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Lest we lose sight of why this is happening, and why the US has more deaths than any other country, we need to review how Trump, and the @GOP got us to this point. Thread: https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1276113155010289664
1/ If Trump hadn't shut down the pandemic response task force, more Americans would be alive today. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/trump-obama-coronavirus-pandemic-response
2/ If the CDC hadn't botched their initial tests, and/or used WHO tests that were being used by other countries, more Americans would be alive today. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/health/cdc-coronavirus-lab-contamination-testing.html
3/ If Trump had listened to scientists and focused on what was true, rather than engaging in magical thinking and lies, more Americans would be alive today. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/how-trump-shifted-his-tone-on-coronavirus-134246
4/ If FEMA would have coordinated the federal response and distributed materiel according to need rather than personal favors, more Americans would be alive today. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/09/why-states-and-the-federal-government-are-bidding-on-ppe.html
5/ If Trump would have used the Defense Production Act to coordinate the federal response instead of relying on some fetishized, Ayn Rand theory of economics, more Americans would be alive today. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/491755-biden-renews-defense-production-act-pressure-on-trump-it-is-a-national
6/ If Trump would have let public health experts take control of public communications during a public health crisis instead of spewing deadly misinformation, more Americans would be alive today.
7/ If the @GOP's efforts to repeal the ACA had succeeded, fewer Americans who have contracted COVID would have had insurance, and even more Americans would be dead today. https://www.newsweek.com/gop-health-care-bill-repeal-and-replace-70-failed-attempts-643832
8/ If the US House in the 116th Congress hadn't given ourselves the authority to defend the ACA after the Attorney General refused to defend the laws of the United States, the ACA would not exist and even more Americans would be dead today. https://allred.house.gov/media/press-releases/bipartisan-allred-resolution-defend-affordable-care-act-passes-us-house
9/ If Trump goes ahead with his plan to cut federal funding for COVID-19 testing, more Americans are going to die. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/25/us-coronavirus-testing-sites-federal-support-cut-officials-alarm
10/ If Trump's brief to the Supreme Court last night to throw out the ACA succeeds, more Americans are going to die. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/trump-administration-obamacare-supreme-court/index.html
11/ And the @GOP is with him. Every. Step. Of. The. Way.
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