@TheRickyDavila In May 2018 Democratic Senators complained that Trump had used Bolton to remove leaders from the federal pandemic response team.
Soon forgotten.
Today ??? Until then the US had a top-tier system.
Trump degraded it to Worst in the World.
#crimeofthecentury
Ebola stayed away in 2018.
SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 makes up for it.
The federal system had been implemented originally, basically in 1955. A gift from Eisenhower's SEATO alliance. Works best-of-show versus COVID.
Eastern Asia = 144 deaths-per-million
Trumped USA = 2,364 dpm
What Trump had Bolton eliminate:
-- The top manager, Adm. Riemer
-- Non-military staff
-- Liaison positions for Nat'l Guard and Agencies
Together with their projects:
-- Border quarantine
-- Nat'l Tracking Corps
-- Antiviral/antibiotic support
-- Positive pressure PPE
COVID became a national emergency in China, 21-Jan-2020.
White House policy = denial = "Like magic, it will disappear"
Thousands of deaths changed nothing.
None of the GHST projects were reinstated.
Foreign Policy got this off:
foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
The Eisenhower-to-2018 system would have triggered border quarantine:
- from Hubei, 29-December-2019
- all of China, 21-January-2020
At 144 deaths-per-million like eastern Asia, the US today would be under 50,000 COVID-19 deaths.
But that system was long gone.
Think Tank work in USA since 2018 omits the critical tasks you see in the "Seven Pillars" outline.
In D.C. they write up budget grabs.
Here's one of the worst. They spend $ 1 BB on nothing critical. Pretend it's original work.
csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pu…
Even Michael Lewis fell for the stories.
In "The Premonition," he has George Bush initiate the first pandemic planning in 2005.
That's silly.
But everybody screws up somewhere.
theguardian.com/books/2021/may…
Everything Lewis's "Wolverines" wanted had already been built.
They didn't know that because they didn't have the security clearances or White House NSC contacts for access.
Piecemeal training, sure.
The 3,000+ pages of planning docs had been sealed off like nuclear codes.
After the Foreign Policy article, January 2020, corporate media dropped all mention.
The specialists have to know that Bolton's tale of a re-organization was a lie.
The critical projects didn't move.
They disappeared.
#crimeofthecentury
"Not to relitigate the past" = this is the biggest 2-man crime in the history of the United States
By far.
Overshadowing 9/11.
FBI, Congress & corporate media have access to the evidence.
Trump's White House ??? The worst of America for liars.
#crimeofthecentury
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