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    Jan 12, 2023, 02:45 PM
    Trump and the Pandemic - Part 2
    Part 1 was so ably challenged by Tomder (with disagreement) that here's Part 2:

    Continuing with Trump's handling (or lack thereof) of the pandemic, he fired homeland security adviser on the NSC Tom Bossert, whose job included coordinating the response to global pandemics. Bossert was not replaced

    That same year, his biodefense preparedness adviser warned that a flu pandemic was the country’s number one health security threat, and the U.S. was not prepared. Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the NSC's senior director for global health security and biodefense, left the council and was not replaced. Luciana Borio resigned as the NSC's director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy and was not replaced.

    By 2019, an independent study reported that the US was not prepared for a pandemic. Biden responded to the report by criticizing the Trump administration’s dismantling of the pandemic response team. Again, this is months before Covid-19 was even discovered.

    Trump then spent 23 of the first 69 days of 2020 on vacation, repeatedly downplaying the pandemic before declaring it a national crisis on day 70. Despite that, he refused to develop a national strategy to slow the spread, instead going on the offensive against state and local officials working to protect their communities. As a result, by the end of 2020, hundreds of thousands of businesses had permanently closed, 75% of schools were closed, and unemployment was over 6%.

    This is the announced candidate for president of the US in 2024.
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    Jan 12, 2023, 03:30 PM
    From my response on May 20,2020
    Trump's covid response began early in Jan 2020 while Dems sat on their thumbs or tried to impeach Trump

    Trump's Deadly Delay - Details (askmehelpdesk.com)
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    Jan 12, 2023, 03:54 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    From my response on May 20,2020
    Trump's covid response began early in Jan 2020 while Dems sat on their thumbs or tried to impeach Trump

    Trump's Deadly Delay - Details (askmehelpdesk.com)
    In the same thread, see my posts #s 1 and 8. Each demolishes your post linked above.

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