May 10, 2018

[kpete]

[kentuck]

1. Very similar to the August 6 memo of George W Bush..

"Bin Laden Determined To Strike U.S."

[enough]

2. Let's hope Trump and his creatures pay a higher price for this than Bush and company

did for that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. They wont, but we will nt

[dchill]

3. There you have it.

[Skinner]

4. Here's the washington post article from that tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/

EDIT: And here's the tweet itself:

Link to tweet

[kentuck]

7. Thanks for that!

So informative!

[MyOwnPeace]

8. It took serious restraint.....

to not throw my laptop across the room after reading that article - from MAY 2018!!!!!!!

Yes, this mis-administration needs to pay for their genocide - YES, GENOCIDE!!!!

They elected to put OUR NATION at risk (more money for "the wall?" ).

And now they have daily pep rallies to prove how ill-prepared they were and are, using these rallies to further divide our country.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

10. Thanks Skinner!

You saved me the "trouble" of finding them.

[gristy]

14. Ah, good. Thanks. Credibility restored. :)

[malaise]

5. May 15, 2018 - From Bera and Connolly

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213234242

[BSdetect]

6. Hammer the point home relentlessly

[FakeNoose]

9. K & R Thanks for this!

Edit to add Congressman Gerald Connolly's letter to John Bolton from the same time period:

[erronis]

11. So now we have Barbie's husband leading the charge. Way to go, donnie.

Failed real-estate developer and failed newspaper publisher. But succeeded in leading dump and the U.S. into this mess.

[Botany]

12. Now, how many hearings did we have on Benghazi?

Trump blew it! We could have stopped it (C-19) dead in China in 2019.


Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses

Source: Los Angeles Times

Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.

The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Field work ceased when the funding ran out in September, and organizations that worked on the PREDICT program laid off dozens of scientists and analysts, said Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, a key player in the program.



Read more: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-02/coronavirus-trump-pandemic-program-viruses-detection


thanx to DUer SouthernCal_Dem for posting this.

[uponit7771]

13. Obama didn't replinish depleted national stockpiles is their latest excuse

[LiberalArkie]

16. I have wondered why.. Many of the masks had 2010 expiration dates. Which meant they should have been

replaced years before. I wonder who was directly in charge of the inventory?

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Who checks dates within millions of stockpiled boxed? The masks were fine, the expiration was for

the rubber straps. Easily fixed.

But Trump yesterday said "The shelves were empty, the shelves were empty" Obama let the shelves "even the Military shelves" become empty. !!!

[LiberalArkie]

20. But modern inventory systems handle all that. After all, first in, first out. So 2010 masks should

probably been displosed of a long time ago.

[Mc Mike]

22. Also, tRump was on top of this from the beginning. His response was perfect, like the transcript.

He gives himself a 10 out of 10 on his response.

So don't point out that he's been in charge of the national pandemic emergency stockpiles for over 3 years, almost an entire presidential term.

[Nitram]

15. Epedemiologists have been predicting the inevitable pandemic for decades. The Obama

administration took it seriously following the Ebola scare. Too bad Trump not only dropped the ball, he hid the football and lied about the location of the playing field.

[Stuart G]

19. What is great about this is simple: absolute proof of the moron's stupidity.

...And also the picture is easy to read and very easy to understand. This is ..."The picture that totally'
destroys Donald Trump's lies and stupidity...K and R for this post..Thank You

[niyad]

21. I urge all of you to go to the WaPo article that Skinner linked below, and then go to the CDC

article linked below that. Control of the Strategic National Stockpile (the warehouses are incredible) was taken from CDC and made political by that deranged demagogue. Currently soiling the People's House.


He reallly does want to kil us all.

[Blue Owl]

23. No excuse for this other than tRump is a fucking goddamned idiot

n/t