NEJM breaks 208yr precedent w/ scathing case to vote out 'dangerously incompetent' #Trump

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Top US medical journal breaks 208-year precedent with scathing case to vote out ‘dangerously incompetent’ Trump


https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/top-us-medical-journal-breaks-208-year-precedent-with-scathing-case-to-vote-out-dangerously-incompetent-trump/


Published 14 hours ago on October 8, 2020


The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday became the second top academic journal in a month to break its long-held precedent of not weighing in on the U.S. presidential election, with an editorial saying it has become impossible to remain impartial after spending months observing President Donald Trump’s “shameful” and “reckless” response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 208-year old journal was driven to publish a fierce call for the president’s electoral defeat, signed by all 34 of its editors, as Trump presided over the deaths of more than 210,000 people—spending the past nine months repeatedly lying about the severity of the coronavirus, claiming the pandemic would go away on its own, undermining the FDA by claiming “the deep state” was keeping the agency from approving treatments and vaccines in order to harm his reelection chances, and openly flouting basic public health guidance that top medical experts agree significantly reduce the transmission of Covid-19.
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Understanding a global pandemic as a test of leadership, the NEJM editors wrote that “our leaders have failed that test.”


“Our rules on social distancing have in many places been lackadaisical at best, with loosening of restrictions long before adequate disease control had been achieved. And in much of the country, people simply don’t wear masks, largely because our leaders have stated outright that masks are political tools rather than effective infection control measures.”
—NEJM
“They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy,” they wrote. “The magnitude of this failure is astonishing.”

While the U.S. government had every advantage needed to effectively confront the coronavirus, the editors wrote, “when the disease first arrived, we were incapable of testing effectively and couldn’t provide even the most basic personal protective equipment to health care workers and the general public.”

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[SheltieLover]

1. They're just doctors. What do they know?

[secondwind]

2. This is infuriating... knowing how Obama left us so prepared for this,

and Trump ignored it all, the binders that were carefully prepared were tossed in the trash, never even opened.

The scientists who were working alongside those in Wuhan were recalled immediately and dismissed.

He ruined everything, including the lives of countless people who are unable to enjoy their last years, unable to visit with friends or loved ones, unable to travel and enjoy life.

I am one of those people, 73 yrs old in perfect health, and trying to keep it together here in the Caribbean. I cannot even go to the beach.

My sister lives half an hour away and we manage a visit once a month or so, but I haven’t hugged her in six months, or her little granddaughter.

I hate this man with every fiber of my being.

[riversedge]

3. We had a good chance of defeating the #coronavirus last spring. Now it controls us!!