Nice of you to attribute arguments to me that I didn't make. Guess that makes "debunking them" pretty easy...
You've played a pretty disingenuous game in any response you've made to a post I made in this thread. For Example, I clearly referenced PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS (Not response) in this post
"Where does pandemic preparedness rank on your list of what you expected? Are you a YUGE proponent of the wall- to the point where you agree with Trump that sacrifices in the area of pandemic preparedness (a concern of the entire populace) should be allowed in order to divert the funds to his and his supporters' pet project- the wall...?
Not only did Trump make the cuts in critical areas of preparedness from what Bush and Obama had put into place. But in order to justify his requests to make cuts in the budget, he used the argument that Obama had done such a good job preparing that the cuts were justified. Then he and lying Kayleigh both tried to shift blame to Obama and started spreading the unmitigated lie that Obama had "left the cupboard bare". The exact opposite of what Trump had previously argued...
No idea why you keep trying to gaslight for trump's actions after the COVID era began. His dereliction of duty in the preceding 3 yrs is enough to condemn him for, all on its own. The reality is that practically anyone would have followed the playbook and implemented the control measures the playbook called for from the outset. It almost sounds ridiculous to say, but the idea that Trump refused to follow the recommendations of the playbook because it came from Obama is beyond credible...It's exactly the kind of behavior you'd expect from him..."
To which you replied...
"Trump appointed the Covid-19 task force about a week after the first US case. He stopped foreign Travel from China a day or so later. Biden was among the critics of that move. All this happened during the senate impeachment trial. What playbook are you talking about?"
So my post was about US pandemic PREPAREDNESS, and your response was about Trump's "response"? No offense but that's pretty "trumpian" of you...
Then in this post, you engaged in the same sleight of hand trickery... Posting "links" to "debunk" points I did not make.
For example, your first link directs to factcheck.org and discusses this claim from 2018...
"As the COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus has spread around the world, a number of politicians, news organizations and public figures have made the false claim that the Trump administration cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s anti-pandemic work in over 40 countries to just 10. The CDC told us that’s not true.
The claim appears to have been based solely on
outdated news reports from early 2018 that said the CDC was preparing to dramatically reduce its work helping to prevent infectious-disease epidemics."
The first link is totally irrelevant to my point about the action plan for replenishing crucial supplies enacted by Obama in 2015-16 being abandoned by Trump. Are you going to argue that had the replenishing not continued at the rate it was in 2015-16 it would not have been completed by 2020? There was basically a 3 yr window from Trump's inauguration to the point in 2020 when we needed to have the proper amount of supplies and didn't...
And the Snopes link is beyond disingenuous. My whole point was about the fact that the SL Post Dispatch exposed Trump's duplicity. On the one hand his allies argued for a reduction in funding pandemic preparedness in both
the 2019 and 2020 budgets by claiming the cutbacks were possible because Obama had completely re-stocked the arsenal.
But AFTER the pandemic hit, Trump changed his tune and tried to paint Obama as the bad guy who had left the cupboards bare. Obviously, on at least ONE occasion he was outright lying- maybe you admire that?
To "debunk" my post, you linked to a snopes discussion of the
2021 Budget, which concluded that the claim they examined was "mixed" because Congress had yet to approve the 2021 budget.
Of course, I've got to believe that you know Congressional approval had NOTHING to do with my point about the duplicity Trump engaged in. He essentially argued both ends of the spectrum on Obama's funding, to try and absolve himself of any responsibility. And then of course there is the "minor issue" of you trying to debunk a point I made about 2019 and 2020 budgets with an irrelevant discussion about 2021...
I didn't even link the stories which dealt with the budget cuts in summer 2019 that eliminated Dr Linda Quick's position in China. Again another example of Trump choosing to prioritize one funding issue over another, and then trying to weasel out of the consequences when the fact that he made the WRONG CHOICE came back to bite him in his fat ass...
"Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned. The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. "
Experts including one former official who held that position told the news service that if the Expert (Dr Linda Quick) had still been in her position, then she would have had the opportunity to receive warning and information about the coronavirus outbreak possibly sooner than U.S. and other global health experts did. “It was heartbreaking to watch,” Bao-Ping Zhu, the former CDC official who held the role between 2007-2011, told the news agency. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases. Dr Quick a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. "
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/tr...isease-outbreaks-in-china-several-months-ago/
Got a link to "debunk" that?