THE TRUTH and nothing but the truth

ScienceChic wrote: Both sides? You mean Democrats who were accused of fear-mongering "a pandemic hoax" to harm our president's re-election are just as culpable as an administration who fired the NSC Pandemic Team that our last president created, and who have essentially eviscerated the EPA and FDA? I will give you that Dems allowed funding for the NIH, NSF, and CDC to be gutted same as Reps, but you don't get to blame Democrats at all for this abject failure of a pandemic response. The buck stops with the President who continues to live in denial and lie daily about the facts of this disease outbreak. Full stop.

Yes, we're probably going to follow Italy's path much more so than Taiwan, unfortunately. We haven't been testing in the numbers we should've been because we have an administration that acted like communist China in wanting to gloss over how bad this was going to be for the economy and their re-election.

We have thousands of unconfirmed cases and community spread is here. This is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better, and China better be careful that the liey don't start a second wave after releasing everyone from quarantine.

Keep in mind, we'll likely have a second wave this fall as well, if this follows previous pandemics.
Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Spanish Flu Was So Deadly

Beth Cameron, an expert in global health security and biodefense, complained in the Washington Post, "I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it."

Given President Donald John Trump's swift action to restrict travel to Red China and other infested places, the CDC's swift action to develop tests, and the reaction at the state and local level, what exactly would an Office of Pandemics do?

I mean besides get in the way. Created in 2015, the office never handled a pandemic.