Yale epidemiologist calls Trump's coronavirus response a potential war crime: 'Genocide by default'

[bdamomma]

With President Donald Trump signaling that he’s ready to wind down his own administration’s COVID-19 task force even as the disease continues killing thousands of Americans every day, a Yale epidemiologist believes the president is ready to accept mass death as long as he gets re-elected.


Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist who works as an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health, wrote a scathing tweet about the president’s latest efforts to send Americans back to work even though more than 70,000 people have died so far with no end in sight.

“How many people will die this summer, before Election Day?” he asked. “What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?”

Gonsalves went on to say that Trump’s negligence is so gross that he could be prosecuted for war crimes under international law?”


“So, what does it mean to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law?” he asked. “And I am being serious here: what is happening in the US is purposeful, considered negligence, omission, failure to act by our leaders. Can they be held responsible under international law?”

https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/yale-epidemiologist-calls-trumps-coronavirus-response-a-potential-war-crime-genocide-by-default/


Please let this happen to this monster

[IcyPeas]

1. remember when he told the people at a Minnesota rally that they had good genes?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/politics/donald-trump-genes-historical-context-eugenics/index.html

Genes, genes, genes. If you're President Donald Trump, it's about genes.

"You have good genes, you know that, right?" Trump said at a recent campaign rally. "You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn't it, don't you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we're so different? You have good genes in Minnesota."

The President was speaking to a nearly all-White crowd in Bemidji, Minnesota, a city that's about 80% White in a state that's even more White.

"Every family in Minnesota needs to know about sleepy Joe Biden's extreme plan to flood your state with an influx of refugees from Somalia, from other places all over the planet," the President said.

[bdamomma]

4. There

are just no words..................25th Amendment please.

He is a monster. Idi Amin monster add more if you see fit.

tRump is teetering on being number 1 as being a murdering despot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

[malaise]

2. We've been saying this for months

here on DU

[dustyscamp]

3. His enablers are compicit

[crickets]

5. Great questions we'd all love to know the answers to. K&R

[lettucebe]

6. I agree 100% This is criminal behavior and I really want to see this prosecuted

[Chili]

7. YES.

Genocide. Thought this for a long time. The moment it became known that blacks, browns, indigenous, and seniors were the most likely to die, they stopped giving a damn and let it happen on purpose. No question in my mind.

And his cult followers know this, and go right along with it. That's why they refuse to wear masks and don't give a damn who catches it.

[bdamomma]

8. I think

we need to call it out be it calling our Senators and Reps, this IS GENOCIDE.

[spanone]

9. K&R