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Jan 31, 2021
U.S. Anti-Science Movement Sacrificed Tens Of Thousands Of Lives To COVID: Medical Expert
The needless toll was triggered by an active and unabashed anti-science disinformation initiative by the Trump White House, writes Dr. Peter Hotez.
An “unprecedented politicization” of science in America over the last five years has resulted in “tens of thousands” of needless deaths in the nation, an infectious disease specialist has warned.
Dangerous attacks on the health measures of masks and social distancing as an affront to “freedom” and suspicions about vaccinations has been fueled by “an active and unabashed anti-science disinformation initiative by the White House,” and “the president himself,” wrote Dr. Peter Hotez in in the journal PLOS Biology in an essay Thursday. That disinformation included “dismissing the severity of the virus and hyping treatments beyond their effectiveness,” noted Hotez.
Biden is rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization, getting more assistance to struggling families, terminating the ban on allowing Muslims from certain countries into the U.S., mandating a $15 minimum wage for federal workers and the wearing of masks on federal property during the pandemic, protecting some imperiled immigrants, freezing any spending on a wall along the Mexican border and initiating more COVID-19 protections.
Most of these are undoing executive actions taken by President Trump
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Biden also wants to cashier most all Trump appointees; in the final months, Trump duplicitously moved some political operatives into civil service protected jobs. The most notorious is Michael Ellis, an aide to the discredited former House Intelligence chair Devin Nunes
A man cheers in support of President Donald Trump and holds up a campaign sign during a pro-Trump rally in downtown Colorado Springs on Nov. 7, 2020. El Paso County Republican leaders were not planning or expecting any pro-Trump events in Colorado Springs on Inauguration Day. (Forrest Czarnecki/The Gazette)
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An effigy of Donald Trump held by anti-Trump protesters outside the Capitol Building of Pennsylvania on Jan. 17, 2021
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Donald Trump’s presidency is taking its last shallow, ragged breaths, with President-elect Joe Biden set to take office today the best efforts of Trump’s incompetent campaign legal team and the disastrously failed insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in vain. What’s a Trump supporter to do?
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