Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

The GOP's cult leader, Trump, doesn't have a clue about the coronavirus.



I keep saying this: The president is absolutely a clear and present danger to all Americans. Can you believe that this idiot wants to unleash an untried and untested vaccine on the public, before the election, for strictly political purposes. 

America, if you ever thought that Trump really gave a damn about you, now you have your answer.



Trump’s ignorance was on public display during coronavirus meeting with pharmaceutical execs


The World Health Organization (WHO) has already said it will take up to 18 months to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus — a time frame much shorter than the usual two- to five-year window. 

There are straightforward reasons it’s impossible to roll out new vaccines for public consumption overnight: They need to be developed, tested for effectiveness and safety during trials, approved by regulators, manufactured, and then distributed. Each of those steps takes time. At one point during the meeting, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tried to explain to the president that it would be at least a year and probably closer to 18 months before a coronavirus vaccine could be available to the public. 

But Trump didn’t want to hear it, and kept pressing the executives to come up with something before November’s election. “I mean, I like the sound of a couple months better, if I must be honest,” Trump said, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the “couple months” time frame execs mentioned merely referred to a vaccine being ready for trials.


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1 comment:

Les Carpenter said...

Trump's abject ignorance is unnerving to say the very least. But his stooges, cultists, and loyal sheeple will never understand the clear and present danger he represents.