by kungfufighter » Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:15 am
If Obama had been in the White House now, how much better (or if possible worse) would he have handled it?
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coultetscandi JohnPaulGeorgeR
Oh, fuck, you can’t even pretend that is a serious question.
For one thing, you would still have the whole top echelon of staff in the CDC that Trump sacked wholesale, and the CDC would not have had an edict that massively slashed its budget.
You would have had exponentially more test kits and a remaining — AND YOU WOULD STILL HAVE A PANDEMIC RESPONSE STRATEGY.
Trump got rid of exactly the team formed to deal with exactly this kind of infection, then replaced them — but with an entire tranche of people with zero experience of disease control.
If Obama had been in the White House now, how much better (or if possible worse) would he have handled it?
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coultetscandi JohnPaulGeorgeR
Oh, fuck, you can’t even pretend that is a serious question.
For one thing, you would still have the whole top echelon of staff in the CDC that Trump sacked wholesale, and the CDC would not have had an edict that massively slashed its budget.
You would have had exponentially more test kits and a remaining — AND YOU WOULD STILL HAVE A PANDEMIC RESPONSE STRATEGY.
Trump got rid of exactly the team formed to deal with exactly this kind of infection, then replaced them — but with an entire tranche of people with zero experience of disease control.