Unfortunately, that is a really dumb comment.
Unfortunately, when we were first learning about this new plague, the NSC was orchestrating an impeachment scam. They were too busy to be bothered by such trivial things as a pandemic. And you were on board with them.
The NSC and the intelligence community at large were warning the administration about a likely pandemic. Your Savior, Mr. Trump, was comparing the threat of pandemic with the "hoax" of impeachment. He knew about the danger--or at least he was told about it--and he downplayed it. He could have been doing things like tasking a group to focus on the threat and come up with steps to take to deal with it but he didn't. He already had virtually ensured that the country wouldn't be ready by "reorganizing" out of existence the group that had that job under Obama. So he didn't know what to do. He just did a thing that he wanted to do anyway, close the borders.
U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic
washingtonpost.com
U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.
The intelligence reports didn’t predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores or recommend particular steps that public health officials should take, issues outside the purview of the intelligence agencies. But they did track the spread of the virus in China, and later in other countries, and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.
Taken together, the reports and warnings painted an early picture of a virus that showed the characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that could require governments to take swift actions to contain it. But despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans. Lawmakers, too, did not grapple with the virus in earnest until this month, as officials scrambled to keep citizens in their homes and hospitals braced for a surge in patients suffering from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January,” said a U.S. official with access to intelligence reporting that was disseminated to members of Congress and their staffs as well as to officials in the Trump administration, and who, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.
“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn't get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red.”
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