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Why was New York Unprepared

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  1. Foolardi

    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Notice how fast Governor Cuomo attacked Trump last month
    as to being unprepared.Well how about this.
    On October 18,2019 Johns Hopkins along with the Bill and Melinda
    Gates Foundation hosted Event 201.
    A high-level pandemic exercise.It was meant to Illustrate areas
    where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response
    to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and
    social consequences.
    That means Mayor de Blasio AND Governor Cuomo had a direct DUTY
    to make sure that New Yorkers would be taken care of in the event
    of a pandemic.
    Kinda explains why that Mayor and Governor wasted little time
    in castigating Trump over things that They had a duty to Provide.
    Like a Preparedness plan,Hospital needs { masks,ventilators,beds }.
    New York was unprepared because they had incompetent men at
    the top.Just as they did when flooding waters entered the subway system and
    electric grid a couple years ago { Mid-April,2018 }.
     
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    ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!!We are THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!
     
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    Why was TRUMP unprepared?

    He has the tools and the intel...and did NOTHING.

    In fact he's STILL dragging his feet and accusing healthcare workers of stealing the life saving equipment they need
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How about Damned if he does and even damned if he doesn't.
    He responded rather quickly in January by Banning all flights from
    China.He was called a Rascist by the usual suspects.
    BTW the next Month,Nancy Pelosi visited Chinatown on Feburary 24th
    and dismissed the threat to San Fransico with :
    " Everything is fine here ".
    As Reporter Anne Makovee said as a live shot of Pelosi
    was shown shaking hands with locals.
    Makovee stating " She has been going around showing that it is
    perfectly safe to be here. "
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No actually the vaunted CDC did nothing.In November when it was
    obvious China had a serious health threat,the CDC took their sweet
    time.Granted China took great lengths to suppress news of their
    pandemic.But our CDC knew.
     
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    You're being a little harsh. The last few days it looks like he's truly been trying to behave like a president. Admittedly he's doing a poor job. :)
     
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    it isn't his job.
     
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    The entire planet was unprepared for this thing...

    The Trump Administration didn't take this very seriously at first and the CDC massively dropped the ball on the test kits at the beginning and are still playing catch up as we speak.

    In hindsight it's easy to tell ourselves what we should or shouldn't have done but we have to think about things in perspective during the time. Many of these things we're saying we SHOULD have done at the start are not exactly easy decisions to make. NYC is the largest city in America home to nearly 19 MILLION people. You can't exactly just snap your fingers and shut down a city that size based on inconclusive evidence about a possible virus. In hindsight we sit here and say De Blasio should have shut down schools faster and Cuomo should have supported his wanting to lock down NYC the second he mentioned it. However we have to think about this from a realistic perspective and think about what you are asking these leaders to do based on the evidence they had at the time.

    What we are seeing right now in America and all around the world will be written about in history books alongside the Great Depression and 9/11. We've never done any of this before on this scale, we just basically shut down the entire country and passed the largest single stimulus bill in the history of the nation. There are second, third, and fourth order effects to making massive decisions like this which is why our elected officials were understandably being reluctant to take such drastic measures.

    I'm no fan of De Blasio or Cuomo but I don't blame them for whats going on any more than I blame Trump. These folks are trying to balance A LOT right now when dealing with a crisis that none of us have any experience dealing with before. These officials are having to make enormous decisions that will have long term social and economic consequences and it's not so easy to just say "do it".

    It's human nature to point fingers and place blame. In the face of crisis one of the first things humans do in general is try to figure out who they can blame for it and subsequently use hindsight evidence to say what folks should have done about it at the get go. And once again we tend to forget what country we live in. We look at what other nations have done and say we should have done that or we should do that but we tend to forget there is a pretty big difference between America and even our closest resembling fellow nations. Many of the policies that might be helping to slow down the virus in other nations are a lot more difficult to implement in America based on the type of people we are here. Even our closest allies can do things like instill mandatory shelter in place policies enforced by patrolling law enforcement or even the military. You can't exactly do that here, I mean you could but you wouldn't like the result of it because Americans don't play that sort of thing.

    I'm a Trump supporter and I genuinely despise the very ideology of NYC and the people in charge of that place who pedal and support that nonsense every day. But cut the guys some slack, they are doing the best they can with a REALLY messed up situation.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Pardon me Moi ... But I left out a key part of the OP.
    That Event 201 was put on in New York City.
    Not Miami or Chicago or Los Angeles.But New York city.
     
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    Yea...it actually IS his job
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It appears that Alex Jones was right all along about the
    The Great Bill and Melinda Gates.They are in bed with the WHO
    World Health Organization who are virtual puppets of and for
    China.Just like Gates was spending huge time money and energy
    supporting worldwide vaccines.Which can kill.That is one way
    to sneakily do what Planned Parenhood does.Provide Abortion on
    Demand.Or Control the population.Limit any more population.
    Which seems to be a like mindset of Globalist Elites.
    Who may feel they have control as Hitler did with the mindset
    of a * Margaret Sanger.A Nancy Pelosi and most democrats.


    * Founder of Planned Parenthood and activist for Eugenics
    as was Hitler.Believing birth control would be the best method
    for creating a superior racer,a pure race as we all know Hitler
    demanded.A race " devoid of humans they were stupid,moronic,
    diseased and unfit for society." The Same Planned Parenhood
    Nancy Pelosi tried to fully fund and stuff in last weeks $ 2 Trillion
    dollar Pandemic Relief bill.
     
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    Yea...that's what we need just now

    RW Fever Dreams
     
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    The Dems had Trump tied up with that bogus impeachment. What a waste. He could have been working on the virus.
     
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    How?
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And Democrat Hopeful Joe Biden is hunkered down in his basement
    trying not to act too clueless.But it's a struggle.
    At least Chuckie Boy Schumer is on some distemper meds.
    Haven't heard his yapper mush.
     
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    If leading the nation through this isn't Trump's job...he's tits on a bull
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What then is the job of our Electorate and politicians.
    To let our Elected Leader ... lead.Or to blame,castigate and heap
    doubt.Precisely what Pelosi and Biden are doing and of course their
    Lapdog the Corrupt Mainstream media.
    Americans would have to be deaf,dumb and blind to buy into
    what Pelosi and Biden are pushing.Unless someone can make the
    case that anything Biden and Pelosi have said or done,is helping matters.
    Pelosi ... 3rd in line to the Presidency.And Biden an 8 year Vice President.
    Making a career out of Blaming Trump for any and everything.
    If Trump decided to get a crewcut,and start wearing a Jimmy Buffet
    Hawaiian shirt,they'd find fault.
     
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    The USA was unprepared and still having made the grade.You need leadership, not ego mania to run a country, something Dirty Donald is completely devoid of.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I will admit I am no fan at all in President Trump's use of words.
    Or his constant focusing on what a great job he is doing.
    I get how that's imperative in his DNA's personality.But I don't
    like it.Everything shouldn't have to revolve around his attachment
    to success and how " Great " and " Beautiful " those in his orbit.
    But as Brit Hume explained,that just Donald talking.In the end
    he usually does what's best.It may mean the reverse of what he
    said he wanted done.Like his early statements concerning confinement
    or Sheltering-in-place and Social Distancing.He did what the experts advised
    him.I think that also applies to Foreign Affairs and our Economy.He follows
    the advice of his experts.Not all the time,but in consequential matters.
    Trump doesn't just like to Talk.He loves to talk.In fact it may be next
    to impossible for him to keep quiet.
    Come si,Come sa ... Herr Trump.
     
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    He's not leading. He's following.

    He does only what people around him force him to do.

    Incompetent and indecisive
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He no more a follower than was Jesus.Or Pontius Pilate for
    that matter.
    Hard to say just what motivates Trump besides hearing his name
    mentioned.No arguing he done one helluva job in advertising
    his Name.Way before he reached the Oval office.
    In case some haven't noticed.I wish I had me a bottle of
    that Trump Vodka.Or Trump's Board Monopoly game.
     
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    I always wondered why people thought Alex Jones was crazy. Now I know.
     
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    Foolardi Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    He exaggerates but is often closer to the unknown than yer garden
    variety weatherman { or woman } predicting a Hurricane.
    He's been at it since before Y2K.
    It also explains why the Globalist had him targeted for
    banning.Because he attracts serious people like our Military,
    our Police and even rather nutty Musicians like Ted Nugent.
    Too Pro Gun.
    I don't believe Jones about 911.And I lose interest as soon as
    he covers an outdoor event with his trusty bullhorn.
    But he more than basically right about them Globalist.
    Where just being a Tad right could spell global doom and gloom.
    Think Bilderberg.Think the Bin Laden raid.Think the outing of
    a Deep State.All the manifest Lies this Corrupt MSM and Free Press
    were allowed to propagate.Made easier by the removal of Alex Jones
    as the Poster boy for needing have his Social Media accounts Banned.
     
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    H's a friggin kook. He makes money off fear
     
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    Same question on 911 too. Why was the usual combat air patrol suspended that day
     
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