Posted on 03/15/2020 6:43:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
WASHINGTON -- Public health and national security experts shake their heads when President Donald Trump says the coronavirus "came out of nowhere" and “blindsided the world.”
They've been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration's decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
“It would be nice if the office was still there,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, told Congress this week. “I wouldn't necessarily characterize it as a mistake (to eliminate the unit). I would say we worked very well with that office.”
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Why would pandemic response team be in the NSC and not the CDC?
The keep trying.
And failing.
Dumbass journalists.
John Bolton eliminated that position to streamline the NSC
I doubt this was anything but another bureaucrat attending meetings, or he would have left Trump with a stockpile of masks and ventilators and a flexible rapid reaction testing protocol
More MSM propaganda.
It’s an epidemic with few cases so far - here and worldwide.
It needs to be addressed, but the hype and propaganda and fearmongering is blowing it out of all proportion.
The Covid-9 disruption is so far all self induced with nothing to do with actual disease.
Asspress and ABC and their damned nitpicking. If Obama was president, they would be licking his feet.
Saw this spreading by anti trumpers on Facebook a couple days ago.
This has been debunked so many times
This is not true. He reorganized the team, probably got rid of traitorous types.
Give it a fricken' rest, already.
Epidemics are a security issue, especially with the fear of germ warfare. I have a nurse friend who works at NIH (National Institutes of Health) and was surprised when she told me they were somehow covered by military. This conversation was when she was trying to get her paycheck after surgery for a job related injury. Perhaps it is the same with CDC.
Trump is apparently after WWV.
Seems like a mistake.
Next he will be after the SnoTels..
And the real time stream flows.
He should stop with the 15% ethanol and get rid of all Gasohol.
You mean the nsa that has been undermining Trump from the beginning? Maybe they gave Trump no choice but get rid of them because they were involved in a coup to remove Trump. Just a thought.
This is the epidemic that never was. We have arrived in Crazytown.
Why would pandemic response team be in the NSC and not the CDC?
Exactly. This is an issue of organizational structure.
Yeah? Give us a fer instance.
Government agencies always seem to have a lot of overlap.
I wish FR had a “Like” button, I would use it on your reply.
Do you have any more detailed information about John Bolton eliminating the pandemic office to streamline the NSC? The link below names people who were let go, moved, or left as a result of this action. I don’t know anything about their politics or opinions. Maybe someone else here does.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
It wasn’t a pandemic response team. It was a group in the NSC focused on biowarfare threats. It was disbanded because other intel agencies are already dealing with it, and because domestic pandemic response is a matter for the Dept. of Health and Human Services. The idea that a pandemic is a national security matter in a country that doesn’t even protect its own borders is laughable.
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