1. Crucial to understanding Trump's bungling of coronavirus is that he's been treating it as a border control problem rather than a public health problem. Wednesday's speech, with it's talk of a "foreign virus" was part of that.
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9. A Chinese foundation is offering to send half a million test kits to USA. As with all philanthropy one might question the motives (likely damage control). Still: China is using crisis to expand its profile while USA becomes more isolationisthttps://twitter.com/nothingsmonstrd/status/1238495559658475525 …
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10. Some more thoughts on why the America First response to Coronavirus is dangerous:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republican-xenophobia-coronavirus-pandemic/ …
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Seems like the argument is for...moderately competent neoliberal elitists. They may seem interested in playing small ball but take experts seriously at times when experts should be taken seriously (like Clinton on Y2k and Mexican financial crisis, Obama on swine flu/Gulf oil)
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Why do you think that expertise isn't valued by the left? Do you have an example?
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A+ thread. I've been watching this and arguing with Trump supporting family about it all week, so their messaging has been pervasive and effective with them.
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will say Davis was very prescient on this - I loved City of Quartz, etc., but remember having no interest in his book about avian flu that was written like 12 years ago (?), thinking it was a boring issue
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