The outgoing administration has a self-served view of the world. Behind the obvious distractions and pandering to the benighted, are destructive tampering with relationships and regulations and short-sighted decisions.
Purged Cuban Doctors
The US along with Brazil’s Bolsonaro (“Trump of the Tropics”) expelled 10,000 Cuban medical workers from poor areas of Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and El Salvador months before the Covad19 pandemic struck. This was done to curb Cuba’s most important export, medical experts. How the doctors and nurses get paid is certainly concerning, but no replacements were provided. Funding was cut to the Pan-American Health Organization, which represents the WHO in the Americas, because of its cooperation with the Cuban government.
Why? Pandering to 1.53 million Cubans living in Florida.
Paris Climate Accord
Adopted by consensus December 2015 and signed by all 196 members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to address greenhouse gas emissions, mitigation and finance. The strategy focuses on energy and climate policy including the “20/20/20” targets:
- Reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 20%,
- Increase of renewable energy‘s market share to 20%
- Increase in energy efficiency by 20%
As campaign promised, the US announced on June 1, 2017 that it would drop out in step with the new America First policy.
Why? Jealousy; Support from Oil, Gas and Coal companies, the inconvenience of promoting carbon workers to renewable energy jobs.
Mask-less Rallies
Not wearing masks while mingling with a large group is not recommended. In the short term I guess it is easier to say that the virus will just go away than to ask people to use common sense and mask-up.
Why? It has to be intoxicating to lead a cult and convince adoring throngs of acolytes to risk dire health next week for the abondoned joy of mask-less freedom today.
When you don’t care,
there are no worries
about consequences.