Coronavirus(Again)

[ynnafymmi]

Maybe i am behind the times but didnt Barack Obama set up a commission to prevent such happenings such as this covid-19 outbreak.Why isnt Trump using this commission to stop the virus or at least using them in a helpful way.

[Togo]

Did you read this bit??

but they have not been passed by Congress.

Repeat.

but they have not been passed by Congress.

[ynnafymmi]

So Trump and Pence didnt close down Obamas CDC.Great news,no need to worry then,Togo.Phew.

[Togo]

//So Trump and Pence didnt close down Obamas CDC// sic

Correct. ...You got there eventually. Here is the latest advice dated 13/03/2020 from the American website that Trump has "closed down". Grow up.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html

[ynnafymmi]

As i am nearly 70 i think i need to do less growing up,Toto,but thanks for the advice.

[Togo]

My pleasure fannymimy.

[ynnafymmi]

Actually Myfannwy,Toto,but you can do what you like with it.....ooooeee,mississ...

[ichkeria]

Just to be clear, the CDC is a long standing public health arm in the US, and is not the agency that is being discussed here, which was the National Safety Council's global pandemic unit, which appears to have been neutered by John Bolton a couple of years back

[Togo]

[royfromaus]

Obama sets up a commission to prevent such happenings as this.




Amazing.

[sp1814]

ynnafymmi

[sp1814]

"We have hundreds of thousands of people who get better by just sitting around, or going to work".

[Spicerack]

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[Jackdaw33]

Read backwards the OP's name is I'm my fanny!

[Mamyalynne]

Always Myfannwy to me :-)

[Jackdaw33]

I'm sure there's only one n in Myfanwy.

[cassa333]

A department of four were going to save the US and the world from Coronavirus.... WOW. Just WOW

And all but one of the four are still in the National Security department.

So does that mean when you move departments you can no longer access the information in your head and advise on your area of expertise? That must be really difficult to do. Because the stuff in my head just pops in there when a subject I have knowledge of is in discussion.... Just sayin.

[KARL]

It seems to me that while people take in Trump's history of denial of the threat that corona presents, his actions and inactions which left the USA deliberately at a disadvantage in dealing with a rising problem with infections within the USA, there are also those who will still talk down the facts relating to all of that. The latter group makes as little as possible of recorded events, quotes, etc., suggesting also that having an organised unit on standby to deal with things if and when, albeit not an army of people but with the infrastructure in place to react at once and grow as the task grows (the approach adopted by other countries), is no better than none with the unit disbanded.

With no national health service, only a collection of largely uncoordinated units scattered throughout the country, compared with China, South Korea and Europe, the USA was already potentially the least capable of dealing with a pandemic. Belatedly the USA has now "seen the light" it seems and their government is scrambling to catch up in reverse mode to that conspicuously presented as late as a week ago - they still have no real idea of how many are infected, no established ways to monitor and trace the progress of the crisis or anywhere near enough testing facilities.

Meanwhile there are intriguing reports like this one around (not easily dismissed as improbable, given past realities):
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/15/21180688/coronavirus-vaccine-germany-white-house-trump

[ToraToraTora]

if only we'd known that to fight a virus all you need to do is set up a commission! PMSL! I see the commission in question is still operating. It seems this is merely another attempt at Trump bashing, oh dear!

[ichkeria]

It wasn’t a “commission” tho as already established and whether it would have helped is unclear.
But, either way, it isn’t still going

[gulliver1]

Trump " I did not know people could die of flu " , although his Grand Father did . PMSL! Oh dear.