5 reasons you have Trump to thank if you get the coronavirus

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1. Bringing infected people into the U.S. against the Center for Disease Control’s objections.
This week, the world learned that the Trump administration forced a plane full of healthy people to sit with 14 infected people with the coronavirus, and didn’t even tell them. It’s unknown why the U.S. didn’t arrange for a private plane to transport the Americans.

2. Trump refuses to listen to science over his buddy, Xi Jinping.
U.S. health officials have been signaling for weeks that a pandemic was approaching. Trump was putting too much faith in Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has diminished the seriousness of the virus.

3. Trump lies about the facts of the coronavirus.
Trump told the world that by April, the coronavirus would be gone. “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat. We’re in great shape.” The CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, disagreed with the president’s assessment, saying “we don’t know a lot about this virus. This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year.”

4. Trump and the GOP seriously cut public health funding.
The Trump budget passed in 2018 killed over $1 billion from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. (It was established in 2010 by Obama, and financed by the Affordable Care Act)

5. Trump slashed resources form the Center for Disease Control.
“The Trump administration in 2018 further diverted millions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).” As the president presents his new budget for 2020, the cuts to public health and the CDC are even more drastic.

Trump’s budget to the World Health Organization that he’s proposed would leave everyone at risk. Trump wants to gut the U.S. contribution.
Diseases aren’t like wars; they don’t stay contained in borders; everyone is at risk. Trump’s budget proves that the president doesn’t understand this important fact.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/here-are-5-reasons-you-have-donald-trump-to-thank-if-you-get-the-coronavirus/

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1. K&R

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2. For some reason, I'm not that worried.

I guess I would welcome the corona virus over another 4 years of Trump. It could be a blessing in disguise.