04-03-2020, 10:25 PM
(04-03-2020, 08:14 PM)6andcounting Wrote: You keep bringing up the Trump administration as if I'm disagreeing with you on any of that. And my meme had nothing to do with Trump anyways. And Dr. Tedros wasn't blaming Trump; he was blaming the whole world for reaction to slow. Except himself of course - no blame there.
This is also the 2nd or 3rd time you said Trump called the virus a hoax. That's not what he said. He was referring to the politicizing, criticizing and blaming coming from the Democrats. Politifact and Washington Post (not exact pro Trump sources) debunked this weeks ago when Biden tried running an edited clip in a campaign ad.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/15/joe-biden/ad-watch-biden-video-twists-trumps-words-coronavir/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/13/biden-ad-manipulates-video-slam-trump/
The WHO issued recommendations for preparation 10 days after the reports of a cluster of pneumonia of unknown etiology and declared a public health emergency of international concern less than a month after that first report based upon 98 cases outside of China. So when do you think the WHO should have declared a public health emergency of international concern based upon even fewer cases outside of China?
As you can clearly read, I wrote Trump called it a “Democrat hoax” and not a “hoax.” Meaning this is just another BS reason for the Democrats to attack him. But, clearly this isn’t a BS reason to attack him. And intentionally misleading the American public about the potential risks of a pandemic as to mitigate the threat to his re-election campaign rather than mitigate the health risks to the American public is politicizing this issue. Trump and his proxies have politicized this for him every step of the way.
Hell, just a couple of weeks ago fellow members here were parroting Trump’s propaganda in this thread.