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If China hadn't tried to put it under the rug, Italy/Europe wouldn't have been so underprepaired (well it also would've helped if the US would have played its u
by Tarsul 6y ago
If China hadn't tried to put it under the rug, Italy/Europe wouldn't have been so underprepaired (well it also would've helped if the US would have played its usual part as a world leader). But I'm digressing... all the talk about our bad past doesn't alleviate the mistakes we still do today. Those are the most shameful even, where we have so much knowledge about the virus and still take the wrong turns all the time.
- zhdc1 6y agoAlso keep in mind that most East/South East Asian countries had been preparing for a COVID-like event since SARS in 2003. Sixteen years of preparation, and everything that goes into it, paid off.
- vram22 6y agoThe prep of setting up a pandemic task force that the previous US admin did was axed by Bumf.
- vram22 6y agoThereby probably contributing to / enabling many more tens of thousands of US COVID deaths and the same for suffering, than there need have ever been.
- vram22 6y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
- vram22 6y agohttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/trump-fired-pandemic-response-jared-kushner-coronavirus.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/04/trump-fired-pand...