Ok.
You said
I just gave you an article stating that global response teams lost 80% of their funding. China, was one of the area’s cut.
Ok so what exactly would they have done with full funding that would change anything today relative to this outbreak?
This is only because this thing has not exploded like the Swine Flu did. If it does, you will see ratings drop like concrete blocks from an airplane.
Is he qualified to suggest “diligent hand washing”, perhaps? As a measure to slow the spread.
Well the whole purpose of the program was to help control global outbreaks. The money initially came in the wake of Ebola.
Seeing as you and I didn’t get ebola, but we’re now dealing with a new global pandemic, I think it would be hard to argue it was a waste.
That’s not his role.
That’s already been gone over many times by the agency heads and teams in their public statements along with the Surgeon General who’s role is just that.
Seriously? That’s utterly ridiculous.
What exactly could that team have done that hasn’t been done already by CDC?
Be specific.
Seriously.
You know a few minutes ago you asked this:
and I gave you the answer and linkfor that.
Then you said this:
and I corrected that with a link.
You’d think for a guy making the argument you are, you’d be the one sending me links.
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That isn’t an answer.
What specifically is it that group could have done that isn’t and hasn’t been done in this outbreak?
You folks want to bitch about it and imply their not being on the team has made it worse I’d assume you can demonstrate same.
“You folks”
I simply answered your question.
You asked
And were given the answer. But apparently don’t care? Why ask that question at all if you’re just going to ignore the answer and ramifications of it?
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I do care that’s why I acknowledged it and moved on with the conversation.
With all the whining about these people no longer being in the WH somehow is endangering us and making it worse there must be some concrete facts somewhere to support it.
Are there?
I’m not whining, I just knew how to google an answer to a question.
You’ll need to wait for someone who’s argument matches up with what you want it to be to answer.
I say, CDC, Shmeedeesee. We could save a lot of money if we let God do what God do.
Did I say “all of your whining”?
Let’s just cut to the chase, you can’t show how either the CDC response or the impact on the US would have been different if that team remained in place.
Our response sucks. Can’t even test people.
You know better so why do you insist on repeating something you know not to be true?
All of the claims about testing by the end of the week have hit major delays.
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No they haven’t, it isn’t the end of the week and testing is going on every day, you know that.
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Let God Do what God Do??? What’s that?
Catch up man. You’re behind on the news.
The Trump administration won’t be able to meet its promised timeline of having a million coronavirus tests available by the end of the week, senators said after a briefing from health officials.
“There won’t be a million people to get a test by the end of the week,” Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said in Washington Thursday. “It’s way smaller than that. And still, at this point, it’s still through public-health departments.”
But the rollout of the new tests has been accompanied by confusing messages from the administration about how many will be available, and when.
Earlier this week, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn told senators at a hearing that the U.S. would have the “capacity” to perform up to 1 million tests by the end of this week, a timetable reinforced by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar at a White House briefing Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence said that 1.5 million tests would be going out.
On Thursday, Azar clarified some aspects of those figures. Speaking in Washington, he said that by the end of this week the CDC will have shipped enough tests to public health labs for 75,000 people to be tested.
