(08-22-2020, 09:22 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has written an article, Trump, without evidence, accuses FDA of delaying coronavirus vaccine trials and pressures agency chief.
Basically, Trump has promised that COVUS will go away in the near future, has been warned that there is no basis for the promise. He wants to blame someone else for his making it. The pros want to require enough trials to make the vaccine safe and effective before releasing it to the masses. Trump needs a miracle before November 3rd to maintain power, and the medical experts are declining to promise one.
This is the sort of thing that I would expect of a Stalin, accusing people not acting fast enough in accordance with his desires or tampering in his meddling of being 'wreckers'. Mercifully the President can't take revenge as Stalin could...
If Trump had been an effective, humane, and sane leader he would have compelled a nationwide shutdown and compulsory use of masks. He would have treated the SARS-2 virus as a national enemy on the same level as at least Osama bin Laden. Now it approaches Hitler and Tojo as a killer of Americans.
Medical science isn't changing its ways simply because some political figure demands that things be done faster.
As usual my contempt is directed at Donald Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.