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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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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China bungled confrontation with Coronavirus in a big way that vastly increased its world-wide communication. China's philanthropy always comes with strings, not to mention at the hands of inherently anti-democratic and corrupt state-power ghouls
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This feels like a sick burn. What countries normally receive aid during medical crises? Countries that don't have top-tier health care systems. Guess the US is in that category now.
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I think you're thinking too hard about this. If we're still all alive 10 years from now and talking about the current crisis, this attempt at influence by China probably won't even make it as a footnote. But the fact that the virus originated in China certainly will.
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If indeed it's not pure philanthropy it certainly is a brilliant chess move to say the least.
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It is called playing the long game.
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