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Let’s forget everything that the Obama administration did, which Biden obviously was a part of, and let’s forget everything that has been done since the stock market crashed and unemployment skyrocketed because of the virus. Let’s just look at what each candidate did leading up to Trump declaring the coronavirus a national emergency.May 23, 2017. President Trump's budget request calls for massive cuts in spending on scientific research, medical research, and disease prevention. The Trump budget cuts $1.2 billion from the CDC, $82 million from the center that works on vaccine-preventable and respiratory diseases. The budget calls for a 17 percent cut to CDC’s global health programs that monitor and respond to disease outbreaks around the world. It also cuts about 10 percent from CDC’s office of public health preparedness and response. Former CDC director Tom Frieden described the administration's CDC request as “unsafe at any level of enactment. Would increase illness, death, risks to Americans, and health care costs.”April 10, 2018. Trump fires homeland security adviser on the NSC Tom Bossert, whose job included coordinating the response to global pandemics. Bossert was not replaced.May 2018. President Donald Trump’s biodefense preparedness adviser warns that a flu pandemic is the country’s No. 1 health security threat, and the U.S. was not prepared. Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the NSC's senior director for global health security and biodefense, leaves the council and was not replaced. Luciana Borio resigns as the NSC's director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy. She is not replaced.October 24, 2019. Washington Post: “None of these 195 countries—the U.S. included—is fully prepared for a pandemic.” The report cited states factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social unrest, and low confidence in government.October 25, 2019. Joe Biden: “We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security. We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.”Trump, on the same day: “The button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!”December 20, 2019 - January 5, 2020. Trump vacations in Mar-a-Lago.December 31, 2019 - Cases of unknown pneumonia detected in Wuhan, China between December 12 and December 29 are reported to WHO.January 7, 2020 - China confirms that they have identified the virus as a corona strain that would later be dubbed Covid-19January 9, 2020. Trump holds a “Keep America Great” rally in OhioJanuary 11, 2020 - China confirms first Covid-19 death.January 13, 2020 - Trump attends college football championship game.January 14, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in Wisconsin.January 17-19, 2020. Trump vacations in Mar-a-Lago.January 21, 2020. First confirmed case of Covid-19 in U.S.January 22, 2020. Trump: “We have it totally under control. ... It’s going to be just fine.”January 24, 2020. Trump tweets that “the risk of transmission within the U.S. is low”January 27, 2020 - USA Today published Op Ed by Biden. Biden outlines a plan for responding to the coronavirus outbreak saying, it “will get worse before it gets better.” He discusses Trump’s 2014 criticism of the Obama response to the Ebola outbreak where Trump “rallied against the evidence-based response our administration put in place — which quelled the crisis and saved hundreds of thousands of lives — in favor of reactionary travel bans that would only have made things worse. He advocated abandoning exposed and infected American citizens rather than bringing them home for treatment.” Biden went on to say, “To be blunt, I am concerned that the Trump administration’s shortsighted policies have left us unprepared for a dangerous epidemic that will come sooner or later.”January 28, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in New Jersey.January 29, 2020 - White House announces a task force is being formed to monitor the spread of Covid-19. Headed by Secretary Alex Azar, the task force includes CDC Director Redfield, Dr. Fauci, one deputy secretary, an associate director, two people serving in acting roles, and five assistants to the President.January 30, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in Iowa. Trump states, “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully...and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for it. So that I can assure you.”January 31, 2020. Trump announces it will deny foreigners who have been to China in the last two weeks from entering the US.January 31-February 2, 2020. Trump vacations at Mar-a-Lago.February 1, 2020. Biden tweets: “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency.”February 10, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in New Hampshire.Early to mid-February: First two known US deaths from coronavirus.February 14-16, 2020. Trump vacations at Mar-a-Lago, then attends the Daytona 500.February 18-21, 2020. Trump vacations at his hotel in Las Vegas, holding “Keep America Great” rallies in Arizona on the 19th, Colorado on the 20th, and Nevada on the 21st.February 24, 2020. Trump tweets, “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”February 25, 2020. Trump: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have very few people with it, and the people that have it are … getting better. They’re all getting better. … As far as what we’re doing with the new virus, I think that we’re doing a great job.”February 26, 2020: US reports first case of community spread. Trump states, “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."Biden, on the same day: “what I would do were I president now, I would not be taking China's word for it. I would insist that China allow our scientists in to make a hard determination of how it started, where it's from, how far along it is. Because that is not happening now. And... we should be allowed to do that and they should want us to do that, because we have genuine experts who know how to confront these things. But we need to invest immediately. We should have done it from the beginning, the moment the virus appeared. But we're getting late, but we've got good scientists. And I just hope the president gets on the same page as the scientists.”February 27, 2020. Trump says of the coronavirus, “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”February 28, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in South Carolina. Trump called the Democrats' criticism of his response to the outbreak as "their new hoax," and downplayed the severity of the outbreak, comparing it to the common flu and saying, “you hear 35 and 40,000 people, and we’ve lost nobody, and you wonder, the press is in hysteria mode.” The US recorded it’s first official coronavirus death hours later.Biden, on the same day: “I'm less concerned about the immediate economic impact than I am about whether or not we gain control of this. The idea that the experts are not allowed to speak, the president has silenced them. Dr. Fauci, who was in three administrations, worked in our administration. We took care of Ebola...Let the experts take this over. Everyone will have more confidence.”March 2, 2020. Trump holds “Keep America Great” rally in North Carolina.March 6, 2020. Trump visits CDC headquarters in Atlanta to check on progress fighting the coronavirus outbreak.March 6-9, 2020. Trump vacations at Mar-a-Lago.March 9, 2020. Biden cancels a rally scheduled for March 10 due to coronavirus concerns. Trump: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on.”March 10, Trump: “And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”March 11, 2020. WHO declares Covid-19 officially a pandemic. Trump announces he will bar foreigners from Europe from entering the US for 30 days.March 12, 2020. Biden presents a detailed plan for combating the coronavirus pandemic, published by Medium.Trump, on the same day: “It’s going to go away. ... The United States, because of what I did and what the administration did with China, we have 32 deaths at this point … when you look at the kind of numbers that you’re seeing coming out of other countries, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it.”March 13, 2020. Trump declares Covid-19 a national emergency.March 17, 2020. Trump: "I've always known this is a real — this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."I’m going to go with the guy who recognized it as a threat and called for action early on, not the guy who spent 23 of the first 69 days of 2020 on vacation calling it a hoax, and then declared it an emergency on day 70.

Why is Trump saying wind turbine noise causes cancer?It’s a combination of stupidity, scientific ignorance, love of conspiracy theories, hatred of Obama, support of coal and nuclear power, and his understanding that many people can be manipulated by his lies.You could write pages on this. I won’t. But here are the basics:*********Scientific Ignorance and Love of Conspiracy Theories********These are two separate issues, but in Trump they find common brain cells. Dr. Trump has uncovered cancer causations that no one else has. Consider light bulbs:Seriously! Light bulbs.Then you have Dr. Trump’s pronouncement that large doses of vaccines cause autism. For instance:We are now seeing the effects when parents don’t get their children vaccinated. As for wind turbines (or “windmills” as Trump incorrectly refers to them):Might as well get in a dig at global warming, too!**********Trump’s Feud With Turbine Supporters**************As others have explained, Trump got into a battle with his golf course in Scotland and whether turbines could/should be visible from the course. Here’s one summary:Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government's legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development.Mr Trump battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project before he became US president.A total of 11 turbines make up the development off Aberdeen.Judges have now ruled Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd should pay the legal bills incurred.Mr Trump had argued the development would spoil the view from his golf course at Menie.The ruling at the Court of Session stemmed from the case going to the UK Supreme Court in December 2015.The sum involved has not been disclosed.***********Attempts to Reverse All Obama Initiatives************Barack Obama supported the development of wind energy. That alone would be enough for Trump to oppose it. For example, here’s an excerpt from a blog on Obama’s energy legacy:President Obama’s Renewable Energy LegacyTuesday, January 10, 2017By Rob Sargent Senior Director, Campaign for 100% Renewable EnergyTonight, President Obama will deliver a farewell address in his hometown of Chicago. His two terms in office offer many examples of progress for which he deserves thanks and praise. Chief among these examples is the game-changing gains we’ve seen in renewable energy since he took office. Thanks to his commitment to tackling global warming and his leadership, the United States and the world are finally on a path to a future powered entirely by clean, renewable energy.When President Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. had only 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity and 25 GW of wind capacity installed. Since then, there’s nearly three times as much wind power (75 GW), and solar power has increased by an astonishing 2500% clip to 31 GW.These dramatic increases are, in part, a product of forward-thinking policies by the Obama administration that drove down costs. In early 2009, nearly $90 billion went to renewable energy from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In 2015, Congress extended renewable tax credits for solar and wind. Throughout the past eight years, the Obama administration actively supported the offshore wind energy industry, and ultimately oversaw the first offshore wind farm coming online in 2016. And they aggressively pushed energy savings by finalizing fifty efficiency standards -- more than any previous administration -- saving consumers $550 billion on their utility bills.If that’s part of the Obama legacy—similar to the Affordable Care Act—then Trump wants to destroy it.*********Trump’s Support for Coal and Nuclear Energy*********It’s not just that Trump doesn’t like wind energy. He supports other forms of energy generation and wind energy possibly could affect the coal and nuclear industries.Here’s an excerpt from a recent article:President Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget energy priorities emphasize coal, nuclear and national security over renewable energy and climate change.The Energy Department’s renewable energy office's budget is slashed by 70 percent, from $2.3 billion to just under $700 million, in the new fiscal 2020 budget request to Congress rolled out on Monday.Instead, the funds are being diverted toward energy security, with the priorities being nuclear power plants and new, more efficient coal plants.“We are requesting $2.3 billion to secure energy independence, to fund innovations for more affordable, viable and efficient energy sources, such as new nuclear and fossil energy investments,” said a senior Energy Department official on a call with reporters.The administration it committed to “revitalizing” the U.S. nuclear industry, with the hope that Congress will expand the nuclear energy sector by supporting the president’s spending request for advanced nuclear technologies.“Funding for energy independence also focuses on early-stage research and development for new technologies across all of our energy resources,” said the official, while emphasizing the priority placed on early-stage research and development for low-emissions coal-fired power plants.Just a year ago, Trump was considering an emergency declaration to help the nuclear and coal industries. From a summary:The Trump administration has shelved a plan to invoke wartime emergency powers to justify multibillion-dollar bailouts for economically struggling coal and nuclear plants — at least for the time being.That’s according to a Tuesday report from Politico, which cites four unnamed sources who say that presidential advisers including the National Security Council and National Economic Council have put a halt to the plan at the White House, citing problems with its legality and its cost.But the sources also warned Politico that “Trump frequently changes his mind, and the idea could re-emerge in advance of the president’s re-election campaign.”The plan has never been officially acknowledged by the Trump administration or DOE Secretary Rick Perry. But as outlined in a Department of Energy memo written in May and leaked in June, it calls for using authority under Section 202 of the Federal Power Act, the Defense Production Act of 1950, and the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, to force grid operators, utilities and consumers to buy power from plants with on-site fuel storage — a category that only includes coal and nuclear plants, as well as some hydropower facilities.So, considering all these factors—a desire to erase Obama’s energy legacy, Trump’s dislike of wind turbines, his support for coal and nuclear above renewable sources, his lack of scientific knowledge and his love of conspiracy theories, and—above all—his willingness to bend the truth whenever it suits him, and it’s no wonder that Trump would claim that the sound from wind turbines would cause cancer.

By your question, it is obvious you don’t know China. While the main political party is called the ‘Chinese Communist Party’ and Americans despair its past, the past is the past. If you knew more of the history of China, maybe you wouldn’t ask your question.Having said that, China is actually similar to the US except for its one-party political system. Both the US and China are hybrid political systems. Both are socialist-capitalist states. In fact, some would say China knows capitalism better than the US. The Chinese political system is built on meritocracy, the US political system is built by lawyers and lobbyists.To answer your question, the answer is no. All the Chinese have to do is look at themselves and look at the US in handling the coronavirus pandemic. The US continues the struggle with nearly 1.5 million confirmed infections and 88,000 deaths so far. China had 83,000 infections and 4633 deaths. The struggle against the virus isn’t over for the US and confirmed cases are almost 20 times greater and deaths are about the same ratio. What will it be when the US overcomes the virus? China is four times larger than the US in population. All the US can do is complain that China does everything wrong, they lie, cheat, and steal. Didn’t Pompeo say that’s what the US CIA does? Hmm?Coronavirus Update (Live): 4,602,900 Cases and 307,135 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus PandemicOh? The US is free from these criminal acts. No wonder the US has been at war almost continuously during her life as a nation. No wonder an estimated 20 million are dead from these wars. Now we have another pandemic war and China was able to fight and subdue it in a little over 2 months. China is back to normal in one month. Compared to the US and other western countries, China did quite well, so did other Asian countries. Ask yourself why? Maybe the difference is in their government and leadership? It matters not whether a so-called Democracy vs a so-called Communist system, maybe the Asians can handle this pandemic way better than the west. Why?Coronavirus: how Asian countries acted while the west ditheredWhat can the West learn from Asia's coronavirus fight?My bet is that China’s Communist Party has worked well in China and brought it from being a basket case to second only to the US. BTW, on a PPP basis, China passed the US GDP in 2014. If current economist predictions hold, the second and third quarter for the US look terrible. There are predictions of 30 to 40% drop in GDP. If so, China’s GDP could surpass the US by 2021, way earlier than expected.Social and Economic Achievements Under Maohttps://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/lhao/essays/Ford.htmlDo you know there are 600,000 foreigners living in China? 72,000 are Americans. Do you know that 150 million Chinese tourists traveled the world before the pandemic and all came back? Do you know that about 1.4 million Chinese students studied abroad and almost all came back? (350,000 studied in the US) There are 443,000 foreign students studying in China.Americans in China - WikipediaThe unstoppable rise of the Chinese traveller – where are they going and what does it mean for overtourism?International student - WikipediaWhy is that, if as you hope, their political system is so bad it needs to change? In my opinion: The Chinese, overall, are happy with the way things are going in China. Maybe the US needs to think about changing its form of governance?Does the Chinese government have an 80% approval rating?Image of U.S. Leadership Now Poorer Than China'sAmerica Is Acting Like a Failed StateAnd as for US actions against the coronavirus, here’s a brief summary of our failure to act.“The government’s series of cascading mistakes started when the Trump administration proposed a massive 17 percent cut ($1.2 billion) for the Centers for Disease Control in its first full budget request to Congress. Then, in the summer of 2018, the administration folded the global health directorate in the NSC into one with a far broader mandate. While some claim this change was merely streamlining, the administration belatedly recognized it had a flawed structure and had to create a White House coronavirus task force.The evidence now shows that — like the intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack the United States — Trump was warned early and often about the dangers of COVID-19: by the NSC in early January and by trade advisorPeter Navarro on Jan. 29. When Secretary Alex Azar tried to prompt the president into taking stronger action in late January, he was dismissed as “alarmist.”Prior to 9/11, the intelligence community lacked sufficient information to stop the 9/11 attacks. In contrast, prior administrations had bequeathed the White House a detailed step-by-step playbook for responding to a pandemic.Had the playbook been followed, the first critical step would have been to strongly pressure China to allow an international team of public health experts to be allowed into Wuhan. Trump offered to send the CDC experts, but did not insist. Our experts did not gain access until Feb. 22, when outbreaks were already occurring in 30 cities in 26 countries.The single strong preventative measure the administration put in place — halting travel of foreign nationals from China into the U.S. on Jan. 31 — was botched. Trump dawdled putting it in place, while 381,000 people traveled from China to the U.S. in January, including 4,000 from Wuhan. Worse yet, passengers continued to flow unimpeded into the United States from countries experiencing serious outbreaks like Italy and Spain throughout February and early March. Health screening at our airports has been spotty to non-existent.Once the virus had deeply penetrated our borders, the only way to avoid disaster was to implement a robust testing and contact tracing system. However, in February, the CDC distributed a flawed test to public health departments. Then the FDA barred labs from developing their own test kits. By the time the FDA finally waived its regulations it was too late. The U.S. had tested only 4,000 people, whereas South Korea had completed over 66,000 tests and was testing at a rate of 3,000 per day.Having failed to contain the spread of COVID, the United States was forced to resort to the crudest and most economically damaging pandemic prevention measure available — a lockdown. Even then, the Trump administration led from behind, with sports leagues and universities shutting down first, followed by governors acting aggressively to bar large gatherings and issue stay-at-home orders. The federal government finally issued non-binding social distancing guidelines on March 16, after Trump personally rebuffed health experts’ requests to take stronger action a month earlier.Finally, and most tragically, our country was left flatfooted and unprepared to provide health care workers the equipment they needed to fight this dread disease. The administration did not seek emergency COVID funding until Feb. 25, and even then, Congress provided seven-times more funding than the paltry initial request on a bipartisan basis. Trump refused to use the federal government’s purchasing power to address the shortage, claiming he was not “a shipping clerk,” and then started playing politics with distribution of ventilators from the national stockpile.Now, half-way through April, the irreversible damage is piling up every day. We top the globe in both the number of COVID infections and deaths. The testing system we need to begin to return to normalcy remains dysfunctional. Young children have lost months of their education; the mental health implications of long-term social distancing are incalculable. Sixteen million Americans have lost their jobs, with millions more to come. Despite the trillions in aid appropriated by the Congress, many millions will fall into poverty, or have their life’s savings wiped out to endure this crisis.It didn’t have to be this way.”Coronavirus: Your government failed youIs Trump another Benedict Arnold?Benedict Arnold - Wikipedia