People comparing Trump ignoring the coronavirus intelligence report to “Bin Ladin preparing to strike”: can you please jog your memory? The pandemic was blazingly obvious by end of January without any secret intelligence *and* most mainstream US punditry and Europe also flunked.
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Can the pervasiveness of failure be chalked up to US rescinding its responsibility as global leader? I think it’s reasonable to assume an admin that embraced the role would’ve worked earlier to coordinate w/ other countries. No 1 has filled the power vaccuum Trump thrust on world
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My home country was just locked down with only a few cases and they want to do what they did in South Korea. They do not want to lead the world, they just care about the people.
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Mid January it was obvious. My last flight then I knew from following news, esp. from China that this was coming here. Anyone familar w SARS outbreak 2002-04 could see this one was going to be a leviathan.
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@afp was reporting a “mystery pneumonia outbreak” in China as early as 31 December 2019. We’ve had ages to prepare for this thing. https://news.yahoo.com/china-probes-pneumonia-outbreak-sars-links-state-media-063012382.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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