In that light, we decided to reprint the full text of the declaration on this page. You would think that most of the world’s media would treat the declaration in the same spirit and give it well-deserved publicity. Some media organizations, notably The New York Times and The Washington Post in the US, ran stories about the declaration, which sought to depict it as some kind of Trump scandal. Mainstream media turned the declaration into another issue in the US election campaign, and thrashed its ideas. If, as has been reported even by The New York Times, Trump’s Operation Warp Speed can bring an end to the pandemic within the year, we will gladly rejoice with him.

Source: Manila Times October 19, 2020 16:16 UTC