The WHO in China is a shell organization manipulated to further Chinese interests. Its not a far assumption to assume the CDC was there as well.

"could have signaled" is not the same as "would definitely have signaled".

there's plenty to criticize with regard to Trump's actions on public health and how they adversely affected the preparedness for coronavirus - but among those points, this one that you brought up is perhaps the weakest of them all.

yup... I keep waiting for the day trump fires him and makes people lose their shit when he tells them to all go back to work

It only exposes their gross pettiness and lack of perspective.

again.. there are some facts that support this..
Dismantling of CDC and a pandemic staff and protocol.. How do you not get that through your head.
"its a hoax" its the flu" be gone by April.. We lost 4 weeks from this .
again wtf do you not understand..
holy hell

Wasn't just one official they axed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-slashed-cdc-staff-inside-china-prior-to-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21C3N5
They cut more than 2/3rds of the staff. Trump was chipping away at the team for 2 years.
They also lost the NSF and USAID global relief program which had a role in helping China monitor and respond to outbreaks.
And they also lost the USDA manager of an animal disease monitoring program.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S
This is where the axed the official embedded with china's disease control agency.

This post was edited by Arsenic_Touch on Apr 2 2020 09:44am

go picket abortion clinics please.. large groups preferably.

All journalists were expelled from China because they might undermine the info their government pushing out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expels-american-journalists.html


Serious question, do you think that that CDC official there would of been freely able to contradict the Chinese government numbers, death tolls, etc.

Cats out of the bag though....everyone working from home can just safely work from home.

if he didn't accurately report number but said to the US.. "WE have serious epidemic going on here, we need to be prepared i'm not allowed to report on whats goin on?"
I think maybe this already happened.. Is that not enough of a reason for the pres. to react? oh wait he did ignore those kinds of warnings.
again what do you not understand.