He also said he left the playbook for how to handle an epidemic ... lol ...
Every hospital, every community, every state’s Emergency Management team had a pandemic plan.
I guarantee you that 90% of the people in charge did not know where they were. And 90% of those who knew where they were, pulled them down and realized they hadn’t been updated since 2009.
So, Obama isn’t lying outright. But if he thinks the State, Local, or Federal Govt was prepared for anything like this are kidding themselves.
The states are in charge of EM. The Feds act as suppliers and facilitators. The States are supposed to run emergencies. Why this isn’t more widely understood is a mystery to me—because it reflects how well the Feds ARE doing, and how shitty the States have done.
Nursing homes are run under state rules. Trump should have zero responsibility for anything that happened in them.
The Republican messaging on this entire COVID issue has been horrifying from the start.