The president not qualified to handle a crisis

[WellPreserved]

I don't think any of the world leaders are qualified to handle the COVID-19 virus. This is the first pandemic of this magnitude in the past two or three generations. The leaders are handling it day by day.

Isn't a pandemic kind of expected and would be the reason for a pandemic task force as well as reports as to how a country should react to a pandemic?

[Deleted User 670]

Oh BS. Libtards wil do anything they can to try to denigrate the man because they'd rather have us all living in financial slavery supporting the bigwigs who are the REAL greedy ones.

Do you ever read what you write? Is DJT not a "bigwig"? Is he not "greedy"? Is he NOT part of the "elite"?

I just scanned past something that said his net worth sank a billion the last few weeks.

That's fabulous news! I'd like to see him living on skid row.

[Deleted User 670]

Did you watch the Sunday, April 5 Task Force "briefing"? Two hours of DT rambling misinformation, no actual news, and he repeated the same catch phrases over and over. There was no need or point to this, except to let him have a mic and TV coverage. Literally no new information provided, but it took up hours of the task force's time to stand there on the podium. How is this helping us??? At this point he is actually impeding the work of the task force.

I can't watch the man on tv or listen to him on the radio. His voice makes me want to vomit and throw things.

[29again]

The program worked on a grant cycle, it was finished and the grant was not renewed. They spent $198 million and couldn't even predict what we have now. They weren't all that good at predicting, if you ask me.

Jason explains it all better than I can-- he has a whole thread on it.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1246 ... 45890.html

[Della]

"In early 2017, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialist, warned at a forum on pandemic preparedness at Georgetown University that a “surprise outbreak would occur during the Trump administration."

And he said more needed to be done to prepare.

“We will definitely get surprised in the next few years,” Fauci said.

He said the then-incoming Trump administration needed to make sure there is collaboration between the U.S. and other countries, as well as the public and private health sectors."

https://www.news4jax.com/news/national/ ... l-viruses/

[MonarchMom]

I'm trying to imagine who would be "qualified" to handle the enormity of an unimaginable crisis such as Covid 19, one that this world has never seen before, and handle it with 100% efficiency.

While he was too dismissive initially and made big mistakes, I do feel he's stepped it up quite a bit, and with enormous help from his "response team" or however they're referred.

I suppose I come to this from a different place as I feel that while we as citizens of the countries we live in have every single right to demand better of those who presently lead our countries/states/cities we live in, politicizing everything (and this includes those very leaders) does nothing productive either except allow some ventilation for very real and understandable frustrations.

I don't believe too many politicians have been "qualified" to handle this type of crisis and again, because it's something no one imagined we'd ever see in our lifetime.

Lot's of people saw this coming, including the Intelligence briefings the President got daily during January and February that stated China was not giving accurate reports on the true danger. Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, directly warned the President of the impending danger of Covid-19 on January 29. He choose to ignore this, tell the public not to worry, and take no advice to prepare. A second memo in February outlined the outcome could be millions of infected and dead Americans. Meanwhile DT was still saying it would 'just go away, like a miracle' and that people are who are sick 'just sit around, but they get better, some are going to work.'

A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death.

The warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, is the highest-level alert known to have circulated inside the West Wing as the administration was taking its first substantive steps to confront a crisis that had already consumed China’s leaders and would go on to upend life in Europe and the United States.

“The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil,” Mr. Navarro’s memo said. “This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans."

A second memo that Mr. Navarro wrote, dated Feb. 23, warned of an “increasing probability of a full-blown COVID-19 pandemic that could infect as many as 100 million Americans, with a loss of life of as many as 1.2 million souls.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/p ... virus.html

[Linda_Runs]

I don't think any of the world leaders are qualified to handle the COVID-19 virus. This is the first pandemic of this magnitude in the past two or three generations. The leaders are handling it day by day.

Isn't a pandemic kind of expected and would be the reason for a pandemic task force as well as reports as to how a country should react to a pandemic?

A country should prepare for a pandemic. Canada was the focal point for SARS back in 2003. Canada learned much from that and the deaths that followed. Canada was somewhat prepared for another pandemic, but not as much as it should have. We helped China out quite a bit, now they are helping us with 50,000 masks that all passed inspection upon arrival to Canada.

[Linda_Runs]

I don't think any of the world leaders are qualified to handle the COVID-19 virus. This is the first pandemic of this magnitude in the past two or three generations. The leaders are handling it day by day.

Some world leaders are doing excellent jobs. No surprise the top ten countries with the healthiest economies are Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Finland. These countries have been able to pay worker salaries so that everyone can stay home. The US, on the other hand, had a huge tax cut with no decrease in spending, so we already started at a deficit.

Countries like Hong Kong were on top of it in February while the US was told by its leader that democrats were hyping it and used the word “hoax”.

Germany has the fewest deaths because they are hospitalizing people in early stages while the US can only handle the sickest.

I don’t agree that there are no world leaders that can handle something like this. They couldn’t predict it but the best leaders run a country as if something like that could happen at any time and are prepared. Trump is blaming Obama even though hes had years now to prepare for a disaster. And when world leaders hear of a possibility they take it seriously right away and put a team of experts together. Two of the worst world leaders right now, Boris and Trump, are showing their incompetence.

Canada acknowledged the existence of COVID-19 early in the game, but other than international flights, left it up to the provinces to put restrictions on based on their current situations. This was a flaw. B.C., where the virus first came to Canada did literally nothing in the first critical few weeks where people where dying. Ontario did very well, tightening restrictions was necessary.

On a federal level, money will be flowing to those who need it by next week. By the end of April, wage replacements and other benefits will be in the pockets of Canadians.

[Quorra2.0]

I don't think any of the world leaders are qualified to handle the COVID-19 virus. This is the first pandemic of this magnitude in the past two or three generations. The leaders are handling it day by day.

Isn't a pandemic kind of expected and would be the reason for a pandemic task force as well as reports as to how a country should react to a pandemic?

A country should prepare for a pandemic. Canada was the focal point for SARS back in 2003. Canada learned much from that and the deaths that followed. Canada was somewhat prepared for another pandemic, but not as much as it should have. We helped China out quite a bit, now they are helping us with 50,000 masks that all passed inspection upon arrival to Canada.

Do you think that Canada would have been more adequately prepared if this had been the same as the SARS outbreak of 2003?

[Valentina327]

"In early 2017, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease specialist, warned at a forum on pandemic preparedness at Georgetown University that a “surprise outbreak would occur during the Trump administration."

And he said more needed to be done to prepare.

“We will definitely get surprised in the next few years,” Fauci said.

He said the then-incoming Trump administration needed to make sure there is collaboration between the U.S. and other countries, as well as the public and private health sectors."

https://www.news4jax.com/news/national/ ... l-viruses/

Kind of funny, huh? If I didn't know better, it's almost like it was planned, isn't it? Crazy! I wonder if he's related to Nostradamus.