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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m liberal and I’ve always thought the CCP sucks donkey dicks.
 However I ( and many other very smart people) thought pointing fingers at China was a distraction in the beginning.
Because it was a distraction.
It didn’t matter how it arrived. 
It arrived and we didn’t have our sh—- together to deal with it.
The CDC was such an unmitigated cluster, I’m still in awe of how badly they responded. Testing was such a shocking failure. In my life I never would have believed the US would blow the response so spectacularly. 
Between that and the Afghanistan withdraw… my faith in our institutions has truly been shook.
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Well public health professionals had been declaring for decades that we were unprepared for the next pandemic. We had dismantled our response apparatus. Funders (read:politicians) did not listen.

[b]So, the response was no surprise to those of us in the field. Trump in fact defunded a pandemic planning initiative that Obama had initiated . Your vote matters people.

(The government does not chug along protecting us behind the scenes if you elect people who are dedicated to smaller government, deregulation and capitalism over prosocial policies[/b]. [/quote]

EXACTLY

I mean, the "gotcha" stuff now is so unhelpful. Can't we all just agree that figuring out what happened and trying to prevent it in the future would be a good thing? Why rehash old arguments that get us nowhere?

We experienced a horrible pandemic. It might have been manmade. Our response sucked and our political divisions made it so much worse.[/quote]

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