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Trump's predecessors left him a public health capacity in China independent of WHO. Trump cut that presence by 2/3 and more. If Trump was blindsided by bad numbers from WHO - that was his own decision and own fault. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Also important to note: Trump administration was blindsided by pandemic because in the most crucial period, late December-early January, its attention was fixed on drive to war vs Iran. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The date Trump received unignorable information on the pandemic, January 3, was also date of assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran conflict preoccupied Trump as virus burst into US in first half of January. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Line after line from HBO's "Chernobyl" seems lifted straight from the interior dialogues of the Trump administration during January and February 2020.
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An important backstory to the hydroxychloroquine enthusiasm is the weird paranoid fears of virus vaccine research. Apparently, Bill Gates is researching vaccines in order to insert controlling microchips into our bodies. - more to come -
Ha ha, you say, that sounds like utter lunacy. As it is. But it's slowly percolating from the anti-vax fringe into the conservative ecosystem (Newsmax, Washington Times, Fox News) - as @mmfa details here mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
@mmfa Newsmax especially is promoting deranged fantasies about virus vaccines. Emerald Robinson is the Newsmax White House correspondent, frequently called upon by President Trump
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I know it's not why people are irritated, but it's also worth noting: according to the American Lung Association, black Americans smoke pretty much the same as white Americans. Latino Americans are less likely to smoke than non-Hispanic whites. lung.org/quit-smoking/s…
Alcohol use is a more complicated subject, but a cursory review of the articles at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov suggests that black Americans are less likely than white Americans to drink heavily.
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But lack of sobriety is not why black Americans and Hispanics are dying of coronavirus at such terrifying rates.
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