Remember you've been briefed with warnings and received pertinent information from China and the WHO. What would you have done? 62,000 Deaths, walk us through, use all the hindsight you choose. Develop your argument.
Mitch, you are the President, what steps do you take to prevent the spread of the virus
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When Obama’s team dealt with the Ebola outbreak, they realized just how susceptible the country would be to a respiratory virus pandemic (like Covid-19). They developed a playbook for how to deal with it. Instead, Trump went with 1. Gut the team. 2. Ignore the threat for two months. 3. Wing it 4. Unnecessary deaths. He blew it, bro.
In rebuttal of the idiotic narrative of DemDNCMedia the HHS timeline fleshes out all of the events around the coronavirus outbreak:
January 6: At the request of Secretary Azar, [CDC]Director Redfield sends a formal letter to China CDC offering full CDC assistance.
January 6: CDC issues a Level 1 Travel Watch for China.
January 8: CDC distributes an advisory via the Health Alert Network, which communicates to state and local public health partners, alerting healthcare workers and public health partners of the outbreak.
January 9: CDC and FDA begin collaborating on a diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus.
January 10: China shares viral sequences, allowing NIH scientists to begin work on a vaccine that evening.
JANUARY 11: FIRST DEATH REPORTED IN CHINA
JANUARY 13: 41 CASES IN CHINA, FIRST CASE REPORTED OUTSIDE CHINA
January 17: CDC and Customs and Border Protection began enhanced screening of travelers from Wuhan at three airports that receive significant numbers of travelers from that city, expanded in the following week to five airports, covering 75–80 percent of Wuhan travel.
January 21: CDC activates its Emergency Operations Center.
January 21: The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA, part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, or ASPR) begins holding market research calls with industry-leading diagnostics companies to gauge their interest in developing diagnostics for the novel coronavirus and to encourage initiating development activities.
January 22: Secretary Azar signs a memorandum from CDC Director Redfield determining that the novel coronavirus could imminently become an infectious disease emergency, which allows HHS to send a request to the Office of Management and Budget to access $105 million from the Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund.
January 27: CDC and State Department issue Level 3 “postpone or reconsider travel” warnings for all of China.
January 27: FDA begins providing updates about processes for approval and authorization to developers of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other countermeasures for the novel coronavirus.
January 29: The White House announces the establishment of the Coronavirus Task Force, which begins daily meetings.
As you can see here, Mitchy is wrong.
January 31: At the recommendation of his public health officials, President Trump issues historic restrictions on travel from Hubei and mainland China, effective February 2.
January 6: At the request of Secretary Azar, [CDC]Director Redfield sends a formal letter to China CDC offering full CDC assistance.
January 6: CDC issues a Level 1 Travel Watch for China.
January 8: CDC distributes an advisory via the Health Alert Network, which communicates to state and local public health partners, alerting healthcare workers and public health partners of the outbreak.
January 9: CDC and FDA begin collaborating on a diagnostic test for the novel coronavirus.
January 10: China shares viral sequences, allowing NIH scientists to begin work on a vaccine that evening.
JANUARY 11: FIRST DEATH REPORTED IN CHINA
JANUARY 13: 41 CASES IN CHINA, FIRST CASE REPORTED OUTSIDE CHINA
January 17: CDC and Customs and Border Protection began enhanced screening of travelers from Wuhan at three airports that receive significant numbers of travelers from that city, expanded in the following week to five airports, covering 75–80 percent of Wuhan travel.
January 21: CDC activates its Emergency Operations Center.
January 21: The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA, part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, or ASPR) begins holding market research calls with industry-leading diagnostics companies to gauge their interest in developing diagnostics for the novel coronavirus and to encourage initiating development activities.
January 22: Secretary Azar signs a memorandum from CDC Director Redfield determining that the novel coronavirus could imminently become an infectious disease emergency, which allows HHS to send a request to the Office of Management and Budget to access $105 million from the Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund.
January 27: CDC and State Department issue Level 3 “postpone or reconsider travel” warnings for all of China.
January 27: FDA begins providing updates about processes for approval and authorization to developers of vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and other countermeasures for the novel coronavirus.
January 29: The White House announces the establishment of the Coronavirus Task Force, which begins daily meetings.
As you can see here, Mitchy is wrong.
January 31: At the recommendation of his public health officials, President Trump issues historic restrictions on travel from Hubei and mainland China, effective February 2.
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Yes, Mitch is wrong and so is Stable, Laserback, Duck, and everyone who agrees with Mitch.
Mitch is King of MoSports debaters. You guys can't beat him.
I don't know about the present, but I sure hope that Trump has his crack staff create a test for the next virus that comes along in 3 years so the next President doesn't have to deal with broken tests.
One thing we know we can count on until November is a daily dose of the blame game and pity parties.
Honestly it's not even fun anymore.
The right wing media has created a sub culture of ignorance
I've been saying it for a long time it's just toooooo easy! You can present video from start to finish and they will still claim it was taken out of context. The old don't believe your eyes and ears, but believe our alternative facts.
I posted something like this several times the actual time line and what was done. Of course this doesn't fit the Narrative of the Socialistic left who hates Trump. Moscow Mitch you deal in emotional drivel not in fact's and logic.
Mitch thinks the country was ready for all this November of 2016 and Trump somehow undid all the magic planning that Obama and gropey Joe had put in place.
If he would have been in charge his 4 step plan of sophistry would have a lot more dead. Trump has said sone stupid things along the way. He also took some strong action and showed some leadership against a lot of politically correct resistance.
Biden at different points has opposed what Trump has done, then said he hasn’t done it soon enough and then comes up with ideas to do things that are already implemented. If the cure isn’t feeling up girls than Biden isn’t the solution.
You keep throwing the word socialist around. Please explain what giving money to farmers to help them with their hard times because of his tariffs on China have caused and the fact that Americans have made millions because of these tariffs, so says Dr. flip flop. How about the trillions the government is shelling out now because of the virus. Is this capitalism or socialism.
Did you watch the 60 minutes about the farm welfare ? YIKES!!!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/farmer...c-china-tariffs-relief-60-minutes-2020-05-03/
"Many farms today have investors - call them absentee owners - who also collect bailout money. When we checked, we found hundreds of recipients living in big cities including New York City, Miami, San Francisco. Among them, a banker, an architect, a composer, a classical musician."
Unbelievable!!!
Unbelievable!!!
Yep! Not a surprise. I'm sure that is what's going on now with this bailout. The fat cats will get theirs at the expense of the little guy, but we will be slow to find out because Dr flip flop will either fire the IG in charge of oversight or appoint one of his cronies.
No, it's the dems living in the cesspool cities getting $120 per month of food stamps that are breaking the bank according to the righteous rightwingers.
Mitch keeps referring to this magic plan Obama and Joe had in place but never produce it so we can see the right way to handle it.
You are still a juvenile. They claim the U.S. has nuclear weapons, but you can’t show me one so I guess it’s a lie. Is that how this works?
Oh no, Duck thinks i'm juvenile....whatever will I do?
Uh, I can show you government documents pertaining to them, and deployment procedures. Showing you a nuke would be illegal.
That is pretty much what i've said you should produce. You can't say their "plan" was any better than Trumps actual implementations if you don't show how.
Obama would have put on his mom jeans, apologized to the Chinese, created a hashtag and found more straw men to blame.
I don’t need to produce anything. If you want details search for them you lazy bastage.
cool. You can’t defend Trumps Inattention to a deadly pandemic during February so you ridicule his predecessor. Got it.
Well done of Trumps statements art his press conferences were cringeworthy but not point in pretending that Obama wasn’t an empty suit. If it is any consolation he would have been far more competent than Biden and he probably wouldn’t deny the pandemic was happening like Hillary would have.
Unlike you, I provide evidence to support my claims. I guess you don't know how to post links that don't exist.
Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents,” aka “the pandemic playbook,” 69 pages long.
