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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 07:10 AM May 2020

Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that...

... public health should not be guided by partisan politics.

The Administration is obsessed with magic bullets—vaccines, new medicines, or a hope that the virus will simply disappear. But only a steadfast reliance on basic public health principles, like test, trace, and isolate, will see the emergency brought to an end, and this requires an effective national public health agency. The CDC needs a director who can provide leadership without the threat of being silenced and who has the technical capacity to lead today's complicated effort.
The Trump administration's further erosion of the CDC will harm global cooperation in science and public health, as it is trying to do by defunding WHO. A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics.

[link:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext|]

When the Lancet is getting political you know shit is real. A British Medical Journal calling for Trump to be kicked out of office because of the public health and safety of Americans and internationally real says something about how shit the Trump administration is.
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Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that... (Original Post) Soph0571 May 2020 OP
Call To Arms!! Aviation91 May 2020 #1
I don't think that partisan politics itself is necessarily a bad thing. Wasn't the ACA/Obamacare abqtommy May 2020 #2

Aviation91

(114 posts)
1. Call To Arms!!
Sat May 16, 2020, 09:54 AM
May 2020

This country is in a crisis right now with absolutely no leadership whatsoever from this present administration! All of us need to understand the danger of re-electing Donald Trump. I’ve tried to understand why there is no urgency to rein in this pandemic with nationwide testing. Donald Trump doesn’t care about people dying! All he cares about doing is lying and coasting his way to November to be re-elected.

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS VERY CAREFULLY...If he is re-elected and he knows he cannot serve a third term not matter what, he will not give a dam about this virus! He will be let loose like a rabid dog to continue with destroying this country! So, people have to decide if they want to chance another four years of dealing with the coronavirus because if he’s not doing a dam thing about it now, he will not give a dam about it if he’s re-elected! So, let’s stop being distracted and divided by bullshit that is put out by Donald Trump and his ilk! Stop believing and falling for shit you read on Facebook!

These are extraordinary times and we must stay focused on the prize which is to get this idiot out of the White House once and for all!

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. I don't think that partisan politics itself is necessarily a bad thing. Wasn't the ACA/Obamacare
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:04 AM
May 2020

established using partisan politics? Haven't tRUMP and the reTHUGS/cultists attempted to destroy
The ACA? It's obvious to me that the benefits or destructiveness of partisan politics depends on the
partisans involved...

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