We are not seeing a second wave. We are not finished with the first. Trump failed to take the same early, aggressive action that other countries successfully used to minimize the effects in their nations. South Korea, which followed essentially the Obama playbook, has a death rate of FIVE per million of population and holding steady, despite greater population density and less open space. The U.S., which had its first confirmed case the SAME DAY AS SOUTH KOREA, as a death rate of 360 per million and almost 120 dead and rising steadily.
If the U.S. had the same death rate per million as South Korea, we would “only” have 1,650 deaths instead of 120,000, so the blood of every person who died in excess of 2,000 is on Trump’s tiny hands.
Trump did not create the virus or cause the pandemic to start, but he is the one responsible for taking a manageable infectious disease and turn it into a raging, out-of-control engine of death, exploding into a national emergency.
Before the virus hit, Trump promptly dismantled every proactive measure enacted by Obama and that had previously been available to him:
• Dismantled the Pandemic Preparedness Office created by Obama
• Threw away the pandemic playbook Obama left for him
• Terminated the SARS vaccine research (COVID-19 is a variant of SARS, technically, SARS-CoV-2)
• Recalled all on-the-ground foreign inspectors, including one stationed in Wuhan, China
When the virus hit, Trump DID NOTHING FOR MONTHS, promising it would just go away to zero “like a miracle.”
• Ignored warnings from advisors
• Denied the severity of the possible pandemic
• Played golf and held massive, crowded rallies
• Refused access to testing that would cause numbers to look bad
We are not seeing a second wave. We are not finished with the first. Trump failed to take the same early, aggressive action that other countries successfully used to minimize the effects in their nations. South Korea, which followed essentially the Obama playbook, has a death rate of FIVE per million of population and holding steady, despite greater population density and less open space. The U.S., which had its first confirmed case the SAME DAY AS SOUTH KOREA, as a death rate of 360 per million and almost 120 dead and rising steadily.
If the U.S. had the same death rate per million as South Korea, we would “only” have 1,650 deaths instead of 120,000, so the blood of every person who died in excess of 2,000 is on Trump’s tiny hands.
Trump did not create the virus or cause the pandemic to start, but he is the one responsible for taking a manageable infectious disease and turn it into a raging, out-of-control engine of death, exploding into a national emergency.
Before the virus hit, Trump promptly dismantled every proactive measure enacted by Obama and that had previously been available to him:
• Dismantled the Pandemic Preparedness Office created by Obama
• Threw away the pandemic playbook Obama left for him
• Terminated the SARS vaccine research (COVID-19 is a variant of SARS, technically, SARS-CoV-2)
• Recalled all on-the-ground foreign inspectors, including one stationed in Wuhan, China
When the virus hit, Trump DID NOTHING FOR MONTHS, promising it would just go away to zero “like a miracle.”
• Ignored warnings from advisors
• Denied the severity of the possible pandemic
• Played golf and held massive, crowded rallies
• Refused access to testing that would cause numbers to look bad