Another week, another Essential Research coronavirus poll — this one focusing on attitudes to China, which have notably soured. As related by The Guardian, respondents were asked if they had a favourable or unfavourable view of China’s influences on Australian life, which produced a net rating of minus 30% on trade, compared with plus 1% last August, and a net rating of minus 40% for Chinese business operating in Australia, down from minus 21%. There were also scores of minus 26% for defence, minus 36% for politics and minus 9% for culture. Conversely, the United States scored net positive scores, albeit that these were quite a lot bigger for defence (plus 29%), business (plus 15%) and trade (plus 14%) than politics (plus 2%) and culture (plus 7%).
Asked which relationship would be more beneficial to strengthen, 42% favoured the US and 18% China, compared with 38% and 28% last August. Respondents had two bob each way on trade in that 53% thought Australia “needs to do all it can to avoid a trade war with China”, with 17% opposed, but 48% felt Australia should impose retaliatory tariffs, with 22% opposed. The poll found “more than half” believe China’s trade sanctions against Australia were motivated by the government’s call for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
The poll continued its weekly suite of questions on coronavirus, recording no change on the government’s handling of the crisis, which was rated positively by 73% and negatively by 11%. Levels of concern little changed on last week (79% either very or quite concerned, down one, and 21% either not at all or not that concerned, up one). A divide appears to be opening on restrictions, with higher responses for both lifting them as soon as possible (up five to 14%) and holding off (up two to 27%). The poll was conducted Thursday to Sunday from a sample of 1087; a full report should be published later today.
Note that below this post is a dedicated thread for the Eden-Monaro by-election, which you are encouraged to use if you have something specific to say on that subject.
UPDATE: Full report here.
Yep, China has overplayed its hand.
Thanks for that Renew Economy link about “spinning machines” (synchronous condensers ) Cud.
I looked them up – they were in use during the 1950s. They look like great big electric motors, except the shaft has no load on it; purpose is to stabilize the grid.
So one of the big reasons for retaining gas or coal-fired turbines -to provide electrical stability – can be taken over by synchronous condensers.
SA will do this, and retire its gas turbines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_condenser
Edit Here’s Cud’s link to the Original article
https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-spinning-machines-arrive-in-south-australia-to-hasten-demise-of-gas-generation-64767/
Well, it does seem the Government’s rhetoric has had an impact domestically.
I hope the economic and international consequences were worth it.
C@tmomma @ #1 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 5:34 am
How so?
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. I was entertained by a glorious, quickly changing sunrise this morning while putting this together.
David Crowe reckons Scotty from Marketing is going to foist JobMaker onto us now. He says Morrison will name skills and training as a key target for reform in a “JobMaker” policy plan that will also take a new approach to industrial relations in the hope of gaining support from unions and employers.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/jobmaker-scott-morrison-s-skills-overhaul-to-drive-coronavirus-recovery-20200525-p54w9v.html
The Australian says that Scott Morrison will work with national cabinet to overhaul jobs training across a range of industries, as federal and state governments move to build the nation’s post-COVID-19 workforce, targeting employment growth as the key to Australia’s economic recovery.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/scott-morrison-touts-a-new-era-of-state-unity-for-economic-recovery/news-story/7e05545c016cfe3299e9e136a74d9f42
Phil Coorey writes that today Morrison will tell us that it is time to take the economy out of intensive care.
https://www.afr.com/politics/pm-hits-states-on-skills-urges-union-accord-20200525-p54w1e
Fergus Hunter reveals that a confidential report for Australia’s education ministers has urged the federal government to lock in five years of funding for preschools or face a system compromised by inefficiency and high staff turnover.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coag-preschool-review-highlights-adverse-effects-of-funding-uncertainty-20200522-p54vjk.html
Greg Hunt says states and territories are not likely to return to a lockdown situation again once restrictions to curb COVID-19 are lifted. He said in the case of any future outbreak of the coronavirus, “localised rings of containment” would instead be deployed.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/highly-unlikely-we-ll-return-to-lockdown-health-minister-says-20200525-p54w77.html
Josh Frydenberg’s credibility just went backwards by $60bn says Albanese in an op-ed in The Australian.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/josh-frydenbergs-credibility-just-went-backwards-by-60bn/news-story/ee1d8c199f7a73aa3cd023d1c977a7b5
The Canberra Times editorial says that a priceless opportunity now exists to revisit JobKeeper to ensure that those who have missed out are given the same hand up as everybody else, without having to spend more than originally forecast.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6768950/strong-arguments-to-extend-jobkeeper/?cs=14258
The government is prioritising lower debt ahead of higher unemployment, there is no other way to think about it, writes Peter van Onselen.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/jobkeeper-accounting-error-worth-debating-whether-scheme-is-revised-or-not/news-story/46ac855fadb5a62a7cb6cbdb0830c071
Paul Bongiorno thinks that being trapped in debt is the least of Scott Morrison’s worries.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/05/26/debt-trap-coronavirus/
According to the AFR Companies providing profit guidance will be relieved from continuous disclosure rules for the next six months, because of the economic uncertainty fuelled by the coronavirus.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/later-market-disclosure-rules-eased-20200525-p54w98
Extending JobKeeper for businesses that can’t stand on their own two feet by September, will stop the shift of people out of dead-end illusory jobs that are sadly never returning writes John Kehoe.
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/a-longer-jobkeeper-will-keep-people-in-fake-jobs-20200525-p54w4t
In a Guardian special investigation Anne Davies gives us the first of a new series examining the impact of the federal government’s recovery spending as economists urge the Coalition to outline what it is planning after September.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/26/the-cliff-what-happens-when-australias-coronavirus-stimulus-runs-out-of-road
The Victorian Labor Party used the politics of the state’s controversial Belt and Road agreement with China as an electoral weapon to help the Andrews government win votes in three seats with a high number of Chinese-Australians in its 2018 election victory writes Noel Towell.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/andrews-government-used-china-deal-to-target-liberal-seats-20200525-p54w8x.html
Xi’s bullying of Taiwan and Hong Kong has backfired so far but there’s a good reason why he’s trying again explains Peter Hartcher.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/xi-s-bullying-has-backfired-so-far-but-there-s-a-good-reason-why-he-s-trying-again-20200525-p54w3b.html
The wave of jewellers, flight attendants, and movie theatre ushers who took up second jobs in supermarkets at the height of coronavirus panic buying has subsided with unions reporting casual workers have had their hours cut.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/down-to-one-shift-casuals-complain-about-cuts-as-supermarket-sales-fall-20200523-p54vpt.html
Experts are fearing that doctors and nurses treating patients infected with COVID-19 in some Australian hospitals are wearing counterfeit face masks that have been registered with the Therapeutic Goods Administration. The problem appears to be concentrated in the private sector, where hospitals typically buy masks through their own suppliers.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/counterfeit-face-masks-sold-to-australian-hospitals-20200525-p54w8l.html
Sharan Burrow, head of the peak global union body, said the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the global economy was weighted against workers as she called for a living wage for front-line workers.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/they-are-poverty-wages-top-unionist-calls-for-living-wage-for-front-line-workers-20200525-p54w2u.html
Peter FitzSimons has grace fears that moronavirus is getting worse in the US. Je’s not wrong!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/friends-bad-news-moronavirus-is-getting-worse-in-the-us-20200525-p54w3h.html
Reforms are the best way for Australia to emerge from a once-in-a-century crisis, and energy policy should be top of the agenda proclaims economics consultant Rob Henderson.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/bold-reform-needed-to-prevent-even-bigger-economic-blow-20200525-p54w52.html
During previous economic downturns, crucial figures on the state of the economy did not become available for many months. This time it’s different explains the SMH editorial. It says the advent of real time data on spending provides governments with an ability to responsibly taper off the removal of stimulus and support schemes.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/spending-insights-crucial-during-real-time-recession-20200525-p54w8v.html
Kirsten Lawson tells us that the Tax Office has admitted that it didn’t check the JobKeeper numbers earlier partly because they matched the Treasury forecasts of how many people would be paid under the scheme.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6768321/tax-office-explains-why-it-didnt-check-jobkeeper-numbers-sooner/?cs=17318
The Murdochs and Packers have got their fingers in the taxpayer honeypot again, this time winning nearly $6 million without a tender from the Department of Health. Michael West reports on Mable and the latest in corporate welfare.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/news-corp-and-packer-aged-care-win-is-tip-of-corporate-welfare-iceberg/
Stuart Layt tells us that amid social distancing measures put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic, case numbers have flatlined for a number of other diseases. But experts warn with the easing of movement restrictions, people have to keep following social distancing measures to ensure they don’t come back.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/queensland/the-other-diseases-the-coronavirus-lockdown-stopped-in-their-tracks-20200520-p54uv9.html
While social distancing measures remain in place, commuters’ ability to get there using the traditional means of public transport creates a dilemma and a win for toll road companies says Elizabeth Knight.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/forget-panic-buying-panic-driving-is-next-virus-fad-20200525-p54w7x.html
Common sense lessons have emerged out of this pain. If they stay with us, we will be doubly lucky writes Amanda Vanstone in a pretty good contribution.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/silver-linings-have-appeared-from-life-under-coronavirus-20200525-p54w2n.html
Max Kozlowski reports that medical experts are warning that decades of progress on immunisation could be undone unless the federal government urgently pushes a strong pro-vaccine information campaign.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/act-now-ama-urges-health-education-to-combat-growing-anti-vaxxer-movement-20200525-p54w7b.html
Millions of dollars are poured into keeping endangered native fish alive each year, yet many millions perish in irrigation. Now, there’s a possible solution explains Peter Hannam.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/emerging-technology-could-solve-ludicrous-fish-loss-from-irrigation-20200522-p54vnq.html
The fire season in parts of eastern Australia has lengthened almost four months since the 1950s, with climate change a prominent driver in the trend, the Bureau of Meteorology has shown the bushfires royal commission.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fire-season-extends-by-almost-four-months-in-parts-of-australia-20200525-p54w28.html
Just how much slush do you reckon is going to wash around the Coalition’s so-called National Coordination COVID-19 Commission wonders Ross Jones as he pushes for a decent federal ICAC.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/coalitions-covid-19-commission-another-reason-for-a-federal-icac-now,13928
Wesfarmers’ decision to take an axe to discount chain Target has put Woolworths’ own struggling department store, Big W, in the spotlight writes Dominic Powell.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/smaller-target-puts-big-w-in-crosshairs-20200525-p54w54.html
Australia’s buoyant exports are good news for GDP – but less so for households says Greg Jericho.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2020/may/26/australias-buoyant-exports-are-good-news-for-gdp-but-less-so-for-households
Simon Evans explains how Target ended up as a $3.6b black hole.
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/why-target-ended-up-a-3-6b-black-hole-20200525-p54w2e
Clancy Yeates writes that ANZ Bank chief executive Shayne Elliott says half the borrowers who deferred mortgage payments under an emergency relief scheme have not suffered a drop in income, giving the bank hope about repayments resuming later this year.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/anz-hopeful-covid-loan-deferrals-not-as-dire-as-feared-20200525-p54w8o.html
Australia’s regional towns are securing their own digital economic and social futures while the Morrison Government sits idle over sub-standard NBN, writes Paul Budde.
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/regional-australia-secures-own-digital-success-despite-coalitions-woeful-nbn,13926
According to Rory Horner the world needs pharmaceuticals from China and India to beat coronavirus.
https://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-pharmaceuticals-from-china-and-india-to-beat-coronavirus-138388
Rates of climate change in the world’s ocean depths could be seven times higher than current levels by the second half of this century even if emissions of greenhouse gases were cut dramatically, according to new research.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/26/climate-change-in-deep-oceans-could-be-seven-times-faster-by-middle-of-century-report-says
Third time’s the charm for Joe Biden: now he has an election to win and a country to save writes Bruce Wolpe.
https://theconversation.com/third-times-the-charm-for-joe-biden-now-he-has-an-election-to-win-and-a-country-to-save-138616
The World Health Organisation has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. What will Trump say now?
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/who-pauses-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-in-covid-19-patients-due-to-safety-concerns-20200526-p54wc8.html
Mike Pompeo is the number one evangelist of Trumpism in the world says Michael H Fuchs who says, “The fish, they say, rots from the head. And Pompeo, like his boss, is actively undermining the values embodied by the state department, its professionals and the Americans they represent.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/25/mike-pompeo-donald-trump-us-foreign-policy
Trump has spent Memorial Day weekend golfing and insulting female politicians. As Peter FitzSimons said, the man is batshit crazy!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/25/donald-trump-twitter-coronavirus-golfing
Cartoon Corner
David Rowe
Peter Broelman
Mark David
Cathy Wilcox
John Shakespeare
Matt Golding is on fire today!
Andrew Dyson
John Spooner
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/fc893651327a7493531112ca253ed18c?width=1024
If Morrison is gong to promise extra education and training as part of his recovery strategy, it will be another example of ripping the guts out of programs until there’s a crisis and then making himself a saviour (word chosen with care) by returning some money.
None of this sour view of China’s trade dealings with us will get related to the ChAFTA negotiated by Robb, with its iniquitous provisions allowing Chinese companies operating here to import Chinese temp workers to work in its projects (the Ch10 provisions).
A truly disgraceful agreement undermining work for local underemployed Austalians ( of all backgrounds).
Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #4 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 7:36 am
By trying to infiltrate and dominate Australia and buy it. Sure I get how anyone is allowed to buy whatever they want, within the rules, but the strategic plan of China to use Australia as their resource source, and then, as we look to Hong Kong, to what end for China in the future, just makes me think that, thankfully in a way, they have overplayed the hand they were holding to go forward with that plan.
Morning all
Much thanks BK for todays news.
What a fabulous show the sky put on today for you!
lizzie @ #6 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 5:46 am
My thinking exactly.
Good idea, but what’s he going to deliver it with?
Beautiful red/pink sky BK.
The old saying:
Red sky at morning, shepherd take warning
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight
Barney
Can’t help feeling that his “focus on unemployment” will mean more boosting of employers (tax concessions) and more criticism of those who “don’t make an effort to get a job”.
I guess Morrison will be in a position to give Victoria more funding to enable job maker projects to go ahead.
Now that it has been deemed that Victoria should not get any funding from the evil Chinese govt.
You know it makes sense.
Meanwhile there has been a directive regarding hydrochloquine.
Will the orange cheeto now shut the f up about it.
C@tmomma @ #8 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 5:50 am
Hyperbole muchly!
Morning all, thanks BK. Beautiful sunrise heralds the weather we’ve had heading your way!
Amy Remeikis is off and running. “Well, it’s the prime minister’s speech day, which means you are going to hear a lot of analogies about medication and doonas and weaning the economy off of both of them and something-something ICU.”
Also we were doing trials here in Australia. They should stop as well.
The World Health Organization has said it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine — the malaria drug Donald Trump said he is taking as a precaution — from its global study into experimental coronavirus treatments after safety concerns.
The WHO’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in light of a paper published last week in the Lancet that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk of death and heart problems than those who were not, it would pause the hydroxychloroquine arm of its solidarity global clinical trial.
Barney in Tanjung Bunga @ #10 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 7:57 am
Look, I’ll be happy if he revivifies TAFE but I suspect it will just be more money shovelled out the door to the Coalition’s mates in Private Education.
Sydney goes past 800mm rain for the year #weatheronPB
https://thedriven.io/2020/05/25/morrison-government-finally-admits-there-will-be-electric-utes-and-evs-can-tow-caravans/
lizzie @ #12 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 6:00 am
It seems to be just another marketing exercise.
I can’t see how it could be anything else without the training and educational infrastructure.
Barney in TB,
Doubt it.
C@t
TAFE has been revived here in Victoria and it has been popular, as there are heaps of courses available. There was an actual reduction in uni enrolments as a result.
The WA Labor govt has done its best to revive Tafe here by slashing the cost of courses and making Tafe more accessible to people.
The way it works is Scotty announces some money, then his minions make sure it isn’t delivered. (Bushfires, JobKeeper etc.) Lather, rinse, repeat.
Campaign ads should reflect this reality.
Amy Siskind Rainbow flag
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Just remember, as horrendous as Trump is now, he’s on his ‘best behavior’ ahead of the election. God forbid he gets reelected, what remains or our values and our democracy would become unrecognizable – in the worst kinds of ways.
Would that be the same Dept. that worked so hard to make Libya,Iraq,Syria,Afghanistan such a ‘success’ ?
Meanwhile looked over some of last night’s thread.
I fail to see the point of what pegasus and the posse were trying to make regarding Victoria having entered into a MOU last year with the Chinese govt regarding funding for infrastructure etc.
It is not a legally binding agreement. Just a memo.
Wasnt this the same pegasus who was railing against those who were demanding answers from China as soon as the pandemic hit?
Thanks BK
That SMH article where GregHunt decrees future lockdowns to be “unlikely” is hilarious.
Apparently flying squads will zoom in to ring-fence and quell outbreak clusters of covid19.
” just like they did in NW Tassie”
It will need to be a big fence when the outbreaks are all over Sydney.
Gladys is allowing restaurants and pubs to operate with 50 people.
People yelling and eating.
Research papers about spread in these places were published in April,, ignored in May.
2nd wave- bigger than the first.
“Greg Hunt says states and territories are not likely to return to a lockdown situation again once restrictions to curb COVID-19 are lifted. He said in the case of any future outbreak of the coronavirus, “localised rings of containment” would instead be deployed.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/highly-unlikely-we-ll-return-to-lockdown-health-minister-says-20200525-p54w77.html
So, what’s a localised ring of containment? Roadblocks around Parramatta? Send the army in to contain the CBD. How the fuck are we going to cope if a super spreader joins a train and suddenly you’ve got 50 outbreaks and lots of random untraceable infections?
Hubris I think is the word for this.
Victoria:
The simple answer is when you view Pegasus’s comments through the lens of baiting and inflaming others, they all make sense.
Vic and ‘fess,
Do you have large sectors of Private Training Colleges that teach courses that TAFE used to do? We do in NSW. TAFES here are like ghost towns. Gladys almost got her wish to sell them off to Aged Care Providers here until she lost some political skin over the Sydney Light Rail schemozzle. So she couldn’t go forward with the plan as it came up against the last state election. I don’t think she would have forgotten about it entirely though. She’s a great fan of privatising everything.
Fess
Yes hence why best ignored.
What a waste of space really
Maude exactly. Hosing down an outbreak in a hospital, where the rest of the community is in lockdown, is one thing. Having dozens of unknown infectious people wandering the streets of Sydney at a time when R is well over 1.0 – that’s quite another.
Confessions @ #29 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 8:13 am
Pegasus is off on a frolic again already? 🙄 😆
I had to go off and write a response to my local “News of the Area” rag just now. The article was talking about “cautious optimism” over reopening tourism. The virus has been eliminated outside of Sydney. We need to keep it there.
Confessions @ #31 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 6:13 am
Pegasus makes comments??????????
shellbell
Meanwhile on teh other side. Perth races towards 200% of last year’s rainfall, drowning in a whole……………………. 135mm so far 🙂
Cummings. “I needed to test my eyesight.” Well, don’t we all? 😆
https://www.smh.com.au/national/friends-bad-news-moronavirus-is-getting-worse-in-the-us-20200525-p54w3h.html?js-chunk-not-found-refresh=true
“Moronavirus” has got to be word of the year 🙂
C@t
We had plenty of them. And most of them went belly up a few years back. Another liberal idea that funnelled money into the hands of their friends. Left students high and dry.
When state Labor got back in at end of 2014 they started work on funding TAFE again and reopening the places that had been closed down during the tenure of the Vic liberals.
Now that TAFE has been strengthened, I dont know how many private places still operate
I guess that what shits me the most about the posting of Pegasus and the other fellow travellers.
So much good stuff has been done over the past five years in this state.
But all we get from them is crap. Wonder if they are still not over the mothers day visits. They really are best ignored.
Anyhoo off to appointment for mum. Talk later.
Vic:
It’s also handy to remember that Pegasus never has an opinion she hasn’t copied and pasted from someone else, so it doesn’t surprise me to hear there are inconsistencies in her posts.
C@tmomma @ #33 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 8:16 am
Oh I see, last night. Yes, you provide evidence that the Coalition have done exactly the same thing and Pegasus just ignores it. Which leads you to wonder, why? (Rhetorical question 🙂 )
Barney ITP
Good point. They arent even comments.
Waste of time.
Anyhoo talk later.
C@t:
I don’t know about the VET sector landscape here. What I do know is that the previous government jacked up Tafe fees and cut course numbers which the current govt has reversed. The impact of the fee increases and course cuts was felt more in regional WA than in Perth.
Vic,
As I observed recently, Pegasus operates off the base (in all senses of the word), assumption that trolling Labor endlessly will result in extra Greens seats at any subsequent election. nath as well. Unsuccessfully, mind you. 🙂
Trump claims ‘great reviews’ for COVID-19 response — while complaining he ‘got no credit’
In a tweet fired off this Monday afternoon, President Trump painted a rosy picture of the response to his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he’s received “great reviews” for his performance.
Great reviews on our handling of Covid 19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. Ventilators, Testing, Medical Supply Distribution, we made a lot of Governors look very good – And got no credit for so doing. Most importantly, we helped a lot of great people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
Confessions @ #44 Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 – 8:24 am
Yes, luckily for you, and us by the skin of our teeth, the campuses themselves weren’t sold off so they could be revived with an injection of cash. We just haven’t been fortunate enough to have a Labor state government for a while, as certain miscreants on this blog keep salivating over.
Noam Chomsky says Trump a ‘sociopathic megalomaniac’ who made US ‘singularly unprepared’ for pandemic
New comments from the renowned academic come after he accused Trump of wanting “to destroy the prospects for all organized human life… in the near future.”
World-renowned intellectual and author Noam Chomsky called U.S. President Donald Trump a “sociopathic megalomaniac” whose leadership drove the U.S. to become “singularly unprepared” for the coronavirus pandemic.
“The White House,” said Chomsky, “is in the hands of a sociopathic megalomaniac who’s interested in nothing but his own power, electoral prospects.”
The administration has “no coordinated plan” for addressing the pandemic, meaning the nation will see “a lot more” deaths from Covid-19 on top of the nearly 100,000 confirmed fatalities that have already occurred, he added.
Setting the stage for the current situation is that Trump kicked off his administration by moving to take apart “the entire pandemic prevention machinery,” including by “canceling programs that were working with Chinese scientists to identify potential viruses,” Chomsky said.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200525-a-world-redrawn-us-coronavirus-response-fatally-chaotic-says-noam-chomsky