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Ted Lieu

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The Dow dropped significantly this morning because of the continuing spread of the coronavirus.

The @realDonaldTrump budget proposes cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Retweet if you think cutting @CDCgov is really dumb.#MondayMorning Thoughts

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The Dow industrials fell more than 900 points as the spread of coronavirus outside China deepened concerns about the outbreak's economic impact https://on.wsj.com/2TeDk0w

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[Frustratedlady]

1. Trump won't have any interest unless he or those in his family catch it.

Fend for yourselves.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. If he catches it, the entire GOP gets it -- boot licking and ass kissing.

[bdamomma]

23. I would

only hope "the chosen one" gets it.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. He's a germaphobe. He'll be shitting himself.

He'll need twice as many adult diapers.

[CaptYossarian]

33. Sadly, the rest of America won't care until a celebrity gets it.

Just like with AIDS.

[Iliyah]

2. And firing of . . .

Scientists as well. Now WH is requesting funding . . .

[Frustratedlady]

4. So he can divert to his wall?

[calimary]

18. Oh yeah that wall sure will keep the epidemic out.

Damn simplistic “thinking”!

[CaptYossarian]

34. And in.

[Mike 03]

5. Yes.

In 2018, the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command was let go.

Trump shut down the global health security unit within the NSC, and the DHS epidemic team was also pushed out. No one was ever replaced.

This fact caused a ripple effect of panic in many federal and state programs while the news spread of the Coronavirus in China. If the virus was to spread in the U.S., there is no playbook on how to respond.

Why did Trump decide the pandemic response team was dispensable? Simple. It was another part of Obama’s legacy that he felt the need to destroy.

https://www.frontpagelive.com/2020/02/07/10-ways-trump-has-left-america-vulnerable-to-the-coronaviruss-health-and-economic-impacts/

[handmade34]

6. and this was from last fall.... prescient

Trump WH Cuts All Funding For Program Meant To Prevent The Next Viral Pandemic

https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/trump-wh-cuts-all-funding-for-program-meant-to-prevent-the-next-viral-pandemic-9XZgovC2-kO9i3KM8t-pYQ

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/health/predict-usaid-viruses.html


In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans.

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that a new animal disease that can also infect humans is discovered every four months. Ending the program, experts fear, will leave the world more vulnerable to lethal pathogens like Ebola and MERS that emerge from unexpected places, such as bat-filled trees, gorilla carcasses and camel barns.

The program, known as Predict and run by the United States Agency for International Development, was inspired by the 2005 H5N1 bird flu scare....

The end of the program “is definitely a loss,” said Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit global health organization that received funding from the program. “Predict was an approach to heading off pandemics, instead of sitting there waiting for them to emerge and then mobilizing. That’s expensive."

Allowing Predict to end “is really unfortunate, and the opposite of what we’d like to see happening,” said Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former prime minister of Norway and former World Health Organization director-general.

[Mr.Bill]

8. We must immediately fund and construct

quarantine centers across the street from every Trump hotel and resort.

[rickyhall]

9. When it's all over, hundreds to millions dead, can we charge dump with murder?

Just asking...

[FiveGoodMen]

13. How many murders did we charge Dubya with?

[rickyhall]

16. Enough to get rid him. Maybe...

[FiveGoodMen]

17. Had nothing to do with the two-term limit, then?

[rickyhall]

24. Two terms? Too scary!

[FiveGoodMen]

28. I don't think you're really paying attention to the conversation we're having

[rickyhall]

29. Trump fired his pandemic team which could lead to lots of dead people from CV.

What more do I have "pay attention" to?

[FiveGoodMen]

30. My point was that we tend NOT to punish politicians despite the terrible things that some of them do

[rickyhall]

31. I get that. W, Chaney, Rumsfeld should be prosecuted for war crimes.

But that's just for the losers, I guess, but whatever...

[bronxiteforever]

10. Kick and recommend.

[PWPippinesq]

11. Just wondering . . .

what would happen if an asymptomatic carrier happened to wander through the White House. I betcha funding would be found.

[subana]

14. if they do, they should walk up to Donnie & cough on him!

I have a friend who lives in Australia & their PM has been doing a very bad job! People fly in & they're not testing anyone when they get there. They tell them to go home & tell someone if they start having symptoms. But even though they don't have symptoms now, they could still be spreading the virus!!

[bdamomma]

25. I hope this virus finds

a way to tRump.

[subana]

12. I bet he doesn't talk about...

...how great the economy is today!

[ffr]

15. Thank you Ted Lieu for pointing out the dangers of RW ideologies.

The always get it wrong and are on the wrong side of history.

[Midnight Writer]

19. Doubly stupid after the Trump/GOP criticism of Obama over Ebola.

[calimary]

20. Oh but that's science. And we can't possibly be bothered

wasting a lot of money on science...

I mean, how does THAT benefit anybody?

[yonder]

35. Who needs science anyway....

....until science is needed?

Unfortunately, that seems to be the MO of this current White House.

[Initech]

21. You can't ask for funding to cure a virus while cutting funding for the agency that researches them.

[gibraltar72]

22. Market shows little faith in Trump handling the outbreak effectively.

[bdamomma]

27. He would probably

call it a little cold just like those troops who sustained traumatic brain injury, called them headaches. I think he wouldn't give a shit if American citizens contracted it.

[lpbk2713]

26. Everything Trump gets involved in turns to shit.

The Midas touch in reverse.