A retired internal medicine
physician friend said yesterday that coronavirus kills more people than flu,
but what really disturbs is people who contract coronavirus become very
contagious before they show any symptoms.
As
far as I know from all I have read online, President Trump has not apologized
to the American people for claiming the coronavirus scare is a Democrat and liberal
media hoax, even while Trump recently floated eliminating payroll deduction taxes and
putting off paying taxes on April 15, to stimulate the American economy and
securities exchanges, which have taken a shellacking because of the coronavirus
hoax CDC predicts will become pandemic in America.
But then, what does the CDC
know? Is it run by a very stable genius, who very well knows that the most important American beneficiary of his proposed tax-relief measures will be himself, his businesses and his family?
Consider
this from The Washington Post:
By
March 9,
2020 at 8:50 p.m. CDT
President Trump confronted one of the most
perilous days of his presidency Monday by first erupting in a barrage of
commentary that failed to calm the cratering financial markets, struggling to
inspire confidence that his administration could stop the spread of the novel
coronavirus. But by the time the sun set in
Washington, Trump sounded momentarily chastened by the turbulence and previewed
a raft of emergency measures to shore up the economy.
“We have a very strong economy,” the president told reporters, “but this blindsided the world.”
“We have a very strong economy,” the president told reporters, “but this blindsided the world.”
BY JOHN WALCOTT
MARCH 9, 2020
An annual intelligence report that has been postponed
without explanation by President Donald Trump’s administration warns that the
U.S. remains unprepared for a global pandemic, two senior
government officials who have reviewed a draft of the report tell TIME.
The office of the
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) was scheduled to deliver the Worldwide
Threat Assessment to the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 12 and the hearing
has not been rescheduled, according to staffers and members of the House and
Senate intelligence committees. The DNI’s office declined requests for a
comment on the status of the report. Democratic staffers say they do not expect
the report to be released any time soon.
The final draft of
the report remains classified but the two officials who have read it say it
contains warnings similar to those in the last installment, which was published
on January 29, 2019. The 2019 report warns on page 29 that, “The United States
will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a
contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability,
severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase
calls on the United States for support.”
The 2019 warning was
the third time in as many years that the nation’s intelligence experts said
that a new strain of influenza could lead to a pandemic, and that the U.S. and
the world were unprepared. “Although the international community has made tenuous
improvements to global health security, these gains may be inadequate to
address the challenge of what we anticipate will be more frequent outbreaks of
infectious diseases because of rapid unplanned urbanization, prolonged
humanitarian crises, human incursion into previously unsettled land, expansion
of international travel and trade, and regional climate change,” the 2019
threat assessment warned.
Rather than acting on
these recurrent warnings and bolstering America’s ability to respond to an
outbreak, the Trump administration has instead cut back money and personnel
from pandemic preparedness. In May 2018, Trump’s aides dismissed the National
Security Council’s global health security staff and moved to cut its budget.
The White House also cut the budgets of the Centers for Disease Control and the
Department of Health and Human Services, and closed the federal government’s
$30 million Complex Crises Fund.
If I were Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders or any other Democratic candidate
for president, or any Democrat in Congress, or any Republican in Congress, I'd
be heiling President Trump and his administration as the coronavirus' very
best friend in America.
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
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