(02-27-2020 10:24 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote:  

(02-27-2020 10:17 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I just want to know one thing. All of you who say Trump is not responding appropriately, exactly what is it that he should be doing? I don't mean a bunch of platitudes and allegations, I mean what specifically should he be doing? And while you're at it, how do you know that he isn't?

Not firing the CDC's Complex Crisis fund/team two years ago and not replacing them would have been nice.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor...-response/

Quote:In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced.

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What would these people have done? Stopped the virus from forming and spreading, nope. CDC has 11,000 employees.