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crickets

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1. Had the CDC pandemic team put in place by Obama still been there,

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 01:59 PM

Mar 2020

she likely would have been right.

I am scared and enraged because there's no central authority here. I don't understand what's going on.The CDC isn't giving press briefings. They're just absent. And that could be because the administration is muzzling them. Or it could mean that there's disarray inside the CDC. And I guess all of that will come out.

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A Pandemic Expert Tells Us Why She Was So Wrong About Coronavirus [View all] LiberalArkie Mar 2020 OP

Had the CDC pandemic team put in place by Obama still been there, crickets Mar 2020 #1

The administration has muzzled them from day one. BComplex Mar 2020 #4

She put too much faith in expecting that Trump procon Mar 2020 #2

Putting faith in the CDC would have worked if Obama was still President. patphil Mar 2020 #3

tRump puts Scarsdale Mar 2020 #11

K&R SheltieLover Mar 2020 #5

Holey Shit on a cracker. Baitball Blogger Mar 2020 #6

the CDC has been co-opted barbtries Mar 2020 #7

Even if (cause its questionable) the responsibilities were reassigned, LakeVermilion Mar 2020 #8

The point in should could have been right, but for the lost first seven weeks. pat_k Mar 2020 #9

It's the difference between being proactive and reactionary... Rollo Mar 2020 #10

It was the TESTING .. and moreover .. the TESTING stopdiggin Mar 2020 #12

I was one of those people that felt we would handle the virus without a lot Blue_true Mar 2020 #13