In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a day-long conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic, with sessions like “Innovations for pandemic countermeasures.”

“Are we ready to respond to a pandemic?” asked one of the doctors at the conference. “I fear the answer is no.” In one of many details that would seem over the top if this was all fictional, that doctor, Luciana Borio, was part of the National Security Council global health section that Donald Trump dismantled soon after the conference, making the U.S. even less ready to respond to a pandemic.

Trump also fired an entire branch of the CDC whose function was to study and lessen the effects of or prevent pandemics in 2019.

Why has he removed hundreds if not thousands of people from functioning, necessary positions in government agencies? The answer is always the same. They are efforts to cover the loss of revenue resulting from his misnamed “tax reform,” which in fact was nothing more than additional tax cuts for the super-rich and reducing the corporate tax rate to a ridiculously low level which added 1.2 trillion dollars to the national debt in 2019.

One of the pandemic conference’s organizers, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, subsequently did a webinar entitled “100 years since 1918: Are we ready for the next pandemic?” That webinar was cohosted by Dr. Nancy Messonnier, who was sidelined by Trump after making public remarks saying that, yes, the novel coronavirus was going to be a serious problem for the U.S. Trump continues to prove that he is totally unqualified to be the President of the United States.

I want to say here that I am virtually repeating an article written for the ‘Daily Kos’ by Laura Clawson. I believe it is important for all American to know how great a danger Trump and his unfit administration are to the future of America. There is not a single qualified man or woman working in the West Wing today.

You can read the entire article on the attached source.

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Op-ed by James Turnage

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