Is Trump not funding contact tracing and testing so americans will

[applegrove]

not know the details of COVID when it spreads again? Think of all the stories like this one there will be if there was adequate testing and contact tracing: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213312156

It would show businesses or groups who open before the health authorities say it is safe are guilty of certain deaths in some cases. There would be direct relationships. And you can't blame that on China.

[Ohioboy]

2. Trump has always wanted to keep the numbers down,

not by actually protecting people, but by manipulating the number of cases. He literally didn't want to let people off a ship because the number of confirmed cases would go up.

[dawg day]

3. I don't know... I think he'd rather be incompetent.

He loves the attention, just like a pre-teen- negative attention is the best of all.

So to keep everyone tuning into him, he has to keep us in a crisis situation.

[SoonerPride]

4. It's a combination

He wants low numbers, plus he’s incompetent, plus he’s lazy, plus he doesn’t even know what contact tracing is.

[Hoyt]

5. We are way past the point where keeping numbers down will help trump.

[Squinch]

8. Yes, but he doesn't know that.

[RandySF]

6. Trump hollowed out the federal health system.

[applegrove]

7. Yes he has. The enironmental regulations too have been hollowed out.

They are certainly not afraid of more americans dying. Air pollution alone kills thousands and is bad for global climate change.