Trump shut down the office that was preparing for just such a pandemic in a reorganization in 2018.
For Trump, Coronavirus Proves to Be an Enemy He Can’t Tweet Away
As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test. The federal agency (which Trump is ultimately in charge of) shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to
create a more complicated test of its own. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work.
Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus — ProPublica
Trump's immigration and health care policies have made immigrants afraid to seek health care when they're sick, thereby helping spread the virus.
Trump's immigration policies may put people at risk of coronavirus – experts
Trump rewards underlings who tell him what he wants to hear, while he shuns those who deliver bad news. When the news is all bad, this is a problem.
Trump's mismanagement helped fuel coronavirus crisis
Trump has constantly minimized the threat of the coronavirus.
Trump Says ‘People Have to Remain Calm’ Amid Coronavirus Outbreak Trump’s denialist tweets are the coronavirus reaction we feared
What I want to know is: When is Trump going to give the coronavirus a disparaging nickname? That should finish it off!
Tell me what Barack Obama did during the Swine flu pandemic that killed 4,000 Americans that was superior to what Donald Trump has done during the Corona flu outbreak that has killed 28 Americans as of this morning? I'd be curious to hear your spin of that, Bruce!
Let me entertain your ignorant post.
Obama was able to handle the swine flu pandemic that killed 4,000 very excellent. There are no panic buying of supplies, stocks remained stable, no closing on venues and American was calmed. Obama showed an excellent leadership.
Under Trump of handling this virus is totally inept and hogwash. Feeding buffet of misinformation and conspiracies supported by Fox News. Stock prices are falling, Americans continue to get sick and dying. But he is out there busy pumping nonsense tweets. Blaming Obama and just about everyone. Contradicting CDC advice.
1. Interesting take on what's happened, Charwin! Let's REALLY examine that however! WHY is there "panic" now and there wasn't panic then even though far more people were dying from Swine flu than have died from this contagion? Did the media spread panic back THEN like they have NOW? Call me cynical but why would there be totally different coverage of one epidemic than the other?
2. To be quite frank...I think the main stream media has gone out of their way to create panic because they need the economy to tank or
3. Donald Trump is winning reelection in a landslide and they're quite willing to spread panic throughout the land if they can prevent that from happening.
That has nothing to do with the "leadership" of Obama or Trump but a hell of a lot to do with what the media is willing to do these days.
1. You are denying science based from what you believed supporting Trump. Denial listening to Hannity & Limbaugh. The panic is not because of the media? They are only doing their jobs. Comparing swine flu vs the Coronavirus is not the same.
First. True swine flu killed more than CV but it’s only a start so numbers will definitely skyrocketed for CV.
Second. There are no vaccine for CV. You have to rely on your own strength of immune system to deflect the virus.
2. That is not true my friend. Totally totally false. Like I already said many many times Trump administration is most amateur, inept, dishonest and corrupted administration we’ve ever seen.
Trump handling the epidemic:
Trump is very busy pointing fingers, blaming, tweeting and saying all nonsense about the virus contradicting CDC experts. Like ....... if you are sick you can still go to work. Means telling Americans no big deal don’t worry about it. If people will listened to this idiot means more people will get sick & die. You understand?
Some of his supporters here & outside doesn’t even believe the CV is not serious or it doesn’t exist because of Trump and that is very dangerous. Trump is the problem.
While stocks are collapsing, people are getting sick and dying and scared.
QUESTION? Is that how a good leader supposed or should react?
Trump is doing a very lousy job handling this crisis especially if you have an extensive record of lying and incompetent administration.
Then you have Hannity and Limbaugh spreading conspiracies that giving advice to this kid. Both busy denying the severity and seriousness of the virus. That’s where Trump been getting advice. That is a problem.
3. Trump winning re elections? A landslide? Nah! We have a very very big chance of kicking that kid out of the WH? America deserves a better president than this corrupted moron. Look at you and me?
Trump is contributing to the panic.
Banning European countries expect UK & Ireland. LOL.