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U.S. Was Beset By Denial & Dysfunction...
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The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus ragedFrom the Oval Office to the CDC, political and institutional failures cascaded through the system and opportunities to mitigate the pandemic were lost.

By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

The country has adopted an array of wartime measures never employed collectively in U.S. history — banning incoming travelers from two continents, bringing commerce to a near-halt, enlisting industry to make emergency medical gear, and confining 230 million Americans to their homes in a desperate bid to survive an attack by an unseen adversary.
Despite these and other extreme steps, the United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.
It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus.
The failure has echoes of the period leading up to 9/11: Warnings were sounded, including at the highest levels of government, but the president was deaf to them until the enemy had already struck.
The Trump administration received its first formal notification of the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on Jan. 3. Within days, U.S. spy agencies were signaling the seriousness of the threat to Trump by including a warning about the coronavirus — the first of many — in the President’s Daily Brief.
And yet, it took 70 days from that initial notification for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force that had outflanked America’s defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. That more-than-two-month stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered.

Trump’s baseless assertions in those weeks, including his claim that it would all just “miraculously” go away, sowed significant public confusion and contradicted the urgent messages of public health experts.
“While the media would rather speculate about outrageous claims of palace intrigue, President Trump and this Administration remain completely focused on the health and safety of the American people with around the clock work to slow the spread of the virus, expand testing, and expedite vaccine development," said Judd Deere, a spokesman for the president. "Because of the President’s leadership we will emerge from this challenge healthy, stronger, and with a prosperous and growing economy.”
The president’s behavior and combative statements were merely a visible layer on top of deeper levels of dysfunction...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-...rc404=true
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History will definitely pass judgment on the last month.  Got a feeling our President will not be redeemed from his past "wartime" performance.
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Quote: @BigAl99 said:
History will definitely pass judgment on the last month.  Got a feeling our President will not be redeemed from his past "wartime" performance.
It's early and lots of chapter still to be written - as POTUS said today, the next two weeks are going to be really rough.

A lot of people are going to suffer and die.  The failures are systematic and cross functions of Govt, including CDC. 

One thing that sticks out to me is China's egregious behavior early on.


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January 21 China released the genetic code, Johnson and Johnson started research that day.  I hope the people we depend on were more honest than the Chinese government.  My company that has manufacturing in China was sending out messages and restricting employees traveling in December 2019. 

How you all feel about these leaders?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...in-january

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Quote: @purplefaithful said:
@BigAl99 said:
History will definitely pass judgment on the last month.  Got a feeling our President will not be redeemed from his past "wartime" performance.
It's early and lots of chapter still to be written - as POTUS said today, the next two weeks are going to be really rough.

A lot of people are going to suffer and die.  The failures are systematic and cross functions of Govt, including CDC. 

One thing that sticks out to me is China's egregious behavior early on.



He said that today what did he say two weeks ago?   Conspicuous poor and deceptive behavior should never be excused by loyalty. 
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HAHA

Washington post.  How is their Russian Hoax shit going?

What do you people know what the task force is doing. 

Blind partisan hacks.  Thank God the xenophobe Trump stopped travel in January.  PC Obama wouldn’t have.  And we would have had millions of deaths apparently. 

History will judge him just fine.  Not so much the hacks on the left.

Good luck with the distribution of the malaria drugs.  I am old enough to remember when you nuts said it wasn’t tested,  or we didn’t have the distribution.  Now all countries are using it. 

Hahaha
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Quote: @BigAl99 said:
History will definitely pass judgment on the last month.  Got a feeling our President will not be redeemed from his past "wartime" performance.
Trump is the biggest moron to ever hold office in the history of the United States. Period.
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Quote: @StickyBun said:
@BigAl99 said:
History will definitely pass judgment on the last month.  Got a feeling our President will not be redeemed from his past "wartime" performance.
Trump is the biggest moron to ever hold office in the history of the United States. Period.
Only equaled by those that opposed his early efforts and tried to use his concerns on the virus as political capital.   I dont like much of what trump says or certainly a lot of his past,   but his tenure as president, while filled with pettiness from  the media and opposition, has been somewhat impressive considering what he has had to overcome from Congress, the media, and the never ending  crusade to tear and smear everything he says or does.

It's funny sad watching the Democrats make fools of themselves everytime Trump says something to make themselves look even more foolish as he is the one that comes out on the other side with the W.

And most likely will again in Novemeber without some massive voter fraud.
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How anyone without delusion can watch a Trump press conference and not instantly realize the guy is an asshat is completely beyond me. 
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Haha voter fraud.  They are already opening the door to email voting.

Haha what a joke. 

We need voter id.  One vote for one living person.

They pretend a hundred grand in facebook ads by some russian group not affiliated with the Russian government (if even real) was Russian interference.  Yet George Soros can spend billions to flood the borders with caravans, the DNC cheats, Soros can fund Antifa pussies to start fights, etc.

What a joke the left has become. 

All to whip up the base.  And we see what it has produced. 
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