Topic: The Stable Genius disbanded the pandemic team duh
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #97,560
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 4 minutes later[^] [v] #1,100,615
well they haven't won any gold medals in decades
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 37 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,100,638
Trump also cut the CDC Budget"It’s true that the president’s budget proposals have consistently called for reduced funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"
Factcheck.org
"The fiscal 2021 budget proposal does call for a $693.3 million reduction to the CDC’s funding compared with what was enacted for fiscal 2020, according to this CDC budget document. That would be a 9% reduction in the CDC’s budget. The president’s budget proposal was released on Feb. 10, after the COVID-19 outbreak began and the first U.S. case was confirmed on Jan. 20."
One might guess Trump will be FORCED to shut the fuck up about cutting NOW.
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Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 11 minutes later, 53 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,100,643
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,100,649
to be fair the national security council is statutorily supposed to focus on national security ie combating terrorism, countering russia and china, cyber crimes
The Obama admin tried to make it less militaristic by adding a bunch of sub groups that focused on non-security issues like climate change, pandemics, immigration
The cdc, phs, and nih are better suited to handle stuff like this. There’s a bad practice of having way too many redundant missions within public agencies
I’m not gonna blame the loss of some stupid useless NSC sub council for the trump admins failure. It’s more so caused by a lack of professionals within the admin at all levels
The Obama admin tried to make it less militaristic by adding a bunch of sub groups that focused on non-security issues like climate change, pandemics, immigration
The cdc, phs, and nih are better suited to handle stuff like this. There’s a bad practice of having way too many redundant missions within public agencies
I’m not gonna blame the loss of some stupid useless NSC sub council for the trump admins failure. It’s more so caused by a lack of professionals within the admin at all levels
Syntax replied with this 6 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,100,653
@previous (E)
Head of CDC right in front of Trump said USA is NOT set up to deal with Pandemics. Has NO infrastructure.
For a Hurricane or Earthquake or Tornado - FEMA has trailers and cots and food and PEOPLE Trained to go to the location in need and help - Of course back at Katrina such was almost worthless but now is much better.
For Pandemic - Lack of a mass of medical devices even thermometers and reserves of Nurses Doctors Paramedics and in case of SARS MERS and now Covid19 the need for Ventilators in huge numbers and NO Plan even NOW to get more made.
Head of CDC right in front of Trump said USA is NOT set up to deal with Pandemics. Has NO infrastructure.
For a Hurricane or Earthquake or Tornado - FEMA has trailers and cots and food and PEOPLE Trained to go to the location in need and help - Of course back at Katrina such was almost worthless but now is much better.
For Pandemic - Lack of a mass of medical devices even thermometers and reserves of Nurses Doctors Paramedics and in case of SARS MERS and now Covid19 the need for Ventilators in huge numbers and NO Plan even NOW to get more made.
