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Old 06-18-2020, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by RickeyM View Post
That's why it was the job of the current administration to do the job. Just imagine where we'd be now if a few hundred had been quarantined and tested. Sure some would have gotten through but I wager that we would have a lot less than 2.2 million confirmed cases in the U.S.
It was Obama's initiative and in order to be effectively implemented would have required an new Federal agency comparable to FEMA, but for biological disaster prevention. Creating this agency would require enacting legislation and significant expenditures, a fairly daunting undertaking. Instead he gave us lip service and window dressing.
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