. Trump has the worst numbers in the world and yet he claims victory.

It’s like he wants America to fail. It’s like he is doing what Putin wants.

So if he creating a situation in which he allows the virus to decimate everything including our military, he is taking down everything.

It seems to me that he is working for Putin. They had many secret conversations. I would bet on that.

[pazzyanne]

3. Just read that tRump is sending ventilators to Russia.

He can't get taxpayer owned ventilators to the US states, but he can send them to Russia? THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN!!!!!!!

[robbedvoter]

4. Also, offered us tests

Link to tweet

?s=21

[no_hypocrisy]

5. For someone who claims his fame was building and construction, at heart

Trump is a nihilist and deconstructionist. He takes things apart better than he can create them.

[mitch96]

6. JUst heard an interview on NPR with the US embasador to the UN..

When she said the WHO investigation on when they knew China was withholding covid info and
tRump is interested in knowing the "truth". I spit out my coffee in disbelief .. A confirmed and documented liar wanting to know the truth?....... Gasslight to the second power..... uffda
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[Doodley]

7. Democrats need to run a public information campaign to ensure Americans are aware of the truth.