In keeping with the British instruction to the Biden campaign to focus entirely on the COVID-19 crisis, The Lancet, the British medical journal (which promoted the anti-science, anti-vaccine lunacy several years ago) today joined its political sister The Economist in a lying, disgusting attack on Donald Trump, calling on Americans to throw him out of office. “Under the banner of making America great again,” they write editorially, “the Trump administration has pursued regressive nationalist policies, rolled back protections for individuals, labour, and the environment, and withdrawn from international agreements and multilateral organisations, such as WHO. Led by a relentless agenda of deregulation and dysregulation, America has retreated from its once prominent position of leadership and abandoned its beneficence. With the election, Americans have the power to address these issues, both at home and around the world, by eschewing the falsehood of nostalgia.”
On COVID-19, they write: “The U.S.A. leads the world in COVID-19 infections (>9 million) and deaths (225 000). The fraying social safety net, continual erosion of trust in the public sector, the perceived diminished responsibility of the federal government, and political interference with crucial public health apparatus (most markedly the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) have culminated in the disastrous U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.”
