Weneone,
Thanks for the response. You obviously took the time to articulate yours. I initially responded to someone who said there was no playbook. There was. I provided them with the first in 2005 and signed into law in 2006. I want to be careful about the politics of this since that is in another board.
I did not say "everyone" knew, but in fact pointed out that many Admin officials were not aware of the "playbook". As far as your statement, "Reference to how blatantly obvious this was? I'm not disagreeing that there shouldn't be a a plan, and it shouldn't be followed. But what is the initiation event? What triggers the plan into action is what I'm asking." Is the plan you are referring to something independent of those I linked?
The first federal responsibility in that is to keep it from reaching the U.S. That is dependent on working with WHO and relying on data from other countries. China supplied the genome in late Jan. It was probably in the U.S. in mid-Dec.
The CDC wanted their own antibody testing. That was ready when? The testing has now been shown to be 50% accurate. As I'm sure you know, testing wasn't widespread. Was it available for NYC to make decisions on all their suspected cases to collect the U.S. data on prevalence? Is that what you want? We're talking past each other then.
Here is the WHO decision timeline and when China reported to them and including the Public Health Emergency declaration on Jan 31st. That is also the date when Azar declared a Public Health Emergency. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/events-as-they-happen
Navarro's memos warning his White House colleagues the novel coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and cost close to $6 trillion were on Jan 31st.
Congress requested the President to declare a national emergency to free up funding on Feb 9th. One of those, Nita Lowrey, was an intial sponsor of the Pandemic Act in 2005.
I responded to your point about Cuomo and NHs in spite of the point of my first response was the following the "playbook" from prior legislation and appropriations by Congress.
Otherwise, it seems that we agree on almost all of my points.
Thanks for the response. You obviously took the time to articulate yours. I initially responded to someone who said there was no playbook. There was. I provided them with the first in 2005 and signed into law in 2006. I want to be careful about the politics of this since that is in another board.
I did not say "everyone" knew, but in fact pointed out that many Admin officials were not aware of the "playbook". As far as your statement, "Reference to how blatantly obvious this was? I'm not disagreeing that there shouldn't be a a plan, and it shouldn't be followed. But what is the initiation event? What triggers the plan into action is what I'm asking." Is the plan you are referring to something independent of those I linked?
The first federal responsibility in that is to keep it from reaching the U.S. That is dependent on working with WHO and relying on data from other countries. China supplied the genome in late Jan. It was probably in the U.S. in mid-Dec.
The CDC wanted their own antibody testing. That was ready when? The testing has now been shown to be 50% accurate. As I'm sure you know, testing wasn't widespread. Was it available for NYC to make decisions on all their suspected cases to collect the U.S. data on prevalence? Is that what you want? We're talking past each other then.
Here is the WHO decision timeline and when China reported to them and including the Public Health Emergency declaration on Jan 31st. That is also the date when Azar declared a Public Health Emergency. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/events-as-they-happen
Navarro's memos warning his White House colleagues the novel coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and cost close to $6 trillion were on Jan 31st.
Congress requested the President to declare a national emergency to free up funding on Feb 9th. One of those, Nita Lowrey, was an intial sponsor of the Pandemic Act in 2005.
I responded to your point about Cuomo and NHs in spite of the point of my first response was the following the "playbook" from prior legislation and appropriations by Congress.
Otherwise, it seems that we agree on almost all of my points.
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