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How is it that Trump is so timely at cutting medical resources right before the moment it is most needed? Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd e
by johnnyanmac 2y ago
How is it that Trump is so timely at cutting medical resources right before the moment it is most needed? Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd expect and it's the equivalent of leaving a firewall down for a day?
And yeah, I'm aware a bigger factor in this freeze was hiding the very obvious Bird Flu pandemic. Can't hide the eggs getting more expensive though.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]
- llamaimperative 2y ago> Or perhaps such outbreaks are more common than you'd expect and it's the equivalent of leaving a firewall down for a day? I think this + bad luck, really.
- throwup238 2y agoLuck is the intersection of preparation and opportunity. In this case lots of opportunity and zero preparation.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWell said!
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y agoTrump is not acting in people's best interests. Wait, just rumaging around looking for my shocked face mask. Eggs more expensive doesn't matter any more.
- sieabahlpark 2y ago[dead]
- johnnyanmac 2y agoIndeed. I'm just also find it interesting how timely some of his actions can immediately blow up on us. And yes. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but was such a common rationale for those who voted Trump. I'm shocked that he did not in fact keep a promise thst would have benefitted the working class.
- hedora 2y agoCutting resources often is the root cause for an outbreak. - SARSv2 (aka Covid-19) happened after Trump disbanded the team that contained SARSv1. - During COVID, the west suspended polio vaccination programs in developing regions, so now polio outbreaks are a thing again. - Antivaxxers in NYC caused a massive measles outbreak a few years ago. Etc, etc.
- nradov 2y agoI won't attempt to defend the administration's actions, but no team ever really contained SARS. That outbreak burned out largely for natural reasons.
- rounce 2y agoI think they’ve muddled a few things together and are in part referring to the disbanding of the NSC’s Directorate of Global Health Security and Biodefense as part of John Bolton’s NSC reorg.
- School-Cotton 2y agoCovid was spreading in many countries before the US. Off the top of my head I remember China, Korea, Italy and Spain. And no country of significant size avoided it, regardless of whether they were led by Trump or not.
- zzzeek 2y agoThe US pandemic response team that Trump fired included a significant presence working onsite in China https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3NE/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-slashed-c...
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI hit the paywall. But if this is about the same thing I’m thinking of, one reason to be careful about the work China’s CDC was doing (at times with visiting staff from the US) is they were one (among many) source of lab leaks of SARSv1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7096887/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7096887/