Now he admits that he knew all along that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus, or “Trump virus”) was going to be a pandemic. But in January, AFTER he knew, he said it would absolutely not be a pandemic. He was more concerned about his standing in the polls and the stock markets than the lives of Americans.
Others who were briefed did take immediate, aggressive action — TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. Using insider information, they sold their stocks in companies that could be adversely affected and echoed the Trump line of BS that he and they knew to be false.
They failed to ramp up production of supplies as soon as they knew.
They failed to order testing, and rejected the World Health Organization tests that South Korea was using with great success.
They dithered, dallied and denied and people died.
The first known cases of COVID-19 positive patients in South Korea and the United States were THE SAME DAY. South Korea acted immediately and aggressively and within one week were testing 10,000 people a day. As a result, they flattened the curve and are already coming out of the pandemic.
South Korea is what the U.S. should have been but, here we are.
Donald Trump was briefed last December.
Now he admits that he knew all along that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus, or “Trump virus”) was going to be a pandemic. But in January, AFTER he knew, he said it would absolutely not be a pandemic. He was more concerned about his standing in the polls and the stock markets than the lives of Americans.
Others who were briefed did take immediate, aggressive action — TO PROTECT THEMSELVES. Using insider information, they sold their stocks in companies that could be adversely affected and echoed the Trump line of BS that he and they knew to be false.
They failed to ramp up production of supplies as soon as they knew.
They failed to order testing, and rejected the World Health Organization tests that South Korea was using with great success.
They dithered, dallied and denied and people died.
The first known cases of COVID-19 positive patients in South Korea and the United States were THE SAME DAY. South Korea acted immediately and aggressively and within one week were testing 10,000 people a day. As a result, they flattened the curve and are already coming out of the pandemic.
South Korea is what the U.S. should have been but, here we are.