Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe world came together for a virtual vaccine summit. The U.S. was conspicuously absent.
May 4, 2020 at 1:53 p.m. CDT
LONDON World leaders came together in a virtual summit Monday to pledge billions of dollars to quickly develop vaccines and drugs to fight the coronavirus.
Missing from the roster was the Trump administration, which declined to participate but highlighted from Washington what one official called its whole-of-America efforts in the United States and its generosity to global health efforts.
The online conference, led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a half-dozen countries, was set to raise $8.2 billion from governments, philanthropies and the private sector to fund research and mass-produce drugs, vaccines and testing kits to combat the virus, which has killed more than 250,000 people worldwide.
With the money came soaring rhetoric about international solidarity and a good bit of boasting about each countrys efforts and achievements, live and prerecorded, by Germanys Angela Merkel, Frances Emmanuel Macron, Britains Boris Johnson, Japans Shinzo Abe alongside Israels Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkeys Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Missing from the roster was the Trump administration, which declined to participate but highlighted from Washington what one official called its whole-of-America efforts in the United States and its generosity to global health efforts.
The online conference, led by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and a half-dozen countries, was set to raise $8.2 billion from governments, philanthropies and the private sector to fund research and mass-produce drugs, vaccines and testing kits to combat the virus, which has killed more than 250,000 people worldwide.
With the money came soaring rhetoric about international solidarity and a good bit of boasting about each countrys efforts and achievements, live and prerecorded, by Germanys Angela Merkel, Frances Emmanuel Macron, Britains Boris Johnson, Japans Shinzo Abe alongside Israels Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkeys Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
--PayWall--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-world-comes-together-for-a-virtual-vaccine-summit-the-us-is-conspicuously-absent/2020/05/04/ac5b6754-8a5c-11ea-80df-d24b35a568ae_story.html
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
6 replies, 529 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (7)
ReplyReply to this post
6 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
The world came together for a virtual vaccine summit. The U.S. was conspicuously absent. (Original Post)
spanone
May 2020
OP
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Why would the U.S. participate?
There was going to be lots of boring reports and people talking for minutes on end about things that weren't Donald Trump, his unparalleled greatness, and how unfair everything is to him, with smoochy promises by the rest of the world to make it all up to him.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)2. What happened to "We are the greatest country ever"?
We ARE the greatest at fucking this pandemic up. We are no longest the most fantastic, wonderful, blah, blah, blah. We suck and the world sees us for who we (didn't) vote for as our Dear Leader. The US will not get its reputation back in the eyes of the world for a long, long time and defiantly not in my lifetime.
spanone
(135,832 posts)3. We have told the world to fuck off from Paris to Iran...etc. We will reap what we sow.
Maybe for generations after trump expires.
So sad.
GOTV AMERICA
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)4. It does say "world leaders" were in the summit. Guess the
US doesn't have one of those.
spanone
(135,832 posts)5. You have made a very succinct point.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)6. Deadbeat Donnie
MAGA!!!!!!