HOW THE PRESIDENT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICAN DEATHS: PART III
…Former
National Security Director, Susan Rice
As
of mid-April, over 28,000 US deaths from the COVID-19 virus.
Even though the
president tried to downplay the virus, on January 6th, the US, Center
for Disease Control (CDC) issued
a level one travel alert advising travelers to avoid sick people and the
animal markets in Asia.
On
January 17th, the CDC and the president’s Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) announced that travelers from Wuhan,China
to the US would undergo entry screening for symptoms associated with COVID-19
at the airports in San Francisco, New
York and Los Angeles.
Alex
Azar, is the Pharma lobbyist that Trump had made the Secretary of Health
& Human Services (HHS),Azar
had his first coronavirus discussion with the president on January 18th. But in
that discussion, it was later noted that the president didn’t want to talk
about the virus. All he
want to talk about was vaping in the US, and when the flavored vaping products
would be back on the market shelves.
Even
Susan Rice, the former Obama, National Security Director has said that
the, “Lack of urgency in the Trump administration was extraordinary”.
“If we
[the Obama administration] had been in office when this hit and we were
informed at the White
House that a dangerous, unfamiliar virus had broken out in China, we would have
been all over that, from Day One. We
would have been figuring out how to ramp up testing quickly. We would have figured out how to prepare our health-system
infrastructure in the states where we know they don’t have the equipment that
is necessary to
deal with a wide-scale health emergency or a pandemic.”
On
January 20th, the coronavirus was found to have infected a man in
Sonhomish County, Washington state, who had just returned from China
five days earlier. The next day, the World Health Organization (WHO) put
out its first situation report about the China outbreak,
which
said there were 278 cases of COVID-19 in China, with 51 people severely
ill. There were already six deaths in
China.
But
what was worse, the virus had already spread to Thailand, Japan and South
Korea.
What
was disgusting was that President Trump just shrugged it all off.
Trump
just said pubilicly, “We have it totally under control.” This was said by the president at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was
referring to the single case in Washington state. He totally ignored that it had gone from
China, where it had killed six people, and had gone into other countries, when
he said, “It’s one person coming in from China. It going to be fine.”
Of
course, in China, they knew better..
Two
days later, the Chinese government locked down the whole city of Wuhan. The 11
million citizens of Wuhan could not leave their homes and
travel across China was stopped overnight.
In
addition, the number of deaths in China was increasing. This was written in a report published in The
Lancet, a respected British medical journal.
The
Lancet was
published on January 24th, and they urged the surveillance of this
new virus in view of, “its pandemic potential”.
“China
definitely botched and suppressed and covered up some of the early information
on this,” said
Jeremy Konyndyk, a
senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he
focuses on global-outbreak preparedness.
Per
Mr. Konyndyk: “By mid-January, certainly by the time they started
locking-down Wuhan, it was clear that this virus was human-to-human transmissible that
it was very aggressively contagious, that it could spread from human-to-human
very easily, and it had at least a concerning fatality rate. It was
clear that it was highly dangerous, and that it had a potential to really
overwhelm our modern health system. By
late January, everyone in the pandemic research community around the world was
in red-flag mode.”
On
January 29th, Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, circulated a
very blunt memo around the West Wing of the White House. “The
lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans
defenseless in the case of a full-blown
coronavirus
outbreak on US soil.”
But
President Trump continued to dismiss the risks, “We think we have it very
well under control.” He said this in
Michigan in a speech on January 30th. “We
have very little problem in this country at this moment…five…and those people
are all recuperating successfully. But
we’re working very closely with China
and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for
us.”
Trump’s
only move after that was to ban Chinese foreign nationals from entering the
US. He told Sean Hannity on Fox
News that: “We
petty much shut [the codronavirus] down from coming from China.”
Sorry
Mr. President, but you can’t stop a virus that way. And now you have the proof with more American
deaths than any other nation on the globe.
Copyright
G. Ater 2020
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