re: Trump asks medical supply firm 3M to stop selling N95 respirators to Canada

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#1. Political posts belong on the Political Board #2. It's believed that 3M was selling to other countries who were offering cash instead of to American companies first. I'm all about Capitalism, but take care of your own first.

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Hurdur, but muh socialism.

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Is it wrong? And you can call Obama and Bush idiots too for never being prepared.

The blame Trump for everything campaign is pretty pathetic given the infinite number of variables involved in this.

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Except that the warning signs for a pandemic respiratory/flu outbreak were known about months in advance and this admins analyst attended those meetings.

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In May 2018, researchers at Johns Hopkins University put out a paper warning that respiratory viruses posed a “global catastrophic biological risk.” In particular, the researchers warned about RNA viruses ? viruses made up of the traditionally single-stranded ribonucleic acid that also cause illnesses such as the common cold, influenza, hepatitis C and polio.

Their warning wasn’t off: COVID-19 is indeed a respiratory illness caused by an RNA virus, from the same specific viral family — that is, the coronavirus family ? as SARS and MERS.

Then, in October 2019, the World Economic Forum, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted an event to discuss how public and private interests would have to respond in the event of a pandemic. That was only one of many such “simulations” run by health experts concerned about how the U.S. would respond to a looming pandemic threat.

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Except that the warning signs for a pandemic respiratory/flu outbreak were known about months in advance and this admins analyst attended those meetings.

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This shite is always out there. Same thing with Nuclear threats, chemical threats, natural disasters, etc.

Just so happens we weren't prepared for the one thing that did happen. CDC, WHO, and many other NGO's screwed this up also. Everyone is to blame here.

I don’t have a problem with this because all these big companies receive sweet tax deals from the government to keep their business in the United States.

Fine, we ignored the warning signs from autumn 2019 meeting. It still doesn't explain the fact that our gameplan once our first confirmed case arrived here was lackluster and unorganized (The United States & South Korea reported their first confirmed case to WHO on the same day. January 20th).