We are lucky that the entire world is working to combat this pandemic, because this White House and these Tea Party Republicans certainly weren't prepared.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Trump and the Tea Party prepared the country to be unprepared for the Corona Virus
Trump and his Tea Party comrades - dedicated to destroying the Federal Government - are being exposed by how deliberately unprepared they were for this Corona Virus pandemic. (By the way, it is not what Trump racistly calls the "Chinese Virus" it is the Corona Virus - a world wide virus). Amber Phillips writes:
The New York Times reported that last year, the Health and Human Services Department performed startling government simulations to show how underprepared the United States was for such a pandemic. Nothing was done in response.
As Trump was coming into office, the Times reports, “outgoing Obama administration officials ran an extensive exercise on responding to a pandemic for incoming senior officials of the Trump administration.” A year later, Trump disbanded the government’s pandemic-response team.
NPR got an audio recording of the top senator on the Intelligence Committee, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), privately warning businesses in February that the virus, which was already in America, was going to be “aggressive” and “akin to the 1918 pandemic.” At the time, Trump was still comparing it to the flu.
