Don buys Trump’s BS about “nobody knew”.
From Feb.26th:
On Tuesday, a top official from the CDC said the agency expects the virus will begin spreading at a community level in the United States and that disruptions to daily life could be “severe.” https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/26/trump-mixed-messages-on-coronavirus/
From Feb.26th:
On Tuesday, a top official from the CDC said the agency expects the virus will begin spreading at a community level in the United States and that disruptions to daily life could be “severe.” https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/26/trump-mixed-messages-on-coronavirus/
This stuff about “if we had known it was coming we could have done a lot to stop it” from Trump is maddening. Experts were screaming for us to take action for months!
From January 27th: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-warn-of-possible-sustained-global-spread-of-new-coronavirus/
From January 27th: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-warn-of-possible-sustained-global-spread-of-new-coronavirus/
February 20th: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/coronavirus-spreads-further-as-who-expert-warns-world-not-ready-for-pandemic
January 26th: https://www.statnews.com/2020/01/26/containing-new-coronavirus-may-not-be-feasible-experts-say/
February 3rd: https://abcnews.go.com/International/global-death-toll-coronavirus-outbreak-rises-362/story?id=68717349
January 30th: https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-china-us-experts-spread-preparation-6997e54b-b3b5-4999-a0b7-5bd0a881e647.html
It’s just so ridiculous for trump to even say “nobody knew this was coming”. He spent weeks talking about how #COVID19 was just a big democrat hoax. He called the warnings being reported by the media part of the hoax to “take him down”. He said they were all overreacting.
January: WHO warns that the world must take action on #coronavirus now https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51299195
February: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/coronavirus-seems-unstoppable-what-should-world-do-now
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1240376209793593345?s=21 https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1240376209793593345
Here’s a recording of a Republican senator warning of what was coming from weeks ago:
https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/status/1240649321449742337?s=21 https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1240649321449742337
https://twitter.com/juliadavisnews/status/1240649321449742337?s=21 https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1240649321449742337
https://twitter.com/deniseshearin/status/1240755879064096769?s=21 https://twitter.com/DeniseShearin/status/1240755879064096769
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1241379075089780737?s=21 https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1241379075089780737
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1241157395750977541?s=21 https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1241157395750977541
Remember, major events were starting to be cancelled around the world in February (including some events in the US, as trump continued to say it was a hoax/overreaction).
https://qz.com/1808672/coronavirus-spread-prompts-cities-to-cancel-major-events/ (originally published feb. 28th)
https://qz.com/1808672/coronavirus-spread-prompts-cities-to-cancel-major-events/ (originally published feb. 28th)
From February 27th: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/coronavirus-fears-cause-cancellation-of-6-major-conferences-events-so-far.html
February 28th: https://fortune.com/2020/02/28/google-cancels-las-vegas-conference-coronavirus-concerns/
February 27th: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21156308/facebook-f8-developer-conference-cancelled-coronavirus-concern-covid-19
This article was originally published February 26th, not the 28th as I initially stated: https://qz.com/1808672/coronavirus-spread-prompts-cities-to-cancel-major-events/
https://twitter.com/factsdomatter4/status/1243733130244231170?s=21 https://twitter.com/FactsDoMatter4/status/1243733130244231170
Senate democrats from February 5th (when they were supposedly too tied up with impeachment to worry about coronavirus. Another trump/GOP lie. Shocking...)
https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1225073987639705600?s=21 https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1225073987639705600
https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1225073987639705600?s=21 https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1225073987639705600
Feb. 25th: https://twitter.com/senblumenthal/status/1232316382253133824?s=21 https://twitter.com/SenBlumenthal/status/1232316382253133824
https://twitter.com/crewcrew/status/1245320321797939200?s=21 https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1245320321797939200
https://twitter.com/factsdomatter4/status/1245466873568940032?s=21 https://twitter.com/FactsDoMatter4/status/1245466873568940032
https://twitter.com/factsdomatter4/status/1245509653452197889?s=21 https://twitter.com/FactsDoMatter4/status/1245509653452197889
https://twitter.com/erikhalvorsen18/status/1245468737471426561?s=21 https://twitter.com/erikhalvorsen18/status/1245468737471426561
https://twitter.com/erikhalvorsen18/status/1245502561014157315?s=21 https://twitter.com/erikhalvorsen18/status/1245502561014157315
https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1245425390484668418?s=21 https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1245425390484668418
https://twitter.com/senkamalaharris/status/1227682090772291584?s=21 https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1227682090772291584
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1232673996979744768?s=21 https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1232673996979744768
https://twitter.com/chrismurphyct/status/1232379980996325376?s=21 https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1232379980996325376
Letter from senate Democrats dated Jan. 27th calling for action on #COVIDー19
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1245489320603025408?s=21 https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1245489320603025408
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1245489320603025408?s=21 https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1245489320603025408
https://twitter.com/senkamalaharris/status/1229820736296099842?s=21 https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1229820736296099842
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1245486057161920514?s=21 https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1245486057161920514
https://twitter.com/libsinamerica/status/1245719002112045056?s=21 https://twitter.com/LibsInAmerica/status/1245719002112045056
https://twitter.com/davidcorndc/status/1245733325593075712?s=21 https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1245733325593075712
Whole thread filled with warnings and calls for action from democrats:
https://twitter.com/riotwomennntemp/status/1245439512790138885?s=21 https://twitter.com/RiotwomennnTemp/status/1245439512790138885
https://twitter.com/riotwomennntemp/status/1245439512790138885?s=21 https://twitter.com/RiotwomennnTemp/status/1245439512790138885
https://twitter.com/davidcorndc/status/1245743693933535233?s=21 https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1245743693933535233
https://twitter.com/yabutaleb7/status/1246441689448886273?s=21 https://twitter.com/yabutaleb7/status/1246441689448886273
https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1247364594710044673?s=21 https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1247364594710044673
https://twitter.com/mikedelmoro/status/1247486110655275008?s=21 https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1247486110655275008
https://twitter.com/evanmcmullin/status/1248084301482045441?s=21 https://twitter.com/EvanMcMullin/status/1248084301482045441
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1255106787897982977?s=21 https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1255106787897982977
As I’ve been saying since at least March, and as I tried to prove with this very long thread pinned to my page, Trump knew about covid long before he finally allowed the CDC to start taking action. https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/1305509303755902976