Kushner's axed coronavirus team shied away from a national strategy, believing the virus was hitting Democratic states hardest
https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-covid-19-plan-maybe-axed-for-political-reasons-report-2020-7?r=US&IR=T
"Members of Jared Kushner's discontinued coronavirus task force considered a national-scale response early in the US coronavirus outbreak.
However, according to a new Vanity Fair report, the plan never came to be — partly because the task force believed that it would be a better political move to hold off.
The logic, according to a source who spoke to Vanity Fair, was the the virus would hit Democrat-voting areas hardest, and the damage could be blamed on local governors instead. "
Its a smart political move, to hurt the democratic states, to score political points, for a comeing election?
People died because of this? they purposefully mis-handled the early days of the pandemic to hurt the blue states?
Wtf?
How far would you go to win a election?
Would you kill or let people die for it?
Apparently Kushner will.
If this can be proven in court, can you charge people for it? Like this sort shouldn't be legal imo.
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
"the effort ran headlong into shifting sentiment at the White House. Trusting his vaunted political instincts, President Trump had been downplaying concerns about the virus and spreading misinformation about it—efforts that were soon amplified by Republican elected officials and right-wing media figures. Worried about the stock market and his reelection prospects, Trump also feared that more testing would only lead to higher case counts and more bad publicity. Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, was reportedly sharing models with senior staff that optimistically—and erroneously, it would turn out—predicted the virus would soon fade away.
Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.
Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.
That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.
On April 27, Trump stepped to a podium in the Rose Garden, flanked by members of his coronavirus task force and leaders of America’s big commercial testing laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp, and finally announced a testing plan: It bore almost no resemblance to the one that had been forged in late March, and shifted the problem of diagnostic testing almost entirely to individual states.
Under the plan released that day, the federal government would act as a facilitator to help increase needed supplies and rapidly approve new versions of diagnostic-testing kits. But the bulk of the effort to operate testing sites and find available labs fell to the states.
“I had this naive optimism: This is too important to be caught in a partisan filter of how we view truth and the world,” said Rick Klausner, a Rockefeller Foundation adviser and former director of the National Cancer Institute. “But the federal government has decided to abrogate responsibility, and basically throw 50 states onto their own.”
What do you even call something like this?
genocide? criminal neglect?
Basically Trump and friends, politicised a pandemic and allowed it to get worse for political gain (believeing it'll stay and hit, hardest in blue states).
