Anti-science, Anti-life and My Vote
Time magazine
reported that in May 2018, a year and a half before the coronavirus began in
Wuhan, China, President Trump authorized his national security adviser, John
Bolton, to eliminate the National Security Council’s (NSC) global health
security unit and demote its pandemic experts.
This unit or council was focused on pandemic preparedness. Bolton claims that he simply reorganized the
NSC and it did not impair country’s bio defenses. Bolton is a Trumpster, so I will leave it
there except to say that after this pandemic is over, the Congress should hold
hearings and get to the truth because, Dr. Anthony Faucci told the present
Congress that, “It would be nice if the office were still there.” Let me put
words in his mouth, “If it was still there, we would be better prepared”.
The Center for
Strategic & International studies [CSIS] a respected think tank in the US, sponsored
a two-year commission, which just a month before coronavirus was reported in
China, rang the “now hear this warning”, and recommended the White House
restore health security leadership at the NSC.
In short, the seven recommendations were a response to the conclusion
that we are not prepared for a global pandemic.
Despite the fact that this distinguished CSIS Commission on
Strengthening America’s Health Security included six members of Congress,
health experts, and US government and military officials it was ignored by the
Trump administration. The CSIS
Commission included Kelly Ayotte, former Senator (R-NH) who had chaired the
Armed Services subcommittee on Readiness, Julie Gerberding, MD.,MPH and former
president of Merck Vaccines, Congressman Ami Bera (D-CA), who before being elected to Congress practiced
medicine, served as Chief Medical
Officer for Sacramento County, and taught medicine at the University of California,
Davis. Also, Ambassador Mark Dybul,
faculty director of the Center for Global Health and Quality at Georgetown University
Medical Center, and Admiral Jonathan Greenert, former US Navy and Chair of the
National Security Studies at the National Bureau of Asian Research; plus
Christine Wormuth, director of the International
Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND Corporation, to name just a few. [see healthsecuritiy.csis.org/members/]
for complete list of outstanding experts.
Worst of all,
President Trump continues to mislead the public by discrediting the
scientists. Epidemiologists stress that social
distancing is critical in saving lives by slowing the transmission of the
virus, and that such measures must be in place for weeks to show results. Trump tweets that, “We cannot let the cure be
worse than the disease”. Perhaps he doesn’t even believe that white lives
matter. Meanwhile, outbreak information from
New York City shows accelerating increase in cases and hospital beds being hastily
dispersed at the Javits Convention Center and naval hospital ships rushing to
both coasts to add a thousand beds each.
My conclusion: I
am voting for Joe Biden. He was a Boy
Scout and knows what being prepared is all about.
March 25, 2020
