>There may and likely will come a time when we have an airborne disease that is deadly and in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure, not just here at home but globally, that allows us to see it, quickly isolate it, and respond to it quickly. So that if and when a new flu, like the Spanish flu crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it.
Obama speech: December 2, 2014
So why didn't he do it?
Wow i miss having a real, competent, and scandal free president and not an obese Cheeto retard. Le sigh...
I always just read the shit making fun of people outraged at him for wearing that suit, but I never really got to hear from the actual people that were outraged and why they were. Was it one of you? Could you explain the butthurt?
COVID19 isn't airborne. The only reason it spread as quickly as it did was due to liberals like Obama refusing to shut down boarders. The infrastructure dealt with it as best they can, but when you've got dipshits like the Canadians keeping up travel from China and simply asking if the travellers visited Wuhan is insane. Not that us Bongs handled it any better, mind you.
But goddamn, taking the human element out of this would have killed it in like 6 weeks. Fuck everyone that was stranded abroad. Lock down everything.
Brown shoes don't make it
obama was full of scandals
>I cannot think of a better area in which we should all agree than passing this emergency funding to fight Ebola and to set up some of the public infrastructure we need to deal with potential outbreaks in the future. How do you argue with that? That is not a partisan issue. That’s a basic common sense issue that all Americans can agree on. For the most part, most have recognized it's not a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s about the safety of the American people.
>So let’s get it done. This can’t get caught up in normal politics, we need to protect the American people and we need to show the world how America leads.
Trump didn't shut down the borders and still hasn't. Even when he supposedly stopped flights from China, Chinese could always come from Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong.
>how America leads
*bombs syria and libya*
brava, obama
I'm aware.
>COVID19 isn't airborne
But it literally is
Why the fuck do you think everyone is wearing masks?
They wouldnt be wearing masks if you got infected just by touching your face after opening a door.
Holy shit, I looked into, the travel ban is worse than I thought. America is genuinely a third world country:
>The Trump administration did impose travel restrictions between China and the U.S., and later Europe and the U.S., but both actions have loopholes large enough to fly a 777 through. In the case of China, on Jan. 31 — weeks after it was known that the coronavirus was a serious problem — the administration restricted travel for “foreign nationals who had been in China in the last 14 days.”
>That means that Americans — just as capable as carrying and transmitting a contagious viral infection as foreigners — had free passage between China and the U.S. And so daily flights between China and the U.S. continued. (And yes, even these limited restrictions were slammed as being too punitive at the time.)
>The Trump administration’s alleged Europe travel ban, announced to much fanfare earlier this month, is similarly weak. It too exempts Americans from any restrictions whatsoever, and the screening that returning Americans have been subjected to at airports has been laughably weak. Passengers have been given a form to fill out (which many travelers have reported aren’t even being collected), waved through immigration, and then simply urged to self-quarantine. It’s like the honor system, but for containing a deadly pandemic.
> Droplets never escape your mouth
are you ready for FOUR MORE YEARS?
It's almost like the president isn't in control of the entire government...
>Why the fuck do you think everyone is wearing masks?
Panic.
>They wouldnt be wearing masks if you got infected just by touching your face after opening a door.
The closest it can be to bring considered airborne is if an infected person coughs directly on your face. It doesn't spread in the air, generally. It spreads literally as you described. There's a reason only frontline workers are being given masks.
>So why didn't he do it?
He did, but then Trump undid the work because he's retarded. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dead Americans are on Trump's watch and all you can do is rub your wiener furiously.
Do you want more people to die? Are you taking action against this incompetent leader?
"There is disagreement over how to describe the changes at the NSC’s Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense in 2018. The departure of some members due to “streamlining” efforts under John Bolton is documented. The “pandemic response team” as a unit was largely disbanded."
reuters.com
That still doesnt make sense. It's not like every time you're in the grocery store everyone takes turns spitting into your mouth.
>There's a reason only frontline workers are being given masks.
They were flipflopping on that for a while but there are a lot of countries looking at passing mask laws right now. In Canada we have our health ministers basically telling people to wrap cloth over their mouths if they have to.
You mean how Obama used up the supply stock set aside for pandemic response during the swineflu pandemic then for the remainder of his term did nothing to replenish it :^)
Now that sounds retarded
>You cough
>Because you're a retard you cough into your hand instead of elbow
>Small bits of saliva leave your mouth and hit random objects
This isn't hard to figure out, leaf. It's the flu, it's transmitted the same way. Every time you speak, droplets are escaping
No, I'm actually thinking about how Obama dealt brilliantly with the last major pandemic, namely ebola, and kept it away from the US entirely. It was a brilliant management success that saved the lives of maybe hundreds of thousands of Americans. In contrast, Trump has taken the opposite path and the American deaths will be monstrous. Are you seriously not very, very angry about this? It's not politics any more; it's saving lives.
I miss him bros
>tan suit
Biggest fucking scandal of his presidency. Thanks O-bunblo
>They were flipflopping on that for a while but there are a lot of countries looking at passing mask laws right now. In Canada we have our health ministers basically telling people to wrap cloth over their mouths if they have to
That will do literally nothing if the cloth comes in to contact woth COVID19, or if you have to adjust it. And the clothes would have to be very very thick to prevent infection if someone coughs in your face.
>It's almost like the president isn't in control of the entire government...
It's almost like he just ran his fucking mouth for 8 years straight and didn't do fuck all
>I miss him bros
He would've fucking saved us this time. I truly believe that.
there was no Ebola pandemic you retard only a few dozen got it here because it isn't as virulent as SARS. the cope is astounding.
hey chink leaf
And yet, Trump literally ran on undoing "fuck all."
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>there was no Ebola pandemic you retard only a few dozen got it here because it isn't as virulent as SARS. the cope is astounding.
Ebola was fucking dangerous! Are you pretending that it wasn't dealt with in a magisterial fashion? My memory is that no Americans at all died from it, whereas who knows how many innocent Americans are going to die in the current crisis because of Trump's massive retardation!!
>it isn't as virulent as SARS
Stop using words you don't understand.
I'm just glad we don't have a president who wears tan suits. Jfc
Are you seriously unable to understand the difference between a bloodborne virus and an airborne one with asymptomatic carriers? Do you seriously not get that there is no quarantining such a virus? Each on their own might be controllable, but with both qualities it's only a matter of time, and if it's as deadly as media loves to try to imply no amount of medical care is sufficient to prevent your death if you are genetically unfit to fight the virus. Even if by some miracle they can keep you alive long enough for your immune system to fight it off, reinfection will occur and you will be in a fight for your life once again, except this time you're weaker from the systemic cell damage dealt in the last goaround.
Are you seriously not angry that the media and political hacks will drive a global economy into the ground over something that is impossible to mitigate? It's not politics anymore; it's causing suicides.
Obama was too busy overthrowing Ukraine and installing a Neo-Nazi group into power there. He also tried to take the port at Sevastapol militarily but lost the prize to Putin.
When he says "we" he's referring to his cronies at Illuminati HQ
One golfed, the other golfed at his own golf courses.
Why is everyone buying toilet paper? There must be a reason? People do stupid shit because they're sheep and stupid leafs believe that everything is black and white
>Do you want more people to die?
>Americans
>innocent
show flag retard
>the media and political hacks will drive a global economy into the ground
That would be the political leaders who are doing this. Trump is driving the economy over a massive cliff right now. The media doesn't set monetary policy or determine border policy or pandemic response management. You're coping so hard that it's actually disgusting.
Yes, yes he did now we live in a world where Trumps son and his buddies get daddy to go on a twitter spaz to make millions off of option trades
Its the god damn nightmare world of wealth distribution and I did vote for him
Why do the mods ban me for a day for "responding to off topic garbage" but they let thousands of posts about cuck porn stay up for extended periods of time? These are usually the most popular threads, no doubt a reflection of this board's general downward IQ trend.