Does President Trump Still Harboring A Cavalier Attitude About The Novel Coronavirus?

Given that the WHO just declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on the novel coronavirus, does President Trump still harboring a “cavalier attitude” towards the coronavirus emergency?

By: Ringo Bones

Given that his so-called inner circle often advises anyone who approaches to within talking range of President Trump – like foreign dignitaries and reporters from major news outlets – that he is a “germophobe”, Trump really has a track record of harboring a cavalier attitude towards pathogens of public health concern. I mean since 2018, on average, the Trump Administration had been slashing the annual budgets of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services by almost 15-percent on an annual basis since 2018.

President Trump enacted an executive decision to slash the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention back in 2018 focused on eliminating the funding of Obama era disease security programs and also of the Health and Human Services. Back in 2018, the White House eliminated a position on the National Security Council tasked with coordinating a global pandemic response. During a federal government budget proposal meeting for the 2020 US Government Budget held back in 2019, the Trump Administration sought to cut the CDC’s annual budget for the fiscal year 2020 by as much as 16-percent.

President Trump’s rather cavalier attitude about the novel coronavirus even raised a furor of criticism by the American public that raises an impression that President Trump is more concerned about the health of Dow Jones than the health of Joe Public. Given the March 9, 2020 declaration of the World Health Organization that the spread of the novel coronavirus across China and to a growing list of international locations constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern will prompt the Trump Administration to be concerned with the American public’s health – as opposed to the financial health of Wall Street.