Thread by @vegix, Past is not prologue, but the present often rhymes w/ the past. [...]

Past is not prologue, but the present often rhymes w/ the past. Our govt is making the same missteps as were made during the Spanish Flu pandemic, thus we may be set to repeat a similar pattern (though at a much larger scale given urbanization and COVID19 being more deadly).

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As we lurch toward the initial crescendo of cases, the CDC is preparing to loosen guidelines in a move that can only be described as reckless and dangerous.

https://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt--politics/cdc-weighs-loosening-guidelines-for-some-exposed-virus/URRsgna0AWrGXTr1Z1B4VL/

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Feds loosen virus rules to let essential workers return

In a first, small step toward reopening the country, the Trump administration issued new guidelines...

https://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt--politics/cdc-weighs-loosening-guidelines-for-some-exposed-virus/URRsgna0AWrGXTr1Z1B4VL/

Meanwhile, FEMA is seizing life saving medical supplies from hospitals, including masks, thermometers and other critical medical equipment from hospitals, thus exacerbating suffering and death from #COVID19 unnecessarily.

This reeks of malice.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/8/headlines/hospitals_say_fema_is_seizing_medical_supplies_for_unknown_reasons

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Hospitals Say FEMA Is Seizing Medical Supplies for Unknown Reasons

The Los Angeles Times reports the Trump administration is quietly seizing hospitals’ orders of masks, thermometers and other medical equipment crucial to treating COVID-19 patients. The Federal...

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/8/headlines/hospitals_say_fema_is_seizing_medical_supplies_for_unknown_reasons

When it comes to fatalities, Hispanic people in NYC made up 34% of the deaths and black people made up 28% of #coronavirus deaths.

In NY state the picture is much worse: black people make up 18% of deaths while comprising 9% of the population."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/black-hispanic-new-yorkers-are-dying-at-high-rates-of-covid-19

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Black, Hispanic New Yorkers Are Dying at High Rates of Covid-19

The U.S. epicenter of the coronavirus released racial statistics for the first time on Wednesday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/black-hispanic-new-yorkers-are-dying-at-high-rates-of-covid-19

And yet our ruthless regime has known about the high probability of a cataclysmic #COVID19 pandemic crisis since ... November of 2019.

Plenty of time to prepare.

What did they do instead?

Nothing of value.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/491712-us-intelligence-warned-in-november-that-virus-spreading

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US intelligence warned in November that coronavirus spreading in

U.S.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/intelligence/491712-us-intelligence-warned-in-november-that-virus-spreading

And in the Spring of 2018 the White House, under Trump& #39;s guidance, dissolved the pandemic response capabilities of the United States government.

Why?

To save a few bucks as they ran the largest deficit in history as a result of their tax scam.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/

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Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response

As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/

In case that wasn& #39;t destructive enough, Trump now wants to remove US funding for the WHO, an organization who has done more to battle #COVID19 than any world government.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/now-is-not-the-time-to-cut-who-funds-says-official-after-trump-threat/ar-BB12lD0I?li=BBr5KbJ

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Now is not the time to cut WHO funds, says official after Trump threat

Senior officials at the World Health Organization have pushed back at calls by Donald Trump to withhold funding from the organisation, and by Trump’s supporters for the resignation of its head, Dr...

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/coronavirus/now-is-not-the-time-to-cut-who-funds-says-official-after-trump-threat/ar-BB12lD0I?li=BBr5KbJ

Meanwhile he promotes the usage of hydroxychloroquine, a drug that& #39;s entirely unsafe to use as it promotes cardiac risks-which #COVID19 already raises.

Reports indicate that Trump and members of his administration have investments in the producer.

https://www.newsweek.com/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-france-heart-cardiac-1496810

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French hospital stops hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 patient over major cardiac risk

The head of cardiology said they are now monitoring the ECG recordings of patients in the trial.

https://www.newsweek.com/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-france-heart-cardiac-1496810

It& #39;s not farfetched to believe that there was and continues to be malice behind this #COVID19 pandemic growing wildly out of control in the United States.

Given all of the above, this administration has shown a reckless and criminal disregard for human life.

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