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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by throwaway894345 on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:08PM (#22861177)
By no means has Trump done a good job, but I don't think he deserves credit or blame for masks or the testing fiasco. CDC exists to prepare for and manage exactly this scenario and as far as I can tell, it's done neither. There's lots the president can do (and much of which he's failed to do) as well, so there's no shortage of blame to levy at him and his administration, but I'm far more concerned about the CDC's failure because the CDC will outlast any particular president.
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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by miohtama on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @08:00AM (#22864845)
But he shut down the department that was especially created to make sure the US is prepared to health crisis like COVID-19?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by throwaway894345 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:48AM (#22866664)
Yeah, that was dumb. But the job of that team was to coordinate with the CDC, it wasn't the CDC. There's lots of blame to go around and much of it to POTUS, but the CDC failed in its most fundamental capacity and unlike POTUS, CDC has no term limits so we need to hold them accountable.
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