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Democrats are so bad at holding Trump accountable that he is getting away with shifting the blame to China. He knows no one& #39;s gonna challenge him on that front cz China is the common enemy. But let& #39;s see if some of the arguments from him & his supporters hold any water
One argument is that China downplayed the severity of the virus. But here& #39;s Trump saying on March 4th that he believes covid fatality rate is even lower than what was reported
Here& #39;s Trump promoting a video that blames China for massive delay in testing.But the fact is China shared the genome sequence on jan 10th, which was enough to create tests. Not only that, it was key to preparing vaccines https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1244068967959810048?s=20">https://twitter.com/DanielDum...
They didn& #39;t even have to create a test, cz WHO already had a test which S.Korea was using to test hundreds of thousands of people. CDC went on to make their own test, botched the roll out & all this time the virus continued spreading, not just in Chinatown but throughout the U.S
WHO Dr. Michael Ryan was specifically warning about this kind of delays saying "Perfection is the enemy". But no, officials were busy silencing doctors who were voluntarily trying to test people https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-delays.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1...
But you couldn& #39;t trust the WHO since they denied h2h transmission in a jan 14th tweet,right? Wrong, they didn& #39;t confirm nor deny anything since there were no clear evidence! On 21st Jan WHO officially confirmed h2h transmission,that& #39;s 60 days before Trump did anything significant
Trump himself was saying his administration was co-operating with China in their coronavirus response until shit hit the fan in the U.S and he changed his rhetoric instead of taking some responsibility https://twitter.com/USEmbassyDublin/status/1242436522487492610?s=20">https://twitter.com/USEmbassy...
Trump& #39;s China travel ban is overblown as well. He claims people opposed his decision but in reality criticisms were about his execution of the travel ban. People continued to come in from China & elsewhere without any quarantine in place or even screening at the airport!
Even in March people were coming in from hard hit Europe without any screening at the airport or mandatory quarantine at place https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/health/coronavirus-travel-ban.html?auth=login-email&login=email">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1...
China is not reporting many new cases but still this is how they are handling covid-19 at the airport https://twitter.com/lizzlaw_/status/1251072696445628417?s=20">https://twitter.com/lizzlaw_/...
