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Prosper

(761 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 03:26 PM Mar 2020

Trump sets up the pandemic and now tries to take credit for mitigating it.

There have been long-standing warnings of the likelihood - almost to a certainty - of a pandemic, as well as movies about them. In 2014, in response to the Ebola epidemic, Obama created a new office and committed funds to develop federal and international responses. Along came Trump and the Republicans, the office was closed and the funds taken back.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/market-crash-virus-blame-delusional-economics-200317140514760.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/trump-cuts-programs-responsible-for-fighting-coronavirus-2020-2%3famp

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Trump sets up the pandemic and now tries to take credit for mitigating it. (Original Post) Prosper Mar 2020 OP
The arsonist who sets fire to a house and takes credit for putting it out. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
1M were tested within first mont of 1st H1N1 case in the US AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #2
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