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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4571476" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>from the article:</p><p>"The United States has correctly castigated China for its duplicity and the WHO for its laxity—but the U.S. has also failed the international community. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has withdrawn from several international partnerships and antagonized its allies. It has a seat on the WHO’s executive board, but left that position empty for more than two years, only filling it this May, when the pandemic was in full swing. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5" target="_blank">Since 2017, Trump has pulled more than 30 staffers</a> out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s office in China, who could have warned about the spreading coronavirus. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S" target="_blank">Last July, he defunded an American epidemiologist embedded within China’s CDC</a>. America First was America oblivious." </p><p></p><p>ouch</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4571476, member: 54375"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/[/URL] from the article: "The United States has correctly castigated China for its duplicity and the WHO for its laxity—but the U.S. has also failed the international community. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. has withdrawn from several international partnerships and antagonized its allies. It has a seat on the WHO’s executive board, but left that position empty for more than two years, only filling it this May, when the pandemic was in full swing. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5']Since 2017, Trump has pulled more than 30 staffers[/URL] out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s office in China, who could have warned about the spreading coronavirus. [URL='https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S']Last July, he defunded an American epidemiologist embedded within China’s CDC[/URL]. America First was America oblivious." ouch [/QUOTE]
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