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The current admin has failed to adequately address the ongoing and long-term impacts of COVID. They have been rightfully criticized and should continue to be held accountable.
However, a Trump win will make things worse, resulting in many more deaths and people becoming sicker.
Trump will accelerate mask bans, restrict vaccine availability, reduce healthcare access, stop clean air efforts, block Long COVID treatment funding, dismantle health agencies etc.
The outcome of the election will critically impact COVID and public health policy for decades.
Let’s break down a few of these points:
@luckytran@med-mastodon.comWhile some Democrats have supported mask bans, Trump has vowed to crush anti-genocide protests. Trump has also pledged to defund schools with mask mandates, and Vance has passed amendments restricting mask mandates.
A Trump-led White House will absolutely accelerate mask bans.
Trump will give anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. control of US health agencies, and has discussed a plan to pull vaccines from the market.
In this scenario, it’s likely that COVID vaccines will be one of their top targets.
One of Trump’s first moves when he won in 2016 was to issue an executive order to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
A second Trump Presidency, especially if the GOP controls Congress, will lead to worse healthcare for everyone.
This year, the Supreme Court made it harder for government agencies to implement environmental and public health regulations.
Allowing Trump to appoint more judges would kill any chances of enacting clean indoor air standards and set public health back for generations.
As President, Trump repeatedly tried to cut the budgets of science and health agencies.
If he wins again and is supported by a GOP congress, passing funding for Long COVID treatment research will be impossible.
It’s also important to note that the politicians who are leading the charge on passing Long COVID research funding are progressive Democrats like Bernie Sanders, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar.
A GOP-controlled White House and Congress will squash Long COVID bills like these.
Project 2025, the blueprint for a new Trump administration, plans to dismantle government health agencies, which would have a huge impact on the health of everyone in the US.
Trump caused a shortage of medication for patients with autoimmune disorders because he spread misinformation about hydroxychloroquine and COVID.
With conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr in charge of health in a second Trump term, there will be even more deadly misinformation.
In addition to all the COVID-related impacts, a second Trump term inflict more damage on all areas of public health, including healthcare, reproductive freedom, and climate change. Many more people will die and get sicker under another Trump presidency.
Allowing far-right governments to hold power harms people and greatly weakens social movements. Voting alone is insufficient to win justice, but ignoring its importance makes it much harder to achieve. To win, we need to use all the tools available, including strategic voting.
Except for the rich!
@Luuk_Aalders @luckytran RW MEDIA convinced COVID was either a hoax or not that big of a deal. That's something the ADM could not control. You can't force 10s of millions of people to comply with COVID restrictions or policies that hinder their abilities to work or go to school or wanting to travel/recreational 
activities again. Sorry u can't
No one has done more damage to public health than the Biden Administration. Perhaps Democrats will understand what it is that has been lost when it is the Republicans that are taking it away. Whatever the case may be, Democratic attitudes towards Covid and public health in general have demonstrated them to be unsuitable for leadership roles of any kind. Both parties are run by derelicts and casual murderers. The more that recognize them as such, the better.
Biden scuttled the pandemic response and gutted the CDC. If Trump is elected, he'll finish the job. They couldn't have done it without guys like you to carry their water for them.
@luckytran This country will be doomed if Trump wins. Unimaginable chaos will ensue.
@luckytran Okay lets discuss this. Trump disbanded the Wuhan Pandemic Response Team which may have averted the entire Covid Pandemic Worldwide. Also, I’d like your opinion on a video very much related to this “I Found the Source of the CoronaVirus”: https://youtu.be/bpQFCcSI0pU?si=f4V7dHpy-Ohf4Ri1
@luckytran
He won't. I think the people's common sense will counter this crackpot.