Scientist who invented coronavirus test worked@ UFL 25 years; left because Trump investigating him

[hlthe2b]

The Chinese scientist who invented the coronavirus test had worked at the University of Florida for 25 years and raised his kids here but left, along with two other notable researchers, because of the Trump administration investigating them.

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[uponit7771]

1. Yep ... ON PURPOSE !!! This is some bull shit, Red Don is up to something bad. Its not just CV19

[Cetacea]

3. It's not just incompetency

I think you are right. The lack of testing alone is highly suspicious. Using China's numbers to plot a trajectory is foolish imo. We still have people running around spreading it and still believing it's a hoax, thanks to Agent Orange.

[uponit7771]

4. +1

[not fooled]

12. Herd immunity

I think red don, when he realized coronavirus was serious, initially bought into Boris Johnson's "herd immunity" line that the best thing was to just let it rip through the population until natural immunity builds up. Hence, taking action was not required. Just clear out some surplus population, especially seniors who might vote against him anyway because of his attacks on Social Security and Medicare. Only when the economic impacts began to hit did he change his tune.

[hlthe2b]

2. Remember that Germany drove out its best, including Einstein who came to us, to our eternal benefit.

Trump and the damage he has done to the US just keeps being exposed.

[usaf-vet]

6. Naomi Klein's. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

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Using a disaster to implement drastic changes.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213101407

New video: Naomi Klein.

[2naSalit]

9. Never forget!

[Scarsdale]

8. tRump had lots of help

from Putin his puppet master, and the gop. Never has a president had his own family members as "advisors". Especially ones with zero experience at governing. All those gop members who spent the 4th of July in Moscow need to be investigated. Why were they there? What was discussed? If democratic politicians had done this, under President Obama, all hell would have broken loose. Why do these traitors get a free pass? I am worried that with this gigantic bailout, their next step will be to completely cut off SS and Medicare, since the $$$ has run out. We all know this has been one of their main goals for many, many years.

[UpInArms]

5. I am so tired of the anti-science anti-intellectual crap

From the article:

he teamed up with researchers at two other universities in China and a biotechnology company to create a test that produces results in 40 minutes and can be performed in a doctor’s office or in non-medical settings like airport screening areas,

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This rightward stupid push is destroying our country...

[Moostache]

11. It is a threat to HUMANITY...they are a total disgrace. (n/t)

[Champp]

7. Republicans & Russians are on a rampage to weaken America

...and to make more enemies for the USA. Twisted.

[lagomorph777]

10. Russiapublicans are winning this battle. We have to win the war or everybody dies.

[Python boot]

13. NIH

NIH investigated 180 research scientists for double dipping by not reporting all research grant funding. Harass the scientific community and a brain drain of talented people results.

President Obama on the other hand knew how to team-build and fought the Ebola outbreak overseas before it had a chance to migrate here.

Two very different approaches. Trump has done all he can to ensure that we experience a bad pandemic. It was intentional.

[DBoon]

14. happened druing the 1950s, lost a rocket scientist to China

In 1949, Qian was named director of the jet propulsion lab at Cal Tech. Singer says Qian earned a reputation for being an undisputed genius.

But in that same year, Mao Zedong’s communists took over mainland China. Soon after that came Sen. Joe McCarthy's Red Scare, a witch hunt targeting suspected communist sympathizers in the US.

Singer says Qian’s attendance at a party held before the war was used to implicate him as a communist sympathizer and a security threat. The FBI apparently believed that the social gathering was organized by communists from Pasadena, California.

“Solely for the fact that he attends this party, his application for US citizenship is denied. ... [Qian] then loses his security clearance, and then he’s placed under house arrest,” Singer says.

The Chinese scientist was held in detention for four years, and then deported back to China in 1955.

The head of the US Navy at the time was quoted as saying that Qian’s deportation was "the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a communist than I was and we forced him to go.”

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-06/us-trained-scientist-was-deported-then-became-father-chinese-rocketry