Trump Supporters Are Directly Responsible For The Enormous Coronavirus Death Toll

[Celerity]

America now leads the world in Coronavirus deaths, and all thanks to Trump and the supporters who voted for him.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/trump-supporters-are-directly-responsible



It’s official, the United States now has the highest death toll from Coronavirus of any country on earth. That includes China, were the virus originated from, and Italy, the previously hardest hit nation that failed spectacularly to control the outbreak. As per NBC News: The United States now has the lead with the most deaths from the coronavirus outbreak of any nation worldwide with nearly 22,000 lives lost. Meanwhile in Italy, previously the worst-hit country, officials on Monday were considering loosening lockdown measures after the lowest number of deaths in a single day since March 19. This happened because Donald Trump did not listen to the urgent pleas of government scientists and disease experts and get a head start on the outbreak that was wreaking havoc on Asia and Europe. This also happened because enough Americans voted for a madman in 2016, apparently believing a reality TV show host and fake billionaire could actually run the country. He can’t, and now Americans are paying the ultimate price.

From bad to terrifyingly horrible

On Sunday, the New York Times broke a truly devastating story on Trump’s astonishing stonewalling of the experts pleading with him to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. The timeline laid out by the Times reporters is beyond damning — it is incriminating: The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January predicting the spread of the virus to the United States, and within weeks was raising options like keeping Americans home from work and shutting down cities the size of Chicago. Mr. Trump would avoid such steps until March. Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memo produced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks of a coronavirus pandemic: as many as half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses.

The health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks. The president, who was on Air Force One while traveling for appearances in the Midwest, responded that Mr. Azar was being alarmist. Mr. Azar publicly announced in February that the government was establishing a “surveillance” system in five American cities to measure the spread of the virus and enable experts to project the next hot spots. It was delayed for weeks. The slow start of that plan, on top of the well-documented failures to develop the nation’s testing capacity, left administration officials with almost no insight into how rapidly the virus was spreading. “We were flying the plane with no instruments,” one official said.

By the third week in February, the administration’s top public health experts concluded they should recommend to Mr. Trump a new approach that would include warning the American people of the risks and urging steps like social distancing and staying home from work. But the White House focused instead on messaging and crucial additional weeks went by before their views were reluctantly accepted by the president — time when the virus spread largely unimpeded. These crucial weeks that went by are being paid for by Americans choking to death on ventilators all around the country. Trump had an opportunity to make America an example of how to deal effectively with an epidemic. Instead, he has turned the most powerful country on earth into a global laughing stock.

America the joke

Other countries are watching in sheer disbelief at the calamity in America, amazed by the incompetence, carelessness, and extraordinary indifference to human suffering..................................... (much more at the link)

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[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

[mikewv]

2. Fuck all of these ppl... nm

[MLAA]

3. Yes, indeed they are.

[Windy City Charlie]

4. That's why

That's why so many of the Trump supporters are now trying to claim the death toll is inflated. I don't think there's anything that could happen that would open their eyes.

[CanonRay]

5. Blood on the hands of each and every one of them

[brewens]

6. The pandemic response team was gone because his supporters cheer his trashing anything Obama

did. They were Obama appointees and he didn't want anyone like that around as well. His fans support any move like that or he wouldn't have dared do it.

[crickets]

7. .

Other countries are watching in sheer disbelief at the calamity in America, amazed by the incompetence, carelessness, and extraordinary indifference to human suffering...

Yes, so are we. So are we.