Remember: TAKE OUT THE TRASH IN NOVEMBER!

You KNOW things are serious when a majority of physicians, scientists, researchers and others come out against a political leader, especially and particularly the President… when they’ve NEVER DONE IT BEFORE.

America has NOT been made “great again” by our feckless misleader, the Liar in Chief, Donald John Trump.

It’s time to TAKE OUT THE TRASH IN NOVEMBER!

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In an uncharacteristic move, The New England Journal of Medicine recently took a step which they have not since their 1812 founding.

 

A scathing editorial signed by all 34 editors of the publication – physicians, scientists, health researchers, and medical experts – acknowledged that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the President and his administration have “taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”

The group minced no words in their scorching criticism of the President and his administration for their abysmal, still-ongoing failures which have claimed at least 212,466 lives, and counting, by writing that “Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed ‘opinion leaders’ and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.”

Solution being carefully poured into a petri dish that sits under a micro scope. A medical scientist wearing glasses can be seen concentrating as he pours from the glass flask. Selective focus.

Noting that physicians and other healthcare professionals face the possibility of lawsuits, and loss of license for such malpractice, they acknowledged that the nation’s solitary recourse for political malfeasance is to vote him out of office, and wrote that, “Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment.”

They cited America’s Trump-led failures and wrote that in comparison to other nations, “We have failed at almost every step. We had ample warning, but when the disease first arrived, we were incapable of testing effectively and couldn’t provide even the most basic personal protective equipment to health care workers and the general public.”

To add insult to injury, the NEJM’s editors wrote that under Trump, America’s public health response failures are much worse, even, than nations which had significantly greater travel interactions with China, such as South Korea, and New Zealand, where the coronavirus appeared before it did in Trump’s America.

“Countries that had far more exchange with China, such as Singapore and South Korea, began intensive testing early, along with aggressive contact tracing and appropriate isolation, and have had relatively small outbreaks. And New Zealand has used these same measures, together with its geographic advantages, to come close to eliminating the disease, something that has allowed that country to limit the time of closure and to largely reopen society to a prepandemic level. In general, not only have many democracies done better than the United States, but they have also outperformed us by orders of magnitude.”

They concluded by writing, “But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.”

America’s scientists are fully fed-up, and wholly disgusted with this abusive president, and are using the mighty power of the pen to say why.

After 175 years, the peer-reviewed journal Scientific American broke tradition by endorsing Trump’s opponent, Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden in September, which the Editor in Chief said was a unanimous decision.

And back in May, the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet asked Americans to make Trump a one-term president.

Dying in a Leadership Vacuum
The Editors
The New England Journal of Medicine
October 8, 2020
N Engl J Med 2020; 383:1479-1480
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2029812
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812

Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden
We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history — until now.
By THE EDITORS
Scientific American
October 2020
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden1/

Reviving the US CDC
The Lancet
Editorial
May 16, 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31140-5
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext