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The timeline, as I understand it, is that China covered up the extent of the problem for weeks and the WHO abetted it.
Then when the truth came to light, Donald Trump did … nothing … for a bit over a month and now thousands of people are dead.
Then when the truth came to light, Donald Trump did … nothing … for a bit over a month and now thousands of people are dead.
Like here on January 30, the WHO declared a global public health emergency and Trump did … nothing to prepare America. https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21076686/coronavirus-outbreak-wuhan-china-who-emergency
By February 14, Dr Fauci was telling reporters that Covid-19 had "the makings of [a] global pandemic” and Trump did … nothing to prepare the country. https://www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21134473/coronavirus-outbreak-singapore-us-symptoms-pandemic
By February 25, experts were very clearly speaking of the need to prepare for a pandemic.
This time, Trump actually did do something... https://www.vox.com/2020/2/23/21149327/coronavirus-pandemic-meaning-italy
This time, Trump actually did do something... https://www.vox.com/2020/2/23/21149327/coronavirus-pandemic-meaning-italy
… what he did was get mad at career public health officials for saying it was time to prepare for a pandemic. https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1232748385628807169
Trump then went on television to tell people the virus was contained and *at the exact same time* California registered its first case of untraceable community spread. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/26/21155282/trump-coronavirus-covid19-cdc-response-cases
That was all back in the day when people wrote individual news stories about individual coronavirus cases, instead of today doing a single roundup story tallying how many people died.
