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Rhiannon12866

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2. Excellent point, everything that TFG did was aimed at taking this county way, way back
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 09:12 PM
Mar 2023

To the previous century that his father believed was ideal - lack of equality for much of the population and lack of the safety regulations designed to keep us safe that had been put in place by the previous administration. Not to mention, the NSC pandemic playbook, also put in place during the Obama administration during Ebola. The TFG administration saw no need for it and discarded it as unnecessary.


Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
The 69-page document, finished in 2016, provided a step by step list of priorities – which were then ignored by the administration.

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The strategies are among hundreds of tactics and key policy decisions laid out in a 69-page National Security Council playbook on fighting pandemics, which POLITICO is detailing for the first time. Other recommendations include that the government move swiftly to fully detect potential outbreaks, secure supplemental funding and consider invoking the Defense Production Act — all steps in which the Trump administration lagged behind the timeline laid out in the playbook.

“Each section of this playbook includes specific questions that should be asked and decisions that should be made at multiple levels” within the national security apparatus, the playbook urges, repeatedly advising officials to question the numbers on viral spread, ensure appropriate diagnostic capacity and check on the U.S. stockpile of emergency resources.

The playbook also stresses the significant responsibility facing the White House to contain risks of potential pandemics, a stark contrast with the Trump administration’s delays in deploying an all-of-government response and President Donald Trump’s recent signals that he might roll back public health recommendations.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/25/trump-coronavirus-national-security-council-149285

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