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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMF45 was warned about this in January? December?
Does anyone have a good date on that?
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MF45 was warned about this in January? December? (Original Post)
Baltimike
Mar 2020
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Looks like the NSC warned him in Jan sometime and he did worse than nothing he down played it
uponit7771
Mar 2020
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The exact date was probably included in a classified intel briefing, so probably not...
Wounded Bear
Mar 2020
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uponit7771
(93,504 posts)1. Looks like the NSC warned him in Jan sometime and he did worse than nothing he down played it
Wounded Bear
(63,974 posts)2. The exact date was probably included in a classified intel briefing, so probably not...
and we may never know more than a general statement.
But it was in all reliable (non-Murdoch) media by then. Best way to guess would be to look back and see when Trump and Fox started pooh-poohing it.
KatyMan
(4,333 posts)5. We've seen this movie before
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. I have read it was November when the Chinese advised them . . .
Botany
(76,696 posts)4. He or his administration was warned about the very real threat of a global pandemic ...
... in January of 2017 and they did nothing.
In the summer of 2019 he fired a C.D.C. expert who was stationed in China and
her job was to watch out for just such diseases as C-19.
Our intel had knowledge of C-19 in China in Nov. 2019.
The first case of C-19 in the United States was found in Seattle by the Dept. of Health/University of Washington
in late Jan./early Feb. 2020. The CDC (under Trump) told the scientists to stop testing and not talk about
their findings.
