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In reply to the discussion: This is a MUST-READ article just published in the New Yorker "The Plague Year" Oh My God [View all]Botany
(70,490 posts)15. Obama left the people, the protocols, and materials in place that would have stopped much of this ..
... much of this nightmare.
Timeline as I remember it.
2017 Trump fired the pandemic global response team
2018 (Sept. ?) Trump removed the epidemiologist from the C.D.C. who was in China
2019 (Aug. ?) Trump took us out of an international team looking for diseases world wide
the organization was call PREDICT
Fall 2019 Trump was told about C-19 and he and Jared invested in hydroxycholoroquine and their
own C-19 test kits (which didn't work).
Feb. 2020 Kushner and Pompeo shipped 18 tons of PPE to China and so a month or so later in NYC
Drs., nurses, and other responders had to wear garbage bags and home made PPE.
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This is a MUST-READ article just published in the New Yorker "The Plague Year" Oh My God [View all]
BigBearJohn
Dec 2020
OP
I agree with your posts on this thread. The answers about this have been in our faces the entire
BComplex
Dec 2020
#44
If you're talking about the how-to-handle-a-mad-virus info the Obama administration gave
calimary
Dec 2020
#56
Obama left the people, the protocols, and materials in place that would have stopped much of this ..
Botany
Dec 2020
#15
If Hillary hadn't had the Presidency stolen from her we and the world would not be going through ...
Botany
Dec 2020
#24
+1, I remember him laughing while Trump saying anyone who wants a test can get a test
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#31
+1, non politicos weren't paying attention to how vile Trump was and are now just seeing it in open
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#34
Well Said, Thank You..His ."COVID-19 INCOMPETENCE HAS DEFINED TRUMP"...FOREVER, AND FOREVER,
Stuart G
Dec 2020
#11
The whole world handled CV19 relatively fine the US is the outlier still to this day
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#32
We are outlier in infections per million its Trumps argument that deaths per million is the measure
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#65
Ni..That's Trump admins argument, case per million Trump is relatively horrible
uponit7771
Dec 2020
#69
And about his trip to Walter Reed hospital in November 2019? No information about what that was for.
erronis
Dec 2020
#14
A stunning piece of journalism. It reads like a novel. Highly recommend. Thank you Big Bear John.
Ninga
Dec 2020
#17
OMG I just found out what a spectacular hatchet job has been done on Deborah Birx
LearnedHand
Dec 2020
#38
This story could have been written in March. Trump's failures were so predictable. nt
SunSeeker
Dec 2020
#46
In the not too distance future this needs to be expanded and published as a book.
sarge43
Dec 2020
#47
Iffy at best, Mr Redfield. "...isolate them, and contact-trace around them was not going to work."
nilram
Dec 2020
#50
Trump presided over a 2 year draw down cut CDC staff in China by more than 2/3rds
neohippie
Dec 2020
#64