No, actually, you didn't "post proof, that these things didn’t happen". You posted that the CDC budget wasn't cut, something that I never claimed. What I said was one program was defunded and the other program was disbanded, with the leader of it resigning and other members moving to other groups. Your claim--or perhaps it was just Tim Morrisson's claim in his defense of the disbanding of the NSC group--was that it was just a reorganization, not a disbanding. My rejoinder--as well as the replies of others much closer to what was going on--was that mixing that function with others would dilute the focus and it would get lost. Which, I would contend, is exactly what happened. If it hadn't happened, then events might well have unfolded differently. As I said in an earlier post--replying to Trump's contention that he didn't like paying people who didn't do anything and he would just rehire them if something did happen--what the job of that group was was to develop procedures for dealing with pandemics, train people all over the US as well as other countries in how to deal with them, and keep current with what was happening in other parts of the world in order to anticipate exactly what just happened.
But of course you will simply deny all of this and repeat your contention that no one has ever pointed to any failure of Trump's.
Bullshit.
As far as Taiwan is concerned--you obviously have not bothered to do any reading about it, including the links I have supplied. So I'll do it one more time with a brief excerpt so perhaps you will read it and maybe even do a search of your own to find out more.
Taiwan Has Been Shut Out of Global Health Discussions. Its Participation Could Have Saved Lives
By Anders Fogh Rasmussen
March 18, 2020
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was the Prime Minister of Denmark from 2001 to 2009.
Eight hundred and fifty thousand of Taiwan’s 23 million citizens reside in mainland China. Four hundred thousand work there. At its narrowest point, the Taiwan Strait between the island and the mainland is just 130 km. So, by all accounts, Taiwan should be in the midst a major coronavirus outbreak. Instead, as of March 18, it had seen just 100 cases compared to the more than 80,000 in China and the tens of thousands in several countries in Europe.
This has not happened by chance. Learning from the experiences of SARS in 2003, Taiwan was ready when the outbreak in Wuhan occurred. After the first notifications at the end of 2019, Taipei swiftly deployed a combination of measures to identify and contain the virus, including the use of big data to help contain potential cases.
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After the SARS outbreak, Taiwan established the National Health Command Center (NHCC), and in the first five weeks of the outbreak it took 124 actions ranging from issuing travel alerts and bans, allocating resources for face masks with 4 million being produced every day by the end of January and guidelines for schools. Following the amendment of the Communicable Disease Control Act in June 2019, fines can also be applied for the deliberate spreading of disinformation.
It also made use of technology, integrating the national health insurance database with its immigration and customs database. By merging databases they could collect information on every citizen’s 14-day travel history and ask those who visited high-risk areas to self-isolate. Mobile phones were tracked to ensure people stayed at home. Those who had not been to a high-risk area received a SMS to enable faster immigration clearance when traveling.
continues at time.com
[Gee, that NHCC sounds a little like the group that existed under Bush and Obama and was disbanded by Trump and Bolton.] |
