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(35,454 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:14 PM Mar 2020

Trump Was Warned By Coats About The Danger Of A Pandemic

Trump was warned of a pandemic ‘that could lead to massive rates of death’ by the intel director he fired

“The United States was warned last year that a pandemic could lead to serious problems if President Donald Trump and his administration didn’t take public health readiness more seriously.

Stanford lecturer Brett McGurk cited a document from the office the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats’ 2019 “Worldwide Threat Assessment,” which specifically warns of a disease like the coronavirus.

In the section Human Security, Coates explained: “the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large-scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, train international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support.”

It has become clear that neither Trump nor his administration took the warning seriously.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/trump-was-warned-of-a-pandemic-that-could-lead-to-massive-rates-of-death-by-the-intel-director-he-fired/
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Trump Was Warned By Coats About The Danger Of A Pandemic (Original Post) Me. Mar 2020 OP
Coats couldn't last long, elleng Mar 2020 #1
Coats need to publicly testify to that fact. C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #2
congress is going home, likely Grasswire2 Mar 2020 #5
Congress should not be going home C_U_L8R Mar 2020 #6
They will get paid fully, no worries at140 Mar 2020 #7
I Totally Agree Me. Mar 2020 #9
Trump doesn't read.... Pachamama Mar 2020 #3
I am angry and have no words. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #4
Right? Me. Mar 2020 #8
Actually we will be the ones that pay. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #10
... Me. Mar 2020 #11

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)
6. Congress should not be going home
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:29 PM
Mar 2020

This is a crisis where the country needs them the most. And they want to go home?

sheshe2

(83,848 posts)
10. Actually we will be the ones that pay.
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:45 PM
Mar 2020

I have read and watched a lot about the virus today. It is spiraling out of control, seems it is not just the elderly that will die. The young doctor in China and now we have one here, very ill. Overexposure while treating patients?

We have the clueless or the perhaps we don't give a shit GOP in control of everything.

Sorry, very depressed tonight.

Back at ya, me.

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