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The misrule of the world

2020-04-23T00:31:12.373Z


Trump is a disgrace. For your country and for the whole world because you cannot count on the White House or its ability to guide the way things are when it takes the lead


Failure is alarming. Few rulers are going to escape the disastrous balance of the pandemic. In lives above all, with the United States in the lead. And in the destruction of the economies. Finding an explanation will not be easy. We will have to wait for it to end, or at least it is controlled, and the bad instincts of those who take advantage of it to feed the bonfire of their interests or their ideological prejudices are damped.

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The first difficulty derives from the new and unknown character of the coronavirus. Asymptomatic infection makes prevention difficult. Patients with pneumonia, the ones with the greatest impact on hospital systems, are difficult to detect early enough, according to New York emergency physician Richard Levitan ( The New York Times of April 20), who calls them cases of "hypoxia ( silent oxygen deficiency. ” Then there are the doubts regarding both the value of the tests and the degree and duration of immunization.

The most serious thing is that all this was known. The collection of reports prepared by intelligence agencies and think tanks announcing the arrival of a pandemic like the one we are experiencing is scandalous. "The threat is growing and the world is not ready," says one of them. The simplest and most pathetic explanation for so much neglect, pointed out by one of the studies, is that investments and success in prevention are invisible and, therefore, without electoral returns.

The threat and deficits were known. All: in supplies of masks, medical equipment and respirators, in difficulties of coordination between administrations, in need of investments in public health and prevention. And above all, who knew it, and who in previous dangers to global security has had the means to keep all governments and institutions informed and the authority to gather, deliberate and lead politicians around the world. .

I knew it, but as if I didn't know it. He is concerned about other things: dividing the country, feeding his narcissism, securing reelection. No one like Donald Trump represents everyone's worst flaws and vices. Since coming to the White House, he proposes every year to cut the budget of the Center for Infection Control and Prevention, although fortunately Congress prevents it. In 2018, it eliminated the Global Health Security directorate of the National Security Council, a declining body, as is the entire diplomatic and security structure, which the president distrusts. Not even a year ago, Washington carried out authentic sanitary maneuvers to deal with a hypothetical flu originating in China, with disappointing results ignored by the federal government.

Trump is a disgrace. For his country, because he continues to hinder action against the pandemic, and for the whole world because he cannot count on the White House or its ability to guide the way things are when it takes the lead. But it is not the cause, but the effect.

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Source: elparis

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