Sorry, Trump: You bear sole responsibility for your disastrous response to the coronavirus
Donald Trump wants to point the finger at anyone but himself for his epic failures in coordinating a national response to the coronavirus. In his primetime address to the nation Wednesday, Trump branded it a "foreign virus," claiming "the EU failed" as he announced new travel restrictions between Europe and the U.S. Those restrictions built on Trump's order in late January barring all non-U.S. citizens who had visited China from entering the country. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also repeatedly called the virus "the Wuhan coronavirus," after the Chinese city where the virus first emerged.
But it's not just the fault of foreigners, according to Trump. Three years into his tenure as president, Trump's trying to sell Americans on the laughable notion that it's Barack Obama's handiwork that really set Trump's administration up for failure. Engaging in a bit of revisionist history, Trump skewered Obama's management of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), called his handling of the H1N1 flu "a full scale disaster" in terms of testing and fatalities, and declared "All Red Tape has been cut, ready to go!"
Let's be clear: Trump and his inept administration will be studied by generations of public health professionals to come, to learn precisely what not to do in the instance of a global pandemic.
Travel bans are useless when the virus has already migrated into your population. Also, the system is not "ready to go!" In fact, extreme holdups persist as hospitals and doctors beg for more tests and infectious disease experts are crystal clear that systemic failures continue.
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