More than four hours after the news emerged, the C.D.C. issued its first public statement about the outbreak, saying, “We are working closely with our international partners to provide technical assistance and guidance to mitigate risk.” It did not mention the Americans who were back in the country or efforts to monitor them.
It was only a day earlier, on Tuesday, that the agency had set up a team to respond to the outbreak, nearly a month after the first patient had died.
To some public health experts, the alarming thing about this situation is not the hantavirus, which they note spreads among people rarely, and only with close contact over a period of time rather than casual interactions. It is that the administration’s sluggish response and lack of communication suggest the United States is ill prepared for a larger health crisis, such as another pandemic.
Good thing nothing like this has ever happened before while this chode was president… Oh wait
An entire country is stuck in an abusive relationship with an authoritarian psycho who is relying on weaponized incompetence to help him strategically draw out his grip on power for as long as possible.
That feeling of dread any time there’s even the remote possibility of disease outbreak bc you 100% know he would view “failing” to prevent another pandemic as a golden opportunity allowing him to make more money while further tightening his grip, even if he “accidentally” ends up killing everybody in the process.
ok, but post 2020 we are back to not washing shit off our hands and licking toilet seats while SARS/COV2 is the number 5 killer in America 2025.
