2020 US election - It Came from Washington DC

[DHBirr]

For two hundred eight years, the New England Journal of Medicine stayed out of national politics.  But the Dotard is too much of a danger to Americans' health.

Wednesday’s editorial argued national leaders had the opportunity to limit the virus’s spread and prevent widespread illness, deaths and lasting economic turmoil.
“Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test,” the editorial said. “They have taken a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”
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“Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government, causing damage that will certainly outlast them,” they wrote. “Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed 'opinion leaders’ and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.”
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The NEJM isn’t the first science-focused publication pushed to weigh in on the election amid a tense relationship between the Trump administration and the scientific community. Scientific American also published a presidential endorsement for the first time in its October issue, urging its readers to vote for former vice president Joe Biden in November.
“Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history,” the endorsement said. “This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly.”
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“When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent,” the [NEJM] editorial said. “We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.”

One reader commented, "hopefully nobody is dumb enough to try and paint our premiere medical journal as partisan."  To which another promptly replied: "Trump: Challenge accepted!"