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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
It was not until Feb. 26 that the first case of suspected local transmission in the United States was announced by the CDC.
President Trump that day named Vice President Pence to lead the Coronavirus Task Force. The next day, Feb. 27, Pence named Dr. Deborah Birx to serve as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator.
This article lays out the chronology:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/31...ng-the-danger/ |
C'mon, man. Even if your dates are accurate, the time for action was not after the first case of suspected transmission. First, we should have made sure we were ready for a crisis. I trust you've seen the news reports on how strategic stockpiles of PPEs were depleted, a key White House office was disbanded, and the Obama-era playbook was ignored. Then we should have swung into high gear not at the first case, but as soon as we should have expected the first case to be coming. Senator Burr knew the cases were coming weeks ahead of Feb 27, and he acted. (Google Burr stock sales)
A week or two ago Cal (colorfully) asked a Democrat if he'd step up and acknowledge he was wrong as more numbers came in and showed the virus to be no big deal. With the President now talking about 240K deaths, maybe you should be stepping up?