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Reports are saying that healthcare premiums may rise by 40% by next year due to the pandemic.
January 3, 2020: The CDC is first alerted to a public health event in Wuhan, China (This fact was revealed publicly later by HHS Secretary Alex Azar.)January 6, 2020: The CDC issues a travel notice for Wuhan due to the spreading coronavirus.Note: The Trump campaign claims that this marks the beginning of the federal government disease control experts becoming aware of the virus. It was 10 weeks from this point until the week of March 16 when Trump began to change his tone on the threat.January 18, 2020: After two weeks of attempts, HHS Secretary Alex Azar finally gets the chance to speak to Trump about the virus. The president redirects the conversation to vaping, according to the Washington Post.March 18, 2020: Trump signs the executive order to activate the Defense Production Act, but declines to use it. At the White House briefing he is asked about Senator Chuck Schumer’s call to urgently produce medical supplies and ventilators.Trump responds: “Well we’re going to know whether or not it’s urgent.”
Note: At this point 118 Americans had died from COVID-19.
Since taking office, Trump has…
instituted a hiring freeze that caused 700 CDC vacancies disbanded the National Security Council’s and Homeland Security Department’s global health security teams Tom Bossert, who ran the HHS portion of the team, wrote an op-ed today: “The rates will be worse if the disease is not aggressively countered early.” allowed lack of funding to result in CDC cutting back epidemic prevention programs from 49 to only 10 countries attempted to reduce uniformed public health professionals by 40% stopped funding USAID’s zoonotic virus detection program, causing it to collapse caused over 1,600 federal scientists to leave government in two years cut the number of scientific advisory committees by a third recommended $1 billion in budget cuts to CDC’s total funding each year on average successfully cut $500 million from the CDC’s preparedness and response programs recommended $4.3 billion average annual cuts to National Institutes of Health funding successfully transferred $165 million from FEMA to ICE and border patrol proposed cutting USAID’s 2021 budget by $2.3 billion proposed cutting the World Health Organization’s 2021 budget by $58 million, a 47% decrease repeatedly attempted to cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid at home.
The Gish Gallop is the fallacious debate tactic of drowning your opponent in a flood of individually-weak arguments in order to prevent rebuttal of the whole argument collection without great effort. The Gish Gallop is a conveyor belt-fed version of the on the spot fallacy, as it’s unreasonable for anyone to have a well-composed answer immediately available to every argument present in the Gallop. The Gish Gallop is named after creationist Duane Gish, who often abused it.Although it takes a trivial amount of effort on the Galloper’s part to make each individual point before skipping on to the next (especially if they cite from a pre-concocted list of Gallop arguments), a refutation of the same Gallop may likely take much longer and require significantly more effort (per the basic principle that it’s always easier to make a mess than to clean it back up again).The tedium inherent in untangling a Gish Gallop typically allows for very little “creative license” or vivid rhetoric (in deliberate contrast to the exciting point-dashing central to the Galloping), which in turn risks boring the audience or readers, further loosening the refuter’s grip on the crowd.
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