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Comment on USA | CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The dumbest thing about this is that Trump was jn office when we needed these organizations the most. Oversaw a global health crisis while in office, and then basically ignored it and focused on getting re-elected.

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MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
What is odd about it? He has done similar.

www.snopes.com/…/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

I remember hearing it on the news at the time.

I am not finding it, but the USA hada vaccine mass production facility on standby for years that Trump scuttled.

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- NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I didn’t say it was odd, I said it was dumb. He has a shining example from his first time in office of why we need this stuff, and he is ignoring it. He is a grade A moron if he thinks these things are unnecessary.
  
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  - OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    They are not only "unnecessary", but counterproductive...
    
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    to the purpose of corporations making short term profits. "Workers" can be replaced, but won't someone please think of the impact that telling people to stop paying for flights and food and such will have on ThE eCoNoMy!?!?
    
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