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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump blocks national testing program -- why? Because tests make us "look bad"
Amid Trump's flagrant lies, a truth comes out: He's never wanted "all this testing" because he fears the opticsDan Froomkin
May 8, 2020 11:00AM (UTC)
The single most disastrous element of the failed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic is Donald Trump's continued refusal to launch a massive federal effort to develop the capacity to test more Americans for the virus.
Without magnitudes more testing, public health experts agree, reopening the country amounts to a death sentence for countless Americans, particularly the less affluent. And only the federal government is capable of doing what's required.
On Wednesday, Trump explained himself with an extraordinarily revealing quote one that included both a lie and a confession. "In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad," Trump told reporters on Wednesday, It was a lie because the number of tests administered in the U.S. currently about 7 million is tiny compared to the actual need.
It was a confession because Trump was acknowledging what many of us have perceived all along: He sees testing as a matter of his own political health rather than an urgent question of public health.
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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/08/trump-blocks-national-testing-program--why-because-tests-make-us-look-bad/
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Trump blocks national testing program -- why? Because tests make us "look bad" (Original Post)
catbyte
May 2020
OP
I've said this before, but he is playing a part in a TV show he is writing...
A HERETIC I AM
May 2020
#3
spanone
(135,627 posts)1. Proudly killing more Americans.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)2. EVERYTHING about the Cretin has made US look bad for over 3 years. n/t
A HERETIC I AM
(24,317 posts)3. I've said this before, but he is playing a part in a TV show he is writing...
Producing, editing and starring in. Its all about how it looks to HIM
Baclava
(12,047 posts)4. War Criminal President in action, what more evidence do you need?