Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health --- Trump Sucked

 
From "The Lancet" - The premier British medical journal - "Public policy and health in the Trump era"

The  Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health examined Trump's actions and assessed their impact on public health. Among the actions by Trump cited by the commission are that he:

Politicised and repudiated science, leaving the USA unprepared and exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Eviscerated environmental regulation, hastening global warming

 

Incited racial, nativist, and religious hatred, provoking vigilante and police violence

 

Denied refuge to migrants fleeing violence and oppression, and abused immigrant detainees

 

Undermined health coverage

 

Weakened food assistance programmes

 

Curtailed reproductive rights

 

Undermined global cooperation for health, and triggered trade wars

 

Shifted resources from social programmes to military spending and tax windfalls for corporations and the wealthy

 

Subverted democracy both nationally and internationally

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