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Originally Posted by Got Stripers
If your trying to make the case that a lot of blame falls squarely on China for allowing this virus to get a foothold throughout the world by early misinformation, I think your preaching to the choir on that one.
When it became clear to the health experts, who I’m certain briefed this administration that this was going to progress in a similar way to what happened in China and other countries, Trump continued to downplay the severity of this crisis, he failed to mobilize to get out ahead at what was to come and the messaging just allowed those listening to our “leader” a comfort level to walk around and live life as usual. The result is a larger outbreak, more severe disruption of life, more loss of life and a larger impact to the economy then if we were out in front early and better prepared from the start.
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What was this constantly parroted but unspecified "get out in front of" meme? The medical "experts" like Fauci were "downplaying" it. China had willingly let many thousands from the infected area leave the country going to all parts of the world including the U.S. when it knew of the outbreak (way before it admitted there was one). It was most likely here and spreading before we had a chance to "get ahead of it."
And the various supplies that were supposed to be stockpiled by states and the Federal government according to the plan supposedly left behind by the Bush and Obama administrations were already depleted and not restocked by them and the states and cities (such as NY) before Trump was elected. It was a decent plan, but the past administration didn't follow it as it should have and quietly left the Trump administration with shortages which it had to scramble to fill. Which it did. And, it appears, that the mobilization to restock has prevented the shortage from becoming a catastrophe in that respect.
I keep hearing about the testing that should have been done. Well, there was a whole bureaucracy in place that was supposed to be handling the "plan" which should have been up to speed and fully equipped at all levels of government. The Bureaucracy did not respond as well as the critics demanded that, instead, Trump should have. So the administration gets the blame, warranted or not.
Critics point to South Korea and Taiwan as examples of how it should have been done stat. Well, their bureaucracies, being right next door to the communist beast, and having gone through the previous infections spread by that beast, were not as off-guard as the rest of the world. Nor were they as unwieldly as is the American many tiered one. Taiwan's population is only approximately double that of NY city. Yet NY was totally unprepared and understocked, even though there was the national plan in place that said it should have been.
It is obvious that the critics are mostly the same that have been trying to remove Trump since he was elected. It is obvious that they have been using this crisis as the latest attempt to get rid of him.
The narrative created by these critics is so pointedly crafted that it sometimes trips on itself. Such as attempting to make Trump out to be a dummy by his touting the chloroquine drug, yet pointing how prescient and good was South Korea's response, overlooking that SK touts that drug and is part of its recommended protocol.
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