Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to have been ANYONE in his administration who might have figured out early on that this could be a dangerous situation, and did anything about, or told him what HE should do about it.
See post 34 above
No, I disagree. I don't believe for 1 second that he (and his corrupt admin) weren't paying attention. What I hear from some people as this being an example of "incompetence" or somehow being "asleep at the switch," misses the real issue here. All of this delay and inaction was very deliberate. They didn't want to contain it or otherwise minimize the impact. It has been a deliberate approach to let it get to the point where maximal damage (across many fronts) is bound to occur, then count on a sleepy public to buy into all of their current "heroic" pronouncements of intent and action. And then of course, be able to take full advantage of the "crisis" as we have all come to expect...