OMOLIVES, No honestly objective reader would take zab's as meaning Trump nonchalant negligence and gross incompetence relating to covid caused every single one of America's covid deaths. Obviously whoever was in charge some would have died from it. However just as obviously Trump's nonchalant negligence and gross incompetence relating to covid caused many of Americans to die unnecessarily.
"? ummmm. Not sure where that nonsense started...."
It's all well documented. For some of that:
spartex, Your recall is extra-selective. How about Trump's playing the danger down, and his disinfectant solution. How about the fact the first vaccine out was not a result of Warp Speed. And the fact Trump had very little to do with Warp Speed except giving the go-ahead.
How about all the Trump negligence outlined in the insert below:
Climate change is deadly. Exactly how deadly?
"Special Series - The Undercount: The invisible death toll from climate change"
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Start drift -------------------- [Insert: Remember Trump cuts to major agencies caring for the health of American citizens. One unarguable point arising from the information around that is that Trump has never cared for the care or welfare of one American more than he has cared for his own political interests. See again:
Trump's cult is a death cult. At least, on the best evidence available, it is accurate, fair and just to say Trump's cult, energized by Fox News, was a death cult. And it has cost both American families and the GOP big time. Excerpt: The states with the highest COVID death rates in 2021: 1. Oklahoma 2. Alabama 3. W. Virginia 4. Arizona 5. Kentucky 6. Mississippi 7. Wyoming 8. Florida 9. Georgia 10. S. Carolina Source: Johns Hopkins; U.S. Census; CDC Trump carried 8 out of 10 of these states. None of them are blue states. [...] "In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced...." March, 2023 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171446036] -------------------- end drift