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• Jan. 7: The CDC established a coronavirus incident management system to better share and respond to information about the virus.
• Jan. 17: The CDC began implementing public health entry screening at the three U.S. airports that received the most travelers from Wuhan — San Francisco, New York JFK, and Los Angeles.
• Jan. 20: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health’s infectious disease institute, announced efforts to develop a vaccine.
• Jan. 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide support to the coronavirus response.
• Jan. 31: Mr. Trump declared a public health emergency, announced Chinese travel restrictions, and suspended entry into the U.S. for foreign nationals at risk of transmitting the virus.
• Feb. 4: Mr. Trump vowed in his State of the Union address to “take all necessary steps” to protect Americans from the coronavirus.
• Feb. 11: The Department of Health and Human Services expanded a partnership with Janssen Research & Development to “expedite the development” of a coronavirus vaccine.
• Feb. 24: The administration sent a letter to Congress requesting at least $2.5 billion to help combat the spread of the coronavirus.
• Feb. 29: The administration announced a level 4 travel advisory to areas of Italy and South Korea, barred all travel to Iran, and barred the entry of foreign citizens who visited Iran in the last 14 days.
• March 3: The CDC lifted federal restrictions on coronavirus testing to allow any American to be tested “subject to doctor’s orders.”
• March 13: Mr. Trump announced public-private partnerships to open drive-through testing sites, a pause on interest payments on federal student loans, and an order to the Department of Energy to purchase oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
• March 18: Mr. Trump announced a temporary closure of the U.S.-Canada border to non-essential traffic and plans to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase the number of necessary supplies needed to combat coronavirus.
Right and for each of these dates there were scores of federal employees working behind the scenes with these officials who are the face presented to the nation.
The funny thing is Natalie constantly claims to have inside info with regard to how DC works. The fact she wouldnt know there would be scores of feds working behind the scenes on this is ridiculous.
Our intelligence agencies warned Trump about this in January. He chose to ignore it and play it down. Now look where we are because he didn't take it seriously.
Ridiculous! Is China's plight because of Trump? Italy's massive outbreak because of Trump? How about the rest of the world in general, Trump? Do you blame all the cases and deaths worldwide on Trump? I am so sick of people who want to blame every single thing on Trump. He reacted based on information provided to him based on information provided to the world by the Chinese. Their initial lies and misrepresentation are to blame, not Trump's reaction to it.
Trump put a travel ban into effect early, which now even moron liberal democrats have to admit saved lives. They vilified Trump for that action and called him racist and xenophobic for doing it. Trump is doing his part and is adapting and changing his strategies as the threat becomes more well understood.
He isn't a doctor, a prophet or magician. He works with information provided to him and acts based on advice given to him. He is doing a great job on a virus that is hard to fight. If the USA was the only nation suffering then your Trump spew would be a little more understandable. But it isn't and your blaming him is absurd. There are approximately 300,000 cases worldwide and roughly 27,000 cases in the USA. Those numbers tell me, with all the travel to and from the USA, Trump is doing a pretty good job.
Does Biden really have a leg to stand on? He on January 31st when it was obvious that China was in a world of hurt stated that Trumps travel ban from Wuhan, the epicenter, was racist, xenophobic, and would actually spread Covid-19 more.
Batcrap crazy.
Don't get me wrong, Trump has botched this up big time, but Biden deserves to be roasted for his comments on this too.
What a POS. Instead of attempting to provide assistance, he politicizes the event for his personal gain.
In a national crisis, what do libs do? Attempt to make it worse by subverting efforts to help the public deal with the crisis.
Trump is everywhere, taking rapid action to help Americans. Biden is hunkered down and offers nothing but partisan political tripe.
Does Biden really have a leg to stand on? He on January 31st when it was obvious that China was in a world of hurt stated that Trumps travel ban from Wuhan, the epicenter, was racist, xenophobic, and would actually spread Covid-19 more.
Batcrap crazy.
Don't get me wrong, Trump has botched this up big time, but Biden deserves to be roasted for his comments on this too.
Given the state of the world, staged political events with no audience seems like a sensible approach. They won't feel as candid or authentic, but it's the best they can do. It wouldn't surprise me to see DJT do the same.
At this point I still think Trump has a chance if the election was held end next week, but if 1000's of people start to flood hospitals who are severely ill with Covid-19, and one, or two people from every American family ends up dead as the CDC prediction model says over 2-3 million dead he has a 0% chances of winning 2020.
If after 6 weeks only 20-60k people end up dead from it ( seasonal flu rates ) and American economy is in the trash because of the shut down his chances of being re-elected are next to zero. Lot of people I talk to yesterday are saying Trump is over reacting (What 100 people dead this is stupid).
You guys can cry and scream at the top of your lungs that wasn't Trumps fault it was China it was this or that. Human nature will be to react to what just happened. American Voter won't remember back in January they will remember going to the funeral of their 70 year old parents who just retired. They will remember going to their brothers funeral who was 58 years old has asthma caught Coronavirus and died.
The Trump Presidency is done just have to accept it. I support Trump and voted for him I don't support Biden but I'm not a fool look at he situation were in.
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