![]() One would think reading only that, or the Twitter thread (!) the piece is based on, that to save money (or because the Trump administration hated science, or something) the entire "US Pandemic Response Team" agency was eliminated and everyone in a large DC office building was fired.Īctually reading the contemporary NBC News. >May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team.Īh yes, yet another person who a) uses Snopes to "fact check" and b) looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. As a classical liberal/libertarian I find this kind of thing to be in a range between revolting and criminal. Because ideology and party are more important than lives. Yes, these politicians likely killed hundreds of thousands of people. When panic ensued, masses of people left the NY area, carrying the virus everywhere in the country. These people, in very real terms, caused hundreds of thousands of people to become infected. Keep in mind that Trump and his team sounded the alarm in early January and the Chinese travel ban went into effect at the end of January. If you do watch these, pay attention to the dates. A lot of the links I recorded have been deleted. These are just some of the links I kept as I chronicled this historical event. No indication that going through the subway is a risk factor We have the capacity to keep this contained ![]() It's not like we are dealing with something we haven't dealt with before Ride the subway, ride the bus, go see your neighbors We want New Yorkers to go about their daily lives We don't think it's going to be as bad as it is in other places "Everything is fine" "Precautions have been taken" "Fear is racially motivated" "Coronavirus is under control in the US" "About 60% of new cases coming out of the NY metropolitan area" "There is no reason not to take the subway." All after Trump's travel ban (again a "tilt" event in terms of SD from the mean). A lot of those videos have been deleted from YouTube and other places. We barely had to go to the market for a year. All of my supplies arrived and were put away before the panic started. If I remember correctly, that was mid January 2020. I covered my immediate and extended family (because nobody listens and everyone who gets their information from mainstream media is living in a fantasy made-up of lies). I ordered a supply of food and other necessary items (and yes, masks) to last several months. The instant I thought "this is several standard deviations from the norm" I took action. The data had to be absolutely overwhelming.Īs an informed observer I was paying attention. ![]() ![]() Ideology aside, a POTUS does not make a move like that in isolation. The instant Trump closed the door to travel from China I knew we were in for an event that was several standard deviations away from the norm. > We were completely blind during the start of the pandemic due almost entirely to failures by the CDC. The number certainly has to be between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. I am not being dramatic when I say that politicians, due to party and ideological loyalty, quite literally, killed people. In my opinion a good deal of this was due to the fact that this entire event turned political from the very start. able to contain the spread far better than the US
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