By JAYLEE ROSE – FIERRO
Staff Writer
The West Africa Ebola virus swept the world in 2014, making it one of the most widespread diseases in history. Unfortunately over 11,000 perished from the deadly virus before America was finally declared “Ebola-free” on May 9th of 2015. Although our current President Trump was not in office at the time, he still made his thoughts and opinions about this virus clear on the social media site Twitter. One tweet included, “Ebola patients will bebrought to the U.S. in a few days – now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!” Just a few days later, he turned the fire, to former President Obama calling him “dumb”, saying his denial to stop the trnaportation of planes to Africa was “almost like saying F–you to U.S. public”, and proffesing in an Instagram Video that Barack Obama should be “ashamed.” President Trump then went on to accuse the CDC ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ) of intentionally spreading misinformation.
Now just 5 years later, America is facing yet another deadly virus outbreak – the Coronavirus. Just recently the U.S. has been faced with the possibility of a Coronavirus outbreak within its own borders. So far, the United States roughly has 50 cases of the Coronavirus within its states, and many are worried. Now, it is Donald Trump’s turn as president to oversee the destruction of a viral outbreak and some are concerned, he may not be as worried as he should be. For example, The Washington Post reported that Trump is not worried in particular about a Covid-19 outbreak in his very own country, but instead the market slide, and “believes extreme warnings from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have spooked investors.”
To further conclude this theory, here is a tweet from Donald Trump Wednesday morning where he attempted to lower worries about the disease by blaming social media and the stock market. “Low Rating Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Coronavirus [sic] look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible,” Trump writes.