April 15. Trump Indicts WHO for His Own Failings
Trump cut off funds for the WHO, and implied that the director was pro China for trusting China for six days while the Coronavirus grew. Trump blamed him on increasing the death toll by twenty fold. But wait, WHO did not have the resources of the CIA, who knew what was going on in China. WHO did not have Peter Navarro’s January report, distributed in the White House, warning of the severity of the pandemic.
Trump was in denial during February, with the famous clip after talking to Xi Jinping, and claiming that the virus would disappear in April. He also told us that the 15 US cases would soon decline to zero. Delaying an entire month should deserve 5 times the punishment of the head of the WHO. Trump should therefore resign, not even pausing for another fake impeachment trial.
Trump claims that 24% of the US counties have no cases. Yes, there are a lot of rural counties, but many no longer have rural clinics, because of Republican lack of Medicaid and rural hospital support. So people from rural counties go to city hospitals in city counties for severe attacks like the Coronavirus, and that is where they are recorded. Granted, I don’t have any data to back this up, but it makes sense. Emancipating these rural counties will have no effect, since they must travel to big cities for supplies and services on a regular basis.
Then, there are half of the states with less than 2,500 cases. That is an enormous number for a virus that grows exponentially, especially if most of the cases are in the key one or two cities in the state. Some of these may be in the 9 states which do not fully shelter in place, which I covered in a previous article. Dr. Birx said that 9 states had less than 1,000 cases. While they won’t have the massive cases of our largest cities, several of them peak late near May 1st, and could start a second wave if unconfined. If Trump doesn’t recognize the growth, he is making the same mistake that got us to where we are today.
The meat plant is South Dakota with now 500 cases, is a case of disbelief in the state. They should have done whatever they could to separate, like double or triple shifts, masks, temperature checks, lots of testing, and contact tracing. Trump’s Liberation Day of May 1 or earlier will not work in areas that do not take the Coronavirus seriously, both by workers, management, ownership, and government inspectors.
The demonstrations at the state capitol of Michigan’s lockdown, is undoubtedly inspired by Trump’s constant insulting their woman Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. It is sad that we have a President with that behavior.
The weird thing, is that just like states don’t need Trump to allow them to set their own policy, half of these states are already emancipated from lockdowns which they never had in the first place.
The odd thing about me writing this article about the 3,143 counties and equivalent in the United States, is that I actually knew the man who had driven through every one of them.
