Inside America's two-decade complete failure to prepare for the coronavirus that is ravaging us

[El OchoCinco]

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and I also included criticism of CA in the past with Pelosi walking around Chinatown Feb 24th. I am fair and balanced to all fucktards.

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[Tsing Tao]

Inside America's two-decade complete failure to prepare for the coronavirus that is ravaging us today. Yes everyone is to blame.

Inside America’s 2-Decade Failure to Prepare for Coronavirus
Top officials from three administrations describe how crucial lessons were learned and lost, programs launched and canceled, and budgets funded and defunded.
https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...two-decade-failure-prepare-coronavirus-179574

The nation’s health secretary was warned about a possible pandemic — and, he admits now, he didn’t take that first warning seriously enough. But he studied with experts at the Centers of Disease Control. He read papers on virology. He took his concerns to the president. And months later, the administration unveiled a plan to tackle the virus emerging out of Asia, investing in therapies and warning Americans to stock up on canned goods.

It’s a moment that feels ripped from the headlines about the current coronavirus crisis. But the year was 2005, not 2020.

And for his troubles, that health secretary — Bush appointee Mike Leavitt — was mocked as an alarmist by political rivals and late-night comics, even as that year’s threat of avian flu petered out around the globe.

“Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans store canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds for when bird flu hits,” host Jay Leno said on the Tonight Show in 2006, a recurring bit where he ridiculed Leavitt’s warnings. “What? … Powdered milk and tuna? How many would rather have the bird flu?”

Speaking to POLITICO this month, Leavitt described a trap that health and national security officials know too well: Prepare too early and you’re called Chicken Little. Act too late — and millions may die.

“In advance of a pandemic, anything you say sounds alarmist,” Leavitt explained. “After a pandemic starts, everything you’ve done is inadequate.”

The Trump administration has taken the brunt of the blame for America’s lack of preparedness for the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caught the world’s wealthiest nation embarrassingly off-guard and plunged it into an economic and health catastrophe. But the cycle of inattention has roots far deeper than that, according to interviews with top policymakers from three administrations covering 20 years.

After each major health crisis of the last two decades, American health and political leaders have launched preparedness programs and issued blunt warnings to their successors — only to watch as those programs were defunded, staff was allowed to depart and Washington forgot the stark lessons it had just learned.

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No different than hurricane warnings here in Florida. Meteorologists tell us a hurricane is coming and will hit Florida hard, people panic and run to the store, spend time boarding up houses and evacuating. A strong breeze blows through because the storm went some other direction and everyone talks about the weather forecasts as being useless. Next time a storm comes through, they warn and everyone laughs, and the storm plows through the state and everyone in its path.

At least a hurricane can be seen on the map. A virus...

 

[Cuddles]

let's not point fingers at Cuomo like there were not some fucktarded Governors in Florida and Georgia acting fools and showing their asses as well as Trump's babbling bufuckary of a response.

This is why we can't have nice things...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/wwe-essential-business-florida-coronavirus.html
The WWE Is Now Considered an ‘Essential Service’ in Florida
Officials in the state permitted “employees at professional sports and media production with a national audience” to hold an event if it is closed to the public.

Mr. Demings, speaking at a news conference on Monday, said the WWE was “not initially deemed an essential business,” and traced the change to discussions with the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials.

Mr. DeSantis issued an executive order that went into effect on April 3, directing people to stay at home unless they were providing essential services or participating in essential activities. In a memo on April 9 from Jared Moskowitz, the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, the state added a new category to its list of essential services: “employees at professionals sports and media production with a national audience” only if “the location is closed to the general public.”

“There was a review that was done,” Mr. Demings said Monday, in response to a question from a reporter about how the WWE can hold events at the training facility in light of the order. “With some conversations with the governor’s office regarding the governor’s order, they were deemed an essential business. Therefore, they were allowed to remain open.”

 

[Cuddles]