We forget that there was nothing neither 'unprecedented' about this pandemic - they've defined and shaped all of human hinstory - and that we had some warning. President Obama wanted to prepare for it but the Republicans would have none of it:
To be fair, you can't hang it all on the Republicans or even the bleach-injecting idiot WE THE PEOPLE chose as President. We *all* share some blame in this. Not at all sure how funding billions for pandemic prevention/handling would have gone over with the constituents back home of any partisan stripe. Why would we put up that kind of scratch for something that'll probably never happen? Proof: Because it hasn't happened *yet*. And 1918 was so over a hundred a years ago.
Pandemic prevention wasn't a top concern for *me* in 2012; was it *yours*?
We forget that there was nothing neither 'unprecedented' about this pandemic - they've defined and shaped all of human hinstory - and that we had some warning. President Obama wanted to prepare for it but the Republicans would have none of it:
https://www.ajc.com/news/obama-warned-pandemic-threat-2014-but-republicans-blocked-funding/dh2H9HxiuBY05T5uPqtqpI/
To be fair, you can't hang it all on the Republicans or even the bleach-injecting idiot WE THE PEOPLE chose as President. We *all* share some blame in this. Not at all sure how funding billions for pandemic prevention/handling would have gone over with the constituents back home of any partisan stripe. Why would we put up that kind of scratch for something that'll probably never happen? Proof: Because it hasn't happened *yet*. And 1918 was so over a hundred a years ago.
Pandemic prevention wasn't a top concern for *me* in 2012; was it *yours*?