Godstud wrote:Mike Pense is about the worst person for the job, @Patrickov
Mike Pence, who enabled an HIV outbreak in Indiana, will lead US coronavirus response
Pence has a track record of ignoring public health evidence
Pence is not a public health expert, either. Instead, as governor of Indiana, he slashed public health spending and delayed the introduction of needle exchanges, which led to the state’s worst outbreak of HIV. He takes over from Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar who has been heading the White House coronavirus task force since the beginning of January.
Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves, who conducted the research linking the Indiana HIV outbreak to Pence’s policies, tweeted that the decision “speaks to a lack of seriousness by the White House.”
Pence also has a history of downplaying the link between smoking and lung cancer, writing in a 2000 op-ed that “despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.”
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/26/2115 ... sponse-hiv
It has nothing to do with being "anti-Trump" . That's simply a cop-out and excuse that some people make in their defense of the Cartoon President. The facts speak for themselves, and it has nothing to do with liking or hating the orange dipshit who sits in the Oval Office.
Okay, for fuck's sake, I do not bother to find information to refute this so I retract my last comment, although I personally think it is a stretch.
Still, we here in Hong Kong experience something 100 times worse than what Americans experience under Trump, and we resorted to do it ourselves, and found that: Not only us, even elsewhere in the world, depending on the government simply does not work. (EDIT: The only government
apparently doing it with some degree of success is DPRK, but the people there have no choice whatsoever)
So trying to point the finger at Trump simply bears little significance. Self-preservation is probably the best way of prevention.
EDIT: Self-preservation actually kills two birds in one stone, as it also effectively undermines any government we oppose.