Yale epidemiologist calls Trump's coronavirus response a potential war crime

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Star Member CousinIT (4,921 posts)
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'Genocide by default': Yale epidemiologist calls Trump's coronavirus response a potential war crime
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/genocide-by-default-yale-epidemiologist-calls-trumps-coronavirus-response-a-potential-war-crime/

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Gregg Gonsalves, an epidemiologist who works as an assistant professor at Yale School of Public Health, wrote a scathing tweet about the president’s latest efforts to send Americans back to work even though more than 70,000 people have died so far with no end in sight.

“How many people will die this summer, before Election Day?” he asked. “What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy?”

Gonsalves went on to say that Trump’s negligence is so gross that he could be prosecuted for war crimes under international law.

“So, what does it mean to let thousands die by negligence, omission, failure to act, in a legal sense under international law?” he asked. “And I am being serious here: what is happening in the US is purposeful, considered negligence, omission, failure to act by our leaders. Can they be held responsible under international law?”

 

Newest Reality (9,297 posts)

2. Yup.

One would expect that a stochastic terrorist, (which is a term that fits that cretin well) would also practice stochastic genocide. If the former is true, then latter is an expected result in some way.

Trump 2020: Live And Let DIE!

That's a good replacement for the now obsolete Keep America Great. It is despicable to have a person like that in the highest office in the land. It's like hiring an alligator to watch your children.

Star Member Laelth (24,068 posts)

3. To answer the Professor's question, no.

International law can not enforce its judgments, even if Trump were found guilty at the Hague. Besides which, the United States continues to refuse to subject its citizens to the jurisdiction of the World Court.

Nice try, but no.

-Laelth

duforsure (8,944 posts)

4. Was it really him ,

Or is he a puppet of Putin and the Russian mob?

Star Member Disaffected (772 posts)

5. I would say

more a crime against humanity.

Similar to kids in cages.

Oh, you mean BIDEN and O'BARRY...

intheflow (25,484 posts)

6. When LIHOP isn't a conspiracy theory...

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Seriously, though, Trump's committing genocide with COVID-19 response, and ecocide with his rollbacks of environmental protections and refusal to join with global climate response initiatives. He is death personified.

   it's back...

Star Member renate (12,474 posts)

18. yep. If it were whites who were disproportionately affected, I have no doubt whatsoever

that jackbooted protesters wouldn't be clamoring to open things up.

JCMach1 (25,022 posts)

26. The protestors are at least 2/3 straight up white supremacists

i.e literal NAZIs

 

Initech (80,613 posts)

17. Something has got to take this POS down.

 

LiberalLovinLug (11,026 posts)

24. This is what prominent Democrats should be shouting...WHO CARES IF ITS EVEN PLAUSABLE?

We have to fight in the pits. You just know if it were Hillary in office, and she had dragged her foot the same way, (although she wouldn't) leading to countless needless deaths, the GOP would be calling it a "war crime" every day.

Even before Trump rose to prominence in the political field, the GOP were masters at promoting the most outlandish accusations, Clintons as murderers for one.

I know we don't want to stoop low like that. But we tried going high. Its not going to work on this President. Democrats are still living in the 80's it seems like sometimes. When we are in a winning place, when we have consolidated power, then we can start thinking about going high. Right now we should be willing to go even lower than they are. Who cares if there is no actual way to prosecute him this way. There is no cost to saying it. Pushing it. Making them have to react to it. Because, as they already have figured out, in todays world of competing news networks, whenever Ds or Rs are compelled to react back, it means it stays in the news, and more people start to think it might be true. ie...Clintons are murderers.

  anything to win, including lie. It's the DEM way...

Grins (2,599 posts)

27. What do you call mass death by public policy??

I call it the REPUBLICAN PARTY!

 

[SVPete]

Were Yale an education institution, this moron would be signing of for barista training, involuntarily.

[thundley4]

What do they call China  and the WHO lying about the corona virus not being transmitted from human to human while China was buying up every N95 mask they could find?

[SVPete]

Because I'm unable to edit my posts after a day or so, I have not been able to update my China Corona Virus time line linked in my signature. At the risk of being rude - posting a url to a post on another discussion site - this is the up to date version of it, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,395099.msg2184146.html#msg2184146 . In it one can see that China and WHO lied almost daily for three weeks about the transmissibility of this coronavirus. AND one can see that WHO consistently opposed travel restrictions until ... well ... I never found when WHO finally admitted that restrictions like those of the US were appropriate. The latest date of a WHO comment, advising against restrictions, was 2/29.