Trump administration ignored detailed playbook on pandemic response

[I Don't Like]

We know about the exercise that was ignored but there was also 69 pages of detailed pandemic response steps, including specifics about PPE.

A fucking book on what to do and it was just - ignored.

This is absolutely fucking infuriating. I won't say anything else so as not to take a ban but people are dead because of this and other actions including disbanding the response team and ignoring intelligence agencies. This is insane.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

Reading is hard

 

[Deleted member 1476]

That's about 68 and a half pages too long for Trump.

 

[zero_suit]

Didn't have enough pictures in it.

 

[Schreckweg 5000]

Ignored? As in past tense? As in not ignoring it anymore?

 

[jon bones]

The sad part is, people will bury their family members and then continue to vote for him

 

[Strike]

He doesn't read. Also, how many of those people are still left from 2016?

 

[Deleted member 2109]

Pandemic Determined to Strike in US.

 

[entremet]

He only cares about rallies and the stock market. He's been President for 3 years already. He's a known factor.

 

[GK86]

"I'm a genius when it comes to pandemics. In fact, doctors and experts have told me they are amazed at how much I know about pandemics."

 

[Deleted member 1086]

this feels like that warning memo about a month before 9/11 that Bush blew off

 

[TheMadTitan]

Ignored? As in past tense? As in not ignoring it anymore?

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It was ignored by time they wrote the article. We already know they're still ignoring it.

 

[Host Samurai]

This is why you don't vote an out of touch sleazy TV game show host as a president.

 

[Maccix]

Well, after this he will write his own book about how to handle a pandemic

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

His cultists don't care, and normal people are just tired of hearing about Trump's bullshit.

I do have to wonder just how angry folks are going to be by next month when it's not just coastal cities begging for ventilators and FEMA cash and a quarter of the population is either still quarantined, or jobless.

These idiots are sitting on a powder-keg while playing with matches

 

[WedgeX]

this feels like that warning memo about a month before 9/11 that Bush blew off

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Times several thousands.

 

[super-famicom]

Why am I not surprised

 

[Bakercat]

Should of condensed it to 140 characters tbh

 

[iyox]

His cultists don't care, and normal people are just tired of hearing about Trump's bullshit.

I do have to wonder just how angry folks are going to be by next month when it's not just coastal cities begging for ventilators and FEMA cash and a quarter of the population is either still quarantined, or jobless.

These idiots are sitting on a powder-keg while playing with matches

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I keep hoping I am wrong, but the federal response is to flippantly offer support until this until it goes away.

 

[bangai-o]

Is it available to public?

 

[Doggg]

They were like


And left it at that

 

[Yourfawthaaa]

 

[Dullahan]

Of fucking course they would.

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

I keep hoping I am wrong, but the federal response is to flippantly offer support until this until it goes away.

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He obviously enjoys dangling federal assistance to make people beg, but at some point there just aren't going to be enough supplies and people are going to get very ill, and many will die.

I fully expect sometime after Easter, when new cases are popping up in rural states, he will blame NY, CA and WA for letting the disease spread and that angry people should contact those three governors. We live in a timeline where come November Trump might start a class action suit to sue the three states for negligence

 

[Ooopsklo]

If there's a god this virus would put him in the fucking ground for failing to protect this country and world

 

[Travo]

So now the whole administration doesn't read?

 

[Officer Big Mac]

No! That's just what they'd expect me to do...

 

[steejee]

Trump and his ilk think they're the most smartest people in the room and you have nothing to teach them.

We're all suffering for it.

 

[blue_whale]

Maybe we should blame china for this too

 

[Everybody Lies]

The Obama administration was supposed to leave someone to read it to them too.

Thanks Obama.

 

[808s & Villainy]

I do have to wonder just how angry folks are going to be by next month when it's not just coastal cities begging for ventilators and FEMA cash and a quarter of the population is either still quarantined, or jobless.

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Them personally being screwed over by Trump in the past has never largely swayed them. How many people have we seen that are "My significant other got deported/I couldn't afford health insurance, but I'll still vote for Trump!"? These people are idiots and even worse too stubborn to admit they're wrong so they double down

 

[Devanous]

It doesn't seem to matter his polls are the highest they have ever been!

 

[Kernel]

He obviously enjoys dangling federal assistance to make people beg, but at some point there just aren't going to be enough supplies and people are going to get very ill, and many will die.

I fully expect sometime after Easter, when new cases are popping up in rural states, he will blame NY, CA and WA for letting the disease spread and that angry people should contact those three governors. We live in a timeline where come November Trump might start a class action suit to sue the three states for negligence

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At first read this sounded ridiculous but then I thought about it and that's exactly the kind of thing he'd do.

 

[Dphex]

again, same as germany...they´ve had a scenario playbook dated 2012 and no one gave a damn about stocking up on supplies or preparing the worst case

 

[captive]

Fuck me.

So, so far we've learned and someone correct me if I'm wrong.

1 he fired the Pandemic response team in 2018? 2017?
2 he cut CDC funding
3 they did a model Pandemic in 2019, found their response was not adequate and cut cdc funding anyway
4 were warned by intelligence on how bad the virus is in January, ignored that.
5 now we learn they were literally given a fucking playbook on how to deal with a Pandemic?

I may have the two cdc funding cuts wrong. But I know I've seen the rest.

 

[TrueSloth]

What else is new, because that's incredibly apparent based on how he has been handling this.

 

[naib]

Hoping some good data sets come out of this, at least.
Wonder how many people sold before the admin reluctantly acknowledged this was a big deal.

Sheisty shit.

 

[Shoeless]

Fuck me.

So, so far we've learned and someone correct me if I'm wrong.

1 he fired the Pandemic response team in 2018? 2017?
2 he cut CDC funding
3 they did a model Pandemic in 2019, found their response was not adequate and cut cdc funding anyway
4 were warned by intelligence on how bad the virus is in January, ignored that.
5 now we learn they were literally given a fucking playbook on how to deal with a Pandemic?

I may have the two cdc funding cuts wrong. But I know I've seen the rest.

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Somehow... this will all be Obama's fault.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Trump constantly lying "we were left with a broken system"

turns out he just didn't fucking read the damn thing.

Congrats on the thousands of lives lost, idiot.

 

[TheOMan]

The Obama administration was supposed to leave someone to read it to them too.

Thanks Obama.

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They did. Trump fired them.

 

[Shy]

Someone make it stop. Make it all stop.

 

[Deleted member 13101]

Not nice, not nice at all.

In the next couple of days the governors in the northeast will reach their limits in procuring supplies. A few hospitals in NYC are already full. The unemployment numbers tomorrow will blow people away. People stand on line for tests all day and don't get them. His artificial 15 day time limit will be in tatters.

 

[AMAGON]

Trump murder America

 

[Musubi]

If Trump didn't come up with the idea he doesn't want to do it.

 

[Hella]

 

[Macam]

Susan Rice was pretty livid about this on the latest Pod Save The World episode — she participated in the briefing and detailed things pretty well (it's in the last 15 minutes or so of the episode).

 

[reKon]

Spam both this article and the commercials on Trump's response to the pandemic and calendar format.

I want to see this shit everywhere.

There's absolutely no defense for this

 

[Deleted member 16657]

Thanks a lot Obama.

 

[mugwhump]

So in the article executive branch people are like "we have new playbooks we don't use that old busted thing any more." I'd like to see what's in the new ones and whether they've actually been followed.

 

[Perturabo]

So in the article executive branch people are like "we have new playbooks we don't use that old busted thing any more." I'd like to see what's in the new ones and whether they've actually been followed.

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Their current playbook:
-Stocks for the Stock God
-fuck the poor

That's about it, if you ignore donnie's crayon scribbling in the margins.