Blade_Runner wrote:
Donald Trump became POTUS on January 20, 2016.
Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China on November 17, 2019.
No one on earth saw it coming, so how could anyone prepare for it nearly three years in advance?
State governments and their respective health departments are responsible for preparing their states for emergency contingencies such as a viral outbreak.
The state health departments license physicians, nurses, and all other medical professionals. State HDs issue permits for construction, upgrades, and expansions of medical facilities within their state. State HDs regulate these medical facilities, this includes the work of medical departments at any university or college in the state. The state HDs issue preparedness directives for all kinds of contingencies. They are supposed to anyway.
The federal Dept of HHS and CDC issues directives and recommendations common to all states, but it does not dictate specifics to any individual state. Unless requested by the governor.
For example, climate, culture, geography, traditions and the needs of the people themselves vary considerably across the nation and these have a direct effect on existing health conditions within the state which, in turn, determine medical treatments and preparation for contingencies in that particular environment.
Conditions in Washington state are far different in these respects than are those in Florida or New York.
This is why the attempt to lockdown the entire nation is such a farce.
FYI: the maximum payload for one 53 foot railroad shipping container is 24 tons.
Lemme axe ya, when was the last time you heard president Trump say a word about the rocket man?
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C'mon blade, you think the US govt doesn't have a play book for pandemics? I thought you were smarter.