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This is misinformation https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104 https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

alistairSH 7y ago
Trump literally axed the portion of the government responsible for international pandemic response. Many links included here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
tristanj 7y ago
I'm not sure why you're trying to spread fake news. The Trump admin absolutely made cuts to the CDC in 2018 and pushed out key officials. > In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...
- tropo 7y ago
  Working in 49 countries is not the job of the CDC. They have a duty to exactly 1 country. Cutting the workload should help them stay focused on that 1 country. It really is crazy for a US government agency to be supporting 49 countries. I hope this isn't typical. Imagine all the other agencies doing likewise. The EPA can stop pollution in France, Botswana, Finland, and 45 other countries. The Department of Education can regulate schools in Russia, Spain, Argentina, and 45 other countries. That's just messed up. It's treating them as colonies.
  - alistairSH 7y ago
    The first portion of the CDC's mission statement suggests otherwise... "CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same." https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm It isn't about fixing every problem abroad, or regulating any foreign nation's health agencies. It's about controlling/recognizing threats that start abroad before they spread to the US.
    - tropo 7y ago
      Does it work the other way too, or does only the US get stuck with this expense? For example, maybe Poland could fund a disease-control effort in 49 different countries, including the USA. The USA could expect about 48 countries to do likewise. We could have our diseases controlled by Slovakia, Ireland, Haiti, Singapore, South Sudan, Denmark, Laos, Pakistan, Chile, Peru, Ghana, Estonia, and dozens more.
      - alistairSH 7y ago
        Yes, other agencies fill similar roles abroad. The ECDC works across the EU, has partnerships with other states, and has an international relations component. I suspect other nations do the same. It would be daft to ignore epidemics abroad.
  - fzeroracer 7y ago
    Diseases don't exactly have a duty to one country. The best way to stop a pandemic is to control the spread, and controlling the spread means working with other countries.

alistairSH 7y ago

Trump literally axed the portion of the government responsible for international pandemic response. Many links included here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

tristanj 7y ago

I'm not sure why you're trying to spread fake news. The Trump admin absolutely made cuts to the CDC in 2018 and pushed out key officials. > In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump-united-states-public-health-emergency-response/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/coronavirus-china-trump...

tropo 7y ago
Working in 49 countries is not the job of the CDC. They have a duty to exactly 1 country. Cutting the workload should help them stay focused on that 1 country. It really is crazy for a US government agency to be supporting 49 countries. I hope this isn't typical. Imagine all the other agencies doing likewise. The EPA can stop pollution in France, Botswana, Finland, and 45 other countries. The Department of Education can regulate schools in Russia, Spain, Argentina, and 45 other countries. That's just messed up. It's treating them as colonies.
- alistairSH 7y ago
  The first portion of the CDC's mission statement suggests otherwise... "CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same." https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm It isn't about fixing every problem abroad, or regulating any foreign nation's health agencies. It's about controlling/recognizing threats that start abroad before they spread to the US.
  - tropo 7y ago
    Does it work the other way too, or does only the US get stuck with this expense? For example, maybe Poland could fund a disease-control effort in 49 different countries, including the USA. The USA could expect about 48 countries to do likewise. We could have our diseases controlled by Slovakia, Ireland, Haiti, Singapore, South Sudan, Denmark, Laos, Pakistan, Chile, Peru, Ghana, Estonia, and dozens more.
    - alistairSH 7y ago
      Yes, other agencies fill similar roles abroad. The ECDC works across the EU, has partnerships with other states, and has an international relations component. I suspect other nations do the same. It would be daft to ignore epidemics abroad.
- fzeroracer 7y ago
  Diseases don't exactly have a duty to one country. The best way to stop a pandemic is to control the spread, and controlling the spread means working with other countries.