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SMoss

(112 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 11:27 AM Mar 2020

The damage caused by incompetent tRump is far worse than we realize.

World health experts have known the time of the Black Plague that infectious diseases primarily originate in China. What has been learned in the last few decades is why. It is connected to the agricultural traditions of rural China. Viruses live in poultry and other animals for decades undetected. Eventually they make the jump to humans living in close proximity to the animals, often indirectly by making the jump to pigs and then to people. The jump from pigs to people is by way of an easy mutation. If a new virus makes the jump and is confided to one village or one region it can be stopped.
Understanding this, and having learned from SARS, H1N1, and Ebola the Obama set up an office to monitor fledgling outbreaks around the world so we could protect ourselves here in America and avoided a pandemic. MF45 as you know shut that operation down. That agency included medical people on the ground in traditional areas where viruses originate, China, Africa, and elsewhere. We Americans did not have to depend on what a foreign governments was telling us or hiding. We had our own medical intelligence people getting the information from the Chinese government. The Chinese current national medical system is worse than ours, for profit medicine on steroids. They may not have known how bad the outbreak was until it was well established. MF45 got rid of our independent sources of information/medical intelligence in China.
The current situation is bad for us but in the coming months and years it is going to be catastrophic for third world nations and war zones with large refugee camps. We are facing 200,000 deaths. World wide it is going to be billions of deaths. Our medical agents in China could have caught this early and with a competent president and administration could saved the entire world from this disaster.

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The damage caused by incompetent tRump is far worse than we realize. (Original Post) SMoss Mar 2020 OP
It's not incompetence. ZZenith Mar 2020 #1
If not intentional. cilla4progress Mar 2020 #2
+1 2naSalit Mar 2020 #6
This n/t malaise Mar 2020 #3
This, and the effects will ripple back and forth worldwide. nt crickets Mar 2020 #5
I Have Thought RobinA Mar 2020 #4
Welcome to DU gopiscrap Apr 2020 #7

RobinA

(9,886 posts)
4. I Have Thought
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 12:24 PM
Mar 2020

for some time, at least since Bush Jr stopped some vital research to appease the pro-lifers, that if America is going to relinquish its Leader of The Free World status, various Europeans, Japanese, SOMEbody is going to have to pick up the slack. Tides turn, things change, shining cities on the hill lose their luster... Maybe somebody (or somebodies) else needs to step up and start doing the leading.

And I don't say this happily. I'm a younger Boomer who grew up at a time when, yeah, there were problems, but America could usually do what it set out to do. The space capsule always splashed down, and the Navy always found it with the men alive. The cupboards were never bare, we seemed to have tons of everything and if we didn't we could get it. Now we can't get enough medical masks to hospitals, much less, apparently, monitor fledgling epidemics in far corners. Trump's damage will be cumulative, and four more years is not a horrible bet at this time. Someone may need to step in before America's slide does more damage than can be repaired.

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