Jeffrey Middot; saxophone
Tens of millions of people around the world are facing risks due to poverty, poor luck, personnel as a necessary service field, or a decision maker's poor decision -making infection in the 2019 coronary virus disease.However, the infection of US President Trump was completely blame.
Trump blatantly despised science and ignored public health suggestions, which was a direct cause of infection.To make matters worse, his attitude has led to the surge in the United States; the current total has exceeded 214,000.
Since the popularity of crown diseases, public health experts around the world have been seeking masks, avoiding large assemblies, and maintaining a distance from others to prevent the spread of viruses.However, Trump, who has a pathological personality, rejected all suggestions.
Trump also laughed at the two days before he and the first lady's test was positive.Trump said in the first presidential debate: I am not wearing a mask like him.Every time he saw him, he was wearing a mask.Even if there is 200 feet from others, he will still wear the biggest mask I have ever seen.
Trump rejected the appeal of public health experts and local officials. In recent months, he has been holding large rally indoors and outdoor, and the participants have not put on a mask.He also despise the basic epidemic prevention measures of the White House, including keeping a distance from the staff and the requirements of wearing a mask at the meeting.
Trump's reckless behavior not only increased the risk of infection of himself, wife and followers, but also encouraged his supporters across the United States to ignore public health warns, threatening to infectious disease experts, thereby promoting the spread of viruses.Many Americans lack basic scientific literacy and are vulnerable to the left and right and encouragement of Trump's unprecedented allies in Fox News.Trump not only prevented the federal public health sector from effectively responding to the virus, but also incited the dangerous behavior of supporters across the country.
Just like other world leaders infected with crown diseases, Trump can actually avoid infection through strict regulations on public health compliance with standards.Similar populist politicians, especially British Prime Minister Johnson and Brazilian President Posonaro, are also infected. This is not a coincidence.
Like Trump, Johnson and Bosonaro both systematically diluted the threat of the epidemic and shamelessly despised conventional public health measures.Like the United States, Britain and Brazil are the most affected countries in the world.The mortality rate in the United States is 647 per million people, 687 in Brazil, and 623 in the UK; and the global average mortality rate is 133 people per million people.
Of course, Trump's anti -scientific position can be traced back to the new political and culture of the United States.This is also consistent with the two purposes pursued by the Modern Republican Party since Reagan's administration.The first purpose is to mobilize the white gospel Christian supporters of the Republican Party.The reason why they refused science was because they insisted on the literal interpretation of the Bible, and this was also known as the Bible without faith.
The second purpose is related to the former, from the fanaticism of anti -loop protection in the modern Republican Party.For decades, large oil and coal companies have provided a lot of funds for the Republican Party to prevent and reverse regulations to protect the environment and climate safety.Trump not only refuses to control the basic science of the epidemic, but also refuses basic climate science when wildfires in the western United States are raging. These are not coincidences.Just as he claims that the virus will disappear automatically, he promises not long ago that global warming will subscribe by himself: the earth will start to become cold.Wait for it.
In this regard, Bosonaro is almost exactly the same as Trump.With the support of Christian Gospels and radical anti -loop protection, he refused to climate climate science, implemented the policy of supporting the Brazilian oil industry, and had been governing the country in the same way.
However, in this regard, Trump did not depart from the Republican Party's policy.Twenty -five years ago, the Newt Gingrich of Newtot; Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives in the United States, forced the Congress Technology Evaluation Office to close, and the office provided technological guidance for Congress.The purpose of Kimlic is to prevent the formulation of some rules for the information of environmental science, and these regulations have impacted the industry that supports the Republican Party.
Trump's anti -scientific agenda has endangered the entire world.Under his leadership, the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, thereby obstructing global struggles against climate change and epidemic.Trump and his Evangelical Secretary of State Pompeo did not resolve the global crisis in accordance with scientific evidence. Instead, he tried to launch an east of the Crusaders for China.
Whether Trump's infection of viruses will cause more Americans to aware of the severe reality of public health and climate change, and it is still unknown.Republican and its allies have long questioned and criticized the truth.Fox News, Bible's literally gospel beliefs, and corporate publicity and campaign donations have profoundly weakened the policy tendency of the United States based on science and evidence rather than lies.
I hope Trump can heal.However, even if Trump recovered, it could not make the United States out of his governance.Therefore, I also hope that Biden will win an overwhelming victory in the next month's election.In this case, Trump may read the oaths in different identities in 2021, that is, in court to respond to the allegations of the New York prosecutor's investigation and about banking and insurance fraud.
Author Jeffrey D.Sachs is a professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management of Columbia University. He is also the director of the Columbia Sustainable Development Center and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solution Network.
English Title: The Lies that Infected Trump
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020
