Pam Key 14 Apr 2020
Former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice said during an interview on CNN, Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “abdication of leadership†was responsible for the “23,000 lives†lost in barely two months during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rice said, “Yesterday’s performance from the White House briefing was full of lie. The month of February was a lost month. Frankly, the month of January too was also a lost month because we understand in pandemics that once they break out and you have a novel virus in any part of the world if it can be spread easily from human to human, we are in trouble. That’s the point at which things should have started to kick into gear — the kind of preparations that I described earlier. The travel ban on those traveling from China, never the less, could have bought us valuable time to accelerate those preparations. That whole time frame after the imposition of the travel ban, by the way, 40,000 people came to this country from China but never less that ban gave us the opportunity to accelerate our preparations but instead of accelerating our preparations as you pointed out, again, a wasted month in which the threat was downplayed.â€
She added, “What was the period where we ought to begin recognizing once we had cases in the United States and evidence of the beginnings of community spread that we really needed to look at lockdown sorts of orders and authorities. Again, that time was wasted. The president creating a jungle environment where every state had to defend itself and every state to buy their own critical equipment and competing once again another and competing against the federal government and bidding up the price to the benefit of the private sectors. That’s not leadership. That’s an abdication of leadership, and it continues this day. â€
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