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We knew well enough that a pandemic was a realistic risk and had SARS-1 and MERS as warning shots but we're still not very well prepared at the outset of COVID.
We were prepared for COVID until Trump threw away the plan. https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/17/the-art-of-the-pandemic-how-donald-trump-walked-the-u-s-into-the-covid-19-era/
Probably needed a better concept of a plan to replace it
Here you go, I knew I had one around here somewhere
The thing that pissed me off the most about his response is delaying the shutdown of air travel from China.
Bitch that's your thing, hating China.
Trump didn't make everybody stop wearing masks like a bunch of dipshits.
.. he literally did, though? He pushed mask bans every chance he got