Pence seeks to blame CDC and China for any delay in US coronavirus response

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

- not Trump's initial failure to face reality

Vice President Mike Pence sought to cast blame on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and China Wednesday when asked why the US was so late in understanding the enormity of the coronavirus pandemic.

"I will be very candid with you and say that in mid-January the CDC was still assessing that the risk of the coronavirus to the American people was low. The very first case, which was someone who had been in China -- in late January around the 20th day of January," Pence told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Pence continued: "The reality is that we could've been better off if China had been more forthcoming."

"The reality is that China's been more transparent with respect to the coronavirus than certainly they were for other infectious diseases over the last 15 years," he said. "But what appears evident now is long before the world learned in December, China was dealing with this, maybe as much as a month earlier than that."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-seeks-to-blame-cdc-and-china-for-any-delay-in-us-coronavirus-response-not-trumps-initial-failure-to-face-reality/ar-BB121GUm?li=BBnb7Kz

Brought to you by the party of personal responsibility.

[gibraltar72]

1. I blame prayer.

[Windy City Charlie]

2. Yep

They know they clearly dropped the ball, so they need something to keep the cult supporting them. They know most of the cult will believe whatever is fed to them. Chinese cover-up is going to be the narrative.

[Mike Nelson]

3. Well...

... looks like China did a better job than Pence... South Korea, too...

[SunSeeker]

4. I'll let George Conway answer for me:

"Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault.
Here’s a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:

* Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Covid19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.

* In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.

* In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.

* In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.

* Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.

* Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that respond to public health threats.

* In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.

* Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.

* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.

* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.

* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.

Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up."

[Mister Ed]

6. Once upon a time, a president said, "The buck stops here."

That time is terribly far away from us now.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes, because America has always looked to China

for guidance. If China had only been honest, Trump would have stopped holding his ego-boosting gatherings of hate and ignorance. He would have stopped golfing, stopped with the constant petty comments on Twitter, and then he could have been proactive against the Coronavirus.


If China had only....

If the CDC had only...

Poor Trump. So put upon, with others making him look bad.

Oh, the unfairness of it all.

If only he had the resources to make a difference.

[Iliyah]

7. Wait a second . . .

A. First, there was no danger because coronavirus is just the flu and thousands die from the flu each year . .

B. Then, It's the Democratic Party's hoax and they are creating panic, t-rump knows it's not bad . . .

C. It's President Obama's fault . . . and China, plus China didn't tell t-rump in advance . . .

D. Meanwhile, t-rump has tons of rallies, playing golf and having fun raisers, even a few in California . . . and tweeting attacking people, groups, anybody and lying . .

E. Meanwhile, shortage of PPE and ventilators - blame President Obama . . .

F. Then, 100,000 people dead but hey at least it's ain't 1 million, t-rump saved America, plus doctors and nurses are stealing PPE's and other medical thingies . . .

G. Then, it's the fault of the impeachment proceedings (see D) . . .

[uponit7771]

8. BULL FUCKIN SHIT !!! WHO REPORTED CORONA VIRUS GUIDANCE ON JAN 10 !!! I wish the M$M was more

... informed

[Stellar]

9. What Maxine Waters said.

Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) Tweeted:
Trump, stop congratulating yourself! You’re a failure & you've mishandled this #COVID19 disaster! You're not knowledgeable & you don’t know more than experts & generals. Your ignorance & incompetence are appalling & you continue to demonstrate that every time you open your mouth!

Link to tweet

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