Trump has
appointed his VEEP Mike Pence as the Coronavirus Czar.
In
October 2014, Trump tweeted against President Barack Obama’s choice for a
similar position:
“Obama just appointed an Ebola Czar with
zero experience in the medical area and zero experience in infectious disease
control. A TOTAL JOKE!”
In
2018, Trump fired just about every government official who specialized in
dealing with pandemic outbreaks, especially anyone who was involved in keeping
the Ebola virus from the US.
Now we have Mike Pence as the leader of efforts to block an outbreak in the US:
Now we have Mike Pence as the leader of efforts to block an outbreak in the US:
“Pence once called
global warming a “myth,” downplayed the health risks of smoking,
and as governor of Indiana, led his state into an HIV crisis by cutting
funding to Planned Parenthood and initially opposing needle exchange programs.
The vice president also has no medical experience.”
Ed Mazza
Another
example of Mike Pence’s medical and scientific expertise, this time from 2000:
“Despite the hysteria from the political class and
the media, smoking doesn’t kill. In fact, 2 out of every three smokers does not
die from a smoking related illness and 9 out of ten smokers do not contract
lung cancer.”
And Donald Trump
says it’s all OK and getting better:
"I
don't think it is inevitable. I think we are doing a really good job. There is
a chance it could get worse. There is a chance if could get fairly,
substantially worse. Nothing is inevitable… The Coronavirus is very
much under control in the USA... The vaccine is coming along well."
But….
"In order to get a [coronavirus] vaccine that's practically
deployable for people to use, it's going to be at least a year to a year and a
half at best"
Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases and top US expert on epidemics