In early March, the
WHO said that 3.4 percent of coronavirus patients had died from the disease.
Trump said this number was false, as the mortality rate was actually much less
because their number didn’t take into account unreported cases. Trump
challenged WHO’s number. He was
right.
It has been said that Trump ignored early intel briefings on possible
pandemic. The Washington
Post reported that intelligence agencies warned about a possible
pandemic back in January and February and that Trump “failed to take action
that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen.” Again, it was fake
news. The Trump
administration had begun aggressively addressing the coronavirus threat
immediately after China reported the discovery of the coronavirus to the World
Health Organization. In addition to implementing various precautionary travel
restrictions, the administration fast-tracked the use of testing kits, set up a
Coronavirus Task Force, and implemented a travel ban with China, several weeks
before WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic. What about the President’s political
opponents? Joe
Biden accused Trump of “fearmongering” and “xenophobia” for his travel ban….
Speaking of rump’s
political opponents, in February Biden
and still candidate Mike Bloomberg accused the President of cutting funding to
critical health agencies during a primary debate. The
proposed budget cuts never happened, and funding increased.
I have been listening
to Morning Joe repeat ad nauseam that Trump didn’t act quickly
enough and is botching the government response to the pandemic. Sadly for Joe
and Mika, WHO
experts admitted Trump’s actions saved lives in the United States. So
did Dr. Ronny Jackson, who served as White
House physician from 2013 to 2018.
In a tweet, Mara Gay
of the New York Times claimed that during a conference call with governors
about the pandemic, Trump told them
they were “on their own” in getting the equipment they need. Again,
disinformation. Gay misrepresented the President’s
words. Trump actually
told governors, “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try
getting it yourselves. We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves.
Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”
Did the President called the coronavirus “a hoax?” To this day the left (and the media) claim that
he did. While the nation was distracted by impeachment, the Trump
administration was busy addressing the coronavirus outbreak. With the
demolition of their impeachment initiative, it seems the Presidents’ opponents decided
to politicize his response to the coronavirus outbreak. Joe Biden called
Trump’s travel ban with China an overreaction, and accused him of trying to
scare the public. “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and
xenophobia ± hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering
to lead the way instead of science.” As is his wont, Trump responded to these allegations at a
rally in South Carolina, calling the Democrats’ politicization of the
coronavirus "the new hoax." The media jumped on this line, claiming
that Trump called the virus, not the Democrats' reactions to it, a hoax. There
was quite a brouhaha when the story repeating the false claim that Trump called
the virus a hoax was “fake
news.”
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