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What is odd about it? He has done similar.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
I remember hearing it on the news at the time.
I am not finding it, but the USA hada vaccine mass production facility on standby for years that Trump scuttled.
I didn't say it was odd, I said it was dumb. He has a shining example from his first time in office of why we need this stuff, and he is ignoring it. He is a grade A moron if he thinks these things are unnecessary.
They are not only "unnecessary", but counterproductive...
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to the purpose of corporations making short term profits. "Workers" can be replaced, but won't someone please think of the impact that telling people to stop paying for flights and food and such will have on ThE eCoNoMy!?!?