Here you go, Trump cultist. Not that you are actually going to read it -
Your first real clue is the WP. The second would be their admission that everyone spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information and decisions.
So nobody of any authority provided the WP with any information. This is an opinion piece cloaked in anonymity. Like per usual.
The real facts are
1. Robert Redfield, the CDC director, and Alex Azar, the secretary of HHS, the agency that oversees the CDC, told the White House chief of staff to share the Chinese report with the National Security Council on January 3.
2. On Jan. 6, Redfield sent a letter to the Chinese offering to send help, including a team of CDC scientists. China rebuffed the offer for two weeks, turning away assistance and depriving U.S. authorities of an early chance to get a sample of the virus, critical for developing diagnostic tests and any potential vaccine.
3. China impeded the U.S. response in other ways, including by withholding accurate information about the outbreak.
4. January 12 Senior officials at HHS had begun convening an intra-agency task force including Redfield, Azar and Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
5. China stuck to this costly script in the case of the coronavirus, reporting Jan. 14 that it had seen no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.
6. January 15 U.S. officials began taking preliminary steps to counter a potential outbreak. Robert Kadlec, an Air Force officer and physician who serves as assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS, had instructed subordinates to draw up contingency plans for enforcing the Defense Production Act, a measure that enables the government to compel private companies to produce equipment or devices critical to the country’s security.
7. Despite the flurry of activity at lower levels of his administration, Trump was not substantially briefed by health officials about the coronavirus until Jan.18, when he took a call from Azar. The secretary assured the president that those responsible were working on and monitoring the issue.
8. On Jan. 21, a Seattle man who had recently traveled to Wuhan tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first known infection on U.S. soil.
9. Azar instructed subordinates to move rapidly to establish a nationwide surveillance system to track the spread of the coronavirus — a stepped-up version of what the CDC does every year to monitor new strains of the ordinary flu.
10. January 23 Azar’s team also hit another obstacle. The Chinese were still refusing to share the viral samples they had collected and were using to develop their own tests. In frustration, U.S. officials looked for other possible routes. Officials in Beijing intervened Jan. 24 blocked any lab-to-lab transfer
11. At this time, There is no indication that officials sought to escalate the matter or enlist Trump to intervene. Trump was out of the country taking part in the annual global economic forum in Davos, Switzerland.
12. A group, which included Azar, Pottinger and Fauci, as well as nine others across the administration, formed the core of what would become the administration’s coronavirus task force. But it primarily focused on efforts to keep infected people in China from traveling to the United States even while evacuating thousands of U.S. citizens. The meetings did not seriously focus on testing or supplies, which have since become the administration’s most challenging problems. The task force was formally announced on Jan. 29.
13. On Jan. 29, Mulvaney chaired a meeting in the White House Situation Room in which officials debated moving travel restrictions to “Level 4,” meaning a do not travel advisory from the State Department. Trump issues travel restrictions but the left claims he is being racist.
14. In a meeting in the Situation Room in mid-February, Fauci and Redfield told White House officials that there was no evidence yet of worrisome person-to-person transmission in the United States. In hindsight, it appears almost certain that the virus was taking hold in communities at that point. But even the country’s top experts had little meaningful data about the domestic dimensions of the threat. Fauci later conceded that as they learned more their views changed.
15. On Feb. 29, a Washington state man became the first American to die of a coronavirus infection.
In the mean time Pelosi was urging people to gather in Chinatown, and Deblasio was telling people to go to concerts and ride the subways.
No president in history has reacted this fast to any virus. No travel bans, no quarantines, and no 2 billion dollar stimulus bills. But we did see Democrats trying to divert CoronaVirus relief money to their green new deal, the Kennedy center, and 14 other Liberal bills that could never pass on their own.
So you keep those Liberal idiot fires burning.
