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.

President Trump’s CDC Deep Budget Cuts: Misguided and Dangerous?

Given the recent divulged intel on the so-called Islamic State may be working on biological weapons, is President Trump’s CDC deep budget cuts a misguided and dangerous move?

By: Ringo Bones 

During his fundraising speech for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation during the past few years, Bill Gates had warned us of the potential of natural epidemics and bioterrorism might kill more than 10-million people. Last month, U.S. President Donald J. Trump released his grandiosely titled “A New Foundation For American Greatness” – which for all intents and purposes is nothing more than the Trump Administration’s budget of the U.S. Government for the fiscal year 2018. Scarier still to those concerned with emerging epidemics – both natural and man-made – President trump made a boneheaded move to cut 1.3 billion US dollars, about 17-percent, of the annual budget of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention which for all intents and purposes could serve the last line of defense for America if a global pandemic, whether natural or bioterrorism related, threatens the United States. 

Although there’s no word yet on how much the Trump Administration has slashed the budget for the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases or USAMRIID, it seems that President Trump and his henchmen has been suffering an amnesia when it comes to emerging epidemics with the potential to seriously threaten not only the health and well being of the United States but also the country’s national security as well. Before it was neutralized by doctors of the WHO and MSF, the ebola outbreak managed to kill more than 11,000 people back in 2014 and after threatening the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, zika still has the potential to spread into the United States. And with “hints” that some members of the so-called Islamic State operating in Iraq have been found with documents pertaining to Saddam Hussein’s biological weapons program plans, the Trump Administration’s misguided to “Make America Great Again” could potentially kill every American in a viral whimper during the next few years due to its misguided budget cuts.