OT: Is calling it "the China virus" racist?

I don't subscribe either, but was able to read.

Well, anyway, here you go. The article written 22 months ago:

By
Lena H. Sun
May 10, 2018 at 3:32 p.m. CDT
The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.

The abrupt departure of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer from the National Security Council means no senior administration official is now focused solely on global health security. Ziemer’s departure, along with the breakup of his team, comes at a time when many experts say the country is already underprepared for the increasing risks of a pandemic or bioterrorism attack.

Ziemer’s last day was Tuesday, the same day a new Ebola outbreak was declared in Congo. He is not being replaced.

Pandemic preparedness and global health security are issues that require government-wide responses, experts say, as well as the leadership of a high-ranking official within the White House who is assigned only this role.

“Health security is very fragmented, with many different agencies,” said J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It means coordination and direction from the White House is terribly important. ”

The personnel changes, which Morrison and others characterize as a downgrading of global health security, are part of Bolton’s previously announced plans to streamline the NSC. Two members of Ziemer's team have been merged into a unit in charge of weapons of mass destruction, and another official's position is now part of a unit responsible for international organizations. White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks, is out completely. He left the day after Bolton took over last month.

NSC spokesman Robert Palladino said Wednesday the administration “remains committed to global health, global health security and biodefense, and will continue to address these issues with the same resolve under the new structure.”

Another administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly, acknowledged it was only one of many administration priorities. “In a world of limited resources, you have to pick and choose,” he said. “We lost a little bit of the leadership, but the expertise remains.”

Ziemer is a well-respected public health leader who was considered highly effective leading the President’s Malaria Initiative under George W. Bush and Barack Obama before joining the NSC last year. While Palladino said he left “on the warmest terms,” an individual familiar with the specifics behind the reorganization said “he was basically pushed out. He struggled to preserve himself and the integrity of his team, and he failed.”

His exit comes against the backdrop of other administration actions critics say have weakened health security preparedness, including dwindling financing for early preventive action against infectious disease threats abroad.

The new Ebola outbreak is in northwest Congo. Only two cases have been confirmed, but the World Health Organization reported Thursday another 30 probable and suspected cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever. Of those, 18 already have died.

Congolese and international health officials say they hope to control the outbreak quickly, but some health officials worry about its potential to become more serious and spread because of its location in a town upriver from the densely populated capital of Kinshasa.

This week, the administration released a list of $15 billion in spending cuts it wants Congress to approve. Among the targets is $252 million in unused funds remaining from the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa that killed more than 11,000 people, far exceeding the combined total cases reported in about 20 previous outbreaks since the 1970s.

The White House proposal “is threatening to claw back funding whose precise purpose is to help the United States be able to respond quickly in the event of a crisis,” said Carolyn Reynolds, a vice president at PATH, a global health technology nonprofit.

Collectively, warns Jeremy Konyndyk, who led foreign disaster assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Obama administration, “What this all adds up to is a potentially really concerning rollback of progress on U.S. health security preparedness.”

“It seems to actively unlearn the lessons we learned through very hard experience over the last 15 years,” said Konyndyk, now a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. “These moves make us materially less safe. It’s inexplicable.”

The day before news of Ziemer’s exit became public, one of the officials on his team, Luciana Borio, director of medical and biodefense preparedness at the NSC, spoke at a symposium at Emory University to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic. That event killed an estimated 50 million to 100 million people worldwide.

“The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern,” she told the audience. “Are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no.”

Karen DeYoung contributed to this report."

But tell me again how it didn't happen

Of course the virus will be the same, but why act like that? He’s such a fucking tiny dicked first grader in every single instance of his presidency.

Ok, China it is.

Do you think the damage will be the same if the President of the United States were to come out today and say it's not that bad, it's under control, and it will go from 46,548 to practically 0 over night?

Indeed. The Wuhan Surprise here doesnt even have a bat in it. And the worst ailment you can get is food poisoning, which has no chance at causing a worldwide pandemic. What a rip off.

He is rather like a cult member. If Trump told him to drink the Kool Aid he's be asking for seconds.

I ain't racist and I ain't stupid, I'm just supporting the President in a very dark time. And I don't think he's perfect by any means, but I also think he's doing as good of a job on this as anyone could ask for.

And guess what? Many other Americans are feeling the same way. Over 60% are approving of the job he is doing during this crisis.

The death rate around the world is 4%, in the United States we are still at 1%.

There's no doubt that things will get worse before they get better, regardless of who is in charge.

Do you honestly think that if Joe Biden suddenly became President, the number of sick and dying will suddenly go down?

Look dude, I get that we are at different ends of the spectrum and not a thing is gonna change that. That's not really gonna change my mind about how I feel about any of this.

Btw, was it Trump's fault that New Orleans went ahead with Mardi Gras celebrations? Was it Trump's fault that spring breakers continued to party on the beach. A group in San Francisco just got busted for setting up a "guerrilla party" for over 200 people this weekend. Do you think those folks were Trump supporters having a secret rally.

What I'm getting at is that this is something that must be fought by ALL OF US, not just whoever is currently in the White House.

Once again, for like the 6th time, I don't think everything Trump has done over the last 2 months has been good, but I don't think everything he has done has been bad either. Yes, we are gonna have worse days, but I do think we are doing the right things to eventually get this horror under control.

Whatever makes you sleep at night, my man.

And after you're done with that, maybe you can explain how it was Trump's fault that the douchebag ate that bat in China that started this whole thing.

And make sure you give me your source of information. I'll take THAT into consideration before I make judgements.