Democrats and the sympathetic media continue to pound 73-year-old President Donald Trump for a slow response to the coronaviurs AKA CoV-2 or Covid-19 global pandemic. Trump banned flights to China Jan. 31, only a week after Deputy Chinese Foreign Minister Le Lucheng said April 29 that China locked down Wuhan Jan. 23, six weeks before the U.N.’s World Health Organization [WHO] delared a global pandemic March 11. Democrat and their fans in the press want to play politics with the coronavirus crisis, six months before the Nov. 3 presidential election. WHO’s Ethiopian Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyseus said Jan. 14 that whatever infectious disease situation they had in Wuhan, China, it did not involve “human-to-human” transmission. Tedros minimized, as a special favor to Chinese President Xi Jinping, the nature of the epidemic, piling up corpses at Wuhan’s 14 crematoriums.
Wuhan authorities announced Jan. 28 they would give free cremations to Wuhan residents, banning burials Feb. 2. How Trump’s detractors think there’s anymore the president could have done is anyone’s guess. Sounds a lot like politics, knowing the timeline of events. Trump said he shut down flights from China Jan. 31, two weeks after Tedros said there was no “human-to-human transmission” in Wuhan, when, in fact, Chinese authorities has dispatched China’s leading virus experts, People Liberation Army [PLA] May. Gen. Chen Wei Jan. 28, five days after Lucheng confirmed China locked down Wuhan. Trump said even 80-year-old Chief of Infectious Disease expert at the National Institute’s of Health Dr. Anthony Fauci told Trump early on in late January that he didn’t see a major SARS CoV-2 outbreak in the U.S. Yet Democrats and the media continue to blame Trump.
With disinformation coming from China and the U.S. media, Trump finds himself squeezed in an information war with Democrats and the U.S. press. Asked at a Fox News Town Hall May 3 at the Lincoln Memorial by a video-caller about his abrasive tone with the press his daily coronavirus briefings, Trump asked the caller to look at his treatment by the media. Trump said not since Abraham Lincoln, has the press been so brutal toward any president. Trump acknowledged that when the SARS CoV-2 threat was bandied around in January, he was in the middle of an impeachment trial. Few in Washington were thinking about an impending infectious disease crisis. Democrats like to cite a speech Fauci gave in 2017 at Georetown University warning of a future global pandemic. “There is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infections disease,” Fauci said.
Whether a scientist or researcher or talks about future infectious disease outbreaks, earthquakes or droughts, that doesn’t mean a president at the time was negligent because he didn’t lock down the country, order more ventilators or vaccines to prepare. Yet Democrats and their friends in the press want to pin the 1,208,036 cases and 69,384 U.S. deaths on Trump. If there’s anyone to blame, the press should be looking at China and WHO, who failed to tell member-states to lock down before March 11, two months after China sent million of infected tourists to vacation in the United State and Europe. Obviously, you need to take seriously and do the kind of things the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and Department of Homeland Security is doing,” Fauci told Newsmax January 26. Democrats and the press have been accusing the White House of a slow response.
Trump wanted the public to hear from Fauci himself, not the fake news media blaming Trump for everything possible. “But this is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about,” Fauci told Newmax. Democrats and press won’t quote Fauci directly, and only recently was asked by a House committee to testify about the U.S. response to the coronavirus crisis. Fauci said Jan. 26 the virus was “a very low risk to the Unties States,” showing how even career infectious disease experts get things wrong. Without warnings from CDC, WHO or his NIH’s Fauci back in January, it’s remarkable that Trump acted so quickly to shut down flights from China. With China and WHO covering up the runaway infectious disease crisis in Wuhan, Trump response was actually very proactive, yet got flak from Tedros Feb. 3.
China and the WHO bear much of the blame for the delayed response to the silently incubating coronaviurs pandemic. China and WHO know that millions of infected Chinese citizens traveled to the U.S. and Europe over the 2019 holidays and into January with Chinese New Year. Called “China-centric” by Trump April 7, turns out it’s a lot more insidious than getting preferential treatment. Tedros owed his job of Director-General to Xi, agreeing to hold Wuhan’s spiraling epidemic secret until it was too late. Tedros, like China, has done everything possible to deny responsibility to for failing to properly notify the world about a developing pandemic in Wuhan. By the time Tedros declared the global pandemic March 11, the world was massively infected with SARS CoV-2, leaving all countries scrambling to contain the virus. Blaming Trump for a “delayed” response is pure politics.
