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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4417374" data-attributes="member: 54375">Trump, March 19:&nbsp; They had an obsolete system, and they had a system, simultaneously, that was not meant for this.&nbsp; It wasn’t meant for this. Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion.&nbsp; Nobody has ever seen anything like this before.But experts have warned for years about the danger of a major, potentially catastrophic outbreak of global disease, and some have sounded the alarm that the United States was not prepared to cope with it.“The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern,” Luciana Borio, then-director of Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy at the National Security Council, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/" target="_blank">said</a> at a symposium at Emory University in Atlanta in 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the devastating flu outbreak&nbsp; of 1918. “Are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4417374, member: 54375"] [B]Trump, March 19:[/B] They had an obsolete system, and they had a system, simultaneously, that was not meant for this. It wasn’t meant for this. Nobody knew there’d be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody has ever seen anything like this before. But experts have warned for years about the danger of a major, potentially catastrophic outbreak of global disease, and some have sounded the alarm that the United States was not prepared to cope with it. “The threat of pandemic flu is the number one health security concern,” Luciana Borio, then-director of Medical and Biodefense Preparedness Policy at the National Security Council, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/']said[/URL] at a symposium at Emory University in Atlanta in 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the devastating flu outbreak of 1918. “Are we ready to respond? I fear the answer is no.” [/QUOTE]

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