Since in order to fight a pandemic requires prompt action and swift mobilization of resources, usually in the Executive Branch, what, exactly do you expect Congress to do when the President won’t act?
People having food and lights on wont really care… now matters…not your budget…
Imagine that a bunch of people state after the fact that “they knew”…whereas until January 22 it wasn’t even established that the disease could be transmitted between humans, much less the transmission rates.
Imagine that in late January, the WHO which had people on the ground, didn’t consider this to be a world medical emergency.
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Trump acted before anyone was even calling for such actions to to be taken.
You know this because I’ve laid out the timeline repeatedly
Nobody in dem leadership was demanding any action before the trump administration put the wheels in motion while you and the cackling horde here were calling his actions unnecessary, harmful, xenophobic, and racist.
If dem leaders had been raising alarm bells when some of us were instead of still trying to impeach him who knows how different things might have played out but they damned sure had endless opportunities to do so.
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Facts don’t matter and truth doesn’t even exist in the universe anymore.
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Okay, you make good points if it is given by inexperienced physicians it can cause bad things. Give it to the hands of experienced American physicians, as apparently it was given by those physicians who did in that 100% effective study. Trump said himself that it could be, might not be, he in no way said that it was for sure a cure. He just pointed that it might give hope.
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He had the courage to stop travel on January 31. This is what he was up against at the time:
"Public health experts have warned that travel bans are not effective at stemming the spread of a virus and can make responding to an outbreak more challenging.
“From a public health perspective, there is limited effectiveness. And then there are a host of other reasons why they can actually be counterproductive,” said Catherine Worsnop, who studies international cooperation during global health emergencies at the University of Maryland.
The World Health Organization, which declared the outbreak a global health emergency this week, has recommended against any travel or trade restrictions in response to the outbreak. Member countries, however, do not have to comply with that guidance.
“Although travel restrictions may intuitively seem like the right thing to do, this is not something that WHO usually recommends,” said Tarik Jašarević, a WHO spokesperson. “This is because of the social disruption they cause and the intensive use of resources required,” he added."
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Sigh.
Travel bans followed by inaction on tracking and cleaning up the cases that are already here…do…nothing.
And his travel ban was INCOMPLETE.
I know why you cling to his travel ban as a sign of decisive action…because it was literally the only thing he did between Jan 31 and Mar 11, other than to continually downplay the threat of the virus.
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More of what he was up against in cutting off travel (Politico 2/4):
"The Trump administration’s quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could undercut international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent according to a growing chorus of public health experts and lawmakers.
The World Health Organization’s top official on Tuesday repeated concern that moves that interfere with transportation and trade could harm efforts to address the crisis, though he didn’t directly name the United States. Meanwhile, unions representing flight attendants, nurses and teachers criticized the administration on Tuesday for not being forthcoming about what kind of screening and treatment individuals will undergo, and some members of Congress say they’re concerned the efforts could stoke racial discrimination.
Wait. Are you saying that the period of time that the President said that he always knew this was going to be a pandemic he didn’t do anything to prepare for the needs of the nation by alerting private industry to ramp up production of soon to be needed medical supplies, coordinate with the States a cohesive and comprehensive response or engage a task force to predict what barriers there may be to rapid response?
He did none of that?
So weird.
Trump is a failure. Dude is sleeping at Covid-19 meetings now 
What’s up with that?
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My point was her should have locked down all international arrivals.
Doug your staunch defense of Trump is misguided.
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If only one could start at the end of a war and determine what should have been done every step of the way…after the fact.
The “he should have done this” advice we are getting now is sort of the opposite of the advice then. For example:
Sounds like many illnesses that only cause death in those with compromised health… meh
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Your skull will crack before the wall does.
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No
You are assuming CDC doesn’t have access or the pandemic office did. Bad assumption. You are also assuming the CDC doesn’t have intel of their own. #2.
You scream about Trump listening to experts. He did.
Fauci already said it wasn’t a mistake.
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No more 100,000 post threads … that’s a shame.
Yep, I was wrong. By February I started really becoming concerned, right about here;
Of course, I am and was not in a position to have the briefings that our government did.
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Media man bad…
No problem. You can fill him in about what he missed when he wakes up.
