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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,955 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:52 PM Mar 2020

Trump officials emphasize that coronavirus 'Made in China'

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's one thing the Trump administration wants Americans to remember about the coronavirus pandemic: It carries the "Made in China” label.

Trump administration officials, on the defensive about their own handling of the virus, have repeatedly reminded people that the virus started in Wuhan, a city in China's Hubei province, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referring to it as the “Wuhan coronavirus.”

President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, went even further on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, rather than using best practices, this outbreak in Wuhan was covered up," O'Brien said at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington. "There's lots of open-source reporting from China, from Chinese nationals, that the doctors involved were either silenced or put in isolation, or that sort of thing, so that the word of this virus could not get out. It probably cost the world community two months."

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-officials-emphasize-coronavirus-made-042437414.html

Who needs science when you have xenophobia.

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Moostache

(9,895 posts)
4. Idiots should not be allowed to hold the remote...and DEFINITELY not set pandemic response policy
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:55 PM
Mar 2020

Can't someone hit him with a taser and say he is indisposed for public appearances for a couple weeks?

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. Trump was doing much the same.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:57 PM
Mar 2020

Maybe he should slap his brand imprimatur on the virus and take advantage of all the free publicity he would get.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
6. Then since Patient Zero was allegedly a French male flight attendant,
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 02:59 PM
Mar 2020

AIDS was a French virus? Give me a break.

The Trump regime: Made in Russia.

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