Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work.

[Lakhota]

Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.​

To really understand how Trump has failed the American people, it’s important to take a look back at how the previous administration handled the threat of a pandemic.

In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

Then Came the Trump Administration...​

Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work. – COURIER

couriernewsroom.com

The details of what Trump did are in the above link. It's worth reading for those who care about the facts leading up to this pandemic. The Trump administration also famously disbanded the Obama National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness.

 

[Lakhota]

From the OP:

Then Came the Trump Administration​

To help the incoming administration be better prepared to fight future pandemics, officials under President Obama took what they learned from these battles and prepared a 69-page playbook. Written by Obama’s National Security Council and finalized in 2016, the playbook detailed strategies for when and how to obtain personal protective equipment, and included recommendations on how the government should move quickly to detect and contain potential outbreaks, secure additional funding, and possibly even invoke the Defense Production Act to compel private companies to produce needed medical supplies.

But the Trump administration ignored the playbook. Instead, as the Associated Press reported, the Trump administration wasted nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed supplies and equipment. Federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of N95 respirator masks, mechanical ventilators, and other equipment needed by front-line health care workers. By then, it was too late. Doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators have spent weeks pleading for more PPE, ventilators, and medical supplies.

The Trump administration also famously disbanded the National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness. In the wake of the Ebola epidemic, officials who worked with Obama realized the need for an international health security infrastructure; they formed pandemic-focused teams inside federal agencies to harness the powers of the U.S. government to prepare for the next outbreak. Instead, the White House dissolved the office in May 2018 and never reinstated it, despite pleas from lawmakers, former government officials, and other experts.

 

[deannalw]

What a fat load of crap.

 

[Bush92]

Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.​

In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

Then Came the Trump Administration...​

Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work. – COURIER

couriernewsroom.com

The details of what Trump did are in the above link. It's worth reading for those who care about the facts leading up to this pandemic. The Trump administration also famously disbanded the Obama National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness.

Obama allowed China to dominate pharmaceutical market. Dumb bastard.

 

[Esdraelon]

Obama took NO steps to create any preparedness and the reason the position was dumped was that it was about funding OUTSIDE the U.S. borders. Lying POS...

 

[Lakhota]

Obama allowed China to dominate pharmaceutical market. Dumb bastard.

What does that have to do with Trump's failure to handle the pandemic after President Obama had laid the groundwork?

From the OP:

Obama and his administration did see it coming, thanks in large part to their experiences with the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. Taking what they learned from those public health crises, the Obama administration sought to prepare Trump and his aides for the next pandemic. The current president, however, spent the first three years of his administration undermining and ignoring those pandemic preparedness efforts; he also ignored warnings from experts during the first three months of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

[Lakhota]

Obama took NO steps to create any preparedness and the reason the position was dumped was that it was about funding OUTSIDE the U.S. borders. Lying POS...

Proof? Credible proof?

 

[Turtlesoup]

Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.​

To really understand how Trump has failed the American people, it’s important to take a look back at how the previous administration handled the threat of a pandemic.

In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

Then Came the Trump Administration...​

Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work. – COURIER

couriernewsroom.com

The details of what Trump did are in the above link. It's worth reading for those who care about the facts leading up to this pandemic. The Trump administration also famously disbanded the Obama National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness.

Tired of listening to this nonsense...the NIH has already been shown to have helped invented this deadly covid 19 and yet you run your mouth about what a great job Obama did pushing for such an organization. ARE you insane?

Secondly, if dipshit Obama foresaw another epidemic coming, why didn't the asshole replenish medical supplies that he used up so they could be used to save lives and protect medical personal?

 

[shockedcanadian]

Obama allowed China to dominate pharmaceutical market. Dumb bastard.

It seems the strategy was "prepare for a pandemic and rely totally on our good friends the Communist of China to take care of us when it hits because we know they have our backs".

Growing up there were always a few suckers in the neighbourhood who would get ripped off. I'd feel sorry for them but at the same time think to myself "if this guy is so stupid as to trust THAT guy, maybe he deserves it".

In an odd way it reminds me of much of the leadership the West has produced over the last 25 years...

 

[Turtlesoup]

What does that have to do with Trump's failure to handle the pandemic after President Obama had laid the groundwork?

From the OP:

Obama and his administration did see it coming, thanks in large part to their experiences with the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) and 2014 Ebola outbreaks. Taking what they learned from those public health crises, the Obama administration sought to prepare Trump and his aides for the next pandemic. The current president, however, spent the first three years of his administration undermining and ignoring those pandemic preparedness efforts; he also ignored warnings from experts during the first three months of the coronavirus outbreak.

Propaganda and nothing more...more myths about Obama.

 

[Lakhota]

Tired of listening to this nonsense...the NIH has already been shown to have helped invented this deadly covid 19 and yet you run your mouth about what a great job Obama did pushing for such an organization. ARE you insane?

Secondly, if dipshit Obama foresaw another epidemic coming, why didn't the asshole replenish medical supplies that he used up so they could be used to save lives and protect medical personal?

From the OP:

For weeks, Trump has repeatedly blamed Obama for his own slow response, arguing the former president who left office more than three years ago is to blame for the nation’s testing failures and “severe” and “widespread” shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses.

 

[dudmuck]

Obama took NO steps to create any preparedness and the reason the position was dumped was that it was about funding OUTSIDE the U.S. borders. Lying POS...

obama left a pandemic playbook for Trump

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration.

www.politico.com

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.​

To really understand how Trump has failed the American people, it’s important to take a look back at how the previous administration handled the threat of a pandemic.

In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

Then Came the Trump Administration...​

Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work. – COURIER

couriernewsroom.com

The details of what Trump did are in the above link. It's worth reading for those who care about the facts leading up to this pandemic. The Trump administration also famously disbanded the Obama National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness.

The clean and articulate community organizer failed miserably with H1N1 so he appointed another czar to create a playbook to cover his failure. Thats about it. What a turd.

 

[Bush92]

Trump has insisted that no one could have seen the coronavirus coming. His predecessor did.​

To really understand how Trump has failed the American people, it’s important to take a look back at how the previous administration handled the threat of a pandemic.

In December 2014, then-President Barack Obama warned that the United States needed to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

In a speech to members of the National Institutes of Health—which came only a short time after the Ebola outbreak had threatened to spread worldwide—Obama emphasized the importance of building a public health infrastructure to combat the next pandemic.

“There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly,” Obama said. “And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure—not just here at home, but globally—that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly, so that if and when a new strain of flu like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.”

Then Came the Trump Administration...​

Obama Prepared for a Potential Pandemic. Trump Gutted His Work. – COURIER

couriernewsroom.com

The details of what Trump did are in the above link. It's worth reading for those who care about the facts leading up to this pandemic. The Trump administration also famously disbanded the Obama National Security Council team focused on pandemic preparedness.

Obama was sooo popular that his legacy surrogate was rejected in 2016.

 

[Turtlesoup]

From the OP:

For weeks, Trump has repeatedly blamed Obama for his own slow response, arguing the former president who left office more than three years ago is to blame for the nation’s testing failures and “severe” and “widespread” shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses.

Thats because Obama's administration depleted the national stockpile of PPE that the government keeps on hand for deadly virus outbreaks and other such emergencies. Do you understand ---Obama used up these stocked piled supplies that we keep on hand for emergencies? And that he was responsible for resupplying these PPE and other medical equipment in case something happened (as you have claimed that he knew would happen)?

After releasing the Covid 19 virus and sending their infected people around the world to spread it, the Communist Chinese then set about buying up all the PPE that they could get their greedy little hands up creating a shortage of PPE and other medical equipment but making the Chinese a huge profit as they resold much of these bought up supplies for a profit and which left most of the rest of the world, including US citizens, US medical staff, and the US government short on. (THE US government would not have been out of this medical gear had Obama resupplied what he had used up as he was supposed to do.)

You say that Obama knew that another outbreak was coming. Ok, I'll accept that--------and given that Obama used up all the medical supplies and purposely did not replace them knowing that another virus was coming that would kill people---Obama and his crew of communists are guilty of MURDER. The lack of these supplies resulted in people's deaths. And yes Trump is right, he wasn't able to resupply the equipment that Obama had used up and refused to replenish as he used the taxpayers funds to pay off soros and other such supporters and by the time that Trump found out about the supplies not being replaced, china had already cornered the worlds market.

 

[Bush92]

Thats because Obama's administration depleted the national stockpile of PPE that the government keeps on hand for deadly virus outbreaks and other such emergencies. Do you understand ---Obama used up these stocked piled supplies that we keep on hand for emergencies? And that he was responsible for resupplying these PPE and other medical equipment in case something happened (as you have claimed that he knew would happen)?

After releasing the Covid 19 virus and sending their infected people around the world to spread it, the Communist Chinese then set about buying up all the PPE that they could get their greedy little hands up creating a shortage of PPE and other medical equipment but making the Chinese a huge profit as they resold much of these bought up supplies for a profit and which left most of the rest of the world, including US citizens, US medical staff, and the US government short on. (THE US government would not have been out of this medical gear had Obama resupplied what he had used up as he was supposed to do.)

You say that Obama knew that another outbreak was coming. Ok, I'll accept that--------and given that Obama used up all the medical supplies and purposely did not replace them knowing that another virus was coming that would kill people---Obama and his crew of communists are guilty of MURDER. The lack of these supplies resulted in people's deaths. And yes Trump is right, he wasn't able to resupply the equipment that Obama had used up and refused to replenish as he used the taxpayers funds to pay off soros and other such supporters.

Home Run!

 

[IM2]

The clean and articulate community organizer failed miserably with H1N1 so he appointed another czar to create a playbook to cover his failure. Thats about it. What a turd.

Incorrect. But in the racist section nothing Obama did was right.

 

[Lakhota]

Thats because Obama's administration depleted the national stockpile of PPE that the government keeps on hand for deadly virus outbreaks and other such emergencies. Do you understand ---Obama used up these stocked piled supplies that we keep on hand for emergencies? And that he was responsible for resupplying these PPE and other medical equipment in case something happened (as you have claimed that he knew would happen)?

After releasing the Covid 19 virus and sending their infected people around the world to spread it, the Communist Chinese then set about buying up all the PPE that they could get their greedy little hands up creating a shortage of PPE and other medical equipment but making the Chinese a huge profit as they resold much of these bought up supplies for a profit and which left most of the rest of the world, including US citizens, US medical staff, and the US government short on. (THE US government would not have been out of this medical gear had Obama resupplied what he had used up as he was supposed to do.)

You say that Obama knew that another outbreak was coming. Ok, I'll accept that--------and given that Obama used up all the medical supplies and purposely did not replace them knowing that another virus was coming that would kill people---Obama and his crew of communists are guilty of MURDER. The lack of these supplies resulted in people's deaths. And yes Trump is right, he wasn't able to resupply the equipment that Obama had used up and refused to replenish as he used the taxpayers funds to pay off soros and other such supporters and by the time that Trump found out about the supplies not being replaced, china had already cornered the worlds market.

Why did Trump ignore the stockpile for THREE years?

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Incorrect. But in the racist section nothing Obama did was right.

Obama’s skin color has nothing to do with his failures. He was a community organizer that should have never been put in the position in the first place. He was doomed to fail from the start.

 

[Lakhota]

obama left a pandemic playbook for Trump

Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook

The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration.

www.politico.com

Amen! President Obama had already done the hard work. Trump just ignored it.