That is just a load of BS.
And they had reacted to another serious threat previously after which their tiny government took action to prepare for the next. Our FDA and CDC could never adapt like that because of our rotating political leadership.
If Trump didn't treat everything that the Obama administration established like it was radioactive, he would have kept the group that was responsible for focusing on and dealing with pandemics together. Indeed, it was established because of the Ebola threat and the Obama admin realized that that kind of thing could easily happen again. As the WaPo article that I posted earlier and you obviously didn't read said, pandemics have a unique set of problems that overlap with many other problems and that make it unique.
“A pandemic is an odd policy challenge because it straddles a lot of other things,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who served in the Obama administration, citing global health; diplomacy; domestic health policy; border and travel controls; foreign aid; and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive materials threats. “But it is always a subordinate priority in any of those other streams, which leads to a fragmented and disconnected policy process.”
“During the Ebola operation, we really struggled with initially a lot of kind of bifurcation within the national security staff, between the international side and the domestic side, between the health people and the disaster people,” Konyndyk said. “And so the different elements of that Ebola response didn’t roll up together into a coherent whole until Ron Klain was appointed as the Ebola czar.”
washingtonpost.com
I used to live in a small town in Ohio. Every so often, maybe once every 5 or 6 or 7 years, I'm really not sure how often they scheduled those things, they conducted first responder training exercises so that first responders would know what to do in crazy situations like this. I doubt if they do that in most towns, this was a basically a university-dominated town of 25000 people. They cared about being prepared for things like that and they understood what good governance looked like. And yeah, it was a town dominated by those awful Democrats who just want to deprive everyone of their freedom, lol. |
