President Biden's undeniable record:
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Some folks apparently do not like the fact that Biden lets immigrants in without being tested for COVID:
Tucker Carlson: Under Biden, you need a negative COVID test to enter US -- unless you're an illegal alien
Well one explanation might be -- "because that is exactly how he handled SWINE Flu"
Biden has fought a pandemic before. It did not go smoothly.
“It is purely a
fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,”
Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019.
“It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just
had to do with luck. If anyone thinks that this can’t happen again, they don’t have to go back to 1918, they just have to go back to 2009, 2010 and imagine a virus with a different lethality, and you can just do the math on that.”
CDC estimated that 151,700-575,400 people worldwide died from (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection during the first year the virus circulated
Klain said “
we did everything possible – wrong” – 60 million Americans contracted H1N1 in that period of time.
2009 H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: We Did Every Possible Thing Wrong
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Levin: 60 Million Americans Got Swine Flu, Obama and Biden Stopped Testing
Ron Klain: I just have a couple things, I was in the White House in 2009-2010. I was working for Vice President Biden, I wasn’t involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer. And what I will say about it is -- a bunch of really talented, really good people working on it
and we did every possible thing wrong and 60 million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time.
Klain: “And it's
just purely a fortuity that this isn't one of the great mass casualty events in American history.
It had nothing to do with us doing anything right. It just had to do with luck. And so if anyone thinks that this can't happen again, they don't have to go back to 1918. They just have to go back to 2009, 2010. Imagine a virus with a different lethality, and you can just do the math on that.”
So Biden says in effect "see!! I know what I am doing -- let me take the wheel"... after Trump worked with industry to get vaccines out in absolute world-record-time as well as shutting down the country to a great extent to protect against the pandemic. Hint "I don't remember wearing masks during the Obama Biden Admin"
... more from that link above..
“In late July,” so I repeat, “in late
July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for the H1N1 flu and stop counting individual cases.”
That was Sharyl Attkisson for CBS News, reported in 2009.
“The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases
was 'why waste resources testing for the swine flu when the government has already confirmed that there is an epidemic?'” Sharyl Attkinson reported, ”some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to
stop testing and counting, telling CBS that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu, and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus strains.”
But Obama, Biden said
no more testing, therefore no more reporting on the consequences
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By contrast President Trump's 2020 plan included
- shut down the travel from China ,
- tell Americans to shelter in place,
- temporarily shut down the economy to just essential workers,
- put industry on war-time footing so it would re-tool for PPE production
- and make massive advancements in vaccine technology
- Create new therapeutics like the polyclonal antibodies etc
- Follow guidelines for zinc, vitamin D etc.
February 7:President Trump tells Bob Woodward,
This is Dangerous Stuff.” And the President’ was focusing on the virus. Trump told Woodward that the night before, he’d spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about the virus. Woodward quotes Trump as saying, “We’ve got a little bit of an interesting setback with the virus going in China.” “It goes through the air,” Trump said. “
That’s always tougher than the touch. You don’t have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air, and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one.
It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
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Jan 31 - President Trump bans/restricts travel from China (democrats complain).
Feb 2 - first Covid death outside of China reported.
Feb 24 - Pelosi without a mask , and no social distancing - saying 'come to china town'
Feb 29 - first death of a US COVID patient
March 15 - CDC recommends no large gatherings. so 15 or less allowed.
March/April States issue shelter in place orders
Jan 22, 2020 - Democrats in congress stay focused on impeachment.
https: //
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-22/more-sparring-likely-before-house-makes-case-impeachment-update
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Feb 2020 - impeachment was too important to be bothered with COVID concerns.
"Back then, the potentially catastrophic nature of the outbreak was still not widely understood.
On Jan. 24, at the urging of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.),
administration officials held a briefing for the full Senate. But the classified session was
sparsely attended, two Senate aides said, because it was put together at the last minute and was held on the same day as a deadline for senators to submit their impeachment questions.
Only about 14 of them showed up.
“The initial thought from the Dems, I think, is that we were trying to distract from impeachment,” a GOP Senate aide said.
A White House official recalled feeling surprised at the
“incredibly” poor attendance, noting that it came “even though the amount of concern expressed then was rather intense.”
From distraction to disaster: How coronavirus crept up on Washington