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OK COH- just for you. Trump's disastrous venture off the Fox Reservation...

cosmickid

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I would say this kind of incompetence and deflection are "horrifying". Trump made outlandish claims about what he inherited (forgot to mention the 69 page Pandemic Playbook that he basically ignored), but I digress. Basically Trump tried to claim that Obama had diminished the supply of PPE, and equipment such as ventilators that Obama was actually in the middle of doing in 2016 and was interrupted by the election that marked his leaving office...

The problem is that the Obama Admin put protocol and systems in place that they assumed would be carried on and followed by succeeding Administrations because let's face it no one envisioned an imbecile like Trump. I mean Trump not only IGNORED established policies and plans, he actually sabotaged some of the safekeeping mechanisms that were in place and that he inherited. Here are specific details related to your PPE concerns...

2015

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) sponsors study warning of a deficit of up to 60,500 ventilators in a severe influenza pandemic.

Department of Homeland Security study predicts a severe flu epidemic could result in 6.5 million hospitalizations and 2.3 million ICU admissions and “could overwhelm the Healthcare and Public Health Sector in as little as 3-6 weeks.” Warns of “significant shortages in… personal protective equipment (PPE), and medical equipment, including ventilators” as well as of “supply chain disruptions” that could “significantly hamper the effectiveness” of frontline workers.

Document outlines strategy now known a “flattening the curve”

Obama HHS solicits plans for a machine that can produce up to 2 million N95 respirators a day. “Respirator manufacturing capacity remains a critical gap” in pandemic preparedness says a top federal official in charge of project."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ng-stone-timeline-coronavirus-america-982944/

Those are examples of the ongoing plans Obama left in place, figuring his successor would be COMPETENT. These are perfect examples of how Trump's priority on his stupid wall led to a shift in priorities at HHS, cuts to CDC and US delegation at WHO and cuts among US health representatives stationed IN CHINA. This cut in July 2019 was particularly damning...

"President Donald Trump loves to blame China for the coronavirus pandemic, but new information surfaced over the weekend that the administration eliminated a position last July that potentially could have helped the US get an earlier jump on a response to the crisis, suggesting the president may need to place blame a little closer to home.

The Trump administration told the United States’ embed at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that the position would be defunded, causing her to leave her post in July 2019, according to a report from Reuters’s Marisa Taylor. The embed helped train Chinese public health experts and served in part as a liaison between Chinese officials and their counterparts in the US.

With the administration planning to discontinue the role, the embed return to the US about five months before China began to see its first Covid-19 cases. Under normal circumstances, the embed likely would have passed information about the novel virus to US officials. Instead, Chinese officials were able for weeks to conceal the virus and the threat it posed, leading to a delay in the world’s response to what was then a matter of great concern and is now a pandemic."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/23/21190713/coronavirus-trump-china-cdc-embed-quick

So when Muir called Trump on the fact that he was 3.5 yrs in from what Trump claims were deficiencies he inherited, Trump tried to deflect and shift the blame to people "harassing him". Pardon me but Bill Clinton was "investigated from 1994 on, and in that time came to be regarded as someone who got things done and actually increased his popularity to the point that by the time the GOP House actually Impeached him his approval rating was north of 60%. I guess Trump was unaware that it's possible to not be "too busy" to actually conduct presidential business. This was truly a pathetic moment,in what overall was a train wreck. No wonder he only goes on Hannity and Laura...

 
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