It’s time responsible medical professionals demand the resignation of the Trump administration. Trump has demonstrated unequivocally that he is the greatest threat to public health in our nations history.
Here are the FACTS: We are in the midst of a deadly global pandemic. The Covid-19 virus is extraordinarily contagious. There is no immunity in the human population. It is also highly lethal. There is no prophylaxis, vaccine, cure or means to test en masse. The USA leads the world in cases and deaths by a very very large margin due exclusively to the malfeasance, nonfeasance and misfeasance of Donald Trump and the bankruptcy of the Republican ideology of ignorance, superstition and science denial.
The following is the indictment:
Barack Obama assembled a large infrastructure to prepare our nation for inevitable future pandemics. In an act of vile racist spite Trump dismantled this infrastructure in 2018, leaving the nation entirely unprepared when Covid-19 struck.
Trump repeatedly ignored for months the five alarm warnings from medical, intelligence and military experts warning of the imminence of the pandemic. Instead he golfed and held mass rallies, dismissing the warnings as a Democratic hoax designed to discredit him.
Once the virus hit the nation Trump dismissed it’s lethality claiming ignorantly that everything was under control, claiming that the virus cases will drop to zero with warm April weather. Trump dismissed the need for social distancing despite the fact that every medical association on earth made it clear that this was the only way to protect THE HUMAN RACE.
When frontline healthcare providers started dying in our nation from the administration’s lack of preparation he blamed the nurses risking their lives and their families lives for the lack of protective equipment. He outrageously claimed nurses were stealing them.
Trump defunded the World Healthcare Organization, the global body responsible for dealing with global pandemics in a pathetic attempt to deflect attention from his utter incompetence. More egregiously he refuses to participate in the global medical consortium researching the vaccine.
Trump defied every medical expert and stupidly and illegally (prescribing without a license) encouraged American citizens to take Hydrochloroquine. Trump not only had a financial stake in the drug but had a plan to flood the New York and New Jersey markets with the drug enriching himself at the expense of public health.
Trump encouraged armed terrorists to defy public health measures and “liberate” states by deliberately and spitefully spreading the virus, risking their own lives, the lives of their children and families, frontline healthcare workers and every American citizen.
Most outrageously Trump as the leader of our nation in a public briefing on the pandemic suggested that medical researchers should focus their attention on investigating the efficacy of intravenous injection of disinfectants to “clean the lungs”. He also proposed exploring the use of UV light from the inside of the human body. He stated he felt it was a good idea.
Donald Trump is the greatest threat to public health in history. The medical professionals responsible for dealing with the results of his extraordinary incompetence now have an even more important responsibility. They must loudly denounce Trump and demand his immediate resignation for the sake of the nation and the human race. And let me be the first.
Patrick Adams RN
Serving southeast Michigan since 1985