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FredHayek wrote:
koobookie wrote:
ramage wrote: BECAUSE of the king's lack of skill set.....THIS will be the future of fatally ill patients.....NOW
that's quite a jump from Cuomo's decision in 2015 to not purchase the ventilators. How do you blame that on President Trump?
Trump has been in office for how many years? Who downsized the pandemic response team? Who ignored the warnings that this virus was coming?
Where does the buck stop? Oh, yeah - "No, I don't take responsibility at all."
He didn't downsize the pandemic response team, he didn't decrease the budget for CDC. You have got to stop trusting the deceptive media. The pandemic response team was put under a different organization and the CDC had their budget increased.
You have to stop believing a media that has been attacking the administration for three straight years.
The budget for CDC is agreed to by the POTUS, the Senate, and the House, under Nancy Pelosi. Please read up on the budget process Kookbookie. You keep exposing your ignorance.
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ramage wrote: Try reading the U.S. Constitution for starters. All appropriation bills originate in the House of Representatives, Article 1, section 7.
Now to your earlier questions, Trump has been in office since Jan, 2017, 3 years. Is that so difficult to calculate?
Fred answered your other questions.
I can explain it to you but i cannot understand it for you.
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ramage wrote: Please shape us the histrionics. You might also want to clean up your scatological language or take your opinions to The Ring.
Simply, President Trump instituted a travel ban from China in Jan 2020, despite the claims by democrats that it was racist and xenophobic. China alerted WHO on Dec 31, 2019 of the virus. The ban came 30 days later. Where is this months to prepare?
If you keep repeating the falsity that President Trump gutted "the pandemic response team" then you may well convince yourself but not any sentient being.
Thankfully he has big enough shoulders to deal with the problem.
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“The Global Health Security directorate was absorbed into another directorate where similar responsibilities still exist at the National Security Council but under different titles,” a senior administration official tells TIME, insisting that the NSC continues to be “staffed by officials with extensive experience and expertise including in virology, infectious disease epidemiology, global health security, public health, and emergency response.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
But others say that dismantling that team, and downgrading the role of its director, sent a signal to the entire U.S. government that the post no longer mattered. “What it did was it told everyone in the interagency that Bolton and the President don’t value this because they took away the senior director position, and gave it to worker bees,” Bernard says.
Also from that Washington Post article:The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.
The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.
Pandemic preparedness and global health security are issues that require government-wide responses, experts say, as well as the leadership of a high-ranking official within the White House who is assigned only this role.
“Health security is very fragmented, with many different agencies,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It means coordination and direction from the White House is terribly important.”
His exit comes against the backdrop of other administration actions critics say have weakened health security preparedness, including dwindling financing for early preventive action against infectious disease threats abroad.
The Facts on Trump’s Travel RestrictionsOn January 13, 2017, national security officials assembled in the White House to chart a response to a global pandemic. A new virus was spreading with alarming speed, causing global transportation stoppages, supply-chain disruptions, and plunging stock prices. With a vaccine many months away, U.S. health-care infrastructure was severely strained.
No, I didn’t get that date wrong. This happened: it was part of a transition exercise that outgoing officials from the administration of President Barack Obama convened for the benefit of the incoming team of President Donald Trump. As Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser to President Obama, I led the exercise, in which my colleagues and I sat side by side with the incoming national security team to discuss the most pressing homeland security concerns they would face. Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden made ensuring a professional transition a top priority, so we followed the excellent example of our predecessors, who held a similar exercise in 2009. After 9/11, congressional legislation mandated such efforts in order to safeguard the country’s security through presidential transitions.
During the exercise, we put together plausible scenarios and offered lessons learned. Although the exercise was required, the specific scenarios we chose were not. We included a pandemic scenario because I believed then, and I have warned since, that emerging infectious disease was likely to pose one of the gravest risks for the new administration.
Moreover, for the first time since 9/11, the White House lacks a Homeland Security Adviser empowered to oversee its response to the top transnational threats of terrorism, cyberwarfare, and pandemic disease.
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