Basically says go to your local home improvement store or pharmacy and get whatever they have, namely N95 masks. Just slightly better than what the Mexican car painters do. Wet bandana.
Basically the big corps and big gov don't give a damn about us little people. It's the economy stupid. That's all they care about. Keep the big machine running because with our credit/debt based consumerism economy, one spoke breaks and the whole thing blows apart. Global recession/depression.
I feel for Trump. Just spent 3 1/2 years working on rebuilding our economy, wasn't finished yet and this happens. All because some stupid Chinaman accidentally released a bioweapon that they probably stole from us. Regardless, Trump needs to take this head on and quit trying to soothe everyone because he's worrying about the economy and re-election.(if that is what's happening)
Twitter folks are saying Trump gutted the dept that was supposed to handle pandemic response. After following links and reading articles, I find this;
The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.
The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.
Ziemer’s last day was Tuesday, the same day a new Ebola outbreak was declared in Congo. He is not being replaced.
Pandemic preparedness and global health security are issues that require government-wide responses, experts say, as well as the leadership of a high-ranking official within the White House who is assigned only this role.
“Health security is very fragmented, with many different agencies,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It means coordination and direction from the White House is terribly important. ”
The personnel changes, which Morrison and others characterize as a downgrading of global health security, are part of Bolton’s previously announced plans to streamline the NSC. Two members of Ziemer's team have been merged into a unit in charge of weapons of mass destruction, and another official's position is now part of a unit responsible for international organizations. White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, is out completely. He left the day after Bolton took over last month.
More like John Bolton's fault if anything.(We got bombs, just blow em up) Of course it's not like fedgov doesn't have resources right now. Too many chiefs in our bloated government that creates indecision and there's no coordination. Too many depts too. FEMA, HHS, NIH, CDC, DOD all kind of overlap. After 9/11, fedgov went hog wild creating these big depts but didn't organize the command structure evidently. Then of course Obama had 8 years to play with this big fedgov toy and load these depts up with leftists.
Interesting that turncoat Bolton is involved with weakening our capabilities.