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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1219543)	4/12/2020 8:15:44 AM
From: puborectalis	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1582684

WASHINGTON — “Any way you cut it, this is going to be bad,” a senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Dr. Carter Mecher, wrote on the night of Jan. 28, in an email to a group of public health experts scattered around the government and universities. “The projected size of the outbreak already seems hard to believe.” A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action. His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action. The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1219543)	4/12/2020 8:18:44 AM
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¦ The National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports in early January predicting the spread of the virus to the United States, and within weeks was raising options like keeping Americans home from work and shutting down cities the size of Chicago. Mr. Trump would avoid such steps until March. ¦ Despite Mr. Trump’s denial weeks later, he was told at the time about a Jan. 29 memoproduced by his trade adviser, Peter Navarro, laying out in striking detail the potential risks of a coronavirus pandemic: as many as half a million deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses. ¦ The health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks. The president, who was on Air Force One while traveling for appearances in the Midwest, responded that Mr. Azar was being alarmist. ¦ Mr. Azar publicly announced in February that the government was establishing a “surveillance” system in five American cities to measure the spread of the virus and enable experts to project the next hot spots. It was delayed for weeks. The slow start of that plan, on top of the well-documented failures to develop the nation’s testing capacity, left administration officials with almost no insight into how rapidly the virus was spreading. “We were flying the plane with no instruments,” one official said.

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1219543)	4/12/2020 2:48:22 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Winfastorlose Respond to of 1582684

The Karenization of the country continues apace. https://t.co/5Zt8aKvB0z — Omri Ceren (@omriceren) April 12, 2020 SOME AMERICANS NEED TO GROW A PAIR. MANDATORY VACATION IS NO REASON TO HAVE A BREAKDOWN. DAMN SISSIES... LIBERALS COULD HAVE SPENT THIS TIME LEARNING ARITHMETIC, OR BASIC AMERICAN HISTORY. INSTEAD THEY MELT LIKE SNOWFLAKES. Beyond acute stress and anxiety, psychologists say coronavirus-related confinement is beginning to trigger deeper troubles, including depression and compulsive disorders https://t.co/munkjPSWtG — The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 12, 2020

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (1219543)	4/12/2020 2:49:01 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo Winfastorlose Respond to of 1582684

HOSPITAL INDUSTRY NOW ON LIFE SUPPORT DUE TO OVERREACTION TO CHINESE COLD VIRUS. THERE IS LITTLE DOUBT THE SHUTDOWN WILL COSTS MORE LIVES THAN THE VIRUS. Just for perspective, I work in a 21 bed ICU. We have 4 patients, currently. Absolutely unprecedented. This means we are putting people out of work and cancelling outpatient health care for no good reason. We need to start loosening the lockdown. — Matt Strauss, MD (@strauss_matt) April 10, 2020