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Intelligence officials' early alarms about possible pandemic went unheeded
WE will pay for this literally. It will be hard to erase the memory of this failure,like it or not.
serf
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.
Comments
The Trump White House banned travel to the US from China by non citizens/residents on 31 January. He was criticized for it as xenophobic by the same people who are now saying he waited too long to take action. Travel bans have been implemented consistently as hot-spots sprang up around the globe.
Those of us who live in the real world understand that actions have consequences and running to an over-protective mode too early can potentially do more harm that good.
It is an obvious fact that if 100% of firearms in the US of A were banned and confiscated, we would not have any firearm related murders. We choose to not go to this extreme because the cost to individual liberty and freedom outweighs the benefit of a few lives saved.
Likewise when combating an virus that is new and unknown. We can error on the side of liberty and economy quashing restrictions; we can error on the side of 'if only one life is saved', or we can take a rational approach and deal with the growth as it occurs.
We were on the rational path for the past couple of months. I fear that we are switching to the liberty and economy quashing restrictions approach because of media manipulation of a virus they see as a means to remove Trump in November.
All states that have ordered quarantine of their once free citizens have Democrat Governors. Is this coincidence? Are we to believe that GOP governors just do not care?
Or, is there a dictate put out by the DNC to error on the side of economic destruction in the name of saving just one life in order to alter the election results in November?
Conspiracy theories can work any number of ways. A country of 330 million with 25,000 documented cases of infection and 250-odd deaths lurching towards economic suicide seems to be a ridiculous and stupid over-reaction. Refusing to acknowledge the possibility of a political agenda is refusing to acknowledge the political environment the left has created over the past 3-1/2 years.
Brad Steele