Thread by @santiagomayer_

I know that every time that something new comes out we all say that that’ll be the final nail in Trump’s coffin.

But the Red Dawn might actually be the final nail in Trump’s coffin.

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The first e-mail makes clear that experts were warning about this since January.

While Trump said nothing was happening, VA Advisors were already predicting a massive outbreak.

Email #2 just re-emphasizes this, it’s comparing Coronavirus to disastrous historic events.

Any virus being compared to Hiroshima or Pompeii by experts should send shockwaves through the government, not just an email chain.

Email #3 prefaced a cancelled briefing. Experts were about to recommend school closures and a nationwide lockdown, but Trump cancelled the meeting after getting pissed because of a stock market slide.

Again, he put lives at risk to create an illusion of safety.

By email #4, the experts were already studying the spread of the virus among the Diamond Princess.

They knew what was coming, they tried to prevent it, the administration wouldn’t listen.

I’ll just leave this one speak for itself:

“Eva is this true?! If so we have a huge whole (sic) on our screening and quarantine effort.”

By March 2nd, as Governors and Mayors took on the role abandoned by the federal government, Doctors kept imploring those with contact to the administration to do something.

They had been warning for three months, but no one was listening.

After Trump’s Oval Office address, they knew the fight was lost.

“We have thrown 15 years of institutional learning out the window and are making decisions based on intuition.”

The reference to a plane crash is incredibly fitting, our pilots tried to fly by intuition.

“It’s like ignoring the smoke detector and waiting until your entire house is on fire to call the fire dept.”