Why Weren't We Ready for the Coronavirus?

[elleng]

'The U.S. has fared worse than other countries not because it lacked information or funding but because it failed to learn the lessons of the last outbreaks.

“This is about lack of imagination,” Ali Khan, formerly of the C.D.C., said.

In 2006, the idea that an unknown virus might spill out of some wild animal into humans, achieving person-to-person transmission and causing a global pandemic, seemed a distant prospect to most people. As an engaging science-fiction scare, it ranked somewhere beneath “Alien: Resurrection.” But Ali S. Khan, of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, was tasked with dreaming that nightmare by daylight.'>>>

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus?

[Skittles]

1. TRUMP failed

Obama left him with EVERYTHING HE NEEDED but Trump tossed ANYTHING Obama did

this is ALL ON TRUMP (who MOST OF US DID NOT VOTE FOR)

add to that Americans without health insurance or afraid of the expense of going to the doctor (ALSO courtesy of repukes)and it was a recipe was for DISASTER

[raccoon]

2. Off to Greatest with you. To answer your question,

Because Trump is POTUS and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He doesn’t care a rats ass about the country, just how much money he can skim off.

[tanyev]

3. Conversely, it's also about too much imagination--Trump's.

Imagining it was just a hoax, that it would only affect a handful of people, that it would go away on its own, that it would go away in warmer weather, that hydroxychloroquine would cure it, etc., etc., etc.