We knew about this pandemic years ago. Oh, we did not know about this specific Covid 19 virus
and we did not know just when it would come ashore in America, but we knew several years ago that a pandemic---probably involving an airborne virus impacting the lungs---would occur. And, you know what? We prepared for it.
Beginning in the George W. Bush administration, but coming to fruition during the Obama administration, some of our best and brightest generated a detailed and comprehensive plan to handle this Corona virus. Qualified experts were given positions within our government to keep watch for the plague everyone KNEW was bound to sweep across the world. Ironically, until about two months before Covid 19 reared its ugly head, we had US scientists inside the very lab where it was identified, placed there specifically to monitor developing disease threats and alert our CDC if warranted.
But,these plans were all for naught. Trump's people trashed the plans and scientifically recommended protocols, eliminated the government group with the knowledge and experience to implement the plans and cut the budget of the CDC by over 100 million dollars. Again ironically, they "justified" the budget cut by insisting that the Obama administration had already done all the pandemic prep necessary and nothing else was needed. And, we all know that the primary motivation for Trump's elimination of all the pandemic response plans and staff was simply because they were the product of "the black guy".
Trump's repeated insistence that "no one expected" this deadly pandemic is beyond bullshit: it is perhaps the most damnable lie ever uttered by any American political figure.
"Recovery"--- of the economy, our public health, our status in the world, our national self esteem, our democracy---cannot and will not even begin until Trump is "removed".
Twixt now and November, behave like the lives of everyone you love depend on defeating the maniac in the White House.
