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Regardless of covid's source. Are we ready for something that is truly bad? It sure is a good thing that covid turned out to not be anywhere near as deadly as t
by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
Regardless of covid's source. Are we ready for something that is truly bad? It sure is a good thing that covid turned out to not be anywhere near as deadly as the spanish flu as they touted it to be.
Here's an article from April 1st 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-media-change-tune-trump-attacks-coronavirus-china-travel-ban https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-media-change-tune-trum...
Trump put in travel restrictions for china in february of 2020 and was called xenophobic and fear mongering over what wasn't yet a pandemic. Sorry but the democrats went on the offensive attacking trump for doing what everyone did.
Flipside, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic-playbook-for-trump-administration-officials-confirm https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/obama-team-left-pandemic...
Trump had a pandemic playbook on how to react to a pandemic and didn't use it? Is it possible because of the political attacks on him?
It's pretty obvious that politics got in the way bigtime. I have no expectations this will be different next time.
Then we had clearly political decisions made all throughout. By May 2020 we had the data in that people like Dr. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College said covid is the equivalent of the Spanish Flu of 1918.That was wrong and we still reacted like it was indeed still dangerous. When in reality it was less dangerous than the normal flu season(largely due young children being unharmed).
The number of political abuses is so high that society right now would not accept another pandemic. That they are almost certainly full of shit at this point.