@therealroseanne -- A real problem: COVID-19 in China became a regional emergency 31-December-2019. Then national 21-January-2020.

In America the federal system (from 1955) had been deactivated in 2018.

Foreign Policy got off this extended objection:
foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
The system we lost in 2018 would have responded automatically:
-- Border quarantine
-- National Tracking Corps
-- EMT enhancements
-- Antiviral/antibiotic support
-- Positive pressure PPE for hospitals

Also liaison positions manned to serve National Guard and the Agencies.
This Eisenhower-to-2018 system came over in a barebones version. Then enhancements were added in just about every Administration.

And each renaming was billed as a ground-up reinvention.

Today in Asia that's 144 deaths-per-million.

For the US: under 50,000 COVID-19 deaths.
Think Tank work in USA omits the critical tasks you see in the "Seven Pillars" outline.

What you get is budget grabs.

Here's one of the worst. They spend $ 1 billion. Pretend it's original. For nothing critical.
csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pu…
Even Michael Lewis fell for the local invention stories.

In "The Premonition," he has George Bush initiate the first pandemic planning in 2005.

That's silly.

He misses Asia altogether.
theguardian.com/books/2021/may…
Everything Lewis's "Wolverines" wanted had already been built. And more.

They didn't know that because they didn't have the security clearances or White House NSC contacts for access.

Piecemeal training, sure.

3,000+ pages of planning docs were sealed off like nuclear codes.
After the Foreign Policy article, January 2020, corporate media dropped all mention.

John Bolton put out a tale that the firings and deleting the files was a re-organization.

A bald-faced lie.

The projects weren't moved. And they never returned.
#crimeofthecentury #sabotage
Not to belabor the future.

SARS-1, avian flu, swine flu, MERS, Ebola, Zika. All of these pandemics preceded SARS-2 COVID-19 in the 21st century.

Count = 7 in 21 years

MERS and Ebola kill heavily. A no-vaccine septicemic SARS COVID could kill half the planet's warmbloods.

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13 Dec
@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
Read 10 tweets
11 Dec
@FarmingPathogen - Your strategies for containing mechanized farm risks present a form of offense against pathogen production. A way to push back.

The other half is defense.

Both raise awareness. And both are vulnerable to sabotage from authoritarians.
foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
We have yet to see a risk assessment that combines offense and defense.

Whole countries still make choices based on denying the both of them. We went from top tier to Worst in the World.

USA Senators objected to the 2018 actions. Bolton hid deletions with bogus security tags. ImageImageImageImage
Destruction started with personnel:
- Top managers
- Non-military staff
- Liaisons to Nat'l Guard and Agencies
Killing projects:
- Border quarantine
- Tracking Corps
- Antivirals/antibiotics support
- PPE

Done to dump any Ebola jump on the states. And bad-mouth the Governors. ImageImageImageImage
Read 10 tweets
6 Dec
@Comey -- In May 2018 Democratic Senators sent complaints that Trump had used Bolton to remove the leaders of the federal pandemic response system.

Soon forgotten.

Today we know that the US had a top-tier system. Degraded by Trump to the Worst in the World.
#crimeofthecentury ImageImageImageImage
Ebola stayed away.

SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 makes up for it.

The federal system had been implemented originally, very basically in 1955. A gift from Eisenhower's SEATO alliance, based on fighting plague & dengue.

Eastern Asia = 144 deaths-per-million

Trumped USA = 2,364 dpm ImageImage
What Trump had Bolton eliminate:
-- The top manager, Adm. Riemer
-- Non-military staff
-- Liaison positions to Nat'l Guard and Agencies
Together with:
-- Border quarantine
-- Nat'l Tracking Corps
-- Antivirals/antibiotics
-- Positive pressure PPE ImageImageImageImage
Read 10 tweets
4 Dec
@davidhogg111 -- Go on offense = risk being a target for threats, possible vendetta actions

For example, threats still cover up a gross Trump misfeasance 2018 - 2020.

He feared bad press if Ebola made the jump.

So he dumped federal pandemic response on the hapless states.
Ebola never got here. SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 makes up for its absence.

The system Trump had John Bolton destroy had been implemented originally, very basically in 1955. A gift from Eisenhower's SEATO alliance.

Eastern Asia = 144 deaths-per-million

Trumped:

USA = 2,364 DPM
What Bolton eliminated ranged from
-- The top manager, Adm. Riemer
-- Non-military staff
-- Liaison positions between WH and Agencies
Together with:
-- Border quarantine
-- Nat'l Tracking Corps
-- Antivirals/antibiotics
-- Positive pressure PPE
Read 10 tweets
2 Dec
@gregolear -- You got this right. But getting all of the story depends on access to Inside Beltway resources.

Let's start with what you posted yesterday. Then fill in what we've dug out starting spring of 2018. For Ebola.

Then going to 2020. And today.
Trump feared Ebola. Tough questions from media. His ignorance of basics coming out with lives on the line.

He ordered HR McMaster to eliminate federal pandemic response. Answer = obscene

Bolton was brought in. Gutless POS got right on it, first task as NatSec Advisor. 2018. ImageImageImageImage
Congress learned about Adm. Riemer going.

Agency Liaisons went too. But that was concealed behind security walls. Same for Bolton deleting the detail files off NSA computers: border quarantine, Tracking Corps, materials to order, et. al.

That system matched eastern Asia. ImageImageImageImage
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26 Oct
Why is John Bolton still free ?

April 2018. He destroyed the White House management system for pandemic response. Fearing the head of the Republican Party who feared responsibility for Ebola.

Camouflaged with lies & security fences.

#from1sttoworst = 700,000 more COVID deaths ImageImageImageImage
Back April / May 2018 public information was limited to seeing that Adm. Riemer and his staff had been canned.

Sens. Brown and Warren sent letters objecting.

Bolton lied that it was a reorganization. After he canned the agency liaisons and deleted the national quarantine files. ImageImageImageImage
The most substantial organization to cover these iniquities was Foreign Policy. #paywall

And that was delayed until January 2020 after China had declared the Hubei and then full national emergencies for SARS-CoV-2.

All of corporate media = GOP shills
foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
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