Corona Virus Could Have Been Prevented by Trump!

[Luckyone]

In 2019, a scenario like the Corona Virus was discussed by 20 top pandemic experts gathered to see what steps could be taken to stop pandemics such as the Corona Virus.

Here is the conclusion that came out of that meeting:

The principal conclusion of our scenario was that leaders simply don’t take health seriously enough as a U.S. national security issue. Congress holds few hearings on the topic, especially in the defense committees, and the White House last year eliminated a top National Security Council position focused on the issue.

Bill Gates in 2018 wanted us to be prepared for something like this:

Bill Gates in 2018: The world needs to prepare for pandemics just like war

Trump did not believe funding should be spent on pandemic studies

Trump administration budget cuts could become a major problem as coronavirus spreads

17 ways that Trump bungled his response to the Corona Virus

In 2018, the National Security Council’s global pandemic director left his post abruptly; then his entire team was disbanded by former national security adviser John Bolton. The Trump administration has yet to refill any of those positions, leaving huge vulnerabilities in our global pandemic preparedness.

I know that all the Trump supporters don't want to hear this, but the fact is that Trump has been our president since 2017 and all of this could have been prevented from even starting world-wide if he would have had the vision that something like this was possible and even probable and made the effort to spend the money, the time, and the effort to prevent (instead of to react and then even react slowly) to the threat of a pandemic on our nation.

Trump is not a man of vision or even a leader that a nation like ours needs.

 

[Lutherf]

So what do you think the reaction in this country would be if, at the first sign of a possible epidemic, we went into lockdown mode? How many of these lockdowns would we need to "suggest" before it became necessary to roll tanks into the streets to enforce them?

 

[trixare4kids]

If Trump locked down the country in December, they'd bitch he's the scrooge.

 

[bluesmoke]

In 2019, a scenario like the Corona Virus was discussed by 20 top pandemic experts gathered to see what steps could be taken to stop pandemics such as the Corona Virus.

Here is the conclusion that came out of that meeting:




Bill Gates in 2018 wanted us to be prepared for something like this:



Trump did not believe funding should be spent on pandemic studies



17 ways that Trump bungled his response to the Corona Virus



I know that all the Trump supporters don't want to hear this, but the fact is that Trump has been our president since 2017 and all of this could have been prevented from even starting world-wide if he would have had the vision that something like this was possible and even probable and made the effort to spend the money, the time, and the effort to prevent (instead of to react and then even react slowly) to the threat of a pandemic on our nation.

Trump is not a man of vision or even a leader that a nation like ours needs.

"he would have had the vision"

The big lie is the "20-20 hindsight" excuse. Everybody has hindsight. Leaders are supposed to have vision, foresight. "20-20 hindsight", the worst excuse in the book of excuses.

 

[GDViking]

Yeah it's a damn good thing he saved a couple million so he could spend trillions...

 

[Luckyone]

So what do you think the reaction in this country would be if, at the first sign of a possible epidemic, we went into lockdown mode? How many of these lockdowns would we need to "suggest" before it became necessary to roll tanks into the streets to enforce them?

Lock down mode might not have ever been necessary if Trump had spent the money, time, and effort to study this pandemic possibility before. The Corona Virus, or at least the family it belongs to, has been around for many years and scientists wanted to spend time studying it and coming down with a vaccine for it and were denied the funding for it.

Here is the root of it:

Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago. Then the money dried up.
"We just could not generate much interest," a researcher said of the difficulty in getting funding to test the vaccine in humans.

 

[Mycroft]

In 2019, a scenario like the Corona Virus was discussed by 20 top pandemic experts gathered to see what steps could be taken to stop pandemics such as the Corona Virus.

Here is the conclusion that came out of that meeting:




Bill Gates in 2018 wanted us to be prepared for something like this:



Trump did not believe funding should be spent on pandemic studies



17 ways that Trump bungled his response to the Corona Virus



I know that all the Trump supporters don't want to hear this, but the fact is that Trump has been our president since 2017 and all of this could have been prevented from even starting world-wide if he would have had the vision that something like this was possible and even probable and made the effort to spend the money, the time, and the effort to prevent (instead of to react and then even react slowly) to the threat of a pandemic on our nation.

Trump is not a man of vision or even a leader that a nation like ours needs.

LOL!!

People continue to place way too much importance on redundant bureaucrats...probably because it's convenient in their goal to use any and all means to attack the President. But the fact is, that NSC bunch simply wasn't needed and the work they were doing didn't stop being done.

Tell you what...take your "experts" and shove them where the sun don't shine...as deeply as you can. They aren't doing anyone any good.

 

[Integrityrespec]

In 2019, a scenario like the Corona Virus was discussed by 20 top pandemic experts gathered to see what steps could be taken to stop pandemics such as the Corona Virus.

Here is the conclusion that came out of that meeting:




Bill Gates in 2018 wanted us to be prepared for something like this:



Trump did not believe funding should be spent on pandemic studies



17 ways that Trump bungled his response to the Corona Virus



I know that all the Trump supporters don't want to hear this, but the fact is that Trump has been our president since 2017 and all of this could have been prevented from even starting world-wide if he would have had the vision that something like this was possible and even probable and made the effort to spend the money, the time, and the effort to prevent (instead of to react and then even react slowly) to the threat of a pandemic on our nation.

Trump is not a man of vision or even a leader that a nation like ours needs.

Why to you have to lie. Are you just not doing the proper research?

CDC operating budget plans show that its funding for global public health protection — which includes global disease detection and emergency response and global public health capacity — increased from $58 million in fiscal year 2017 to around $108 million in fiscal years 2018 and 2019. (And that does not include any remaining supplemental funds available for use.) The increases included nearly $50 million more each year for CDC’s global health security initiatives.

Those amounts went up again in fiscal year 2020, when the CDC was awarded $183 million for global public health protection, overall, and $125 million specifically for its global health security efforts. For fiscal year 2021, President Donald Trump has requested that CDC funding for global disease detection and other programs be increased further — to $225 million total, with $175 million going directly to global health security.

With its current funding, Bartee said, the CDC is actually working in “more than 60 countries” — not 10 — to address the threat of global infectious diseases and outbreaks.
False Claim About CDC's Global Anti-Pandemic Work - FactCheck.org

 

[Luckyone]

If Trump locked down the country in December, they'd bitch he's the scrooge.

How about this jewel of data. How do you explain it?

Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago. Then the money dried up.
"We just could not generate much interest," a researcher said of the difficulty in getting funding to test the vaccine in humans.

 

[Tanngrisnir]

If Trump locked down the country in December, they'd bitch he's the scrooge.

If it doesn't flatter him, make him money or give him an erection, twumpie doesn't care.

It's why conservatives literally worship him.

 

[Lutherf]

Lock down mode might not have ever been necessary if Trump had spent the money, time, and effort to study this pandemic possibility before. The Corona Virus, or at least the family it belongs to, has been around for many years and scientists wanted to spend time studying it and coming down with a vaccine for it and were denied the funding for it.

Here is the root of it:

And now it's Trump's fault that funding for one vaccine research grant was cut off before he became president.

 

[CanadaJohn]

In 2019, a scenario like the Corona Virus was discussed by 20 top pandemic experts gathered to see what steps could be taken to stop pandemics such as the Corona Virus.

Here is the conclusion that came out of that meeting:




Bill Gates in 2018 wanted us to be prepared for something like this:



Trump did not believe funding should be spent on pandemic studies



17 ways that Trump bungled his response to the Corona Virus



I know that all the Trump supporters don't want to hear this, but the fact is that Trump has been our president since 2017 and all of this could have been prevented from even starting world-wide if he would have had the vision that something like this was possible and even probable and made the effort to spend the money, the time, and the effort to prevent (instead of to react and then even react slowly) to the threat of a pandemic on our nation.

Trump is not a man of vision or even a leader that a nation like ours needs.

Firstly, I'm not a Trump supporter.

Secondly, do you honestly believe that when this issue was first raised in China, in December/January, that the American people would have welcomed the President closing the borders to foreign travel and instituting mandatory self-isolation on the part of all 300 + million Americans for a period of several months? The health experts didn't come to the immediate conclusion that these actions were necessary and required to limit the spread and protect the health care system's ability to respond.

It's quite easy to use 20-20 hindsight to start tossing around blame.

As a resident of Florida, where a large part of the population is elderly, I would assume you were all for President Trump's request that people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut be quarantined and banned from travel to Florida. But guess what, those three Democrat States were adamantly opposed to such an action which clearly, if implemented, would have reduced the spread of the virus and likely detained the infection rate to within those three states. If northeasterners travelling south to get away from their own mess start infecting people in the south, are you going to blame Cuomo, and the other Democrat governors for ignoring such advice?

 

[Luckyone]

Why to you have to lie. Are you just not doing the proper research?

CDC operating budget plans show that its funding for global public health protection — which includes global disease detection and emergency response and global public health capacity — increased from $58 million in fiscal year 2017 to around $108 million in fiscal years 2018 and 2019. (And that does not include any remaining supplemental funds available for use.) The increases included nearly $50 million more each year for CDC’s global health security initiatives.

Those amounts went up again in fiscal year 2020, when the CDC was awarded $183 million for global public health protection, overall, and $125 million specifically for its global health security efforts. For fiscal year 2021, President Donald Trump has requested that CDC funding for global disease detection and other programs be increased further — to $225 million total, with $175 million going directly to global health security.

With its current funding, Bartee said, the CDC is actually working in “more than 60 countries” — not 10 — to address the threat of global infectious diseases and outbreaks.
False Claim About CDC's Global Anti-Pandemic Work - FactCheck.org

I never stated that the funding dried up. I stated that Trump's interest in pandemic study was not strong. He "wanted" to cut the budget. This is not about what he did but about what he "wanted to do", meaning he was not "into prevention of pandemics problems".

 

[CanadaJohn]

I never stated that the funding dried up. I stated that Trump's interest in pandemic study was not strong. He "wanted" to cut the budget. This is not about what he did but about what he "wanted to do", meaning he was not "into prevention of pandemics problems".

The last world pandemic, to my knowledge, was more than 100 years ago and you expect this President or any President to have a keen interest in pandemic study and the prevention of pandemic problems?

 

[Luckyone]

Firstly, I'm not a Trump supporter.

Secondly, do you honestly believe that when this issue was first raised in China, in December/January, that the American people would have welcomed the President closing the borders to foreign travel and instituting mandatory self-isolation on the part of all 300 + million Americans for a period of several months? The health experts didn't come to the immediate conclusion that these actions were necessary and required to limit the spread and protect the health care system's ability to respond.

It's quite easy to use 20-20 hindsight to start tossing around blame.

As a resident of Florida, where a large part of the population is elderly, I would assume you were all for President Trump's request that people in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut be quarantined and banned from travel to Florida. But guess what, those three Democrat States were adamantly opposed to such an action which clearly, if implemented, would have reduced the spread of the virus and likely detained the infection rate to within those three states. If northeasterners travelling south to get away from their own mess start infecting people in the south, are you going to blame Cuomo, and the other Democrat governors for ignoring such advice?

You are missing the meaning of the thread.

The thread is all about trying to prevent problems (like pandemics) from occurring. Trump made a huge point prior to being elected that he would work hard to insure the safety of all Americans. At the time, he was talking about preventing terrorism from occurring but a pandemic like Corona will kill more Americans than terrorists. Why wasn't he as interested then in preventing a pandemic as he was in preventing a terrorist act? He spent billions in increasing our defense against military attacks. Why not do the same in the study of pandemics?

 

[Lutherf]

If Trump locked down the country in December, they'd bitch he's the scrooge.

They were busy impeaching him at the time! If he did anything it would have been another charge of "Obstruction of Congress".

 

[Felis Leo]

And now it's Trump's fault that funding for one vaccine research grant was cut off before he became president.

I have come down hard on Donald Trump for failing to act more effectively back in January when this was put on his plate, and doing more such as to replenish the Federal government's stockpile of emergency medical supplies.

However, I will not attack him for failing to act like the perfect God Being with perfect foresight and ability to muster to immediately muster national resources that he would have to have been in order to stave off COVID-19 from entering the United States entirely.

 

[CanadaJohn]

You are missing the meaning of the thread.

The thread is all about trying to prevent problems (like pandemics) from occurring. Trump made a huge point prior to being elected that he would work hard to insure the safety of all Americans. At the time, he was talking about preventing terrorism from occurring but a pandemic like Corona will kill more Americans than terrorists. Why wasn't he as interested then in preventing a pandemic as he was in preventing a terrorist act? He spent billions in increasing our defense against military attacks. Why not do the same in the study of pandemics?

Possibly, it could be because the last world pandemic was over 100 years ago and modern healthcare has greatly advanced since then as opposed to terrorism that has continued to be an everyday life issue since 9/11. President Bush got criticized by your types for not preventing 9/11 and now you want to criticize President Trump for not preventing COVID-19. Pathetic.

 

[CanadaJohn]

They were busy impeaching him at the time! If he did anything it would have been another charge of "Obstruction of Congress".

Democrats wasted time trying to impeach President Trump instead of stopping a world pandemic - shame on Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats for the deaths of several thousand Americans and potentially tens of thousands more.

 

[Felis Leo]

Lock down mode might not have ever been necessary if Trump had spent the money, time, and effort to study this pandemic possibility before. The Corona Virus, or at least the family it belongs to, has been around for many years and scientists wanted to spend time studying it and coming down with a vaccine for it and were denied the funding for it.

Here is the root of it:

So is it your claim that COVID-19 (an extraordinarily easily-transmissible airborne virus which can be spread asymptomatically) would never have come to America's shores and not a single American citizen stateside would have suffered from it had Donald Trump done everything reasonably within his power to have staved it off?

 

[Luckyone]

The last world pandemic, to my knowledge, was more than 100 years ago and you expect this President or any President to have a keen interest in pandemic study and the prevention of pandemic problems?

More than 100 years, right?

Oh, you mean that the swine flu of 2009 was not a pandemic? It did kill 12,000 Americans! How about HIV? in 2016 there had already been 675,000 Americans killed!

 

[Luckyone]

So it is your claim that COVID-19, an extraordinarily easily-transmissible airborne virus, would never have come to America's shores and not a single American citizen stateside would have suffered from it had Donald Trump done everything reasonably within his power to have staved it off?

No, what I did state is that if the funding to study Corona would have occurred in 2018 when it was first requested, a vaccine would already be available. In addition, I am also stating that had Trump been more aggressive and believing that Corona was a killer, he could have done what was needed from the very first time it was announced by China that there was the virus. Early testing and isolation of those tested positive would have gone far in preventing many, many unnecessary deaths. Testing was not available until the third week of March. Should have been available in January. Stopping the spread is the most successful way in preventing deaths from occurring in big numbers.

 

[Fletch]

So what do you think the reaction in this country would be if, at the first sign of a possible epidemic, we went into lockdown mode? How many of these lockdowns would we need to "suggest" before it became necessary to roll tanks into the streets to enforce them?

Trump hasnt ordered lockdowns anywhere. It is the states doing that. If Trump had ordered a national lockdown in December he could only have done so by declaring martial law. That would have been mighty popular during impeachment hearings.

 

[independentusa]

So what do you think the reaction in this country would be if, at the first sign of a possible epidemic, we went into lockdown mode? How many of these lockdowns would we need to "suggest" before it became necessary to roll tanks into the streets to enforce them?

The problem with the Trump administration is that they just react to problems as they come rather than plan ahead for solutions to problems. That is why we are behind the eight ball with Covid 19. Bush and Obama had left programs in place that would have helped solve this problem, but for whatever reason, Tramp caneled that program. Now we are playing catch up and hopefully that will happen soon. Three weeks ago trump downplayed the problem telling us there were only 15 cases and that after that it was over even though the experts were saying it was going to be worse. Now Trump says if we have less than 100,000 deaths it is a win. LIke I said, he is trying to react to the probelm and he should have been planning for a deeper problem than he could see at the time.

 

[Luckyone]

Possibly, it could be because the last world pandemic was over 100 years ago and modern healthcare has greatly advanced since then as opposed to terrorism that has continued to be an everyday life issue since 9/11. President Bush got criticized by your types for not preventing 9/11 and now you want to criticize President Trump for not preventing COVID-19. Pathetic.

You made my point! No vision! Anyone could see that terrorism is a problem after 2011 but seeing a possible pandemic killing more, takes a smart person with vision.