Posted on 09/04/2021 7:47:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The White House warned Friday that the United States is "not adequately prepared" to handle future pandemics and other "high consequence biological threats," and rolled out a strategy that would "fundamentally transform" the nation's ability to prevent, detect and rapidly respond to pandemics and threats.
In a report released Friday by the White House Office of Science and Technology and the National Security Council, officials warned that the U.S., currently, is "not adequately prepared" to handle future pandemics, warning that "serious" biological threats are expected to occur "at an increasing frequency."
President Biden's top science advisor and White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) Director Dr. Eric Lander warned Friday that another pandemic could "occur soon," possibly within the next decade, and would "likely be substantially different than COVID-19."
"We must be prepared to deal with any kind of viral threats," he said.
The effort to transform U.S. response capabilities is expected to cost $65.3 billion— a dollar figure officials said "should not be viewed as a cost, but instead as providing a large return on investment."
"Investing a modest amount annually to avert or mitigate the huge toll of future pandemics and other biological threats is an economic and moral imperative," the report states. "It’s hard to imagine a higher economic—or human—return on national investment."
The investments would include those in critical scientific goal areas like vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and early warning, as well as other investments in strengthening disease surveillance, health systems, surge capacity, personal protective equipment, innovation, biosafety and biosecurity, regulatory capacity, and global pandemic preparedness."
"Biological threats are increasing, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate, and the likelihood of a catastrophic biological event is similarly increasing," the report states.
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I'm right, aren't I?!?!?!
simple, everything you did this time? do the exact opposite...
The “Stratergy” would be to eliminate BiXiden as Step Zer0.
With Sleepy46 in the White House, we’re “not adequately prepared” to run a lemonade stand.
Make Fauci our king, perhaps? Daily vaccines? Or just a sh_t ton of money thrown at their cronies?
I bet the third option.
What if we had a pandemic of a lack of withdrawal of US citizens from Afghanistan?
Their current presumption of authority to eff up our lives and the economy is inadequate?
Do we have a plan to extract Jao from the White Basement when Gorebal Warning floods the place out?
Death to tyrants is the strategy
Yeah cause they did such a wonderful job “extensively planning” the Afghanistan bug out we should give them $65 billion to plan for some hypothetical future crisis”?
Thank you but NO.
Sit down, Diaper Boy.
You forgot to include he quack uncle Fauci!
New strategy? Nah. More of the SOS.
Get your Covid shot. Get your second Covid shot. Get a booster shot. Get another booster shot.
Get a booster shot every two or three months. Leather. Rinse. Repeat.
DON'T DO WHAT WE DID THIS TIME!!!
Did they omit “Clone Dr. Fauci?”
We’re going to need some kind of a miracle antibiotic to rid ourselves of Fauxci...
He was Senator for decades, VP for eight years, and we are not ready? What about the great flu hysteria of 2009, when he was VP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic
H1N1 in 2009 affected the young more than the old. Sort of the opposite if covid. I know of someone whose child died from it. I don’t know anyone who died of covid.
Most pandemics through out modern history come from China.
Start with no more CCP students in US colleges.
Bonus would be reduction of intellectual theft by said students.
Fauci will be 81 the day before Christmas. There is NO reason why this one man showboat should be declaring policy and life choices for 350 Million Americans. He is only being kept out front because he wants to be there and as a reward for bringing down Trump.
The similarly rewarded Comey with the FBI job because he stabbed AG Ashcroft and President Dubya in the back
These “rewards” do not pay off for American people.
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