It is not a lie to say that the Trump administration effed this one up. Yes they were not "offered" the tests from WHO - but THEY COULD HAVE ASKED!6ftstick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:25 am“No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States,” said WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris. “This is consistent with experience since the United States does not ordinarily rely on WHO for reagents or diagnostic tests because of sufficient domestic capacity.”old salt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:08 am Politifact => Biden falsely blames Trump Admin for rejecting WHO coronavirus test kits that were never offered.
Salty we can make that case over and over but will get nowhere.
Google "Trump refuses WHO Coronavirus Test"—I stopped 6 pages in—stories from every media outlet All confirming the lie.
Same with the claim Trump fired the only person at the White House that could've stopped/managed/understood the coronavirus epidemic.
They print the lie. Reprint the lie. Then amplify the lie across all platforms. In most cases using the same vocabulary.
Then will get a media run poll that says a majority of Americans believe the lie.
And they did get tied up in the "normal" way of dealing with approvals rather than treating this as a real emergency were TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE and get their butts moving to figure things out in advance.
The issue of getting rid of the NSC group to deal with pandemics was short-sighted and just compounds the problem, but is only a small part. The fact is that while South Korea got on a "war" footing early on (mostly because of their prior experience with SARS and MERS) our supreme leader kept downplaying the problem and pushing back on almost all the early recommendations. Our own CDC declared this an emergency quite some time ago (late Jan/early Feb) but no one at the top wanted to press hard early for fear of what that might mean for their re-election.
So instead we have late reaction, and a bigger problem.