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Here's some other links for you to peruse at your leisure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/
Of course, this had to follow the completely biased article here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...0de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
Which obviously a former Obama era appointed official is going to tell the whole truth about what happened...
Even Reuters contradicts itself:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...-pandemic-response-team-in-2018-idUSKBN21C32M
So, the "pandemic response" team was disbanded, yet the members are reassigned to roles they were just doing...?
Oh, here's more about the "playbook" you're so fond of:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...ok-for-trump-administration-officials-confirm
Love this quote:
Which we've already seen it wasn't a "plan" and rather a "guide" in the words on the playbook itself. I see PBS failed to correct that little detail.
Of course, this "playbook" you keep referring to was superseded by other items:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285
Oh, did I just rain on your parade that something that was come up with under the Obama Admin was revised and supplanted by guidance that took real world lessons and incorporated them?
But wait! There's more!
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/02/27/trum...-coronaviruscovid-19-649-em0-art1-dtd-health/
Because Johns Hopkins is obviously some quack agency that doesn't know what they are talking about.
More from that:
So, Trump gets the blame for something that Johns Hopkins said nobody was prepared for?
Here's the whole report for you if you like:
https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/thematic_papers/tr-6.pdf
Here's some other links for you to peruse at your leisure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/
Of course, this had to follow the completely biased article here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outl...0de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html
Which obviously a former Obama era appointed official is going to tell the whole truth about what happened...
Even Reuters contradicts itself:
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...-pandemic-response-team-in-2018-idUSKBN21C32M
CONCLUSIONS
There is disagreement over how to describe the changes at the NSC’s Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense in 2018. The departure of some members due to “streamlining” efforts under John Bolton is documented. The “pandemic response team” as a unit was largely disbanded.
VERDICT
Partly false: The Trump administration disbanded the “pandemic response” team, but some of the team members were reassigned to roles that included pandemic response
So, the "pandemic response" team was disbanded, yet the members are reassigned to roles they were just doing...?
Oh, here's more about the "playbook" you're so fond of:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation...ok-for-trump-administration-officials-confirm
Love this quote:
“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook.”
Which we've already seen it wasn't a "plan" and rather a "guide" in the words on the playbook itself. I see PBS failed to correct that little detail.
Of course, this "playbook" you keep referring to was superseded by other items:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285
An NSC official confirmed the existence of the playbook but dismissed its value. “We are aware of the document, although it’s quite dated and has been superseded by strategic and operational biodefense policies published since,” the official said. “The plan we are executing now is a better fit, more detailed, and applies the relevant lessons learned from the playbook and the most recent Ebola epidemic in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo] to COVID-19.”
A health department spokesperson also said that the NSC playbook was not part of the current coronavirus strategy. “The HHS COVID-19 response was informed by more recent plans such as the foundation of the National Biodefense Strategy (2018), Biological Incident Annex (2017),and panCAP (2018) among other key plans provided by the CDC, White House Task Force, FEMA, and other key federal departments and agencies,” the spokesperson said.
Oh, did I just rain on your parade that something that was come up with under the Obama Admin was revised and supplanted by guidance that took real world lessons and incorporated them?
But wait! There's more!
https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/02/27/trum...-coronaviruscovid-19-649-em0-art1-dtd-health/
The U.S. scored 83.5 and ranked No. 1 in five of six categories: prevention, early detection and reporting, rapid response and mitigation, sufficient and robust health system, and compliance with international norms. It ranks 19th in overall risk environment and vulnerability to biological threats, a category that assesses political and security risk, socioeconomic resilience, the adequacy of infrastructure, environmental risks, and public health vulnerabilities that may inhibit a country's ability to prevent or respond to an epidemic or pandemic.
Because Johns Hopkins is obviously some quack agency that doesn't know what they are talking about.
More from that:
"National health security is fundamentally weak around the world," the 324-page report concludes. "No country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics, and every country has important gaps to address."
So, Trump gets the blame for something that Johns Hopkins said nobody was prepared for?
Here's the whole report for you if you like:
https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/thematic_papers/tr-6.pdf