He’s taking credit for an early, courageous travel ban, while we are not restricting flights from Italy, South Korea or Japan. They are playing with fire.
He is praising the CDC as being honest. Oh crap...
Yeah, he should have acted sooner and with a wider ban.
It is my theory that it is well known that there is no stopping this and the plan is to keep panic low, test only obvious cases, allow financial markets to stay as strong as possible as long as possible, all the while, prepare fedgov for radical measures they know will be needed anyway once medical care is overwhelmed. This explains military bases setting up facilities across the nation. POTUS said, when asked if US is prepared for lockdown/quarantine like China “were prepared for that and more if needed, but probably/hopefully not necessary”...something to the effect.
The word “prepare” was all over that presser